OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Conservation-Bulgaria is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Are several small wildlife crossing structures better than a single large? Arguments from the perspective of large wildlife conservation	44
Biodiversity monitoring with intelligent sensors: An integrated pipeline for mitigating animal-vehicle collisions	26
Changes in landscape disturbance intensity of sloping land in mountainous areas and their relationship with ecosystem services	20
Natura 2000-sites: Legal requirements for agricultural and forestry land-use	18
Dogs, not wolves, most likely to have caused the death of a British tourist in northern Greece	17
The effect of habitat reduction by roads on space use and movement patterns of an endangered species, the Cabrera vole Microtus cabrerae	17
A baseline assessment of anthropogenic macrolitter on dunes along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast using visual census and Unmanned Aerial Systems	13
Morphological and genetic characteristics of garfish Belone belone (L., 1760) (Belonidae, Teleostei) population from the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast	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
The drums of war are beating louder: Media coverage of brown bears in Romania	12
Old trees: Precious natural heritage on isolated islands	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
Important plant areas (IPAs) in the Fergana Valley (Central Asia): The badlands of the northern foothills	11
MIAU: An analysis-ready dataset on presence-only and presence-absence data of Neotropical carnivores (Mammalia, Carnivora) from 2000 to 2021	11
Brown bear occurrence along a proposed highway route in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains	10
Conservation and ecological screening of small water bodies in temperate riverine wetlands using UAV Photogrammetry (Middle Danube)	10
Prioritising areas for conservation within Tropical Important Plant Areas of the British Virgin Islands, Caribbean	9
Impact associated with water sources: An environmental analysis	9
Has climate change hijacked the environmental agenda?	9
Rapid linear transport infrastructure development in the Carpathians: A major threat to the integrity of ecological connectivity for large carnivores	9
Vegetation changes at oligotrophic grasslands managed for a declining butterfly	9
Where there’s smoke there is fire: Türkiye and the international illegal wildlife trade	8
Ritualistic hunts: exploring the motivations and conservation implications in West Bengal, India	7
Ecological Solutions for Linear Infrastructure Networks: The key to green infrastructure development	7
Artificial breeding of the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, in a captive facility in the Republic of Korea	7

Maps of area of habitat for Italian amphibians and reptiles	7
Lost in hostile lands: moths of conservation concern in cultivated and suburban areas of south Italy	6
Dissecting the illegal pangolin trade in China: An insight from seizures data reports	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
Conservation priorities for threatened mammals of Vietnam: Implementation of the IUCN´s One Plan Approach	6
Assessment of the threat status of the amphibians in Vietnam - Implementation of the One Plan Approach	6
Assessing behaviour states of a forest carnivore in a road-dominated landscape using Hidden Markov Models	6
The potential of electrified barriers to keep black bears out of fenced road corridors at low volume access roads	5
Forage harvesting using branch pruning compromises sustainable use and conservation of Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir., an endangered species	5
‘Animals under wheels’: Wildlife roadkill data collection by citizen scientists as a part of their nature recording activities	5
Strict laws fail to deter illegal trade of China’s largest and most endangered freshwater turtle	5
Climatic niche modelling and genetic analyses highlight conservation priorities for the Spotted Softshell Turtle (Pelodiscus variegatus)	5
Potential for informal guardianship in community-based wildlife crime prevention: Insights from Vietnam	5
A test of wildlife warning reflectors as a way to reduce risk of wildlife-train collisions	4
Effects of anthropogenic and environmental stressors on the current status of red mullet (Mullus barbatus L., 1758) populations inhabiting the Bulgarian Black Sea waters	4
Germany’s federal waterways – A linear infrastructure network for nature and transport	4
Evaluating resampled and fused Sentinel-2 data and machine-learning algorithms for mangrove mapping in the northern coast of Qeshm island, Iran	4
Seeking serpents: Ball python trade in Benin, West Africa	4
Recent changes in tropical-dry-forest connectivity within the Balsas Basin Biogeographic Province: potential effects on endemic-bird distributions	4
Economic effects of climate change on global agricultural production	4
Soundscapes and protected area conservation: Are noises in nature making people complacent?	4
Applying landscape ecological principles in comprehensive landscape protection: Šumava National Park as a case study	4