OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biota Neotropica is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Long-term ecological program reveals high species richness of medium- and large-sized mammals in forest fragments of the Cerrado	28
The herpetofauna of priority highland areas for conservation of the Caatinga in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil	23
Enhancing public policies for Brazilian bullfrog farming	16
bnormal average increase in sea surface temperature may promote the first documented mortality event of a marine sponge in the Southeastern Brazil	8
Ecological and biological patterns of stream fish studies from the Piracicaba-Capivari-Jundiaí Basin (PCJ Basin, SP) assessed through a systematic review	8
Ephemeroptera (Insecta) from the metropolitan region of Santarém, Pará, Brazil	8
Polymitarcyidae Banks, 1900 (Insecta, Ephemeroptera) from the Western Region of Pará, Brazil	7
The neglected tropical grasslands: first record of campo com murundus and its plant communities in the state of São Paulo, Brazil	7
Hidden in the dung: first record of Maculantrops hirtipes () (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) from Brazil	7
Use of a geospatial tool to predict the distribution of Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) and some native freshwater gastropods found in Brazil	6
Fish defaunation in reservoirs of the Lower Paranapanema River basin, Brazil	6
Population density estimates for three endangered bird taxa from the Pernambuco Endemism Center, northeastern Brazil	6
The co-evolution of life and biogeochemical cycles in our planet	5
Antennal sensilla in Cyclocephala literata Burmeister, 1847 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)	4
The drift effect on nestedness of ephemeroptera, trichoptera and plecoptera orders in the Xingu River	4
Fish fauna of the Río San Pedro and Río La Pasión, Usumacinta River Basin, Guatemala	4
Diversity of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of an urban forest fragment in the Atlantic rainforest (São Paulo, Brazil)	4
Amphibians and reptiles of the Refúgio Biológico Bela Vista – Itaipu Dam, state of Paraná, southern Brazil	4
Breeding biology of Hooded Gnateater Conopophaga roberti Hellmayr, 1905 (Aves: Conopophagidae)	4
Spatial structure of phytoplankton metacommunities and their functional groups in a neotropical floodplain	4
Updated list of long-term monitored tree species in a forest with high diversity and endemism in the highlands of Espírito Santo, Brazil	4
Early larval development of the rock shrimps Sicyonia dorsalis Kingsley, 1878 and S. typica (Boeck, 1864) (Dendrobranchiata) with remarks of larval morphology of Sicyoniidae Ortmann, 1898	4
Jaguar and puma cannibalism in its northern distribution range in Mexico	4
The ichthyofauna of streams in the upper Purus-Antimary interfluve, with an expansion in the occurrence of Amazonian fish species	3
Birds of Parque Estadual Ilha do Cardoso: ecology, conservation and natural history	3

The high biodiversity of benthic organisms in a coastal ecosystem revealed by an integrative approach	3
Floristic composition, pollination and seed-dispersal systems in a target cerrado conservation area	3
Priority areas for conservation of the vascular flora in the Sierra Madre del Sur, Mexico	3
Male Emphorini (Hymenoptera: Apidae) bees use flowers of Ipomoea carnea (Convolvulaceae) as overnight resting sites	3
Entomogenous galls and their associated fauna in deciduous dry forest and woodland vegetation remnants (Caatinga) in the Northern Depressão Sertaneja, Brazil	3
Floristic data to support conservation in the Amazonian canga	3
One more place to call home: the invasive bivalve Mytilopsis leucophaeata reaches the Maricá-Guarapina lagoon system (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)	3
Mammals in São Paulo State: diversity, distribution, ecology, and conservation	3
Floristics of the herbaceous-shrub vegetation in the restinga of Araoca Beach, municipality of Guimarães, Maranhão, Northeast Brazil	3
Everything is similar, everything is different! Trichorhina (Oniscidea, Platyarthridae) from Brazilian caves, with descriptions of 11 new species	3
The bee fauna (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in Cerrado and Cerrado-Amazon Rainforest transition sites in Tocantins state, Northern Region of Brazil	3
Length-weight relationships of 24 stream-dwelling fish species from the Atlantic Forest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	3
Amazonian forest termites: a species checklist from the State of Acre, Brazil	3
Threats to health and conservation of free-living sloths (Bradypus and Choloepus) under anthropic influence in the city of Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil	3
Current knowledge of ferns and lycophytes in Sergipe state, northeastern Brazil	3
Insect galls from the Serra da Bandeira (Barreiras, Western Bahia, Brazil)	3
Remote spatial analysis lacking ethnographic grounding mischaracterizes sustainability of Indigenous burning regime	3
Predicting potential distribution and evaluating biotic interactions of threatened species: a case study of Discocactus ferricola (Cactaceae)	3
Effects of aquatic macrophytes on phytoplankton in a shallow tropical reservoir (Amazon, Brazil)	2
From insect-plant interactions to ecological networks	2
Contribution to the knowledge of Honduran flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)	2
Accessing the sand fly diversity of Tocantins, Northern Brazil: species delimitation using COI DNA barcoding	2
Ichthyofauna of the Nascentes do Rio Parnaíba National Park: watershed divide in the main agricultural encroachment area in the Brazilian Cerrado	2
Invasiveness in Schefflera s.l.: do non-native species outperform phylogenetically related native species?	2
Synopsis of Myrcia (Myrtaceae) in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil	2
Marine and coastal biodiversity studies, 60 years of research funding from FAPESP, what we have learned and future challenges	2
In silico analysis of the biodiversity of endophytic fungi isolated from the Brazilian Cerrado	2
A new species of Phanerothecium (Monogenea, Oogyrodactylidae), in Hypostomus regani (Loricariidae) from southeast Brazil	2
Hummingbird-plant networks in rupestrian fields and riparian forests in altitudinal areas of the Serra da Canastra National Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil	2
New records of Tabanidae (Diptera) in an ecotone zone between the Cerrado and the Amazon Forest and an updated list of species of Tocantins, Brazil	2
Bryofaunal gastrotrichs from the Cerrado: First report of Dendroichthydium cf. ibyrapora from a Neotropical Savanna	2
Mapping threatened canga ecosystems in the Brazilian savanna using U-Net deep learning segmentation and Sentinel-2 images: a first step toward conservation planning	2
Phytoplankton composition from Araçá Bay and São Sebastião Channel, São Paulo, Brazil	2
Building knowledge to save species: 20 years of ichthyological studies in the Tocantins-Araguaia River basin	2
Fishes from affluents of Rio Branco, Municipality of Caracaraí, Roraima State, northern Brazil	2
Dragonflies (Insecta, Odonata) from northeast Santa Catarina and notes on the occurrence of species in the region	2
Assessment of distribution of two sympatric mud crab species – Panopeus americanus and Panopeus austrobesus – in a Western Atlantic estuarine intertidal zone	2
Living at the top of the forest line: medium and large mammals in a high-mountain ecotone in Peruvian Central Andes	2
Flora of Paraíba, Brazil: Commelinaceae Mirb.	2
Social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) in Cerrado and Caatinga conservation units, Minas Gerais, Brazil	2
Molecular and camera trap data confirm the occurrence of Dasypus septemcinctus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil	2
Inventory of birds in two urban wetlands in Temuco (Chile): a basis for monitoring species	2
An annotated list of plant viruses described in Paraguay (1920–2023)	2