OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecological Indicators is 87. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
UAV-based emergency treatment plan for flood disasters at the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant	268
Spatiotemporal pattern of vegetation water use efficiency between 2003 and 2017 and its coupling relationship with artificial carbon sequestration in the karst region of Southwestern China	234
Plant-soil feedbacks in Hydrocotyle vulgaris: Genotypic differences and relations to functional traits	228
Relationships between a catchment-scale forest disturbance index, time delays, and chemical properties of surface water	227
The comprehensive effect of natural food quality and quantity on growth rate of herbivore consumers	206
Hyperspectral remote sensing of chlorophyll a and pheophorbide a pigments for macrobenthos mapping on an estuarine tidal flat	197
Quantifying relative contributions of biotic interactions to bacterial diversity and community assembly by using community characteristics of microbial eukaryotes	183
How the flow and sediment pulse influencing the distribution and functional gene composition of bacterial communities? Case study of the lower Yellow River, China	174
Soil attributes are more important than others in shaping the diversity of cultivated land quality types, southern China	173
Where forest may not return in the western United States	172
Integrating ecosystem stress into the assessment of ecosystem health in karst areas and exploring its driving factors	162
Phased responses of urban tree canopy cover changes to urbanization process within Beijing’s built-up area: An analytical framework coupling state, transition, and drivers	162
Ecosystems face the risk of ecological deficits in the southern foothills of the Himalayas	161
High-resolution estimation of industrial water use in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei based on multi-source data	161
A multi-source data fusion method to retrieve soil moisture dynamics and its influencing factors analysis in the ecological zone of the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau	159
Developing an early warning system and risk assessment based on model for heat damage in rice	155
Shells of Pearlmussels, Margaritifera dahurica (Bivalvia: Margaritiferidae), as a biogeochemical indicator of the background (Holocene) and current major and trace elements content in riverine waters	155
DPSR-based study and assessment of the influence pathways of Shanghai urban development level on river methane emission potential during 2011–2020	153
Emergetic and cosmic exergy-based ecological assessments of long-term raised field eco-farming systems in saline–alkaline lands	153
Response of soil phosphorus fractions to land use change in the subalpine ecosystems of Southeast margin of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Southwest China	145
The variation of the 400 mm isohyet and its influence mechanism on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from 1982 to 2021	142
Incremental evolution of modeling a prognosis for polar bears in a rapidly changing Arctic	140
A method based on elitist genetic algorithm for calibrating the thermo-physical surface indicators: Its principles, validation and application to bioswales	138
Definition criteria determine the success of old-growth mapping	137
Carabid beetles as indicators of stream zonation	136

Effects of country success on COVID-19 cumulative cases and excess deaths in 169 countries	135
Effects of sample gear on estuarine nekton assemblage assessments and food web model simulations	134
Feature-dependent group structures and hierarchical songbird-habitat relationships in a managed forest landscape	133
Co-occurrence patterns and community assembly mechanisms of benthic foraminiferal communities in South Chinese bays	133
‘Pulsing’ cities and ‘swarming’ metropolises: A simplified, entropy-based approach to long-term urban development	131
CSR strategy composition and leaf traits for herbaceous plants in garden design	129
Long-term monitoring of a species suite of ecological indicators: A coordinated conservation framework for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem	129
Interactions between landscape structure and bird mobility traits affect the connectivity of agroecosystem networks	128
A novel remote sensing method for monitoring Large-Scale grassland aboveground Biomass: The case study of grassland key belt in the Tibetan Plateau	128
Quantifying land use heterogeneity on drought conditions for mitigation strategies development in the Dongjiang River Basin, China	127
Spatio-temporal explicit mapping and quantification of ecosystem services provision area: An application for wind erosion prevention service in northern China	127
Determining the effects of biotic and abiotic factors on the ecosystem multifunctionality in a desert-oasis ecotone	127
Water quality index including periphyton chlorophyll-a in forested urban watersheds from Tierra del Fuego (Argentina)	126
Negative influence of a threatened species on ecological status classification: A case study of the influence of European eel within the Swedish fish index VIX	123
Environmental and economic sustainability of key sectors in China's steel industry chain: An application of the Emergy Accounting approach	122
Tropical vs. temperate sea turtle population resilience to extreme temperatures	122
