OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics is 36. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Past, Present, and Future of Forbs in Old-Growth Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands	120
What Amphibians Can Teach Us About the Evolution of Parental Care	100
Fungal Dispersal Across Spatial Scales	83
The Role of Deadwood in the Carbon Cycle: Implications for Models, Forest Management, and Future Climates	82
Geographic Gradients in Species Interactions: From Latitudinal Patterns to Ecological Mechanisms	79
Onboard Sensors Reveal New Insights into Animal Decision-Making	74
Effects of Phenology on Plant Community Assembly and Structure	73
Threshold Changes in Winter Temperature and Precipitation Drive Threshold Responses Across Nine Global Climate Zones and Associated Biomes	72
Sky Islands Are a Global Tool for Predicting the Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Climate Change	69
Simulation Tests of Methods in Evolution, Ecology, and Systematics: Pitfalls, Progress, and Principles	69
Life as a Guide to Its Own Origins	68
The Invasion Ecology of Mutualism	63
How Whales Dive, Feast, and Fast: The Ecophysiological Drivers and Limits of Foraging in the Evolution of Cetaceans	59
Cascading Impacts of Seed Disperser Loss on Plant Communities and Ecosystems	59
Why Are Species’ Traits Weak Predictors of Range Shifts?	57
The Invisible Hand of the Periodic Table: How Micronutrients Shape Ecology	56
The Alignment of Natural and Sexual Selection	56
Novel Disturbance Regimes and Ecological Responses	53
The Biology of Chernobyl	53
Dynamics of Ecological Communities Following Current Retreat of Glaciers	47
Ancient Invaders: How Paleogenetic Tools Help to Identify and Understand Biological Invasions of the Past	41
Background Acoustics in Terrestrial Ecology	41
Rethinking the Prevalence and Relevance of Chaos in Ecology	40
The Evolution of Kin Discrimination Across the Tree of Life	36
Evolution of a Model System: New Insights from the Study of Anolis Lizards	36