OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biological Reviews is 25. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Scientists' warning on invasive alien species	898
The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?	215
Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta‐analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension	194
Shrinking body sizes in response to warming: explanations for the temperature–size rule with special emphasis on the role of oxygen	149
Lakes in the era of global change: moving beyond single‐lake thinking in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services	136
Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates	112
Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna	111
Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the European Alps	98
Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application	94
Exosome‐mediated effects and applications in inflammatory bowel disease	87
Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology	84
What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community	78
Human disturbance has contrasting effects on niche partitioning within carnivore communities	76
The ‘biomineralization toolkit’ and the origin of animal skeletons	75
Assessing ontogenetic maturity in extinct saurian reptiles	75
Ecosystem services provided by aculeate wasps	73
Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition	72
Coevolution of body size and metabolic rate in vertebrates: a life‐history perspective	70
Regulatory mechanisms of lipid biosynthesis in microalgae	70
The role of the microbiome in the neurobiology of social behaviour	69
Fungal evolution: cellular, genomic and metabolic complexity	68
Clinical implications of sperm DNA damage in IVF and ICSI: updated systematic review and meta‐analysis	67
Understanding the ecological and evolutionary function of stopover in migrating birds	66
Two hundred years of zooplankton vertical migration research	65
Temperature as a modulator of sexual selection	64

Next‐generation biological control: the need for integrating genetics and genomics	64
Climate change effects on animal ecology: butterflies and moths as a case study	62
The role of land‐use history in driving successional pathways and its implications for the restoration of tropical forests	62
How intelligent is a cephalopod? Lessons from comparative cognition	62
Deciphering mollusc shell production: the roles of genetic mechanisms through to ecology, aquaculture and biomimetics	61
Producing wood at least cost to biodiversity: integrating Triad and sharing–sparing approaches to inform forest landscape management	60
The naked truth: a comprehensive clarification and classification of current ‘myths’ in naked mole‐rat biology	60
The ecological importance of crocodylians: towards evidence‐based justification for their conservation	60
Movement‐mediated community assembly and coexistence	60
The biology of human hair greying	59
The ecosystem services provided by social insects: traits, management tools and knowledge gaps	56
Poor nutritional condition promotes high‐risk behaviours: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	56
The mitochondrial permeability transition pore: an evolving concept critical for cell life and death	55
Migration in butterflies: a global overview	54
Antarctic ecosystems in transition – life between stresses and opportunities	53
Sociability as a personality trait in animals: methods, causes and consequences	51
How fire interacts with habitat loss and fragmentation	50
Acoustic indices as proxies for biodiversity: a meta‐analysis	49
Seed ‘primeomics’: plants memorize their germination under stress	49
Global kelp forest restoration: past lessons, present status, and future directions	48
Diverse roles of microbial indole compounds in eukaryotic systems	48
Seagrasses in an era of ocean warming: a review	47
Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution	46
Salt to conserve: a review on the ecology and preservation of hypersaline ecosystems	46
Adaptations to thermal stress in social insects: recent advances and future directions	45
Wolbachia host shifts: routes, mechanisms, constraints and evolutionary consequences	45
Resolving the SLOSS dilemma for biodiversity conservation: a research agenda	44
Camouflage in predators	44
Plasticity of microglia	42
Speciation across the Tree of Life	41
The biology and evolution of spider venoms	41
When more is more: taking advantage of species diversity to move towards sustainable aquaculture	41
The accuracy and precision of body mass estimation in non‐avian dinosaurs	40
Mechanosensing by Piezo1 and its implications for physiology and various pathologies	40
The hallmarks of myotonic dystrophy type 1 muscle dysfunction	40
Whole‐body endothermy: ancient, homologous and widespread among the ancestors of mammals, birds and crocodylians	40
A conceptual framework of evolutionary novelty and innovation	39
Omega‐3 PUFA profoundly affect neural, physiological, and behavioural competences – implications for systemic changes in trophic interactions	39
Fire as a driver and mediator of predator–prey interactions	39
The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis	38
The evolution and physiology of male pregnancy in syngnathid fishes	38
