OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Ecology and Biogeography is 41. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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	143
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Linking multiple hypotheses to a unifying framework of range‐size variation: A case study with American oaks (Quercus spp.)	98
Long‐term drivers and timing of accelerated vegetation changes in African biomes and their management implications	95
Insularity promotes plant persistence strategies in edaphic island systems	94
Deterministic assembly processes shaping habitat‐specific glycoside hydrolase composition	92
ReptIslands: Mediterranean islands and the distribution of their reptile fauna	92
Bridging Macroecology and Temporal Dynamics to Better Attribute Global Change Impacts on Biodiversity	83
Soil macroinvertebrate communities: A world‐wide assessment	76
Phosphorus Limitation Constrains Global Forest Productivity Directly and Indirectly via Forest Community Structural Attributes: Meta‐Analysis	75
Recent Abundance Changes at Species' Range Limits in the North and Central American Avifaunas	74
Synchrony and Tail‐Dependent Synchrony Have Different Effects on Stability of Terrestrial and Freshwater Communities	71
Ecology and Biogeography of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Squamates	71
Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late‐Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity	69
Issue Information	65
Issue Information	61
Ectomycorrhizal fungi are influenced by ecoregion boundaries across Europe	61
Marked Variability in Distance‐Decay Patterns Suggests Contrasting Dispersal Ability in Abyssal Taxa	60
Evolutionary history and environmental variability structure contemporary tropical vertebrate communities	59
Environmental correlates of body size influence range size and extinction risk: A global study in rodents	58
The distribution of global tidal marshes from Earth observation data	55
Cold‐water species deepen to escape warm water temperatures	55
The legacy of human use in Amazonian palm communities along environmental and accessibility gradients	55

Accelerated invasion through the evolution of dispersal behaviour	54
Assessing and improving the transferability of current global spatial prediction models	54
Diverse strategies for tracking seasonal environmental niches at hemispheric scale	53
Convergent patterns of body size variation in distinct parasite taxa with convergent life cycles	53
Corrigendum	50
Corrigendum	49
Spatial patterns of unburned refugia in Siberian larch forests during the exceptional 2020 fire season	47
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Warming does not delay the start of autumnal leaf coloration but slows its progress rate	46
Responses of soil bacterial community structure and function to dry–wet cycles more stable in paddy than in dryland agricultural ecosystems	45
Extreme fire spread events and area burned under recent and future climate in the western USA	45
The Phylogenetic Structure Patterns of Angiosperm Species and Their Determinants in East Eurasia	44
Variations in Soil Available Nitrogen Rather Than Nitrogen Functional Gene Abundances Dominate Terrestrial Soil N₂O Emissions Under Mineral Nitrogen Addition and Warming	43
Functional Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators	43
The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires	42
occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data	41
Post‐glacial range formation of temperate forest understorey herbs – Insights from a spatio‐temporally explicit modelling approach	41
The global contribution of roots to total soil respiration	41
Testing machine learning algorithms on a binary classification phenological model	41