OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Vegetation Science is 7. 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
Nontarget Plant Community and Biomass Responses in Northern Mixed Grassland Treated With Indaziflam for Invasive Annual Brome Control	88
Simulated effects of floodplain restoration on plant community types	53
Standardised Drone Procedures for Phytosociological Data Collection	41
No species loss, but pronounced species turnover in grasslands in the Northern Alps over 25 years	27
Exploring seed density and limiting similarity to reduce invasive grass performance for grassland restoration purposes	24
On the Use of Taxon Names in Community Ecology	24
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Longleaf pine restoration on hydric sites: Understorey plant community responses to site preparation through 15 years	22
Effects of thinning on functional and phylogenetic diversity of regenerated woody plants in plantations over time	21
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Classification of European bog vegetation of the Oxycocco‐Sphagnetea class	20
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The Role of Nurse Trees in the Plant Community of Park Grassland: A Case Study in Southern Brazil	17
Effects of slashing on native and invasive species, and community structure of a remnant natural grassland of South Australia	17
AgriWeedClim database: A repository of vegetation plot data from Central European arable habitats over 100 years	16
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Using priority effects for grassland restoration: Sequential sowing can promote subordinate species	16
Coping with changing plant–plant interactions in restoration ecology: Effect of species, site, and individual variation	16
Decadal vegetation changes in a subarctic‐alpine ecosystem: Can effects of Iceland's largest hydropower reservoir, climate change, and herbivory be detected?	16
Classification of forest and shrubland vegetation in central and eastern Euxine Turkey and SW Georgia	14
Understorey vegetation response to post‐tornado salvage logging	14
Water management infrastructure alters plant species composition, functional diversity and soil condition in a livestock‐impaired mosaic of wetlands	13
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The benefits of publishing in society‐owned scientific journals	12
Soil Nutrients Mediate Initial Intraannual Community Dynamics in a Tilled Grassland	11

Effects of foraging tunnels created by plateau zokors on plant above‐ground biomass and species richness of graminoids and forbs in alpine grasslands	11
External management effects on the stand structure of protected forest patches	11
Road Disturbance Shapes the Functional Composition of Native Plant Species but Not That of Non‐Natives in the Arid Andes	10
Seed Rain in Subtropical Grasslands Under Different Grazing Intensities	10
Issue Information	10
Effect of forest structure and management on the functional diversity and composition of understorey plant communities	10
Mitigating invasive species using biochar derived from invasive plants in saline‐alkaline wetland plant communities dominated by Amaranthus palmeri	10
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Fire and grazing interaction in a subhumid grassland: Effects on a dominant tussock grass	10
Small rocky outcrops: Natural features to promote biodiversity in oak wood‐pastures	10
Herbivores regulate native–alien plants dynamics in sub‐Antarctic beech (Nothofagus antarctica) forests of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina	9
Exotic herbivores and fire energy drive standing herbaceous biomass but do not alter compositional patterns in a semiarid savanna ecosystem	9
Soil seed bank development of smoke‐responsive plant species in a 23‐year restoration chronosequence and implications for resilience to fire	9
Silicicolous lichen communities of the Ukrainian Crystalline Shield	9
Grazing hay meadows: History, distribution, and ecological context	9
The role of dominant prairie species ecotypes on plant diversity patterns of restored grasslands across a rainfall gradient in the US Great Plains	9
Reflecting on two and a half decades of restoration ecology in Applied Vegetation Science (1998–2023)	9
Modeling the Abundance of Boreal Foundation Species: The Impact of Forest Structure, Soils, and Legacy Effects on Ericaceous Shrubs	8
Historic deforestation and non‐native plant invasions determine vegetation trajectories across an oceanic archipelago	8
Species dominance rather than complementarity drives community digestibility and litter decomposition in species‐rich Mediterranean rangelands	8
Daily Fluctuating Flows Affect Riparian Plant Species Distributions From Local to Regional Scales	7
Nitrogen Deposition Increases Spontaneous Forest Establishment and Loss of Lichen Vegetation in Inland Dune Areas Across the Netherlands	7
Correction to “Beyond species richness and community composition: Using plant functional diversity to measure restoration success in jarrah forest” [Applied Vegetation Science, 24(3), e12607]	7
Drivers of species composition in arable‐weed communities of the Austrian–Hungarian borderland region: What is the role of the country?	7
Evaluating the feasibility of using plant‐specific metabarcoding to assess forest types from soil eDNA	7
The alien Chinese windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) impacts forest vegetation and regeneration on the southern slope of the European Alps	7
Effects of Panels and Management on Plant Community Composition in Southern French Solar Parks	7
Machine‐learning algorithms predict soil seed bank persistence from easily available traits	7
MedGermDB: A seed germination database for characteristic species of Mediterranean habitats	7
Short‐term effects of the control of the invasive plant Asclepias syriaca: Secondary invasion of other neophytes instead of recovery of the native species	7
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Understory Plant Community Response to a Range of Restoration Scenarios in Northeast US Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida) Barrens	7
Determinants of bryophyte assemblages in traditionally managed grasslands of the Carpathian Mts	7
Burning the seed bank: Seed response of eight species to different fire intensities in Patagonian steppe	7
Spatial patterns of stand structure and canopy disturbance in a fire‐maintainedPinus palustriswoodland	7
Livestock grazing is an effective conservation tool for Californian coastal grassland ecology: An eight‐year study on vegetation dynamics	7
Annual Vegetation of Saline Seasonal Wetlands ( Crypsietea aculeatae ) in Europe	7
Assessing removal methods for controlling Dichrostachys cinerea encroachment and their impacts on plant communities in an East‐African savannah ecosystem	7
Carbon dioxide fluxes and soil carbon storage in relation to long‐term grazing and no grazing in Icelandic semi‐natural grasslands	7
Exotic species explain plant functional trait differences between seed mixes, restored and reference prairies	7
Restoration and management of plant communities in Applied Vegetation Science	7