OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Bioscience is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Calendar of meetings	189
Born to Roam: Tracking the Drama of Earth's Ungulate Migrations	163
Science for the People, by the People	151
Calendar of meetings	144
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (John Keats)	133
The world is flat, Professor Gangster	106
Calendar of meetings	104
The AIBS IDEA Conference 2.0	98
Community Action: Planning for Specimen Management in Funding Proposals	85
The Pocosin's Lesson: Translating respect for Indigenous knowledge systems in environmental research	71
Calendar of meetings	67
Science and battlefields	66
More than a Bit of Fun: The Multiple Outcomes of a Bioblitz	65
How Individualized Niches Arise: Defining Mechanisms of Niche Construction, Niche Choice, and Niche Conformance	64
Marine Pelagic Ecosystem Responses to Climate Variability and Change	62
Beyond mental well-being: A One Health perspective on biophobias	61
Aquatic invasive species prevention in the live baitfish trade: the role of regulations, education, and inspections	57
Does nature select to maximize power?	56
Calendar of Meetings	55
A Life's Journey	54
Technological innovations enhance invasive species management in the anthropocene	52
Waterbody connectivity: Linking science and policy for improved waterbody protection	44
Artificial light at night: A research field in action	42
Age-based scoring as a complementary approach to sustainable trophy hunting	42
Farming for solutions: Perennial plants and native prairie show promise for sustainability, climate goals	40

Future-proofing environmental DNA and trait-based predictions of food webs	38
Data Science in Undergraduate Life Science Education: A Need for Instructor Skills Training	38
All tidal wetlands are blue carbon ecosystems	37
In Their Own Words: Nalini Nadkarni	36
A Brief Biological History of Quarantine	35
Calendar of Meetings	34
Lessons from Pandemic Education	33
The panzootic potential of SARS-CoV-2	32
Trends in topics, use, and development procedures of biology concept inventories	32
Tragedy of the Commons: How Subtle, “Legal” Decisions Are Threatening One of the Largest Wetlands in the World	31
Corrigendum: Synthetic Biology and Endangered Species: Should Scientists Genetically Rewire Nature to Save Species and Habitats?	31
Calendar of Meetings	30
Heroines in HERpetology	30
Ecosystem services from wildlife harvests	29
Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights	29
Governing Ecological Connectivity in Cross-Scale Dependent Systems	29
Urban rewilding to combat global biodiversity decline	28
Duke's herbarium merits continued enhancement, not dissolution	28
From the dining room table to the Galapagos	27
Clarifying ethical stances in conservation: a trolley problem thought experiment	27
Lakes in Hot Water: The Impacts of a Changing Climate on Aquatic Ecosystems	26
Governing for Transformative Change across the Biodiversity–Climate–Society Nexus	24
Where is the elusive primary ebolavirus reservoir and how do we find It?	24
The omission of seed banks in demography as an example of bias in ecology	23
Wild harvests could aid food insecurity and reduce wildlife hyperabundance	23
After the fires: saving endangered plants from climate-driven extinction	23
A Clear-Sighted Focus On Climate- Friendly Operations Will Enhance Sustainable Marine Aquaculture Approaches	23
Calendar of meetings	22
Calendar of meetings	21
True sustainability is sustanimalism	21
Connecting DNA and Development	21
Hurdles and opportunities in implementing marine biosecurity systems in data-poor regions	21
Citizen Science as an Ecosystem of Engagement: Implications for Learning and Broadening Participation	20
Recent advances in availability and synthesis of the economic costs of biological invasions	20
The land-use land-cover change–emerging infectious disease nexus reconsidered	20
Rewilding the American West	19
Increasing biodiversity knowledge through social media: A case study from tropical Bangladesh	19
The Emergence of eDNA	19
Learning Evolution by Collaboration	18
Gaps in CITES policy undermine conservation of threatened species by providing loopholes for illegal trade	18
Challenges and opportunities for sustainable wildlife population recovery	18
Prediction in ecology and evolution	18
What's the Rush?	18
An Outcome-Oriented, Social–Ecological Framework for Assessing Protected Area Effectiveness	18
Advancing terrestrial ecology by improving cross-temporal research and collaboration	18
Inclusive language in biological sciences: A work in progress	17
A vision of human–AI collaboration for enhanced biological collection curation and research	17
The evolutionary dilemma of broad-spectrum insecticides	17
Identifying the identifiers: How iNaturalist facilitates collaborative, research-relevant data generation and why it matters for biodiversity science	17
An Innu poem as a reflection on innovation within One Health initiative at the Université de Montréal	17

Advancing environmental research in the fight against data censorship	16
Shipwreck ecology: Understanding the function and processes from microbes to megafauna	16
Improving wild animal welfare through contraception	16
