OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Ecology & Evolution is 57. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A sweet tooth makes a fly a pest	472
Problem-solving ability: a link between cognition and conservation?	261
Subscription and Copyright Information	250
On the biological concept of stress	244
Mitochondrial genetic variation as a potential mediator of intraspecific behavioural diversity	200
Advisory Board and Contents	199
Subscription and Copyright Information	148
Subscription and Copyright Information	136
How do big brains evolve?	129
Dead foundation species drive ecosystem dynamics	129
The sociality of sleep in animal groups	126
Behavioral plasticity can facilitate evolution in urban environments	124
Hierarchical eco-evo dynamics mediated by the gut microbiome	121
Bridging theory and experiments of priority effects	120
Reproductive interference: a hidden threat of biological invasions	118
Dispersal syndromes can link intraspecific trait variability and meta-ecosystem functioning	118
A conserved genomic code underpins animal DNA methylation patterns	117
Quantifying the internationalization and representativeness in research	112
Pesticide reduction: clustering organic croplands	110
Dispersal evolution and eco-evolutionary dynamics in antagonistic species interactions	107
Conservation changed but not divided	105
Strengthening global-change science by integrating aeDNA with paleoecoinformatics	103
Disability in ecology & evolutionary biology	103
Biophilia revisited: nature versus nurture	100
Invasive species behaviour in a toxic world	98

Questioning the sixth mass extinction	97
‘Domesticability’: were some species predisposed for domestication?	91
Disability in ecology and evolution	87
Emerging evidence of plant domestication as a landscape-level process	87
Suggestions for optimizing a global behavioral trait database	86
Integrating geographic ranges across temporal scales	85
Giving fair credits to efforts in science and policy	84
Context-dependent bird body mass responses to climate change	83
3D animal camouflage	83
A call for flexpert ecologists	82
A horizon scan of biological conservation issues for 2025	79
Asking the right questions in explaining tropical diversity: response to Cannon and Lerdau	79
Subscription and Copyright Information	78
Metamorphosis in warming oceans: a microbe–larva perspective	77
Mountain social-ecological resilience requires transdisciplinarity with Indigenous and local worldviews	76
Linking individual animal behavior to species range shifts under climate change	75
Belonging in STEM: an interactive, iterative approach to create and maintain a diverse learning community	74
Harnessing traits to predict economic impacts from biological invasions	73
The underappreciated roles of aboveground vertebrates on belowground communities	72
Keystone niche individuals: some are more unequal than others	69
Recognising Indigenous plant-use histories for inclusive biocultural restoration	66
Subscription and Copyright Information	65
A horizon scan of global biological conservation issues for 2022	65
Advisory Board and Contents	65
The earliest history of eukaryotic life: uncovering an evolutionary story through the integration of biological and geological data	64
Rewilding herbivores: too much or little of a good thing?	63
Advisory Board and Contents	63
Advisory Board and Contents	61
Enhancing the ecological realism of evolutionary mismatch theory	61
The Janzen–Connell hypothesis and seed masting	58
Quantifying energy and nutrient fluxes in coral reef food webs	58
Causal assumptions and causal inference in ecological experiments	57