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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Are several small wildlife crossing structures better than a single large? Arguments from the perspective of large wildlife conservation	42
Biodiversity monitoring with intelligent sensors: An integrated pipeline for mitigating animal-vehicle collisions	23
Changes in landscape disturbance intensity of sloping land in mountainous areas and their relationship with ecosystem services	19
Natura 2000-sites: Legal requirements for agricultural and forestry land-use	17
Dogs, not wolves, most likely to have caused the death of a British tourist in northern Greece	16
The effect of habitat reduction by roads on space use and movement patterns of an endangered species, the Cabrera vole Microtus cabrerae	15
Morphological and genetic characteristics of garfish Belone belone (L., 1760) (Belonidae, Teleostei) population from the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast	13
A baseline assessment of anthropogenic macrolitter on dunes along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast using visual census and Unmanned Aerial Systems	13
Old trees: Precious natural heritage on isolated islands	11
Zoos consenting to the illegal wildlife trade – the earless monitor lizard as a case study	11
The drums of war are beating louder: Media coverage of brown bears in Romania	10
Important plant areas (IPAs) in the Fergana Valley (Central Asia): The badlands of the northern foothills	10
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	10
MIAU: An analysis-ready dataset on presence-only and presence-absence data of Neotropical carnivores (Mammalia, Carnivora) from 2000 to 2021	10
Conservation and ecological screening of small water bodies in temperate riverine wetlands using UAV Photogrammetry (Middle Danube)	9
Brown bear occurrence along a proposed highway route in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains	9
Prioritising areas for conservation within Tropical Important Plant Areas of the British Virgin Islands, Caribbean	9
Maps of area of habitat for Italian amphibians and reptiles	8
Vegetation changes at oligotrophic grasslands managed for a declining butterfly	8
Has climate change hijacked the environmental agenda?	8
Artificial breeding of the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, in a captive facility in the Republic of Korea	7
Assessment of the threat status of the amphibians in Vietnam - Implementation of the One Plan Approach	7
Rapid linear transport infrastructure development in the Carpathians: A major threat to the integrity of ecological connectivity for large carnivores	7
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

Strict laws fail to deter illegal trade of China’s largest and most endangered freshwater turtle	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
Lost in hostile lands: moths of conservation concern in cultivated and suburban areas of south Italy	6
Assessing behaviour states of a forest carnivore in a road-dominated landscape using Hidden Markov Models	6
Dissecting the illegal pangolin trade in China: An insight from seizures data reports	6
‘Animals under wheels’: Wildlife roadkill data collection by citizen scientists as a part of their nature recording activities	5
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
Potential for informal guardianship in community-based wildlife crime prevention: Insights from Vietnam	5
Climatic niche modelling and genetic analyses highlight conservation priorities for the Spotted Softshell Turtle (Pelodiscus variegatus)	4
Economic effects of climate change on global agricultural production	4
Germany’s federal waterways – A linear infrastructure network for nature and transport	4
Applying landscape ecological principles in comprehensive landscape protection: Šumava National Park as a case study	4
A test of wildlife warning reflectors as a way to reduce risk of wildlife-train collisions	4