OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Alpine Botany is 7. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in plant diversity in a water-limited and isolated high-mountain range (Sierra Nevada, Spain)	26
Mountain definitions and their consequences	23
Flowering phenology in alpine grassland strongly responds to shifts in snowmelt but weakly to summer drought	20
Dominant shrub species are a strong predictor of plant species diversity along subalpine pasture-shrub transects	16
History and evolution of the afroalpine flora: in the footsteps of Olov Hedberg	16
Plant speciation in the face of recurrent climate changes in the Alps	15
Aboveground-trait variations in 11 (sub)alpine plants along a 1000-m elevation gradient in tropical Mexico	14
A common soil temperature threshold for the upper limit of alpine grasslands in European mountains	13
Distribution changes in páramo plants from the equatorial high Andes in response to increasing temperature and humidity variation since 1880	12
Phenology determines leaf functional traits across Rhododendron species in the Sikkim Himalaya	11
Seed mass and plant home site environment interact to determine alpine species germination patterns along an elevation gradient	11
Do pentaploid hybrids mediate gene flow between tetraploid Senecio disjunctus and hexaploid S. carniolicus s. str. (S. carniolicus aggregate, Asteraceae)?	10
Effects of drainage reorganization on phytogeographic pattern in Sino-Himalaya	10
Novel plant communities after glacial retreat in Colombia: (many) losses and (few) gains	9
Incongruences between nuclear and plastid phylogenies challenge the identification of correlates of diversification in Gentiana in the European Alpine System	9
Patterns of floral allocation along an elevation gradient: variation in Senecio subalpinus growing in the Tatra Mountains	8
Competition-free gaps are essential for the germination and recruitment of alpine species along an elevation gradient in the European Alps	8
Chronic in situ tissue cooling does not reduce lignification at the Swiss treeline but enhances the risk of ‘blue’ frost rings	7
Seedlings of alpine species do not have better frost-tolerance than their lowland counterparts	7
Pollinator sharing among co-flowering plants mediates patterns of pollen transfer	7
Addressing alpine plant phylogeography using integrative distributional, demographic and coalescent modeling	7