OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecological Indicators is 86. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Tropical vs. temperate sea turtle population resilience to extreme temperatures	231
Determination and analysis of groundwater ecological level in Changling County	222
The comprehensive effect of natural food quality and quantity on growth rate of herbivore consumers	216
Optimizing the airborne laser scanning estimation of basal area larger than mean (	215
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	200
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	192
Advancing ecological precision surgery through a paradigm framework targeted for invasion risk management	188
A novel remote sensing method for monitoring Large-Scale grassland aboveground Biomass: The case study of grassland key belt in the Tibetan Plateau	176
Concept and method of drought disaster risk measurement based on drought propagation level--a case study of AnHui Province	171
The variation of the 400 mm isohyet and its influence mechanism on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from 1982 to 2021	162
Negative spill-over effects of agricultural practices on plant species conservation in nature reserves	159
Corrigendum to “Succession-driven dynamics of ecosystem function and multifunctionality at regional scales: Evidence from subtropical secondary forests.” [Ecol. Indic. 180 (2025) 114358]	157
Inversed virtual water flow pattern and its influencing factors in Northwest China	147
The differential responses of gas exchange and evapotranspiration to experimental drought for seedlings of two typical tree species on the Loess Plateau	145
A novel wetland ecological quality index (WEQI) for rapid assessment of permafrost-dominated wetlands in Northeast China from 2001 to 2020	145
Suggestions for extending, expanding, and integrating passive acoustic monitoring programs	141
Fishery knowledge-guided machine learning for spatial prediction of catch-per-unit-effort	140
Environmental thresholds in canopy cover shape spider assemblages in Cerrado riparian zones	139
Different responses of soil water to warming controlled by evapotranspiration during grassland degradation: A case study in the typical steppe of China	132
Nematode as a biomonitoring model for evaluating ecological risks of heavy metals in sediments from an urban river	131
Soil water retention capacity surpasses climate humidity in determining soil organic carbon content but not plant production in the steppe zone of Northern China	128
Ecosystems face the risk of ecological deficits in the southern foothills of the Himalayas	128
Persistent exposure to artificial light at night (ALAN) accelerates metamorphosis and colonization in larvae of marine shellfish	122
UAV-based emergency treatment plan for flood disasters at the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant	121
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	121

Reconstructing cave past to manage and conserve cave present and future	120
The spatial network structure and drivers of provincial carbon emission reduction capacity in China: An indicator-based analysis	119
How the flow and sediment pulse influencing the distribution and functional gene composition of bacterial communities? Case study of the lower Yellow River, China	118
Where forest may not return in the western United States	116
Accelerated vegetative growth measured by gross primary productivity in China from 1980 to 2018	116
The probabilistic site-specific species pool and dark diversity in the terrestrialized urban mangroves	116
Corrigendum to “Identification of spatial pathways for aquatic ecological risk spread under multi-stressor synergies: A case study of the Pinglu Canal” [Ecol. Indic. 178 (2025) 113915]	116
Green and blue infrastructure but not anthropogenic drivers affect invertebrate communities in urban ecosystems	114
Incremental evolution of modeling a prognosis for polar bears in a rapidly changing Arctic	114
High-resolution estimation of industrial water use in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei based on multi-source data	113
Spatial non-stationarity effects of the driving factors on landscape ecological risk: A case of the Xiamen-Zhangzhou-Quanzhou Urban Agglomeration, China	112
Long-term effect of island industrial construction on groundwater health risk	112
Changes in the severity of compound hot-dry-windy events over global land areas	111
DPSR-based study and assessment of the influence pathways of Shanghai urban development level on river methane emission potential during 2011–2020	110
Developing an early warning system and risk assessment based on model for heat damage in rice	110
Factors on the distribution, migration, and leaching of potential toxic metals in the soil and risk assessment around the zinc smelter	107
The legacy effect of tropical cyclone rainfall on gross primary productivity in arid and semi-arid regions	107
Grazing intensity estimation in temperate typical grasslands of Inner Mongolia using machine learning models	107
Integration of water management in the assessment of the impact of heavy metals discharge from the power plant with mitigation strategies	106