A framework for large-scale analyses of ecosystem health and its driving factors in complex underlying basins	121
Regional water cycle health evaluation and obstacle factor analysis: A case study of the Yellow River basin in Henan Province, China	121
Integrating seasonal variation into conservation planning can provide extra benefits: A case study in the Tana River Basin, Kenya	121
Visualization and categorization of ecological acoustic events based on discriminant features	119
Assessing the effects of environmental factors on filtration rate of golden mussel (Limnoperna fortunei)	119
Desert oasis vegetation information extraction by PLANET and unmanned aerial vehicle image fusion	118
Impacts of spatial scale on the delineation of spatiotemporal urban expansion	118
Optimal region connection: Establishing effective ecological corridors for biodiversity conservation in Yunnan Province, China	117
Response of spatial and temporal variations of ecosystem service value to land use/land cover transformation in the upper basin of Miyun Reservoir	117
Assessment and source apportionment of toxic metal in soils using integrated positive matrix factorization and Bayesian maximum entropy: A case study in Z county, southeastern China	117
Persistent exposure to artificial light at night (ALAN) accelerates metamorphosis and colonization in larvae of marine shellfish	116
Key indicators for Pre-Warning risks associated with urbanization in China	115
Factors on the distribution, migration, and leaching of potential toxic metals in the soil and risk assessment around the zinc smelter	115
Using handheld mobile laser scanning to quantify fine-scale surface fuels and detect changes post-disturbance in northern California forests	114
Grazing intensity estimation in temperate typical grasslands of Inner Mongolia using machine learning models	113
Global temporal and spatial changes of vegetation in desert steppe Ecosystems: Impacts of climate driving factors	112
BBEST practices: Intentional efforts to identify elusive flow-ecology thresholds	111
Dynamic processes of water conflicts and their coupling with water crises in Asia’s transboundary river basins	110
Continental-scale wetland mapping: A novel algorithm for detailed wetland types classification based on time series Sentinel-1/2 images	109
The non-significant correlation between landscape ecological risk and ecosystem services in Xi'an Metropolitan Area, China	109
Ecosystem functioning and ecological status in the Venice lagoon, which relationships?	108
Reconstructing cave past to manage and conserve cave present and future	108
Invasive Spartina alterniflora in controlled cultivation: Environmental implications of converging future technologies	107
Exclusion of plant input affects the temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon decomposition	107
Land use changes and natural disaster fatalities: Empirical analysis for India	103
Proposal of new Natura 2000 network boundaries in Spain based on the value of importance for biodiversity and connectivity analysis for its improvement	98
Evaluation and optimization of a long-term fish monitoring program in the Hudson River	97
Monitoring microplastic pollution: The potential and limitations of Nephrops norvegicus	95
Accounting for the water related ecosystem services of forests in the Southern Aegean region of Turkey	94
Urban compactness and patch complexity influence PM2.5 concentrations in contrasting ways: Evidence from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of China	94
Towards ecosystem service assessment: Developing biophysical indicators for forest ecosystem services	94
A differential game analysis of multi-regional coalition for transboundary pollution problems	93
Land use/cover change simulation research: A system literature review based on bibliometric analyses	93
Negative spill-over effects of agricultural practices on plant species conservation in nature reserves	93

Optimizing the airborne laser scanning estimation of basal area larger than mean (BALM<	91
Effects of soil moisture on organic and inorganic nitrogen uptake by dominant plant species in Zoigê alpine wetlands	90
Geotagging of natural history collections for reuse in environmental research	90
The multi-dimensional perspective of ecological security evaluation and drive mechanism for Baishuijiang National Nature Reserve, China	90
Quantifying the effect of environmental drivers on water conservation variation in the eastern Loess Plateau, China	89
Urban rivers health assessment based on the concept of resilience using improved FCM-EWM-MABAC model	89
Hydraulic conductivity regulates tree growth and drought resistance in semi-arid mixed forests of northern China	88
Insights into evaluating the toxic effects of nitrofurazone on ecological integrity in marine ecosystems using periphytic ciliate communities	88
Concept and method of drought disaster risk measurement based on drought propagation level--a case study of AnHui Province	87
Nematode as a biomonitoring model for evaluating ecological risks of heavy metals in sediments from an urban river	87
Identification and scenario prediction of degree of wetland damage in Guangxi based on the CA-Markov model	87
Spatial non-stationarity effects of the driving factors on landscape ecological risk: A case of the Xiamen-Zhangzhou-Quanzhou Urban Agglomeration, China	87