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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The herpetofauna of priority highland areas for conservation of the Caatinga in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil	28
Enhancing public policies for Brazilian bullfrog farming	26
Long-term ecological program reveals high species richness of medium- and large-sized mammals in forest fragments of the Cerrado	17
bnormal average increase in sea surface temperature may promote the first documented mortality event of a marine sponge in the Southeastern Brazil	10
Population density estimates for three endangered bird taxa from the Pernambuco Endemism Center, northeastern Brazil	9
Spatial structure of phytoplankton metacommunities and their functional groups in a neotropical floodplain	8
The co-evolution of life and biogeochemical cycles in our planet	8
The neglected tropical grasslands: first record of campo com murundus and its plant communities in the state of São Paulo, Brazil	7
Use of a geospatial tool to predict the distribution of Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) and some native freshwater gastropods found in Brazil	7
Polymitarcyidae Banks, 1900 (Insecta, Ephemeroptera) from the Western Region of Pará, Brazil	7
Fish defaunation in reservoirs of the Lower Paranapanema River basin, Brazil	6
Ephemeroptera (Insecta) from the metropolitan region of Santarém, Pará, Brazil	6
Hidden in the dung: first record of Maculantrops hirtipes () (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) from Brazil	6
The drift effect on nestedness of ephemeroptera, trichoptera and plecoptera orders in the Xingu River	6
Ecological and biological patterns of stream fish studies from the Piracicaba-Capivari-Jundiaí Basin (PCJ Basin, SP) assessed through a systematic review	6
Diversity of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of an urban forest fragment in the Atlantic rainforest (São Paulo, Brazil)	5
Amphibians and reptiles of the Refúgio Biológico Bela Vista – Itaipu Dam, state of Paraná, southern Brazil	5
Updated list of long-term monitored tree species in a forest with high diversity and endemism in the highlands of Espírito Santo, Brazil	5
Antennal sensilla in Cyclocephala literata Burmeister, 1847 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)	5
Breeding biology of Hooded Gnateater Conopophaga roberti Hellmayr, 1905 (Aves: Conopophagidae)	4
Birds of Parque Estadual Ilha do Cardoso: ecology, conservation and natural history	4
Woody vegetation in Atlantic Forest inselbergs: floristic similarity, patterns of richness, pollination/dispersal syndromes, and influence of climatic variables	4
Threats to health and conservation of free-living sloths (Bradypus and Choloepus) under anthropic influence in the city of Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil	4
One more place to call home: the invasive bivalve Mytilopsis leucophaeata reaches the Maricá-Guarapina lagoon system (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)	4
Jaguar and puma cannibalism in its northern distribution range in Mexico	4

Mammals in São Paulo State: diversity, distribution, ecology, and conservation	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
The high biodiversity of benthic organisms in a coastal ecosystem revealed by an integrative approach	4
Fish fauna of the Río San Pedro and Río La Pasión, Usumacinta River Basin, Guatemala	4
Priority areas for conservation of the vascular flora in the Sierra Madre del Sur, Mexico	4
Remote spatial analysis lacking ethnographic grounding mischaracterizes sustainability of Indigenous burning regime	3
Effects of aquatic macrophytes on phytoplankton in a shallow tropical reservoir (Amazon, Brazil)	3
Invasiveness in Schefflera s.l.: do non-native species outperform phylogenetically related native species?	3
Dragonflies (Insecta, Odonata) from northeast Santa Catarina and notes on the occurrence of species in the region	3
From insect-plant interactions to ecological networks	3
A new species of Phanerothecium (Monogenea, Oogyrodactylidae), in Hypostomus regani (Loricariidae) from southeast Brazil	3
Marine and coastal biodiversity studies, 60 years of research funding from FAPESP, what we have learned and future challenges	3
Floristics of the herbaceous-shrub vegetation in the restinga of Araoca Beach, municipality of Guimarães, Maranhão, Northeast Brazil	3
