OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biological Conservation is 40. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Translocation precipitates natural hybridisation and pervasive introgression between marine gastropods with divergent developmental modes	130
Editorial Board	102
Editorial Board	97
First, do no harm? Dark logic models, social injustice, and the prevention of iatrogenic conservation outcomes	93
Fifteen years of elasmobranchs trade unveiled by DNA tools: Lessons for enhanced monitoring and conservation actions	88
Quantitative assessment of ecological conservation effectiveness and spillover effects of China's first group of national parks	83
Conservation concern for Europe's hedgehog species (Erinaceidae): Current statuses, issues and needs	80
Prevalence of endangered shark trophies in automated detection of the online wildlife trade	76
Editorial Board	70
Estimating reductions in the risk of vessels striking whales achieved by management strategies	66
Effects of invasive American bullfrogs and their removal on Northwestern pond turtles	65
Evaluating strategies for managing koala chlamydiosis using dynamic models	63
Climate- and scale-dependent sex ratio in threatened Araucaria forests	62
Shifts in habitat suitability for harbour porpoises leads to reduced importance of marine protected areas	62
Space use of a diverse megafauna community in a rewilding area in the southwestern Carpathians	62
Communicating information about the psychology of a wild carnivore, the red fox, influences perceived attitudinal changes but not overall tolerance in people	61
The influence of culpability, harm to animals, and professional education on attitudes about killing animals in the name of conservation	57
The conservation of migratory shorebirds needs to account for the different habitat selection patterns across species and between day and night	55
Genetic integrity of European wildcats: Variation across biomes mandates geographically tailored conservation strategies	55
Managing light and nutrients to restore plant diversity in temperate woodlands	54
Declining floral color diversity alters bee color preferences in fragmented habitats	54
How much more carbon could be protected in mature and old-growth forests of the United States?	54
Major threats to a migratory raptor vary geographically along the eastern Mediterranean flyway	53
Extinction risk assessment of the endemic terrestrial vertebrates in Mexico	51
Cetacean conservation and the ethics of captivity	50

Establishing viable European bison metapopulations in Central Europe	50
Corrigendum to “Habitats, agricultural practices, and population dynamics of a threatened species: The European turtle dove in France” [Biol. Conserv. 274 (2022) 109730]	50
Building robust, practicable counterfactuals and scenarios to evaluate the impact of species conservation interventions using inferential approaches	48
Variety among physical landscape features in natural grassland-plantation forestry mosaics promotes diverse butterfly assemblages	48
Susceptibility of bats to ecological and evolutionary traps	47
Integrating opportunistic and structured non-invasive surveys with spatial capture-recapture models to map connectivity of the Pyrenean brown bear population	47
Landscape-scale population trends in the occurrence and abundance of wildlife populations using long term camera-trapping data	46
Integrating environmental, evolutionary, and socioeconomic vulnerability to future-proof coastal conservation planning	46
Northern boreal caribou conservation should focus on anthropogenic disturbance, not disturbance-mediated apparent competition	45
The application of reflexivity for conservation science	43
Response of a carnivore community to water management in a semi-arid savanna	42
An assessment of spatial conservation priorities for biodiversity attributes: Composition, structure, and function of Neotropical biodiversity	41
Re-centering social justice in conservation science: Progressive policies, methods, and practices	41
Factors affecting the consumption intention of game meats: Integrating theory of planned behavior and norm activation model	41
Jaguar conservation is caught in the crossfire of America's 'War on Drugs'	40