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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The herpetofauna of priority highland areas for conservation of the Caatinga in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil	26
Enhancing public policies for Brazilian bullfrog farming	22
bnormal average increase in sea surface temperature may promote the first documented mortality event of a marine sponge in the Southeastern Brazil	12
The co-evolution of life and biogeochemical cycles in our planet	8
Ephemeroptera (Insecta) from the metropolitan region of Santarém, Pará, Brazil	8
Population density estimates for three endangered bird taxa from the Pernambuco Endemism Center, northeastern Brazil	7
The neglected tropical grasslands: first record of campo com murundus and its plant communities in the state of São Paulo, Brazil	6
Ecological and biological patterns of stream fish studies from the Piracicaba-Capivari-Jundiaí Basin (PCJ Basin, SP) assessed through a systematic review	6
Fish defaunation in reservoirs of the Lower Paranapanema River basin, Brazil	6
Use of a geospatial tool to predict the distribution of Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) and some native freshwater gastropods found in Brazil	5
Hidden in the dung: first record of Maculantrops hirtipes () (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) from Brazil	5
The drift effect on nestedness of ephemeroptera, trichoptera and plecoptera orders in the Xingu River	4
Amphibians and reptiles of the Refúgio Biológico Bela Vista – Itaipu Dam, state of Paraná, southern Brazil	4
Spatial structure of phytoplankton metacommunities and their functional groups in a neotropical floodplain	4
Antennal sensilla in Cyclocephala literata Burmeister, 1847 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)	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
Polymitarcyidae Banks, 1900 (Insecta, Ephemeroptera) from the Western Region of Pará, Brazil	4
Diversity of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of an urban forest fragment in the Atlantic rainforest (São Paulo, Brazil)	4
The high biodiversity of benthic organisms in a coastal ecosystem revealed by an integrative approach	3
Fish fauna of the Río San Pedro and Río La Pasión, Usumacinta River Basin, Guatemala	3
Floristics of the herbaceous-shrub vegetation in the restinga of Araoca Beach, municipality of Guimarães, Maranhão, Northeast Brazil	3
Priority areas for conservation of the vascular flora in the Sierra Madre del Sur, Mexico	3
Insect galls from the Serra da Bandeira (Barreiras, Western Bahia, Brazil)	3
The ichthyofauna of streams in the upper Purus-Antimary interfluve, with an expansion in the occurrence of Amazonian fish species	3
Mammals in São Paulo State: diversity, distribution, ecology, and conservation	3

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	3
One more place to call home: the invasive bivalve Mytilopsis leucophaeata reaches the Maricá-Guarapina lagoon system (Rio de Janeiro, 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
Floristic composition, pollination and seed-dispersal systems in a target cerrado conservation area	3
Everything is similar, everything is different! Trichorhina (Oniscidea, Platyarthridae) from Brazilian caves, with descriptions of 11 new species	3
Dragonflies (Insecta, Odonata) from northeast Santa Catarina and notes on the occurrence of species in the region	3
Birds of Parque Estadual Ilha do Cardoso: ecology, conservation and natural history	3
Breeding biology of Hooded Gnateater Conopophaga roberti Hellmayr, 1905 (Aves: Conopophagidae)	3
Current knowledge of ferns and lycophytes in Sergipe state, northeastern Brazil	3
Amazonian forest termites: a species checklist from the State of Acre, Brazil	3
Floristic data to support conservation in the Amazonian canga	3
Remote spatial analysis lacking ethnographic grounding mischaracterizes sustainability of Indigenous burning regime	3
Invasiveness in Schefflera s.l.: do non-native species outperform phylogenetically related native species?	2
Ichthyofauna of the Nascentes do Rio Parnaíba National Park: watershed divide in the main agricultural encroachment area in the Brazilian Cerrado	2
The bee fauna (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in Cerrado and Cerrado-Amazon Rainforest transition sites in Tocantins state, Northern Region of Brazil	2
Fishes from affluents of Rio Branco, Municipality of Caracaraí, Roraima State, northern Brazil	2
Marine and coastal biodiversity studies, 60 years of research funding from FAPESP, what we have learned and future challenges	2
A new species of Phanerothecium (Monogenea, Oogyrodactylidae), in Hypostomus regani (Loricariidae) from southeast Brazil	2
Molecular and camera trap data confirm the occurrence of Dasypus septemcinctus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil	2
From insect-plant interactions to ecological networks	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
Entomogenous galls and their associated fauna in deciduous dry forest and woodland vegetation remnants (Caatinga) in the Northern Depressão Sertaneja, 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
In silico analysis of the biodiversity of endophytic fungi isolated from the Brazilian Cerrado	2
Effects of aquatic macrophytes on phytoplankton in a shallow tropical reservoir (Amazon, Brazil)	2
Accessing the sand fly diversity of Tocantins, Northern Brazil: species delimitation using COI DNA barcoding	2
Phytoplankton composition from Araçá Bay and São Sebastião Channel, São Paulo, Brazil	2
Predicting potential distribution and evaluating biotic interactions of threatened species: a case study of Discocactus ferricola (Cactaceae)	2
Length-weight relationships of 24 stream-dwelling fish species from the Atlantic Forest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2
Male Emphorini (Hymenoptera: Apidae) bees use flowers of Ipomoea carnea (Convolvulaceae) as overnight resting sites	2
Building knowledge to save species: 20 years of ichthyological studies in the Tocantins-Araguaia River basin	2
Synopsis of Myrcia (Myrtaceae) in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil	2