River reach types as large-scale biodiversity proxies for management: The case of the Greater Mekong Region	105
Impacts of human footprint on habitat quality and permafrost environment in Northeast China	105
Key indicators for Pre-Warning risks associated with urbanization in China	102
Integrating seasonal variation into conservation planning can provide extra benefits: A case study in the Tana River Basin, Kenya	102
Carabid beetles as indicators of stream zonation	102
BBEST practices: Intentional efforts to identify elusive flow-ecology thresholds	101
Plant-soil feedbacks in Hydrocotyle vulgaris: Genotypic differences and relations to functional traits	100
Climate-driven expansion and northwest migration of earthworm habitats on China’s Loess Plateau	98
A new framework for identifying ecological conservation and restoration areas to enhance carbon storage	98
Spatio-temporal explicit mapping and quantification of ecosystem services provision area: An application for wind erosion prevention service in northern China	97
Identifying critical climate periods for temporal dynamics of aboveground net primary productivity in the Eurasian steppe region	97
Trade-offs and synergies between ecosystem services on the Tibetan Plateau	97
The evolution of settlement system and the paths of rural revitalization in alpine pastoral areas of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: A case study of Nagqu County	97
Rapid climate changes responsible for increased net global cropland carbon sink during the last 40 years	97
Urban rivers health assessment based on the concept of resilience using improved FCM-EWM-MABAC model	96
Progress and performance in synergizing the reduction of pollution and carbon emissions in China from 2015 to 2022	95
Hydraulic conductivity regulates tree growth and drought resistance in semi-arid mixed forests of northern China	95
Characteristics of extreme precipitation and its effects on soil and water retention in Sichuan, China under multiple climate change elements	95
Hyperspectral remote sensing of chlorophyll a and pheophorbide a pigments for macrobenthos mapping on an estuarine tidal flat	95
Multilevel green space ecological network collaborative optimization from the perspective of scale effect	95
Study on the development trend of social-ecological systems and the drivers of sustainable development – A case study of the Loess Plateau in China	95
Characteristics and influencing factors of farmland abandonment in the karst rocky desertification area of Southwest China	94
Hydropower development alters the habitat suitability responses of three primate species to environmental factors in a karst-Dominated Basin in Southwest China	94
Collaborative allocation of water resources considering ecological marginal benefits in a semiarid and cold region	93
Desert oasis vegetation information extraction by PLANET and unmanned aerial vehicle image fusion	93
Unveiling kazakhstan's ecosystem service puzzle: Spatiotemporal shifts and drivers of supply and demand through multi-model integration and machine learning methods	92
CSR strategy composition and leaf traits for herbaceous plants in garden design	92
Economic valuation of ecosystem service bundles based on landscape pattern evolution in karst plateaus	92
Selection of suitable aggregation function for estimation of water quality index for the Orontes River	92
Effects of soil moisture on organic and inorganic nitrogen uptake by dominant plant species in Zoigê alpine wetlands	91
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	91

Spectral indices to evaluate the physiological response of Mediterranean shrubs to browsing	90
Ensemble projections of fish distribution in response to climate changes in the Yellow and Bohai Seas, China	90
Accounting for the water related ecosystem services of forests in the Southern Aegean region of Turkey	90
Spatiotemporal variations and drivers of water quality in the source region of the Yellow River	90
Projections of land use/cover change and habitat quality in the model area of Yellow River delta by coupling land subsidence and sea level rise	89
Exclusion of plant input affects the temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon decomposition	89
The progress and spatiotemporal heterogeneity evaluation of China's ecological civilization	88
Definition criteria determine the success of old-growth mapping	88
Harmful blooms across a longitudinal gradient in central Europe during heatwave: Cyanobacteria biomass, cyanotoxins, and nutrients	88
A spectrum contextual self-attention deep learning network for hyperspectral inversion of soil metals	88
Response of spatial and temporal variations of ecosystem service value to land use/land cover transformation in the upper basin of Miyun Reservoir	87
Detection and comparison of spatiotemporal patterns and drivers of NEP in the river economic belt	86
Scenario-based ecological network dynamics in coastal wetlands: An integrated FLUS-MSPA-circuit theory framework for the Western Bohai Bay	86
Vegetation net primary productivity variation characteristics and optimization path in inland river basins of arid areas driven by ecological water conveyance: A case study of the mainstream of the Ta	86