OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Conservation Letters is 9. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	173
Land‐cover and land‐use change trajectory hopping facilitates estate‐crop expansion into protected forests in Indonesia	125
Correspondence: Challender et al. (2021) misinterpret the recommendations regarding an IUCN‐CITES interface in Frank and Wilcove (2019) and advocate poor policy	108
Collaborative fisheries research reveals reserve size and age determine efficacy across a network of marine protected areas	94
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Simulating Demography, Monitoring, and Management Decisions to Evaluate Adaptive Management Strategies for Endangered Species	56
Political Will Has Been Critical for Protecting Forests in the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesia	55
Concrete Habitat Severely Decreases the Reproductive Output of Two Urban Birds	48
Climate change and energy crisis drive an unprecedented EU environmental law regression	47
European Habitats Directive has fostered monitoring but not prevented species declines	45
First Evidence of Individual Sharks Involved in Multiple Predatory Bites on People	38
Issue Information	37
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Rewilding and Indigenous‐Led Land Care Are Not Compatible Ideas	34
Naming It Is Not Enough: An Orienting Map for Understanding Conservation's Entanglement With Power	33
Nature and equity	32
Bycatch in drift gillnet fisheries: A sink for Indian Ocean cetaceans	31
Integrated systematic planning and adaptive stakeholder process support a 10‐fold increase in South Africa's Marine Protected Area estate	31
Phylogenetic relationships of invasive plants are useful criteria for weed risk assessments	31
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Conservation and human rights: The public commitments of international conservation organizations	30
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Languages of Life: A Global Perspective on Linguistic Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation	28
Remote seamounts are key conservation priorities for pelagic wildlife	27
Co‐benefits for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services available from contrasting land protection policies in the contiguous United States	27

Applying the Key Biodiversity Area Standard to Important Sites for Sharks	27
Risky business: Protecting nature, protecting wealth?	26
Conserving urban biodiversity: Current practice, barriers, and enablers	25
Does biodiversity‐focused protection of the seabed deliver carbon benefits? A U.K. case study	24
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How Do We Identify Anthropogenic Allee Effects in the Wildlife Trade?	21
Kleptoparasitism in seabirds—A potential pathway for global avian influenza virus spread	21
Stakeholder‐derived recommendations and actions to support deep‐reef conservation in the Western Indian Ocean	21
What is the value of biotic seed dispersal in post‐fire forest regeneration?	21
Mapping Multiple Wild Pig Species’ Population Dynamics in Southeast Asia During the African Swine Fever Outbreak (2018–2024)	20
Now What? The Conundrum of Successful Recovery of Wolves and Other Species for European Conservation	19
Issue Information	19
Citizen Science Offers Untapped Potential for Conservation Through Research Flexibility	19
What starts with laughter ends in tears: Invasive alien species regulations should not hinder scientific research	18
The costs and benefits of publicising species discoveries	18
Issue Information	18
Contributions of small‐scale and longline fishing to sea turtle mortality in the Solomon Islands	17
Conflict between cultural development and wildlife conservation: A potential threat to Reeves's pheasant ( Syrmaticus reevesii )	17
Acoustic Indices Predict Recovery of Tropical Bird Communities for Taxonomic and Functional Composition	17
Fish aggregating devices could enhance the effectiveness of blue water marine protected areas	16
Positive effects of fragmentation per se on the most iconic metapopulation	16
Collective PES Contracts Can Motivate Institutional Creation to Conserve Forests: Experimental Evidence	15
A consumption‐based analysis of extinction risk in Australia	15
Personal traits predict conservationists’ optimism about outcomes for nature	15
Realizing “30 × 30” in India: The potential, the challenges, and the way forward	14
Testing an intervention codesigned with stakeholders for altering wildlife consumption: Health messaging matters	14
Urgent Policy Change Is Needed to Understand the Dimensions of Legal International Wildlife Trade to Enable Targeted Management	13
Colluding rhino poachers exploit space–time variation in opportunity and risk	13
An Assessment of the Fish Maw Trade in Singapore and Malaysia Reveals Threatened Species and Highlights the Need for a More Complete Assessment of the Conservation Status of the World's Fishes	13
Who cares about monarch butterflies? Comparing US State Wildlife Action Plans 2015–2025	13
Insights from diplomacy for the prevention and resolution of conservation conflicts	13
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Passive Acoustic Gliders Are Effective Monitoring Tools for Dynamic Management Plans Aimed at Mitigating Whale‐Vessel Strikes	13
A Survey of Mammal and Fish Genetic Diversity Across the Global Protected Area Network	13
Issue Information	13
An inconvenient misconception: Climate change is not the principal driver of biodiversity loss	12
Support for the US Endangered Species Act Is High and Steady Over the Past Three Decades	12
Fisheries outcomes of marine protected area networks: Levels of protection, connectivity, and time matter	12
Village modernization and reduced abundance of farmland birds: Why compensation for lost nesting sites may not be enough	12
The fear factor—Snakes in Africa might be at an alarming extinction risk	12
Addressing the Southeast Asian snaring crisis: Impact of 11 years of snare removal in a biodiversity hotspot	12
Issue Information	12
Madagascar's Urban Lemur Meat Trade	12
Existing indicators do not adequately monitor progress toward meeting invasive alien species targets	12
What Will Count?—Evidence for the Global Recognition of Other Effective area–based Conservation Measures	12
A criminal justice response to address the illegal trade of wildlife in Indonesia	12
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A Novel Fundraising Model for Conservation of a Noncharismatic Species: Lessons Learned From a Crowd‐Funded Eco‐Art Exhibition	11
Relational Commons: An Ontological and Governance Framework Beyond Protected Areas and the Boundaries of Conservation	11
Advances and shortfalls in applying best practices to global tree‐growing efforts	11

Foraging mode affects extinction risk of snakes and lizards, but in different ways	11
Destructive fishing: An expert‐driven definition and exploration of this quasi‐concept	10
High‐resolution satellite imagery meets the challenge of monitoring remote marine protected areas in the Antarctic and beyond	10
Using weather radar to help minimize wind energy impacts on nocturnally migrating birds	10
Quantitative impacts of hydroelectric dams on the trans‐Amazonian migrations of goliath catfish	10
Issue Information	10
Wild goose chase: Geese flee high and far, and with aftereffects from New Year's fireworks	10
Village modernization and farmland birds: A reply to Rosin et al. (2021)	10
Rewilding and Indigenous Community‐Led Land Care	9
Correction to: Using nonhuman culture in conservation requires careful and concerted action	9
Benchmarking fish biodiversity of seaports with eDNA and nearby marine reserves	9
Multilayer Network Analysis Reveals Connectivity Synergies Between Protected Area Levels Across Various Taxonomic Groups	9
The biodiversity adaptation gap: Management actions for marine protected areas in the face of climate change	9
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An equity lens on behavioral science for conservation	9
Resolving Uncertainties in the Legality of Wildlife Trade to Support Better Outcomes for Wildlife and People	9
Issue Information	9
Marine Conservation Leadership: Does Australia Walk the Talk?	9