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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Millipedes diving into a small tributary?	174
Issue Information	167
Erratum	155
Harnessing trait–environment interactions to predict ecosystem functions	105
Cover Image	104
Artificial habitat structures for animal conservation: design and implementation, risks and opportunities	103
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COVID resilience inside the research ecosystem	80
Attracted to death	77
Marine species introduction via reproduction and its response to ship transit routes	75
Relationship with the land as a foundation for ecosystem stewardship	71
Modern building structures are a landscape‐level driver of bat–human exposure risk in Kenya	69
What is the fitness benefit of night lighting for toads?	68
Cover Image	65
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Protecting threatened species and music traditions	60
Toward an improved understanding of causation in the ecological sciences	56
Wildlife gardening: an urban nexus of social and ecological relationships	54
How to pay for ecosystem services	54
Higher incidence of high‐severity fire in and near industrially managed forests	53
Drones address an observational blind spot for biological oceanography	52
All‐true‐ism	49
Managing the threat of infectious disease in fisheries and aquaculture using structured decision making	49
Hunting on dangerous ground	45
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Vagrancy in Antarctic and sub‐Antarctic pinnipeds	37
Four‐Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) for everyone: teaching ecology to non‐majors	35
Centering 30 × 30 conservation initiatives on freshwater ecosystems	35
Dispatches	35
Sparse genetic data limit biodiversity assessments in protected areas globally	35
RAD needs monitoring	32
Course‐based undergraduate research to advance environmental education, science, and resource management	30
Cities as sanctuaries	30
Twitter data reveal six distinct environmental personas	27
Forest ecosystem properties emerge from interactions of structure and disturbance	27
From meta‐system theory to the sustainable management of rivers in the Anthropocene	26
Deoxygenation—coming to a water body near you	26
Quantifying the “avoided” biodiversity impacts associated with economic development	26
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Generating ecological insights from historical data	25
Moose and wood ducks – an unlikely partnership?	25
Non‐consumptive killing of a conspecific dragonfly	24
Urban parks and low‐dispersal species	23
How climate‐change awareness can provoke physical symptoms	23
Small artificial impoundments have big implications for hydrology and freshwater biodiversity	23
Unusual nectar‐thieving behavior in Brazil	23
Issue Information	21
Aposematism as a trap? A case of heavy predation on a poisonous salamander	20
Maximizing inference from distributed experimental networks via “add‐on” studies	20
Can 30 × 30 targets stop island extinctions?	20
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
Mitigating soil greenhouse‐gas emissions from land‐use change in tropical peatlands	18
Size matters in nature	17
Site fidelity as a maladaptive behavior in the Anthropocene	17
Replace the ivory tower with the fire tower	17
Managing multi‐species plant invasions when interactions influence their impact	17
A theoretical framework for the ecological role of three‐dimensional structural diversity	17
Near‐term forecasts of NEON lakes reveal gradients of environmental predictability across the US	17
Standing on one foot	16
Are all‐girls programs sexist?	16
No branch left behind: tracking terrestrial biodiversity from a phylogenetic completeness perspective	16
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Cover Image	15
Location matters: planting urban trees in the right places improves cooling	14
Issue Information	14
Conceptualizing and measuring ecological spillover effects from protected areas	14
Transformative governance of cumulative effects through an Indigenous outlook	14
Evaluating macroecological fire impacts on bird populations	14
The global rise of crustacean fisheries	14
Dispatches	14
Tree frogs serve as a hotel for moth flies	13
Issue Information	13
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Glass‐like flowers in the rain	12

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