OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Bioscience is 7. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Calendar of meetings	185
Born to Roam: Tracking the Drama of Earth's Ungulate Migrations	174
Science for the People, by the People	151
Calendar of meetings	146
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (John Keats)	139
The world is flat, Professor Gangster	132
Calendar of meetings	121
Marine Pelagic Ecosystem Responses to Climate Variability and Change	95
The AIBS IDEA Conference 2.0	94
Community Action: Planning for Specimen Management in Funding Proposals	89
The Pocosin's Lesson: Translating respect for Indigenous knowledge systems in environmental research	67
Does nature select to maximize power?	67
Calendar of meetings	61
Science and battlefields	60
Aquatic invasive species prevention in the live baitfish trade: the role of regulations, education, and inspections	59
More than a Bit of Fun: The Multiple Outcomes of a Bioblitz	59
How Individualized Niches Arise: Defining Mechanisms of Niche Construction, Niche Choice, and Niche Conformance	59
Corrigendum: Functional Diversity: An Epistemic Roadmap	57
Calendar of Meetings	56
Crisis of Communication	56
A Life's Journey	54
Data Science in Undergraduate Life Science Education: A Need for Instructor Skills Training	52
Technological innovations enhance invasive species management in the anthropocene	46
Artificial light at night: A research field in action	45
Age-based scoring as a complementary approach to sustainable trophy hunting	44

Farming for solutions: Perennial plants and native prairie show promise for sustainability, climate goals	41
Future-proofing environmental DNA and trait-based predictions of food webs	41
All tidal wetlands are blue carbon ecosystems	40
Waterbody connectivity: Linking science and policy for improved waterbody protection	40
A Brief Biological History of Quarantine	38
In Their Own Words: Nalini Nadkarni	38
Lessons from Pandemic Education	34
Calendar of Meetings	34
Trends in topics, use, and development procedures of biology concept inventories	32
The panzootic potential of SARS-CoV-2	32
Governing Ecological Connectivity in Cross-Scale Dependent Systems	31
Where is the elusive primary ebolavirus reservoir and how do we find It?	31
Corrigendum: Synthetic Biology and Endangered Species: Should Scientists Genetically Rewire Nature to Save Species and Habitats?	31
Calendar of Meetings	30
Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights	29
Ecosystem services from wildlife harvests	29
From the dining room table to the Galapagos	27
Heroines in HERpetology	27
Duke's herbarium merits continued enhancement, not dissolution	25
Urban rewilding to combat global biodiversity decline	25
Lakes in Hot Water: The Impacts of a Changing Climate on Aquatic Ecosystems	25
Tragedy of the Commons: How Subtle, “Legal” Decisions Are Threatening One of the Largest Wetlands in the World	25
Governing for Transformative Change across the Biodiversity–Climate–Society Nexus	25
True sustainability is sustanimalism	24
After the fires: saving endangered plants from climate-driven extinction	24
The omission of seed banks in demography as an example of bias in ecology	24
A Clear-Sighted Focus On Climate- Friendly Operations Will Enhance Sustainable Marine Aquaculture Approaches	24
Wild harvests could aid food insecurity and reduce wildlife hyperabundance	23
The Emergence of eDNA	22
Connecting DNA and Development	22
Calendar of meetings	22
Calendar of meetings	21
Blue Waters, Green Bottoms: Benthic Filamentous Algal Blooms Are an Emerging Threat to Clear Lakes Worldwide	20
The land-use land-cover change–emerging infectious disease nexus reconsidered	20
Citizen Science as an Ecosystem of Engagement: Implications for Learning and Broadening Participation	20
Rewilding the American West	20
Hurdles and opportunities in implementing marine biosecurity systems in data-poor regions	20
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021	19
Increasing biodiversity knowledge through social media: A case study from tropical Bangladesh	19
What's the Rush?	18
Recent advances in availability and synthesis of the economic costs of biological invasions	18
An Innu poem as a reflection on innovation within One Health initiative at the Université de Montréal	17
Learning Evolution by Collaboration	17
A vision of human–AI collaboration for enhanced biological collection curation and research	17
Gaps in CITES policy undermine conservation of threatened species by providing loopholes for illegal trade	17
Challenges and opportunities for sustainable wildlife population recovery	17
