OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Conservation is 5. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The need for improved reflexivity in conservation science	32
The illegal wildlife digital market: an analysis of Chinese wildlife marketing and sale on Facebook	31
Recycled water reuse: what factors affect public acceptance?	22
Biodiversity narratives: stories of the evolving conservation landscape	21
Re-conceptualizing the role(s) of science in biodiversity conservation	21
Transdisciplinary science for improved conservation outcomes	20
Boots on the ground: the role of passive acoustic monitoring in evaluating anti-poaching patrols	17
Not teaching what we practice: undergraduate conservation training at UK universities lacks interdisciplinarity	16
Brazil’s Highway BR-319 demonstrates a crucial lack of environmental governance in Amazonia	15
Buy them out before they are built: evaluating the proactive acquisition of vacant land in flood-prone areas	15
Distribution and impact of invasive alien plant species in Bardia National Park, western Nepal	15
Corporate responsibility and biodiversity conservation: challenges and opportunities for companies participating in China’s Belt and Road Initiative	14
A pesticide banned in the European Union over a decade ago is still present in raptors in Poland	13
Who gets to imagine transformative change? Participation and representation in biodiversity assessments	13
Invasive vertebrate eradications on islands as a tool for implementing global Sustainable Development Goals	13
Is the Anthropause a useful symbol and metaphor for raising environmental awareness and promoting reform?	13
Biodiversity revisited through systems thinking	13
Risk perception, trust and support for wildlife reintroduction and conservation	12
Promoting grazing or rewilding initiatives against rural exodus? The return of the wolf and other large carnivores must be considered	12
Framing conservation: ‘biodiversity’ and the values embedded in scientific language	11
Google Trends data reveal a sharp trend: teeth and claws attract more interest than feathers, hooves or fins	11
Private-land control and deforestation dynamics in the context of implementing the Native Forest Law in the Northern Argentinian Dry Chaco	11
Conservation and development: a cross-disciplinary overview	10
Human dimensions of human–lion conflict: a pre- and post-assessment of a lion conservation programme in the Okavango Delta, Botswana	10
Engaging women brings conservation benefits to snow leopard landscapes	10

The mycological social network a way forward for conservation of fungal biodiversity	10
The Brazilian Caatinga protected areas: an extremely unbalanced conservation system	10
Understanding community perceptions of a natural open space system for urban conservation and stewardship in a metropolitan city in Africa	10
Hunting sustainability within two eastern Amazon Extractive Reserves	9
Connecting protected areas in the Iberian peninsula to facilitate climate change tracking	8
Urbanization impacts water quality and the use of microhabitats by fish in subtropical agricultural streams	8
Governments commit to forest restoration, but what does it take to restore forests?	8
A scoping review of environmental governance challenges in southern Africa from 2010 to 2020	7
Human-carnivore coexistence: factors influencing stakeholder attitudes towards large carnivores and conservation in Zimbabwe	7
Jaguars and wild pigs indicate protected area connectivity in the south-east Atlantic Forest (Brazil)	6
Elephant ivory, rhino horn, pangolin and helmeted hornbill products for sale at the Myanmar–Thailand–China border	6
From wildlife-ism to ecosystem-service-ism to a broader environmentalism	6
Impact of individual protected areas on deforestation and carbon emissions in Acre, Brazil	6
The first acts of Brazil’s new president: Lula’s new Amazon institutionality	6
Comparison of local knowledge and researcher-led observations for wildlife exploitation assessment and management	6
Serra do Divisor National Park: a protected area under threat in the south-western Brazilian Amazon	5
Climate-driven animal mass mortality events: is there a role for scavengers?	5
Differential responses of Kashmir Himalayan threatened medicinal plants to anticipated climate change	5
From social networks to bird enthusiasts: reporting interactions between plastic waste and birds in Peru	5
Conservation networks: are zoos and aquariums collaborating or competing through partnerships?	5