OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment is 5. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Millipedes diving into a small tributary?	148
Issue Information	147
Erratum	134
Artificial habitat structures for animal conservation: design and implementation, risks and opportunities	121
Cover Image	108
Harnessing trait–environment interactions to predict ecosystem functions	94
COVID resilience inside the research ecosystem	93
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Modern building structures are a landscape‐level driver of bat–human exposure risk in Kenya	73
Attracted to death	73
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Drones address an observational blind spot for biological oceanography	70
What is the fitness benefit of night lighting for toads?	64
Cover Image	63
Protecting threatened species and music traditions	62
Relationship with the land as a foundation for ecosystem stewardship	59
Wildlife gardening: an urban nexus of social and ecological relationships	57
Marine species introduction via reproduction and its response to ship transit routes	56
Higher incidence of high‐severity fire in and near industrially managed forests	52
How to pay for ecosystem services	52
The paradox of forbs in grasslands and the legacy of the mammoth steppe	49
Toward an improved understanding of causation in the ecological sciences	48
RAD needs monitoring	48
All‐true‐ism	45
Hunting on dangerous ground	44

Deoxygenation—coming to a water body near you	44
Four‐Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) for everyone: teaching ecology to non‐majors	42
Forest ecosystem properties emerge from interactions of structure and disturbance	42
Managing the threat of infectious disease in fisheries and aquaculture using structured decision making	38
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Dispatches	34
Vagrancy in Antarctic and sub‐Antarctic pinnipeds	34
Course‐based undergraduate research to advance environmental education, science, and resource management	32
Twitter data reveal six distinct environmental personas	32
Cities as sanctuaries	30
Quantifying the “avoided” biodiversity impacts associated with economic development	29
From meta‐system theory to the sustainable management of rivers in the Anthropocene	28
Centering 30 × 30 conservation initiatives on freshwater ecosystems	28
Issue Information	25
Moose and wood ducks – an unlikely partnership?	25
Generating ecological insights from historical data	25
Non‐consumptive killing of a conspecific dragonfly	24
Can 30 × 30 targets stop island extinctions?	24
Aposematism as a trap? A case of heavy predation on a poisonous salamander	24
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How climate‐change awareness can provoke physical symptoms	23
“Lianification” or liana invasion – is there a difference?	23
COVID‐19 lockdowns increase public interest in urban nature	23
Unusual nectar‐thieving behavior in Brazil	22
Mitigating soil greenhouse‐gas emissions from land‐use change in tropical peatlands	21
Near‐term forecasts of NEON lakes reveal gradients of environmental predictability across the US	21
Co‐benefits of and trade‐offs between natural climate solutions and Sustainable Development Goals	21
Managing multi‐species plant invasions when interactions influence their impact	21
Small artificial impoundments have big implications for hydrology and freshwater biodiversity	20
Urban parks and low‐dispersal species	20
Toward a predictable cask theory of species extinction assessment in the Anthropocene	19
The American Pond Belt: an untold story of conservation challenges and opportunities	18
Site fidelity as a maladaptive behavior in the Anthropocene	18
A theoretical framework for the ecological role of three‐dimensional structural diversity	18
Cover Image	17
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Size matters in nature	17
Are all‐girls programs sexist?	17
Replace the ivory tower with the fire tower	17
Standing on one foot	16
The global rise of crustacean fisheries	16
No branch left behind: tracking terrestrial biodiversity from a phylogenetic completeness perspective	16
Location matters: planting urban trees in the right places improves cooling	15
An operational framework for defining and forecasting phytoplankton blooms	15
Sandy beach social–ecological systems at risk: regime shifts, collapses, and governance challenges	15
Tree frogs serve as a hotel for moth flies	14
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Issue Information	13
Dispatches	13
When avifauna collide: the case for lethal control of barred owls in western North America	12

A scenario‐guided strategy for the future management of biological invasions	12
Will greater argonaut strandings in southeast Australia increase with climate change?	12
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
Ants actively carry microplastics	12
Glass‐like flowers in the rain	12
Riparian buffers can help mitigate biodiversity declines in oil palm agriculture	12
Logistical and preference bias in participatory science butterfly data	11
Science in a changing world	11
Eurasian otters are becoming urbanized	11
Webs of science: mentor networks influence women's integration into STEM fields	11
Dead rock python, the new fragrance from Crocuta	10
The human–grass–fire cycle: how people and invasives co‐occur to drive fire regimes	10
Green infrastructure for urban resilience: a trait‐based framework	10
Structural diversity as a reliable and novel predictor for ecosystem productivity	10
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Dispatches	9
Virtual conferences improve inclusion in science	9
Identity theft: anti‐predator mimicry by the giant anteater?	9
Browning and blueing – what is the fate of polar coasts?	9
Swallow‐tailed gull predation on a marine eel: personality traits implied?	9
Last refuge for Arctic fauna	9
US lakes are monitored disproportionately less in communities of color	9
Dispatches	9
Plugging the leaks: antibiotic resistance at human–animal interfaces in low‐resource settings	8
Can we coevolve with AI?	8
Re‐envisioning urban landscapes: lichens, liverworts, and mosses coexist spontaneously with us	8
Unlocking our understanding of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams with genomic tools	8
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Landsat@50	8
Can AI interpretation increase inclusivity?	8
Cover Image	7
Importance of private and communal lands to sustainable conservation of Africa's rhinoceroses	7
Issue Information	7
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Issue Information	7
Prevalence of discourse on public engagement with science in ecology literature	7
The ecological cost of reproduction in the proboscis bat	7
Setting your service agenda	7
Geophagy in African savanna elephants	7
Going my way?	6
Arresting the spread of invasive species in continental systems	6
Emergent hotspots of biotic disturbances and their consequences for forest resilience	6
Camouflaged life in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	6
Citizen science to address the global issue of bird–window collisions	6
Issue Information	6
Forecasting range shifts using abundance distributions along environmental gradients	6
Reckless parenting with a purpose	5
Treefrogs near the top of a tropical rainforest	5
The American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) spawns regularly in salt marshes	5
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Disease‐smart climate adaptation for wildlife management and conservation	5
Historically excluded groups in ecology are undervalued and poorly treated	5
The essential carbon service provided by northern peatlands	5
Exoneration of the shrike	5
Time to retire “alien” from the invasion ecology lexicon	5
A native parrot as an invasive plant controller	5
Squirrel consuming “poisonous” mushrooms	5