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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
You startle me, you don’t	305
Issue Information	136
Millipedes diving into a small tributary?	136
Erratum	128
Cover Image	115
Artificial habitat structures for animal conservation: design and implementation, risks and opportunities	105
Harnessing trait–environment interactions to predict ecosystem functions	90
COVID resilience inside the research ecosystem	88
Toward a roadmap for diadromous fish conservation: the Big Five considerations	88
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Modern building structures are a landscape‐level driver of bat–human exposure risk in Kenya	68
Attracted to death	68
Marine species introduction via reproduction and its response to ship transit routes	65
Higher incidence of high‐severity fire in and near industrially managed forests	64
Drones address an observational blind spot for biological oceanography	62
What is the fitness benefit of night lighting for toads?	62
Cover Image	60
How to pay for ecosystem services	57
Managing animal movement conserves predator–prey dynamics	55
Protecting threatened species and music traditions	52
Relationship with the land as a foundation for ecosystem stewardship	51
The paradox of forbs in grasslands and the legacy of the mammoth steppe	50
Wildlife gardening: an urban nexus of social and ecological relationships	49
Toward an improved understanding of causation in the ecological sciences	47
RAD needs monitoring	47

All‐true‐ism	45
Hunting on dangerous ground	44
Deoxygenation—coming to a water body near you	43
Twitter data reveal six distinct environmental personas	42
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Dispatches	38
Vagrancy in Antarctic and sub‐Antarctic pinnipeds	38
Centering 30 × 30 conservation initiatives on freshwater ecosystems	34
Forest ecosystem properties emerge from interactions of structure and disturbance	32
Cities as sanctuaries	32
Four‐Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) for everyone: teaching ecology to non‐majors	31
From meta‐system theory to the sustainable management of rivers in the Anthropocene	30
Managing the threat of infectious disease in fisheries and aquaculture using structured decision making	30
Course‐based undergraduate research to advance environmental education, science, and resource management	29
Quantifying the “avoided” biodiversity impacts associated with economic development	29
Issue Information	28
Action on ecology and justice	26
Moose and wood ducks – an unlikely partnership?	25
Generating ecological insights from historical data	25
Non‐consumptive killing of a conspecific dragonfly	24
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Aposematism as a trap? A case of heavy predation on a poisonous salamander	23
Urban parks and low‐dispersal species	23
Can 30 × 30 targets stop island extinctions?	23
Unusual nectar‐thieving behavior in Brazil	22
COVID‐19 lockdowns increase public interest in urban nature	22
How climate‐change awareness can provoke physical symptoms	22
“Lianification” or liana invasion – is there a difference?	22
Co‐benefits of and trade‐offs between natural climate solutions and Sustainable Development Goals	21
Toward a predictable cask theory of species extinction assessment in the Anthropocene	21
The American Pond Belt: an untold story of conservation challenges and opportunities	21
Site fidelity as a maladaptive behavior in the Anthropocene	20
Near‐term forecasts of NEON lakes reveal gradients of environmental predictability across the US	20
Managing multi‐species plant invasions when interactions influence their impact	19
Mitigating soil greenhouse‐gas emissions from land‐use change in tropical peatlands	18
Iteratively forecasting biological invasions with PoPS and a little help from our friends	18
A theoretical framework for the ecological role of three‐dimensional structural diversity	18
Size matters in nature	17
Replace the ivory tower with the fire tower	17
Cover Image	17
Small artificial impoundments have big implications for hydrology and freshwater biodiversity	17
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Are all‐girls programs sexist?	16
The global rise of crustacean fisheries	15
No branch left behind: tracking terrestrial biodiversity from a phylogenetic completeness perspective	15
Standing on one foot	15
Sandy beach social–ecological systems at risk: regime shifts, collapses, and governance challenges	15
Location matters: planting urban trees in the right places improves cooling	14
An operational framework for defining and forecasting phytoplankton blooms	14
Riparian buffers can help mitigate biodiversity declines in oil palm agriculture	13

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Issue Information	13
Tree frogs serve as a hotel for moth flies	13
Issue Information	13
Dispatches	13
Glass‐like flowers in the rain	12
Science in a changing world	12
Will greater argonaut strandings in southeast Australia increase with climate change?	12
Ants actively carry microplastics	12
Ecotourism impacts on reef fishes in a marine reserve during the COVID‐19 era	12
Webs of science: mentor networks influence women's integration into STEM fields	12
The human–grass–fire cycle: how people and invasives co‐occur to drive fire regimes	12
A scenario‐guided strategy for the future management of biological invasions	12
When avifauna collide: the case for lethal control of barred owls in western North America	12
Eurasian otters are becoming urbanized	12
Structural diversity as a reliable and novel predictor for ecosystem productivity	11
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Green infrastructure for urban resilience: a trait‐based framework	10
Dead rock python, the new fragrance from Crocuta	10
Logistical and preference bias in participatory science butterfly data	10
Dispatches	9
Unlocking our understanding of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams with genomic tools	9
Can AI interpretation increase inclusivity?	9
Browning and blueing – what is the fate of polar coasts?	9
Last refuge for Arctic fauna	9
Swallow‐tailed gull predation on a marine eel: personality traits implied?	9
Identity theft: anti‐predator mimicry by the giant anteater?	9
Dispatches	9
Virtual conferences improve inclusion in science	9
US lakes are monitored disproportionately less in communities of color	9
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Re‐envisioning urban landscapes: lichens, liverworts, and mosses coexist spontaneously with us	8
Plugging the leaks: antibiotic resistance at human–animal interfaces in low‐resource settings	8
Can we coevolve with AI?	8
Prevalence of discourse on public engagement with science in ecology literature	8
Landsat@50	8
Geophagy in African savanna elephants	7
Setting your service agenda	7
Issue Information	7
Importance of private and communal lands to sustainable conservation of Africa's rhinoceroses	7
The ecological cost of reproduction in the proboscis bat	6
Emergent hotspots of biotic disturbances and their consequences for forest resilience	6
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Cover Image	6
Citizen science to address the global issue of bird–window collisions	6
Issue Information	6
Expected demographic and genetic declines not found in most zoo and aquarium populations	6
Arresting the spread of invasive species in continental systems	6
Camouflaged life in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	5
Exoneration of the shrike	5
Treefrogs near the top of a tropical rainforest	5
Disease‐smart climate adaptation for wildlife management and conservation	5
Reckless parenting with a purpose	5
Going my way?	5
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Squirrel consuming “poisonous” mushrooms	5
Issue Information	5
Forecasting range shifts using abundance distributions along environmental gradients	5
Time to retire “alien” from the invasion ecology lexicon	5
A native parrot as an invasive plant controller	5