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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Climate change and energy crisis drive an unprecedented EU environmental law regression	155
Simulating Demography, Monitoring, and Management Decisions to Evaluate Adaptive Management Strategies for Endangered Species	127
Correspondence: Challender et al. (2021) misinterpret the recommendations regarding an IUCN‐CITES interface in Frank and Wilcove (2019) and advocate poor policy	119
Issue Information	94
Land‐cover and land‐use change trajectory hopping facilitates estate‐crop expansion into protected forests in Indonesia	83
European Habitats Directive has fostered monitoring but not prevented species declines	80
Concrete Habitat Severely Decreases the Reproductive Output of Two Urban Birds	80
Collaborative fisheries research reveals reserve size and age determine efficacy across a network of marine protected areas	72
Political Will Has Been Critical for Protecting Forests in the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesia	59
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Integrated systematic planning and adaptive stakeholder process support a 10‐fold increase in South Africa's Marine Protected Area estate	45
Naming It Is Not Enough: An Orienting Map for Understanding Conservation's Entanglement With Power	45
Issue Information	41
Rewilding and Indigenous‐Led Land Care Are Not Compatible Ideas	34
Nature and equity	34
First Evidence of Individual Sharks Involved in Multiple Predatory Bites on People	33
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Bycatch in drift gillnet fisheries: A sink for Indian Ocean cetaceans	32
Applying the Key Biodiversity Area Standard to Important Sites for Sharks	31
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Conservation and human rights: The public commitments of international conservation organizations	28
Toward a new framework for restoring lost wildlife migrations	28
Co‐benefits for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services available from contrasting land protection policies in the contiguous United States	28
Risky business: Protecting nature, protecting wealth?	27

Remote seamounts are key conservation priorities for pelagic wildlife	26
Languages of Life: A Global Perspective on Linguistic Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation	25
Phylogenetic relationships of invasive plants are useful criteria for weed risk assessments	25
Conserving urban biodiversity: Current practice, barriers, and enablers	25
How Do We Identify Anthropogenic Allee Effects in the Wildlife Trade?	24
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Kleptoparasitism in seabirds—A potential pathway for global avian influenza virus spread	24
Mapping Multiple Wild Pig Species’ Population Dynamics in Southeast Asia During the African Swine Fever Outbreak (2018–2024)	21
Does biodiversity‐focused protection of the seabed deliver carbon benefits? A U.K. case study	19
Conflict between cultural development and wildlife conservation: A potential threat to Reeves's pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii)	18
Stakeholder‐derived recommendations and actions to support deep‐reef conservation in the Western Indian Ocean	18
What is the value of biotic seed dispersal in post‐fire forest regeneration?	18
Leveraging shark‐fin consumer preferences to deliver sustainable fisheries	18
Contributions of small‐scale and longline fishing to sea turtle mortality in the Solomon Islands	17
Issue Information	17
The costs and benefits of publicising species discoveries	17
Issue Information	17
What starts with laughter ends in tears: Invasive alien species regulations should not hinder scientific research	17
Issue Information	17
Positive effects of fragmentation per se on the most iconic metapopulation	16
Acoustic Indices Predict Recovery of Tropical Bird Communities for Taxonomic and Functional Composition	16
Realizing “30 × 30” in India: The potential, the challenges, and the way forward	15
Now What? The Conundrum of Successful Recovery of Wolves and Other Species for European Conservation	15
A consumption‐based analysis of extinction risk in Australia	15
Passive Acoustic Gliders Are Effective Monitoring Tools for Dynamic Management Plans Aimed at Mitigating Whale‐Vessel Strikes	15
Who cares about monarch butterflies? Comparing US State Wildlife Action Plans 2015–2025	15
Fish aggregating devices could enhance the effectiveness of blue water marine protected areas	14
Personal traits predict conservationists’ optimism about outcomes for nature	14
Collective PES Contracts Can Motivate Institutional Creation to Conserve Forests: Experimental Evidence	14
Testing an intervention codesigned with stakeholders for altering wildlife consumption: Health messaging matters	13
Colluding rhino poachers exploit space–time variation in opportunity and risk	13
A Survey of Mammal and Fish Genetic Diversity Across the Global Protected Area Network	13
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Urgent Policy Change Is Needed to Understand the Dimensions of Legal International Wildlife Trade to Enable Targeted Management	13
Existing indicators do not adequately monitor progress toward meeting invasive alien species targets	13
Insights from diplomacy for the prevention and resolution of conservation conflicts	12
Issue Information	12
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	12
Village modernization may contribute more to farmland bird declines than agricultural intensification	12
An inconvenient misconception: Climate change is not the principal driver of biodiversity loss	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
Fisheries outcomes of marine protected area networks: Levels of protection, connectivity, and time matter	12
Issue Information	12
Foraging mode affects extinction risk of snakes and lizards, but in different ways	11
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Support for the US Endangered Species Act Is High and Steady Over the Past Three Decades	11
Village modernization and reduced abundance of farmland birds: Why compensation for lost nesting sites may not be enough	11
What Will Count?—Evidence for the Global Recognition of Other Effective area–based Conservation Measures	11
Advances and shortfalls in applying best practices to global tree‐growing efforts	11

Relational Commons: An Ontological and Governance Framework Beyond Protected Areas and the Boundaries of Conservation	11
A criminal justice response to address the illegal trade of wildlife in Indonesia	11
Destructive fishing: An expert‐driven definition and exploration of this quasi‐concept	10
Rewilding and Indigenous Community‐Led Land Care	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	9
What is soil biodiversity?	9
Wild goose chase: Geese flee high and far, and with aftereffects from New Year's fireworks	9
Village modernization and farmland birds: A reply to Rosin et al. (2021)	9
Issue Information	9
The biodiversity adaptation gap: Management actions for marine protected areas in the face of climate change	9