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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Afro-alpine flagships revisited II: elucidating the evolutionary relationships and species boundaries in the giant senecios (Dendrosenecio, Asteraceae)	37
Different growth response of mountain rangeland habitats to inter-annual weather fluctuations	22
Temporal and spatial variation in the direct and indirect effects of climate on reproduction in alpine populations of Ranunculus acris L	20
Experimental evidence for a thermal limitation of plant cell wall lignification at the alpine treeline	19
Positive and negative plant−plant interactions influence seedling establishment at both high and low elevations	13
Pollination-associated shortening of the functional flower lifespan in an alpine species of Alstroemeria and the water content of flowers	13
Plant evolutionary ecology in mountain regions in space and time	11
Adaptive evolutionary divergence of populations persisting in warming cold-stage refugia: candidate examples from the periphery of the European Alps	11
Microsite preferences of three conifers in calcareous and siliceous treeline ecotones in the French alps	10
Genetic underpinning of historical afforestation with allochthonous Pinus cembra in the northwestern Swiss Alps	9
Implementing spatial analyses to measure angiosperm biodiversity from the high-altitude grasslands of the Atlantic forest	9
Mesoscale refugia for European alpine grasslands based on climatic envelopes	8
Introgression of an isolated Primula lineage suggests the existence of a glacial refugium in the Écrins range (Southwestern French Alps)	8
Clonality and genetic structure of an endangered aquatic plant, Typha minima, in the French Alps: consequences for conservation	8
Bryophyte responses to experimental climate change in a mid-latitude forest-line ecotone	7
The impacts of interannual climate variation on pollination network structure of a sub-alpine meadow: from 2008 to 2021	7
The uneven distribution of refugial endemics across the European Alps suggests a threefold role of climate in speciation of refugial populations	7
Phylogeny and phenotypic adjustments drive functional traits in Rhododendron across elevations in its diversity hot-spot in W-China	6
Correction: Experimental grazer exclusion increases pollination reliability and influences pollinator-mediated plant-plant interactions in Tibetan alpine meadows	6