OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Ecology & Evolution is 56. 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
Subscription and Copyright Information	443
On the biological concept of stress	387
Subscription and Copyright Information	239
Subscription and Copyright Information	227
Advisory Board and Contents	218
Quantifying the internationalization and representativeness in research	191
A sweet tooth makes a fly a pest	182
Problem-solving ability: a link between cognition and conservation?	178
Disability in ecology & evolutionary biology	171
Dispersal evolution and eco-evolutionary dynamics in antagonistic species interactions	133
How do big brains evolve?	118
‘Domesticability’: were some species predisposed for domestication?	112
A conserved genomic code underpins animal DNA methylation patterns	111
Questioning the sixth mass extinction	108
Emerging evidence of plant domestication as a landscape-level process	108
Pesticide reduction: clustering organic croplands	102
Bridging theory and experiments of priority effects	101
Biophilia revisited: nature versus nurture	101
The sociality of sleep in animal groups	101
Dispersal syndromes can link intraspecific trait variability and meta-ecosystem functioning	100
Conservation changed but not divided	100
Mitochondrial genetic variation as a potential mediator of intraspecific behavioural diversity	97
Hierarchical eco-evo dynamics mediated by the gut microbiome	97
Strengthening global-change science by integrating aeDNA with paleoecoinformatics	96
Invasive species behaviour in a toxic world	95

Dead foundation species drive ecosystem dynamics	93
Behavioral plasticity can facilitate evolution in urban environments	91
Asking the right questions in explaining tropical diversity: response to Cannon and Lerdau	85
Subscription and Copyright Information	85
Metamorphosis in warming oceans: a microbe–larva perspective	84
Suggestions for optimizing a global behavioral trait database	81
Giving fair credits to efforts in science and policy	80
Keystone niche individuals: some are more unequal than others	78
Disability in ecology and evolution	78
The underappreciated roles of aboveground vertebrates on belowground communities	78
Mountain social-ecological resilience requires transdisciplinarity with Indigenous and local worldviews	77
A call for flexpert ecologists	77
3D animal camouflage	76
Belonging in STEM: an interactive, iterative approach to create and maintain a diverse learning community	73
Harnessing traits to predict economic impacts from biological invasions	73
Context-dependent bird body mass responses to climate change	73
Recognising Indigenous plant-use histories for inclusive biocultural restoration	72
Integrating geographic ranges across temporal scales	70
Linking individual animal behavior to species range shifts under climate change	70
A horizon scan of biological conservation issues for 2025	67
A horizon scan of global biological conservation issues for 2022	66
Advisory Board and Contents	65
Subscription and Copyright Information	65
The earliest history of eukaryotic life: uncovering an evolutionary story through the integration of biological and geological data	64
Removing institutional barriers to long-term fieldwork is critical for advancing ecology	64
Quantifying energy and nutrient fluxes in coral reef food webs	63
The traditional ecological knowledge conundrum	63
Advisory Board and Contents	60
Rewilding herbivores: too much or little of a good thing?	58
The cold range limit of trees	58
Enhancing the ecological realism of evolutionary mismatch theory	58
Causal assumptions and causal inference in ecological experiments	56
Seabird and reef conservation must include coral islands	56