OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Conservation-Bulgaria 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in landscape disturbance intensity of sloping land in mountainous areas and their relationship with ecosystem services	27
Biodiversity monitoring with intelligent sensors: An integrated pipeline for mitigating animal-vehicle collisions	26
Natura 2000-sites: Legal requirements for agricultural and forestry land-use	22
Are several small wildlife crossing structures better than a single large? Arguments from the perspective of large wildlife conservation	21
The effect of habitat reduction by roads on space use and movement patterns of an endangered species, the Cabrera vole Microtus cabrerae	20
Changes in species and phylogenetic diversity in tropical seasonal rainforests on steep karst hillslopes in southwestern China: implications for conservation	15
Dogs, not wolves, most likely to have caused the death of a British tourist in northern Greece	15
Morphological and genetic characteristics of garfish Belone belone (L., 1760) (Belonidae, Teleostei) population from the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast	15
Important plant areas (IPAs) in the Fergana Valley (Central Asia): The badlands of the northern foothills	14
Safeguarding China’s threatened cycads: Strategies to combat alarming habitat degradation and anthropogenic collection pressure	14
A baseline assessment of anthropogenic macrolitter on dunes along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast using visual census and Unmanned Aerial Systems	14
Old trees: Precious natural heritage on isolated islands	14
The drums of war are beating louder: Media coverage of brown bears in Romania	13
Slipped through the narrow door: Effects of climate change on the distribution and conservation of a vulnerable tiger gecko, Goniurosaurus luii, from China and Vietnam	13
MIAU: An analysis-ready dataset on presence-only and presence-absence data of Neotropical carnivores (Mammalia, Carnivora) from 2000 to 2021	12
Diving pattern and behavioral response to vessel traffic of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in Xiamen, China: implications for conservation	12
Coastal beaver, Chinook, coho, chum salmon and trout response to nearshore changes resulting from diking and large-scale dam removals: synergistic ecosystem engineering and restoration in the coastal	11
Conservation and ecological screening of small water bodies in temperate riverine wetlands using UAV Photogrammetry (Middle Danube)	11
Prioritising areas for conservation within Tropical Important Plant Areas of the British Virgin Islands, Caribbean	10
Vegetation changes at oligotrophic grasslands managed for a declining butterfly	10
Has climate change hijacked the environmental agenda?	9
Maps of area of habitat for Italian amphibians and reptiles	8
Brown bear occurrence along a proposed highway route in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains	8
DNA metabarcoding reveals distinct trophic niches among sympatric aerial insectivores (Family: Apodidae and Hirundinidae) in central Peninsular Malaysia	7
Impact associated with water sources: An environmental analysis	7

Rapid linear transport infrastructure development in the Carpathians: A major threat to the integrity of ecological connectivity for large carnivores	7
Vertebrates as victims of domestic cats and dogs: ten years of data from an Italian animal rescue centre (2015–2024)	7
Where there’s smoke there is fire: Türkiye and the international illegal wildlife trade	7
First record of the white trevally (Pseudocaranx dentex) in the Black Sea: a new occurrence from Bulgarian coastal waters	7
Assessment of the threat status of the amphibians in Vietnam - Implementation of the One Plan Approach	6
Lost in hostile lands: moths of conservation concern in cultivated and suburban areas of south Italy	6
Artificial breeding of the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, in a captive facility in the Republic of Korea	6
Conservation priorities for threatened mammals of Vietnam: Implementation of the IUCN´s One Plan Approach	6
Dissecting the illegal pangolin trade in China: An insight from seizures data reports	6
Ritualistic hunts: exploring the motivations and conservation implications in West Bengal, India	6
Ecological Solutions for Linear Infrastructure Networks: The key to green infrastructure development	6
Corrigendum: Using drone imagery to obtain population data of colony-nesting seabirds to support Canada’s transition to the global Key Biodiversity Areas program. Nature Conservation 51: 155–166. doi	6
Forage harvesting using branch pruning compromises sustainable use and conservation of Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir., an endangered species	5
The potential of electrified barriers to keep black bears out of fenced road corridors at low volume access roads	5
Assessing behaviour states of a forest carnivore in a road-dominated landscape using Hidden Markov Models	5
Forest patches as important bird habitats in Malaysia's large-scale infrastructure development areas	5
Applying landscape ecological principles in comprehensive landscape protection: Šumava National Park as a case study	5
Strict laws fail to deter illegal trade of China’s largest and most endangered freshwater turtle	5
‘Animals under wheels’: Wildlife roadkill data collection by citizen scientists as a part of their nature recording activities	5
Potential for informal guardianship in community-based wildlife crime prevention: Insights from Vietnam	5