OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 40. 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
Towards a unified study of multiple stressors: divisions and common goals across research disciplines	192
Crop production in the USA is frequently limited by a lack of pollinators	171
Pollination by hoverflies in the Anthropocene	113
The role of the gut microbiome in sustainable teleost aquaculture	91
Key questions for modelling COVID-19 exit strategies	87
Microplastics negatively affect soil fauna but stimulate microbial activity: insights from a field-based microplastic addition experiment	73
What would it take to describe the global diversity of parasites?	73
Native biodiversity collapse in the eastern Mediterranean	72
Towards a taxonomically unbiased European Union biodiversity strategy for 2030	70
When everything changes at once: finding a new normal after genome duplication	70
Do novel insecticides pose a threat to beneficial insects?	69
A deepening understanding of animal culture suggests lessons for conservation	64
Perspective on musculoskeletal modelling and predictive simulations of human movement to assess the neuromechanics of gait	60
Long-term shifts in the colony size structure of coral populations along the Great Barrier Reef	59
Genome size evolution: towards new model systems for old questions	59
Trait-based approaches to global change ecology: moving from description to prediction	55
Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations	54
Body shape diversification along the benthic–pelagic axis in marine fishes	52
Global determinants of prey naiveté to exotic predators	52
Changes in taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity in the Anthropocene	51
Sex differences in moral judgements across 67 countries	51
Pace and stability of embryonic development affect telomere dynamics: an experimental study in a precocial bird model	50
Maximum CO₂diffusion inside leaves is limited by the scaling of cell size and genome size	50
Transient receptor potential channels: current perspectives on evolution, structure, function and nomenclature	50
Fire and grazing determined grasslands of central Madagascar represent ancient assemblages	47

Symbionts shape host innate immunity in honeybees	46
A global analysis of cultural tightness in non-industrial societies	46
Fossils improve phylogenetic analyses of morphological characters	46
Reduced thermal tolerance of massive coral species in a highly variable environment	45
Predicting the zoonotic capacity of mammals to transmit SARS-CoV-2	45
Pesticide and resource stressors additively impair wild bee reproduction	44
The critical role of mental imagery in human emotion: insights from fear-based imagery and aphantasia	43
Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities	43
Network ecology in dynamic landscapes	43
The Archean origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and extant cyanobacterial lineages	43
Limited plasticity in thermally tolerant ectotherm populations: evidence for a trade-off	42
The phantom chorus: birdsong boosts human well-being in protected areas	42
Emerging infectious disease and the challenges of social distancing in human and non-human animals	42
Rapid behavioural response of urban birds to COVID-19 lockdown	41
A biologist's guide to model selection and causal inference	40
A scientist like me: demographic analysis of biology textbooks reveals both progress and long-term lags	40
Environmental DNA provides quantitative estimates of Pacific hake abundance and distribution in the open ocean	40
Tropical bats counter heat by combining torpor with adaptive hyperthermia	40