OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Millipedes diving into a small tributary?	182
Issue Information	160
Erratum	110
Artificial habitat structures for animal conservation: design and implementation, risks and opportunities	109
Cover Image	105
Harnessing trait–environment interactions to predict ecosystem functions	87
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COVID resilience inside the research ecosystem	82
Attracted to death	73
Modern building structures are a landscape‐level driver of bat–human exposure risk in Kenya	71
What is the fitness benefit of night lighting for toads?	71
Cover Image	68
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Protecting threatened species and music traditions	60
How to pay for ecosystem services	60
Drones address an observational blind spot for biological oceanography	56
Relationship with the land as a foundation for ecosystem stewardship	54
Toward an improved understanding of causation in the ecological sciences	53
Wildlife gardening: an urban nexus of social and ecological relationships	52
Higher incidence of high‐severity fire in and near industrially managed forests	49
Marine species introduction via reproduction and its response to ship transit routes	47
All‐true‐ism	39
Managing the threat of infectious disease in fisheries and aquaculture using structured decision making	38
Hunting on dangerous ground	38
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Dispatches	36
Vagrancy in Antarctic and sub‐Antarctic pinnipeds	36
Four‐Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) for everyone: teaching ecology to non‐majors	34
Deoxygenation—coming to a water body near you	31
Forest ecosystem properties emerge from interactions of structure and disturbance	31
Course‐based undergraduate research to advance environmental education, science, and resource management	27
RAD needs monitoring	27
Sparse genetic data limit biodiversity assessments in protected areas globally	27
Cities as sanctuaries	26
Centering 30 × 30 conservation initiatives on freshwater ecosystems	26
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Quantifying the “avoided” biodiversity impacts associated with economic development	25
Generating ecological insights from historical data	25
Twitter data reveal six distinct environmental personas	25
Non‐consumptive killing of a conspecific dragonfly	24
Moose and wood ducks – an unlikely partnership?	24
Urban parks and low‐dispersal species	23
How climate‐change awareness can provoke physical symptoms	22
Unusual nectar‐thieving behavior in Brazil	20
Maximizing inference from distributed experimental networks via “add‐on” studies	20
Issue Information	20
Can 30 × 30 targets stop island extinctions?	19
Aposematism as a trap? A case of heavy predation on a poisonous salamander	19
Co‐benefits of and trade‐offs between natural climate solutions and Sustainable Development Goals	19
Toward a predictable cask theory of species extinction assessment in the Anthropocene	18
Near‐term forecasts of NEON lakes reveal gradients of environmental predictability across the US	18
Site fidelity as a maladaptive behavior in the Anthropocene	18
Mitigating soil greenhouse‐gas emissions from land‐use change in tropical peatlands	17
A theoretical framework for the ecological role of three‐dimensional structural diversity	17
Small artificial impoundments have big implications for hydrology and freshwater biodiversity	17
Managing multi‐species plant invasions when interactions influence their impact	17
Are all‐girls programs sexist?	16
Size matters in nature	16
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Replace the ivory tower with the fire tower	16
Standing on one foot	15
No branch left behind: tracking terrestrial biodiversity from a phylogenetic completeness perspective	15
Cover Image	15
Conceptualizing and measuring ecological spillover effects from protected areas	14
Location matters: planting urban trees in the right places improves cooling	14
Tree frogs serve as a hotel for moth flies	14
Transformative governance of cumulative effects through an Indigenous outlook	14
The global rise of crustacean fisheries	14
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Evaluating macroecological fire impacts on bird populations	14
Issue Information	14
Ants actively carry microplastics	13
Will greater argonaut strandings in southeast Australia increase with climate change?	13
Glass‐like flowers in the rain	13
Managing ecosystem damage from extreme events	12

Ecotourism impacts on reef fishes in a marine reserve during the COVID‐19 era	12
Issue Information	12
Eurasian otters are becoming urbanized	12
Green infrastructure for urban resilience: a trait‐based framework	12
Logistical and preference bias in participatory science butterfly data	11
When avifauna collide: the case for lethal control of barred owls in western North America	11
The human–grass–fire cycle: how people and invasives co‐occur to drive fire regimes	11
A scenario‐guided strategy for the future management of biological invasions	11
Riparian buffers can help mitigate biodiversity declines in oil palm agriculture	11
Dead rock python, the new fragrance from Crocuta	10
Identity theft: anti‐predator mimicry by the giant anteater?	10
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Structural diversity as a reliable and novel predictor for ecosystem productivity	10
Dispatches	10
Webs of science: mentor networks influence women's integration into STEM fields	10
Last refuge for Arctic fauna	10
Dispatches	10
Science in a changing world	10
US lakes are monitored disproportionately less in communities of color	9
Re‐envisioning urban landscapes: lichens, liverworts, and mosses coexist spontaneously with us	9
Landsat@50	9
Swallow‐tailed gull predation on a marine eel: personality traits implied?	9
Issue Information	8
Geophagy in African savanna elephants	8
Virtual conferences improve inclusion in science	8
Browning and blueing – what is the fate of polar coasts?	8
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Can we coevolve with AI?	8
Can AI interpretation increase inclusivity?	8
Plugging the leaks: antibiotic resistance at human–animal interfaces in low‐resource settings	8
Emergent hotspots of biotic disturbances and their consequences for forest resilience	7
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Issue Information	7
Cover Image	7
Setting your service agenda	7
Forecasting range shifts using abundance distributions along environmental gradients	6
Managing strategic linkages among natural and human systems can enhance ecosystem services	6
Camouflaged life in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	6
The ecological cost of reproduction in the proboscis bat	6
Arresting the spread of invasive species in continental systems	6
Citizen science to address the global issue of bird–window collisions	6
Prevalence of discourse on public engagement with science in ecology literature	6
Importance of private and communal lands to sustainable conservation of Africa's rhinoceroses	6
Exoneration of the shrike	6
Addressing diversity in undergraduate ecology textbooks	5
Going my way?	5
A native parrot as an invasive plant controller	5
Improving our understanding of blue carbon with a net ecosystem carbon budget framework	5
Issue Information	5
Squirrel consuming “poisonous” mushrooms	5
Tropical cyclone risk to global mangrove ecosystems: potential future regional shifts	5
Historically excluded groups in ecology are undervalued and poorly treated	4
Disease‐smart climate adaptation for wildlife management and conservation	4
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What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge and why does it matter?	4
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The essential carbon service provided by northern peatlands	4
The American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) spawns regularly in salt marshes	4
Clever commensalism in a harsh environment	4
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Impact assessment of coastal marine range shifts to support proactive management	4
Time to retire “alien” from the invasion ecology lexicon	4
Issue Information	4
Mermaids by another name	4
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