OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Ecology is 39. 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
Cover Image	209
Issue Information	202
Museomics Sheds Light on Evolutionary Diversity in a Critically Endangered Cockatoo Species From Wallacea	180
Discovery of XY Sex Chromosomes in Mauremys mutica Provides Insights Into the Role of KDM6B Gene in Coexistence of Temperature‐Dependent and Genetic Sex Determination	151
Evolutionary History and Rhizosphere Microbial Community Composition in Domesticated Hops (Humulus lupulus L.)	112
Genomic divergence and introgression between cryptic species of a widespread North American songbird	96
Telomere dynamics in relation to experimentally increased locomotion costs and fitness in great tits	93
Genomic data support multiple introductions and explosive demographic expansions in a highly invasive aquatic insect	78
More complex than you think: Taxonomic and temporal patterns of plant–pollinator networks of caraway (Carum carvi L.)	76
The transcriptional state and chromatin landscape of cichlid jaw shape variation across species and environments	68
Adaptive cellular evolution or cellular system drift in hares	65
The impacts of positive selection on genomic variation in Drosophila serrata: Insights from a deep learning approach	64
Genomic, morphological and physiological data support fast ecotypic differentiation and incipient speciation in an alpine diving beetle	64
Decoding plant‐induced transcriptomic variability and consistency in two related polyphagous mites differing in host ranges	64
Traits and tradeoffs among non‐native ectomycorrhizal fungal symbionts affect pine seedling establishment in a Hawaiian coinvasion landscape	62
Hybrid enrichment of adaptive variation revealed by genotype–environment associations in montane sedges	60
Interspecies genome divergence is predominantly due to frequent small scale rearrangements in Eucalyptus	57
Bacterial communities in a subarctic stream network: Spatial and seasonal patterns of benthic biofilm and bacterioplankton	55
Demographic modelling helps track the rapid and recent divergence of a conifer species pair from Central Mexico	53
Association between parasite microbiomes and caste development and colony structure in a social trematode	52
Grassland ecosystem type drives AM fungal diversity and functional guild distribution in North American grasslands	50
Organellar DNA continues to provide a rich source of information in the genomics era	48
Out of the Qinghai‐Tibet plateau: Genomic biogeography of the alpine monospecific genus Megadenia (Biscutelleae, Brassicaceae)	47
Diving into the diversity of colour patterns in reef fishes	46
Host‐pathogen‐environment interactions predict survival outcomes of adult sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) released from fisheries	45

Understanding the role of temperature in seasonal timing: Effects on behavioural, physiological and molecular phenotypes	45
Whole‐genome resequencing confirms reproductive isolation between sympatric demes of brown trout (Salmo trutta) detected with allozymes	45
Experimental evidence that root‐associated fungi improve plant growth at high altitude	44
Genome‐wide SNP assessment of contemporary European red deer genetic structure highlights the distinction of peripheral populations and the main admixture zones in Europe	44
Effect of urbanization and parasitism on the gut microbiota of Darwin's finch nestlings	42
Brazilian marine phylogeography: A literature synthesis and analysis of barriers	41
Hypoxia as a physiological cue and pathological stress for coral larvae	41
DNA Methylation Dynamics Reflect Sex and Status Differences in Mortality Rates in a Polygynous Bat	40
On the origin and structure of haplotype blocks	40
A genomic assessment of the marine‐speciation paradox within the toothed whale superfamily Delphinoidea	39
Community‐wide correlations between species richness, abundance and population genomic diversity in a freshwater biodiversity hotspot	39
Clones on the run: The genomics of a recently expanded partially clonal species	39
Acclimatory gene expression of primed clams enhances robustness to elevated pCO₂	39
Genetic and telomeric variability: Insights from a tropical avian hybrid zone	39
Diversification along a benthic to pelagic gradient contributes to fish diversity in the world's largest lake (Lake Baikal, Russia)	39