OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Environmental Conservation is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Is Brazil’s biodiversity offset policy effective in conserving the Cerrado?	36
ENC volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	23
Developing land-use planning scenarios in Türkiye to reduce water-induced soil erosion	14
Spatiotemporal evaluation of waning grassland habitats for swamp deer conservation across the human-dominated upper Gangetic Plains, India	14
Evaluating guidelines as key components of conservation policies: a conceptual framework and a pilot application	14
Spatial conservation prioritization considering socioeconomic costs and degradation conditions in the Southwest China Biodiversity Hotspot	13
Commuters: a waterbird provides a new view of how species may utilize cities and wildlands	12
Greenness and biodiversity of open spaces in primary schools and their local surroundings in England	12
Do beetles indicate more predators and fewer pests in Lao PDR organic farms?	12
Predicting suitable habitat for the endangered plant Cephalotaxus oliveri Mast. in China	11
Adaptive management plans rooted in quantitative ecological predictions of ecosystem processes: putting monitoring data to practical use	11
ENC volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	11
Information about conservation status is more important than species appearance in the species preferences of potential conservation donors	10
Elephant ivory, rhino horn, pangolin and helmeted hornbill products for sale at the Myanmar–Thailand–China border	10
Old-growth grasslands of Central Anatolia (Türkiye) require better conservation and management	9
Perceived benefits, burdens and effectiveness of a buffer zone programme in improving protected area–people relationships	9
Trade of legally protected orchids in Indonesian e-commerce markets	9
Changes in the potential distribution of valuable tree species based on their regeneration in the Neotropical seasonal dry forest of north-western Argentina	8
Grass fires and road structure influence plant invasions in a critical wildlife habitat in north-eastern India	8
A machine learning approach to mapping canopy gaps in an indigenous tropical submontane forest using WorldView-3 multispectral satellite imagery	7
Sacred groves: a model of Zagros forests for carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation	7
Impact of individual protected areas on deforestation and carbon emissions in Acre, Brazil	7
Successful management of invasive rats across a fragmented landscape	6
Connecting protected areas in the Iberian peninsula to facilitate climate change tracking – CORRIGENDUM	6
On the effectiveness of public awareness campaigns for the management of invasive species	6

Is the Anthropause a useful symbol and metaphor for raising environmental awareness and promoting reform?	6
Hunting sustainability within two eastern Amazon Extractive Reserves	6
Drivers of prohibited natural resource collection in Chitwan National Park, Nepal	6
The Ethiopian wolf can act as a flagship and umbrella species to protect the Afroalpine ecosystem and foster sustainable development	6
Assessing United Nations conservation-oriented days, years and decades through the lens of a change model	6
Invasive species policy in Brazil: a review and critical analysis	5
Understanding community perceptions of a natural open space system for urban conservation and stewardship in a metropolitan city in Africa	5
Giving the cold shoulder: why and how do we conserve farmland herpetofauna in India?	5
Terrestrial protected areas do not fully shield their streams from exogenous stressors	5
Hunter territoriality creates refuges for threatened primates	4
ENC volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
Urban water footprint in Mashhad, Iran’s second largest city	4
Knowledge and perceptions of the southern river otter (Lontra provocax), an elusive endangered species in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina)	4
Zoometric data extraction from drone imagery: the Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx)	4
Spatial and taxonomic diversification for conservation investment under uncertainty	4
Modelling pinyon pine distribution in the northern Great Basin, USA	4
Tropical forests and cocoa production: synergies and threats in the chocolate market	4
Natural area visitors’ potential role in preventing pathogen threats to amphibian biodiversity	4
Small forest patches in West Africa: mapping how they are changing to better inform their conservation	4
Potential range shifts and climatic refugia of rupicolous reptiles in a biodiversity hotspot of South Africa	3
IPBES as a transformative agent: opportunities and risks	3
Do anthropogenic sources of food increase livestock predation in the area surrounding Ruaha National Park?	3
Relational values shape people’s connectedness to nature in a former military protected area of Ecuador	3
Brazil: environment under attack	3
Roadsides are key habitats for birds in the Argentine Pampas: conservation and management implications	3
Recreational agroecosystem service value evidenced by mobile phone data: implications for incentive enhancement in terraced paddy land	3
Differential responses of Kashmir Himalayan threatened medicinal plants to anticipated climate change	3
Conservation narratives and bibliogrammatic networks in the conservation landscape	3
Livelihood vulnerability increases human–wildlife interactions	2
Conservation, uncertainty and intellectual humility	2
ENC volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
A scoping review of environmental governance challenges in southern Africa from 2010 to 2020	2
Integrating human and species habitat preferences in conservation in heterogeneous urban settings	2
The Five-Year Plan and target allocation cycle of environmental pollution in China	2
Vulnerability of wilderness areas to day-use visits	2
Worth more than 1000 words: how photographs can bolster viewers’ valuing of biodiversity	2
Impact of soil and water conservation measures on farm productivity and income in the semi-arid tropics of Bundelkhand, central India	2
How science communications can help build societal perceptions of invasive alien species and their impacts on the environment	2
Impacts of passive elephant rewilding: assessment of human fatalities in India	2
Connecting protected areas in the Iberian peninsula to facilitate climate change tracking	2
Towards understanding capacity development as a system: perceptions from multiple conservation stakeholder groups in Bhutan	2
ENC volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
The first acts of Brazil’s new president: Lula’s new Amazon institutionality	2
Effects of free-flight activities on wildlife: a poorly understood issue in conservation	2
The Public Prosecutor’s Office’s experience using Global Forest Watch to monitor and deter deforestation in the Cerrado	2
ENC volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	1
Public and private protected areas can work together to facilitate the long-term persistence of mammals	1
ENC volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
Jaguars and wild pigs indicate protected area connectivity in the south-east Atlantic Forest (Brazil)	1
Examining how risk diversification for conservation is influenced by the probability assigned to uncertainty scenarios	1

Selective logging intensity and time since logging drive tropical bird and dung beetle diversity: a case study from Amazonia	1
Mapping functional tree regions of the Atlantic Forest: how much is left and opportunities for conservation	1
Urbanization impacts water quality and the use of microhabitats by fish in subtropical agricultural streams	1
Assessment of the effect of landowner type on deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon using remote sensing data	1
Changes in a Neotropical insectivorous bat community associated with artificial clearing of the forest in a geothermal project	1
Mountain freshwater ecosystems and protected areas in the tropical Andes: insights and gaps for climate change adaptation	1
Understanding how opportunity cost affects multi-objective conservation investment in the Central and Southern Appalachian Region (USA)	1
Serra do Divisor National Park: a protected area under threat in the south-western Brazilian Amazon	1
Temporal differences in snail diversity responses to wildfires and salvage logging	1
Impacts of fire and flooding on sediment carbon storage in a large, forested floodplain	1
Pitfalls for the sustainability of forest transitions: evidence from Southeast Asia	1
The effect of conservation policies on wildlife hunting and consumption in north-eastern Madagascar	1
Complex spatiotemporal changes in land-use and ecosystem services in the Jeju Island UNESCO heritage and biosphere site (Republic of Korea)	1
Local conservation action requires ethical investments in global digital equity	1
Community-based monitoring reveals low anthropogenic pressure on a game vertebrate population in a sustainable-use Amazonian protected area	1
Supporting better forest landscape restoration by making investor funding for tree planting conditional on an adequate explanation of how tree seeds and seedlings will be sourced	1
Alternative restocking strategy could reverse declines of a critically endangered sturgeon	1