OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecology Letters is 47. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Five fundamental ways in which complex food webs may spiral out of control	573
Disturbance structures canopy and understory productivity along an environmental gradient	156
Coordination Between Bioelements Induce More Stable Macroelements Than Microelements in Wetland Plants	147
Eco‐Evolutionary Interactions With Multiple Evolving Species Reveal Both Antagonistic and Additive Effects	138
A broadscale analysis of host‐symbiont cophylogeny reveals the drivers of phylogenetic congruence	135
A Probabilistic View of Forbidden Links: Their Prevalence and Their Consequences for the Robustness of Plant–Hummingbird Communities	125
Behavioural Thermoregulation of Flowers via Petal Movement	115
Consequences of Local Conspecific Density Effects for Plant Diversity and Community Dynamics	108
Seed limitation interacts with biotic and abiotic factors to constrain novel species' impact on community biomass and richness	95
Disentangling key species interactions in diverse and heterogeneous communities: A Bayesian sparse modelling approach	90
Specific sequence of arrival promotes coexistence via spatial niche pre‐emption by the weak competitor	90
A taxonomy of multiple stable states in complex ecological communities	89
Dispersal plasticity driven by variation in fitness across species and environmental gradients	88
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Evolution of butterfly seasonal plasticity driven by climate change varies across life stages	87
Cover Image: Volume 26 Number 1, January 2023	83
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Cover Image: Volume 26 Number 2, February 2023	81
Long‐term studies should provide structure for inclusive education and professional development	80
The Demographic Basis of Population Growth: A 32‐Year Transient Life Table Response Experiment	75
Shorebirds Are Shrinking and Shape‐Shifting: Declining Body Size and Lengthening Bills in the Past Half‐Century	75
Coefficients in Taylor's law increase with the time scale of water clarity measurements in a global suite of lakes	72
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Flexibility in coral–algal symbiosis is positively correlated with the host geographic range	64
Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity	61
Rapid Anthropocene realignment of allometric scaling rules	61
Upscaling the effect of traits in response to drought: The relative importance of safety–efficiency and acquisitive–conservation functional axes	61
Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 10, October 2022	59
Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 11, November 2022	59
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Decay by ectomycorrhizal fungi couples soil organic matter to nitrogen availability	53
Contemporary tree growth shows altered climate memory	53
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Cover Image, Volume 27, Issue 1	50
Population demography maintains biogeographic boundaries	50
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Responses of intraspecific metabolic scaling to temperature and activity differ between water‐ and air‐breathing ectothermic vertebrates	48
Experimental evidence of size‐selective harvest and environmental stochasticity effects on population demography, fluctuations and non‐linearity	47
The role of fire in terrestrial vertebrate richness patterns	47