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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in landscape disturbance intensity of sloping land in mountainous areas and their relationship with ecosystem services	27
Are several small wildlife crossing structures better than a single large? Arguments from the perspective of large wildlife conservation	24
Biodiversity monitoring with intelligent sensors: An integrated pipeline for mitigating animal-vehicle collisions	21
Natura 2000-sites: Legal requirements for agricultural and forestry land-use	19
The effect of habitat reduction by roads on space use and movement patterns of an endangered species, the Cabrera vole Microtus cabrerae	18
Morphological and genetic characteristics of garfish Belone belone (L., 1760) (Belonidae, Teleostei) population from the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast	15
A baseline assessment of anthropogenic macrolitter on dunes along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast using visual census and Unmanned Aerial Systems	14
Dogs, not wolves, most likely to have caused the death of a British tourist in northern Greece	14
Old trees: Precious natural heritage on isolated islands	13
Important plant areas (IPAs) in the Fergana Valley (Central Asia): The badlands of the northern foothills	13
Safeguarding China’s threatened cycads: Strategies to combat alarming habitat degradation and anthropogenic collection pressure	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	12
The drums of war are beating louder: Media coverage of brown bears in Romania	12
Prioritising areas for conservation within Tropical Important Plant Areas of the British Virgin Islands, Caribbean	11
MIAU: An analysis-ready dataset on presence-only and presence-absence data of Neotropical carnivores (Mammalia, Carnivora) from 2000 to 2021	11
Has climate change hijacked the environmental agenda?	11
Conservation and ecological screening of small water bodies in temperate riverine wetlands using UAV Photogrammetry (Middle Danube)	11
Vegetation changes at oligotrophic grasslands managed for a declining butterfly	11
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
Where there’s smoke there is fire: Türkiye and the international illegal wildlife trade	9
Impact associated with water sources: An environmental analysis	9
Brown bear occurrence along a proposed highway route in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains	9
Maps of area of habitat for Italian amphibians and reptiles	8
Rapid linear transport infrastructure development in the Carpathians: A major threat to the integrity of ecological connectivity for large carnivores	8
Artificial breeding of the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, in a captive facility in the Republic of Korea	7

Ritualistic hunts: exploring the motivations and conservation implications in West Bengal, India	7
DNA metabarcoding reveals distinct trophic niches among sympatric aerial insectivores (Family: Apodidae and Hirundinidae) in central Peninsular Malaysia	7
Ecological Solutions for Linear Infrastructure Networks: The key to green infrastructure development	7
Lost in hostile lands: moths of conservation concern in cultivated and suburban areas of south Italy	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
Dissecting the illegal pangolin trade in China: An insight from seizures data reports	6
Forage harvesting using branch pruning compromises sustainable use and conservation of Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir., an endangered species	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
Strict laws fail to deter illegal trade of China’s largest and most endangered freshwater turtle	6
Germany’s federal waterways – A linear infrastructure network for nature and transport	5
Recent changes in tropical-dry-forest connectivity within the Balsas Basin Biogeographic Province: potential effects on endemic-bird distributions	5
Potential for informal guardianship in community-based wildlife crime prevention: Insights from Vietnam	5
The potential of electrified barriers to keep black bears out of fenced road corridors at low volume access roads	5
Climatic niche modelling and genetic analyses highlight conservation priorities for the Spotted Softshell Turtle (Pelodiscus variegatus)	5
‘Animals under wheels’: Wildlife roadkill data collection by citizen scientists as a part of their nature recording activities	5
Viral threats: the role of TikTok in facilitating trade in CITES-listed species in Lomé, Togo	5
Applying landscape ecological principles in comprehensive landscape protection: Šumava National Park as a case study	5