OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecology Letters is 46. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
	771
	204
	197
Cover Image	153
Issue Information	118
	106
Non‐Native Species Abundance Decreases the Co‐Occurrence Between Native and Non‐Native Species Through Time at Any Phylogenetic Distance	105
Microbial Life History Mediates the Drought‐Induced Decrease in Wood Decomposition in Subtropical Forests	105
Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity	98
Body Mass–Biomass Scaling Modulates Species Keystone‐Ness to Press Perturbations	97
Trade‐offs in non‐native plant herbivore defences enhance performance	97
Behavioural differences underlie toxicity and predation variation in blooms of Prymnesium parvum	92
Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data	91
Hotter is not (always) better: Embracing unimodal scaling of biological rates with temperature	86
SEED: A framework for integrating ecological stoichiometry and eco‐evolutionary dynamics	86
Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal	84
Contemporary tree growth shows altered climate memory	81
Emergence patterns of locally novel plant communities driven by past climate change and modern anthropogenic impacts	77
Climate change impacts plant carbon balance, increasing mean future carbon use efficiency but decreasing total forest extent at dry range edges	77
Phylogenetic congruence between Neotropical primates and plants is driven by frugivory	72
Sampling bias exaggerates a textbook example of a trophic cascade	69
Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st‐century climate change	66
Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous‐time velocity model	65
Continent‐wide patterns of song variation predicted by classical rules of biogeography	65
Experimental evidence of size‐selective harvest and environmental stochasticity effects on population demography, fluctuations and non‐linearity	64

Comparative approaches in social network ecology	63
Transplant experiments demonstrate that larger brains are favoured in high‐competition environments in Trinidadian killifish	59
Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 5, May 2022	59
When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird's life history	59
Weaker Plant‐Frugivore Trait Matching Towards the Tropics and on Islands	58
Reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering	57
Microbiome influence on host community dynamics: Conceptual integration of microbiome feedback with classical host–microbe theory	57
Microbial redox cycling enhances ecosystem thermodynamic efficiency and productivity	55
Learning takes time: Biotic resistance by native herbivores increases through the invasion process	54
Corrigendum	54
Voltinism Shifts in Response to Climate Warming Generally Benefit Populations of Multivoltine Butterflies	52
Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients	52
The latitudinal gradient in rates of evolution for bird beaks, a species interaction trait	52
How an Insect Converts Time Into Space: Temporal Niches Aid Coexistence via Modifying the Amount of Habitat Available for Reproduction	51
Issue Information	51
Biodiversity modulates the cross‐community scaling relationship in changing environments	50
Thermal limits of survival and reproduction depend on stress duration: A case study of Drosophila suzukii	50
Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection	49
Unveiling Pervasive Soil Microbial P Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems Worldwide	49
Convergence of carbon sink magnitude and water table depth in global wetlands	48
The causes and ecological context of rapid morphological evolution in birds	48
PERFICT: A Re‐imagined foundation for predictive ecology	46
Smaller adult fish size in warmer water is not explained by elevated metabolism	46