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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Cover Image	665
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Hotter is not (always) better: Embracing unimodal scaling of biological rates with temperature	157
Sampling bias exaggerates a textbook example of a trophic cascade	140
Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st‐century climate change	115
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Body size and digestive system shape resource selection by ungulates: A cross‐taxa test of the forage maturation hypothesis	105
Emergence patterns of locally novel plant communities driven by past climate change and modern anthropogenic impacts	94
Non‐Native Species Abundance Decreases the Co‐Occurrence Between Native and Non‐Native Species Through Time at Any Phylogenetic Distance	93
Stabilising role of seed banks and the maintenance of bacterial diversity	92
Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous‐time velocity model	86
Body Mass–Biomass Scaling Modulates Species Keystone‐Ness to Press Perturbations	86
Experimental evidence of size‐selective harvest and environmental stochasticity effects on population demography, fluctuations and non‐linearity	85
Continent‐wide patterns of song variation predicted by classical rules of biogeography	85
Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal	78
Microbial Life History Mediates the Drought‐Induced Decrease in Wood Decomposition in Subtropical Forests	75
Intraspecific variation in plant‐associated herbivore communities is phylogenetically structured in Brassicaceae	73
Climate change impacts plant carbon balance, increasing mean future carbon use efficiency but decreasing total forest extent at dry range edges	73
Comparative approaches in social network ecology	73
Behavioural differences underlie toxicity and predation variation in blooms of Prymnesium parvum	71
Trade‐offs in non‐native plant herbivore defences enhance performance	70
Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity	69
SEED: A framework for integrating ecological stoichiometry and eco‐evolutionary dynamics	69

Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data	68
Issue Information	66
Contemporary tree growth shows altered climate memory	62
Phylogenetic congruence between Neotropical primates and plants is driven by frugivory	60
Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 5, May 2022	59
Corrigendum	58
The latitudinal gradient in rates of evolution for bird beaks, a species interaction trait	58
Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients	57
Voltinism Shifts in Response to Climate Warming Generally Benefit Populations of Multivoltine Butterflies	57
Learning takes time: Biotic resistance by native herbivores increases through the invasion process	55
Transplant experiments demonstrate that larger brains are favoured in high‐competition environments in Trinidadian killifish	53
Weaker Plant‐Frugivore Trait Matching Towards the Tropics and on Islands	51
The causes and ecological context of rapid morphological evolution in birds	51
Thermal limits of survival and reproduction depend on stress duration: A case study of Drosophila suzukii	51
Species loss due to nutrient addition increases with spatial scale in global grasslands	49
When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird's life history	48
Microbial redox cycling enhances ecosystem thermodynamic efficiency and productivity	47
Microbiome influence on host community dynamics: Conceptual integration of microbiome feedback with classical host–microbe theory	47
Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection	46
How an Insect Converts Time Into Space: Temporal Niches Aid Coexistence via Modifying the Amount of Habitat Available for Reproduction	46
Reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering	46