OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biological Reviews is 48. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Scientists' warning on invasive alien species	964
The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?	246
Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta‐analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension	209
Shrinking body sizes in response to warming: explanations for the temperature–size rule with special emphasis on the role of oxygen	158
Lakes in the era of global change: moving beyond single‐lake thinking in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services	147
Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates	122
Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna	120
Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the European Alps	110
Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application	104
What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community	93
Exosome‐mediated effects and applications in inflammatory bowel disease	91
Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology	87
The ‘biomineralization toolkit’ and the origin of animal skeletons	87
Ecosystem services provided by aculeate wasps	85
Human disturbance has contrasting effects on niche partitioning within carnivore communities	83
Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition	80
Assessing ontogenetic maturity in extinct saurian reptiles	80
Two hundred years of zooplankton vertical migration research	78
Regulatory mechanisms of lipid biosynthesis in microalgae	76
Coevolution of body size and metabolic rate in vertebrates: a life‐history perspective	74
The role of the microbiome in the neurobiology of social behaviour	71
Understanding the ecological and evolutionary function of stopover in migrating birds	70
Clinical implications of sperm DNA damage in IVF and ICSI: updated systematic review and meta‐analysis	68
Climate change effects on animal ecology: butterflies and moths as a case study	68
The role of land‐use history in driving successional pathways and its implications for the restoration of tropical forests	67

Next‐generation biological control: the need for integrating genetics and genomics	67
Temperature as a modulator of sexual selection	67
The naked truth: a comprehensive clarification and classification of current ‘myths’ in naked mole‐rat biology	65
Deciphering mollusc shell production: the roles of genetic mechanisms through to ecology, aquaculture and biomimetics	65
How intelligent is a cephalopod? Lessons from comparative cognition	64
The biology of human hair greying	64
Producing wood at least cost to biodiversity: integrating Triad and sharing–sparing approaches to inform forest landscape management	64
The ecosystem services provided by social insects: traits, management tools and knowledge gaps	63
Poor nutritional condition promotes high‐risk behaviours: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	60
The mitochondrial permeability transition pore: an evolving concept critical for cell life and death	59
Acoustic indices as proxies for biodiversity: a meta‐analysis	59
Migration in butterflies: a global overview	57
Sociability as a personality trait in animals: methods, causes and consequences	56
Antarctic ecosystems in transition – life between stresses and opportunities	56
How fire interacts with habitat loss and fragmentation	56
Seed ‘primeomics’: plants memorize their germination under stress	55
Global kelp forest restoration: past lessons, present status, and future directions	54
Resolving the SLOSS dilemma for biodiversity conservation: a research agenda	52
Diverse roles of microbial indole compounds in eukaryotic systems	51
Salt to conserve: a review on the ecology and preservation of hypersaline ecosystems	50
Wolbachia host shifts: routes, mechanisms, constraints and evolutionary consequences	50
Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution	50
Camouflage in predators	49
Adaptations to thermal stress in social insects: recent advances and future directions	48
Seagrasses in an era of ocean warming: a review	48