OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecological Informatics is 59. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Foundation models in shaping the future of ecology	333
Automated detection of sea cucumbers in turbid subtidal marine habitats: An explainable approach	255
Automated plant species identification from the stomata images using deep neural network: A study of selected mangrove and freshwater swamp forest tree species of Bangladesh	210
Robustness and limitations of maximum entropy in plant community assembly	156
Effects of long-term enclosing on distributions of carbon and nitrogen in semia-arid grassland of Inner Mongolia	151
Evaluation of earth observation datasets for LST trends over India and its implication in global warming	148
Low cost, high efficiency: LiDAR place recognition in vineyards with Matryoshka Representation Learning	143
PAG-MSBNet:Prototype-aware gated multi-scale branch network for open-set crop disease recognition	140
Modeling CO2 fluxes in coastal wetlands of China using explainable sequence-based deep learning	135
WQEye (v1): A Python-based software for machine learning-based retrieval of water quality parameters from Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8/9 remote sensing data aided by Google Earth Engine	130
Deep learning-based keypoint detection for morphological measurement of termite legs with potential occlusion	129
Sampling biases across interaction types affect the robustness of ecological multilayer networks	129
“Flower power”: How flowering affects spectral diversity metrics and their relationship with plant diversity	126
Identifying sand and dust storm sources using spatial-temporal analysis of remote sensing data in Central Iran	125
Foundation models for bioacoustics – A comparative review	125
Spatiotemporal variation and prediction of NPP in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region by coupling PLUS and CASA models	107
Potato crop disease prediction in Prince Edward Island using machine learning: A decision support approach for farmers	106
A novel algal bloom risk assessment framework by integrating environmental factors based on explainable machine learning	103
Automatic detection of color markings and numbers on trees in point clouds from Personal Laser Scanning (PLS) and Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS)	100
A review of acoustic systems for insect monitoring: From recording technologies to species recognition performance	96
Predicting eucalyptus plantation growth and yield using Landsat imagery in Minas Gerais, Brazil	96
Exploring the connection of physical habitat health of the wetland with its gas regulating services	95
Advancing long-term precipitation pattern forecasting in Atlantic Canada using successive variational mode decomposition, recursive LSTM, and graph-based feature selection	93
Selection against ruderals in Danish grasslands over an eight-year period	90
Comparing phenocam color indices with phenological observations of black spruce in the boreal forest	88

Editorial Board	86
Evaluation of Gangetic dolphin habitat suitability under hydroclimatic changes using a coupled hydrological-hydrodynamic approach	86
Spatiotemporal water dynamic modelling of Ramsar-listed lakes on the Victorian Volcanic Plains using Landsat, ICESat-2 and airborne LiDAR data	84
Beekeeping suitability prediction based on an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system and apiary level data	84
A data-driven approach for the assessment of the thermal stratification of reservoirs based on readily available data	81
Background-invariant re-identification of dogs from camera-trap videos in non-controlled environments	77
Remote sensing algorithm for dissolved organic carbon in the Laptev Sea: Correction of photobleaching effect using spectral slope	77
Multilabel classification of peatland plant species from high-resolution drone images	75
Estimation of canopy nitrogen nutrient status in lodging maize using unmanned aerial vehicles hyperspectral data	75
Climate change and dispersion dynamics of the invasive plant species Chromolaena odorata and Lantana camara in parts of the central and eastern India	75
ResHAN-GAM: A novel model for the inversion and prediction of soil organic matter content	75
Spatial and temporal evolution of heatwaves in Taiwan in a changing climate using multi-dimensional complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition	74
Deep-CABPred: Deep learning model for predicting functional chlorophyll a-b binding proteins in trait-based plant ecology using hybrid embedding with semi-normalized temporal convolutional networks	74
Combining habitat selection, behavioural states, and individual variation to predict fish spatial usage near a barrier	72
A fine-tuning workflow for CNN-based bat acoustic classification	71
Benchmarking remote sensing methods to capture plant functional diversity from space	71
What AIS misses and Acoustics reveal: Monitoring seafloor disturbance and recovery from bottom trawling in the southern Baltic Sea over five years	70
Orchard plantation mapping using remote sensing phenological feature fusion and interpretable ML algorithms in Hunan Province, China	70
Exploiting facial side similarities to improve AI-driven sea turtle photo-identification systems	69
Evaluation of the monitoring capability of various vegetation indices and mainstream satellite band settings for grassland drought	69
Ecological security patterns of Chinese lakes based on ecosystem service values assessment and human threat factors evaluation	68
Motion vectors and deep neural networks for video camera traps	68
Bayesian networks as a novel tool to enhance interpretability and predictive power of ecological models	67
Biological-based and remote sensing techniques to link vegetative and reproductive development and assess pollen emission in Mediterranean grasses	67
Functional diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates and fluvial habitat quality: Key biological trait categories	67
The utility of Planetscope spectral data in quantifying above-ground carbon stock in an urban reforested landscape	65
YoloXT: A object detection algorithm for marine benthos	65
Construction and optimization of ecological networks in karst regions based on multi-scale nesting: A case study in Guangxi Hechi, China	62
Multi-output regression with structurally incomplete target labels: A case study of modelling global vegetation cover	62
Spatial modeling tool to assess and rank peri-urban land use in an agricultural region of the Midwestern United States	62
Seasonal habitat suitability and distribution patterns of Mediterranean fin whales	62
Overcoming cloud obstruction: Fast forest-damage assessment in post-tropical cyclone optical remote sensing	61
Machine learning approach for estimating length–weight relationships in key shark species to support fisheries management	60
Remote sensing-based spatiotemporal dynamics of agricultural drought on Prince Edward Island using Google Earth engine	60
Automated detection of 20 Hz fin whale calls using computer vision techniques	59
Predicting current and future distributions of Mentha pulegium L. in Tunisia under climate change conditions, using the MaxEnt model	59
Machine-learning aiding sustainable Indian Ocean tuna purse seine fishery	59
Assessing habitat diversity and potential areas of similarity across protected areas globally	59