Amazonian forest termites: a species checklist from the State of Acre, Brazil	3
Everything is similar, everything is different! Trichorhina (Oniscidea, Platyarthridae) from Brazilian caves, with descriptions of 11 new species	3
Predicting potential distribution and evaluating biotic interactions of threatened species: a case study of Discocactus ferricola (Cactaceae)	3
Molecular and camera trap data confirm the occurrence of Dasypus septemcinctus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil	3
Synopsis of Myrcia (Myrtaceae) in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil	3
Building knowledge to save species: 20 years of ichthyological studies in the Tocantins-Araguaia River basin	3
The ichthyofauna of streams in the upper Purus-Antimary interfluve, with an expansion in the occurrence of Amazonian fish species	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
Floristic composition, pollination and seed-dispersal systems in a target cerrado conservation area	3
Fishes from affluents of Rio Branco, Municipality of Caracaraí, Roraima State, northern Brazil	3
Male Emphorini (Hymenoptera: Apidae) bees use flowers of Ipomoea carnea (Convolvulaceae) as overnight resting sites	3
Phytoplankton composition from Araçá Bay and São Sebastião Channel, São Paulo, Brazil	3
Inventory of birds in two urban wetlands in Temuco (Chile): a basis for monitoring species	3
The bee fauna (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in Cerrado and Cerrado-Amazon Rainforest transition sites in Tocantins state, Northern Region of Brazil	3
Entomogenous galls and their associated fauna in deciduous dry forest and woodland vegetation remnants (Caatinga) in the Northern Depressão Sertaneja, Brazil	3
An annotated list of plant viruses described in Paraguay (1920–2023)	3
Floristic data to support conservation in the Amazonian canga	3
Length-weight relationships of 24 stream-dwelling fish species from the Atlantic Forest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	3
Social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) in Cerrado and Caatinga conservation units, Minas Gerais, Brazil	2
Contribution to the knowledge of Honduran flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)	2
Flora of Paraíba, Brazil: Commelinaceae Mirb.	2
New records of Ceratocampinae (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) species from the Cerrado of Maranhão, Brazil	2
A trilingual key to genera and subgenera of the Scarabaeinae from the Brazilian Amazon (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)	2
BIOTA-FAPESP – supporting biodiversity, building partnerships, and filling the knowledge gaps	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
In silico analysis of the biodiversity of endophytic fungi isolated from the Brazilian Cerrado	2
Living at the top of the forest line: medium and large mammals in a high-mountain ecotone in Peruvian Central Andes	2
Insect galls on Asteraceae in Brazil: richness, geographic distribution, associated fauna, endemism and economic importance	2
Hummingbird-plant networks in rupestrian fields and riparian forests in altitudinal areas of the Serra da Canastra National Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil	2
Frontier ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) unveiled: exploring the remarkable diversity of the Brazilian Far West	2
Effects of hydrological cycles and water body connectivity on abundance and co-occurrence of two Neotropical Curculionidae species	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
Assessment of distribution of two sympatric mud crab species – Panopeus americanus and Panopeus austrobesus – in a Western Atlantic estuarine intertidal zone	2
Ichthyofauna of the Nascentes do Rio Parnaíba National Park: watershed divide in the main agricultural encroachment area in the Brazilian Cerrado	2
First record of the exotic snail Zonitoides arboreus (Eupulmonata, Gastrodontidae) in the Brazilian oceanic island of Trindade, South Atlantic	2

Bioprospecting macroalgae, marine and terrestrial invertebrates & their associated microbiota	2
Xylobotryum portentosum (Mont.) Pat. (Xylobotryomycetes, Ascomycota): a rare fungal species newly found in Southeastern Brazil	2
Reviewers Volume 24 Biota Neotropica	2
Accessing the sand fly diversity of Tocantins, Northern Brazil: species delimitation using COI DNA barcoding	2