OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Ecosystems is 21. 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
Effect of exotic species management on the recovery of relict forests through citizen participation	150
Variation in functional connectivity between metapopulations in urbanized and forested areas in an endangered salamander	60
Resilient plant species selection for urban green infrastructure development in arid regions: a case of Qom, Iran	46
Species diversity and microhabitat characteristics of bryophytes on different types of walls in a karst city Guiyang (SW China)	40
Faunal homogenization in tropical cities: lessons from anuran assemblages of two small Amazonian municipalities	37
Free-roaming dogs in Ushuaia City, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. How many and why	37
Discovering urban nature: citizen science and biodiversity on a university campus	34
Use of compost to improve Technosol properties and spontaneous plant-soil relationships of Mediterranean species potentially suitable for urban greening	33
Water in the city: visitation of animal wildlife to garden water sources and urban lakes	31
An assessment of the condition of flowing waters in predominantly urban areas of the conterminous U.S. and its relationship to measures of environmental justice	30
Wildlife resilience in an urban landscape: understanding land-use impacts in Cape Town	30
Plant diversity and uses in urban domestic gardens of Regla, Havana, Cuba	30
Monument protection as a limiting factor for large scale vertical greening system implementation to counteract indoor heat stress – a GIS-based analysis for Berlin, Germany	28
How butterfly communities are structured and have changed in urbanized areas of Marseille: a 12-year monitoring survey	27
Integrating biocultural diversity into urban school grounds through transdisciplinary curriculum design	27
Standing vegetation and seed bank patterns paint a bleak picture for urban grassland restoration	25
Dynamic occupancy analyses of native birds in an urban ecological reserve reveal seasonal changes in site occupancy and preference for adjacent urbanized areas	24
Urbanisation and land-cover change affect functional, but not compositional turnover of bird communities	23
Importance of urban green areas’ connectivity for the conservation of pollinators	22
Investigating the impacts of humans and dogs on the spatial and temporal activity of wildlife in urban woodlands	22
Small but connected: assessing the contribution of civic-led hedgerow planting on landscape connectivity in periurban Paris	21
Linking activity of common pipistrelles, Pipistrellus pipistrellus, in an urbanised area with a nearby mass swarming site	21
Diversity of raptors and nest sites characteristics in an urban area in Southern Chile	21
Supplementary urban green infrastructure: community perceptions of trees and their benefits	21