Effective ecosystem monitoring requires a multi‐scaled approach	38
A part‐dependent account of biological individuality: why holobionts are individuals and ecosystems simultaneously	37
The genetics of evolutionary radiations	37
Towards evidence‐based conservation of subterranean ecosystems	37
Social complexity and the fractal structure of group size in primate social evolution	37
Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications	37
Fire‐released seed dormancy ‐ a global synthesis	36
The role of inputs of marine wrack and carrion in sandy‐beach ecosystems: a global review	36
Chronic stress and Alzheimer's disease: the interplay between the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, genetics and microglia	36

Expanding insect pollinators in the Anthropocene	35
Phoresy in animals: review and synthesis of a common but understudied mode of dispersal	35
A roadmap to plant functional island biogeography	35
Experimental nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment stimulates multiple trophic levels of algal and detrital‐based food webs: a global meta‐analysis from streams and rivers	35
Anticipated effects of abiotic environmental change on intraspecific social interactions	35
Multifunctionality of belowground food webs: resource, size and spatial energy channels	35
Circadian rhythms in zebrafish (Danio rerio) behaviour and the sources of their variability	34
Effects of water temperature on freshwater macroinvertebrates: a systematic review	34
Post COVID‐19: a solution scan of options for preventing future zoonotic epidemics	34
A paradigm shift in our view of species drives current trends in biological classification	33
Nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment cause declines in invertebrate populations: a global meta‐analysis	33
Multi‐level convergence of complex traits and the evolution of bioluminescence	33
From theory to practice in pattern‐oriented modelling: identifying and using empirical patterns in predictive models	33
Surprisingly long survival of premature conclusions about naked mole‐rat biology	32
A comprehensive hypothesis on the migration of European glass eels (Anguilla anguilla)	32
Impacts of exclusion fencing on target and non‐target fauna: a global review	32
Artificial refuges for wildlife conservation: what is the state of the science?	32
Reproductive seasonality in primates: patterns, concepts and unsolved questions	32
What can we teach Lymnaea and what can Lymnaea teach us?	32
Comparative bioacoustics: a roadmap for quantifying and comparing animal sounds across diverse taxa	31
An integrated, multi‐level analysis of thermal effects on intertidal molluscs for understanding species distribution patterns	31
Pathological calcification in osteoarthritis: an outcome or a disease initiator?	30
Towards an ecology of protective coloration	30
The PERKs of mitochondria protection during stress: insights for PERK modulation in neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases	30
Deciphering the molecular mechanism of stop codon readthrough	30
Omics‐based molecular analyses of adhesion by aquatic invertebrates	30
Wallace's line, Wallacea, and associated divides and areas: history of a tortuous tangle of ideas and labels	29
Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review	29
Recent advances in the remote sensing of insects	29
A meta‐analysis of sex differences in animal personality: no evidence for the greater male variability hypothesis	29
Modelling neurodegenerative diseases with 3D brain organoids	29
The obstetrical dilemma hypothesis: there's life in the old dog yet	28
Plant susceptible responses: the underestimated side of plant–pathogen interactions	28
Learning in non‐avian reptiles 40 years on: advances and promising new directions	28
Innovation in chimpanzees	28
The ecology of electricity and electroreception	28
Avian vocalisations: the female perspective	28
A review of the critics of invasion biology	28
Animal migrations and parasitism: reciprocal effects within a unified framework	27
Ecophysiological steps of marine adaptation in extant and extinct non‐avian tetrapods	27
A guide to choosing and implementing reference models for social network analysis	27
Delete and survive: strategies of programmed genetic material elimination in eukaryotes	27
A review of the osteoderms of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata)	27
Calpain–calpastatin system and cancer progression	26
Rate of environmental change across scales in ecology	26
A comprehensive synthesis unveils the mysteries of phosphate‐solubilizing microbes	26
A global synthesis of ecosystem services provided and disrupted by freshwater bivalve molluscs	26
Sublethal effects of contaminants on marine habitat‐forming species: a review and meta‐analysis	25
Why do males emerge before females? Sexual size dimorphism drives sexual bimaturism in insects	25
The integrative biology of genetic dominance	25
Ant‐induced evolutionary patterns in aphids	25
Direct and indirect effects of climate change on distribution and community composition of macrophytes in lentic systems	25
Odorant‐binding proteins of mammals	25
Meiosis and beyond – understanding the mechanistic and evolutionary processes shaping the germline genome	25
A pan‐metazoan concept for adult stem cells: the wobbling Penrose landscape	25