OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Alpine Botany is 6. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Temporal and spatial variation in the direct and indirect effects of climate on reproduction in alpine populations of Ranunculus acris L	23
Different growth response of mountain rangeland habitats to inter-annual weather fluctuations	20
Plant evolutionary ecology in mountain regions in space and time	16
Pollination-associated shortening of the functional flower lifespan in an alpine species of Alstroemeria and the water content of flowers	14
Positive and negative plant−plant interactions influence seedling establishment at both high and low elevations	12
Adaptive evolutionary divergence of populations persisting in warming cold-stage refugia: candidate examples from the periphery of the European Alps	10
Experimental evidence for a thermal limitation of plant cell wall lignification at the alpine treeline	10
Microsite preferences of three conifers in calcareous and siliceous treeline ecotones in the French alps	9
Mesoscale refugia for European alpine grasslands based on climatic envelopes	8
Genetic underpinning of historical afforestation with allochthonous Pinus cembra in the northwestern Swiss Alps	8
Clonality and genetic structure of an endangered aquatic plant, Typha minima, in the French Alps: consequences for conservation	7
Introgression of an isolated Primula lineage suggests the existence of a glacial refugium in the Écrins range (Southwestern French Alps)	7
The uneven distribution of refugial endemics across the European Alps suggests a threefold role of climate in speciation of refugial populations	6
Correction: Experimental grazer exclusion increases pollination reliability and influences pollinator-mediated plant-plant interactions in Tibetan alpine meadows	6
Bryophyte responses to experimental climate change in a mid-latitude forest-line ecotone	6
Alpine plants with short-lived seeds have declined over the past two decades	6
Implementing spatial analyses to measure angiosperm biodiversity from the high-altitude grasslands of the Atlantic forest	6
The impacts of interannual climate variation on pollination network structure of a sub-alpine meadow: from 2008 to 2021	6