Speciation by hybridization: the mind-boggling nature, educational, and research value of the largest group of unisexual vertebrates	16
Nature's chefs: Uniting the hidden diversity of food making and preparing species across the tree of life	15
AIBS Photo Contest: Capturing a moment in science	15
Global Climate Change and the Hidden Fate of African Grasslands	15
Principles for Leading, Learning, and Synthesizing in Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research	15
The relationship between genetic diversity, function, and stability in marine foundation species	15
Scientists from Minority-Serving Institutions and Their Participation in Grant Peer Review	15
Expanding the historical baseline: using pre-modern archives to inform conservation from ecological and human perspectives	14
A New Chapter for BioScience	13
Cooling down the climate discourse: communicating about collapse	13
Beyond crisis and grief: Rethinking conservation narratives	13
A Hero for Our Time	13
The Geroscience Perspective on One Health	13
Rethinking nomenclatural acts: Questions in taxonomy by the dedications to mythology and fictional monsters	13
Reversing the Lens on Public Engagement with Science: Positive Benefits for Participating Scientists	12
The AIBS IDEA Conference	12
Mainstream Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Resilience	12
Ecological risk assessment when species-specific data are scarce: how trait-based approaches and modeling can help	12
Lingua franca or lingua cultura? Understanding the language of biodiversity	12
Correction to: Predatory journals	12
A lack of ecological diversity in forest nurseries limits the achievement of tree-planting objectives in response to global change	11
Government agencies in the United States are obstructing native species restoration, creating regulatory pits for wildlife	11
Ecosystems have no thermostat: regulation misleads in ecology education and outreach	11
Erratum: The Impact Of Light Pollution On Bats Varies According To Foraging Guild And Habitat Context	11
Bee pollination and bee decline: A study about university students’ Knowledge and its educational implication	11
Reimagining river governance: Insights from the Colorado river crisis	11
Calendar of meetings	11
Calendar of meetings	11
Exploring the landscape of automated species identification apps: Development, promise, and user appraisal	11
Correction to: Leveraging collective impact to characterize and identify solutions to cultural challenges within scientific societies	11
Attitudes Toward Engagement in Citizen Science Increase Self-Related, Ecology-Related, and Motivation-Related Outcomes in an Urban Wildlife Project	11
Leveraging built marine structures to benefit and minimize impacts on natural habitats	11
August	10
Searching for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	10
Sentinels of biodiversity: In cemeteries around the world, the dead protect the living	10
Calendar of meetings	10
The coming of age of evolvability	10
What sexual diversity in the natural world can teach humans about sex, gender, and inclusive biology	10
Correction to: Increasing biodiversity knowledge through social media: A case study from tropical Bangladesh	10
Calendar of Meetings	10
Response to Basile	10
Measuring What We Don't Know: Biodiversity Catalogs Reveal Bias in Taxonomic Effort	9
Future of coral bleaching research	9
What is the Price of Conservation? A Review of the Status Quo and Recommendations for Improving Cost Reporting	9
As water levels recede, Indigenous communities and scientists collaborate to protect Lake Titicaca and its high-altitude endemic species	8
River restoration can increase carbon storage but is not yet a suitable basis for carbon credits	8
An introduction to key ecological concepts, financial opportunities, and risks underpinning aspirations for nature positive	8
Amazon projects pose risks to Brazil and the World	8
In Living Color: Pigment-Based Microbial Ecology At the Mineral–Air Interface	8
Fires in the Petrocene	8
RAD: A Paradigm, Shifting	8
A conceptual classification scheme of invasion science	7
Calendar of meetings	7
The Productivity Puzzle in Invasion Science: Declining but Persisting Gender Imbalances in Research Performance	7
The Importance of Forests in Bumble Bee Biology and Conservation	7
Time to Move On	7
Expanding Perspectives in BioScience	7
Complex fish migrations call for Fukushima radioactivity monitoring beyond marine systems	7
Déjà vu all over again (Yogi Berra)	7
Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes	7
Considerations for developing and implementing a safe list for alien taxa	6
Cross-Site Comparisons of Dryland Ecosystem Response to Climate Change in the US Long-Term Ecological Research Network	6
Approaches to Forecasting Damage by Invasive Forest Insects and Pathogens: A Cross-Assessment	6
The city nature challenge: A global citizen science phenomenon contributing to biodiversity knowledge and informing local government practices	6
Biocrusts: The secret world living at the surface of drylands	6
Correction to: How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration	6
In the process of transformation: wildlife conservation in China in the postepidemic era	6
Exploring the Effects of Geopolitical Shifts on Global Wildlife Trade	6