Inclusive language in biological sciences: A work in progress	17
Principles for Leading, Learning, and Synthesizing in Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research	17
Advancing terrestrial ecology by improving cross-temporal research and collaboration	17
Improving wild animal welfare through contraception	15

Shipwreck ecology: Understanding the function and processes from microbes to megafauna	15
AIBS Photo Contest: Capturing a moment in science	15
Prediction in ecology and evolution	15
An Outcome-Oriented, Social–Ecological Framework for Assessing Protected Area Effectiveness	15
Speciation by hybridization: the mind-boggling nature, educational, and research value of the largest group of unisexual vertebrates	15
Design Criteria for Process-Based Restoration of Fluvial Systems	15
Identifying the identifiers: How iNaturalist facilitates collaborative, research-relevant data generation and why it matters for biodiversity science	15
Cooling down the climate discourse: communicating about collapse	14
Global Climate Change and the Hidden Fate of African Grasslands	14
The relationship between genetic diversity, function, and stability in marine foundation species	14
Scientists from Minority-Serving Institutions and Their Participation in Grant Peer Review	14
Nature's chefs: Uniting the hidden diversity of food making and preparing species across the tree of life	14
Rethinking nomenclatural acts: Questions in taxonomy by the dedications to mythology and fictional monsters	13
Expanding the historical baseline: using pre-modern archives to inform conservation from ecological and human perspectives	13
Beyond crisis and grief: Rethinking conservation narratives	13
A New Chapter for BioScience	12
The AIBS IDEA Conference	12
Correction to: Predatory journals	12
Lingua franca or lingua cultura? Understanding the language of biodiversity	12
A Hero for Our Time	12
Bee pollination and bee decline: A study about university students’ Knowledge and its educational implication	12
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
Correction to: Leveraging collective impact to characterize and identify solutions to cultural challenges within scientific societies	11
Ecological risk assessment when species-specific data are scarce: how trait-based approaches and modeling can help	11
Reversing the Lens on Public Engagement with Science: Positive Benefits for Participating Scientists	11
Reimagining river governance: Insights from the Colorado river crisis	11
Exploring the landscape of automated species identification apps: Development, promise, and user appraisal	11
A lack of ecological diversity in forest nurseries limits the achievement of tree-planting objectives in response to global change	11
Mainstream Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Resilience	11
Calendar of meetings	10
August	10
Fires in the Petrocene	10
Erratum: The Impact Of Light Pollution On Bats Varies According To Foraging Guild And Habitat Context	10
Correction to: Increasing biodiversity knowledge through social media: A case study from tropical Bangladesh	10
Calendar of Meetings	10
Calendar of meetings	10
Calendar of meetings	10
Sentinels of biodiversity: In cemeteries around the world, the dead protect the living	9
Response to Basile	9
Amazon projects pose risks to Brazil and the World	9
What is the Price of Conservation? A Review of the Status Quo and Recommendations for Improving Cost Reporting	9
River restoration can increase carbon storage but is not yet a suitable basis for carbon credits	9
Searching for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	9
The coming of age of evolvability	9
What sexual diversity in the natural world can teach humans about sex, gender, and inclusive biology	9
RAD: A Paradigm, Shifting	8
Origin of the Term Biodiversity	8
As water levels recede, Indigenous communities and scientists collaborate to protect Lake Titicaca and its high-altitude endemic species	8
Measuring What We Don't Know: Biodiversity Catalogs Reveal Bias in Taxonomic Effort	8
Calendar of meetings	8
An introduction to key ecological concepts, financial opportunities, and risks underpinning aspirations for nature positive	8
In Living Color: Pigment-Based Microbial Ecology At the Mineral–Air Interface	8
The Importance of Forests in Bumble Bee Biology and Conservation	8
A conceptual classification scheme of invasion science	7
Time to Move On	7
Calendar of meetings	7
Complex fish migrations call for Fukushima radioactivity monitoring beyond marine systems	7
The BioScience Author Survey	7
Considerations for developing and implementing a safe list for alien taxa	7