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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Are several small wildlife crossing structures better than a single large? Arguments from the perspective of large wildlife conservation	45
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	22
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	18
The effect of habitat reduction by roads on space use and movement patterns of an endangered species, the Cabrera vole Microtus cabrerae	17
Morphological and genetic characteristics of garfish Belone belone (L., 1760) (Belonidae, Teleostei) population from the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast	14
Old trees: Precious natural heritage on isolated islands	13
A baseline assessment of anthropogenic macrolitter on dunes along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast using visual census and Unmanned Aerial Systems	13
Safeguarding China’s threatened cycads: Strategies to combat alarming habitat degradation and anthropogenic collection pressure	12
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
Important plant areas (IPAs) in the Fergana Valley (Central Asia): The badlands of the northern foothills	12
The drums of war are beating louder: Media coverage of brown bears in Romania	11
MIAU: An analysis-ready dataset on presence-only and presence-absence data of Neotropical carnivores (Mammalia, Carnivora) from 2000 to 2021	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
Conservation and ecological screening of small water bodies in temperate riverine wetlands using UAV Photogrammetry (Middle Danube)	10
Rapid linear transport infrastructure development in the Carpathians: A major threat to the integrity of ecological connectivity for large carnivores	9
Impact associated with water sources: An environmental analysis	9
Prioritising areas for conservation within Tropical Important Plant Areas of the British Virgin Islands, Caribbean	9
Brown bear occurrence along a proposed highway route in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains	9
Where there’s smoke there is fire: Türkiye and the international illegal wildlife trade	8
Vegetation changes at oligotrophic grasslands managed for a declining butterfly	8
Has climate change hijacked the environmental agenda?	8
DNA metabarcoding reveals distinct trophic niches among sympatric aerial insectivores (Family: Apodidae and Hirundinidae) in central Peninsular Malaysia	7
Maps of area of habitat for Italian amphibians and reptiles	7

Ecological Solutions for Linear Infrastructure Networks: The key to green infrastructure development	7
Dissecting the illegal pangolin trade in China: An insight from seizures data reports	6
Assessment of the threat status of the amphibians in Vietnam - Implementation of the One Plan Approach	6
Conservation priorities for threatened mammals of Vietnam: Implementation of the IUCN´s One Plan Approach	6
Ritualistic hunts: exploring the motivations and conservation implications in West Bengal, India	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
Artificial breeding of the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, in a captive facility in the Republic of Korea	6
Lost in hostile lands: moths of conservation concern in cultivated and suburban areas of south Italy	6
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
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
Assessing behaviour states of a forest carnivore in a road-dominated landscape using Hidden Markov Models	5
Climatic niche modelling and genetic analyses highlight conservation priorities for the Spotted Softshell Turtle (Pelodiscus variegatus)	4
Germany’s federal waterways – A linear infrastructure network for nature and transport	4
Recent changes in tropical-dry-forest connectivity within the Balsas Basin Biogeographic Province: potential effects on endemic-bird distributions	4
A test of wildlife warning reflectors as a way to reduce risk of wildlife-train collisions	4
Applying landscape ecological principles in comprehensive landscape protection: Šumava National Park as a case study	4
Viral threats: the role of TikTok in facilitating trade in CITES-listed species in Lomé, Togo	4
Soundscapes and protected area conservation: Are noises in nature making people complacent?	4
The potential of electrified barriers to keep black bears out of fenced road corridors at low volume access roads	4
Seeking serpents: Ball python trade in Benin, West Africa	4
Economic effects of climate change on global agricultural production	4