OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecology and Evolution is 35. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Why students do not turn on their video cameras during online classes and an equitable and inclusive plan to encourage them to do so	205
Ignoring non‐English‐language studies may bias ecological meta‐analyses	116
Meta‐analysis shows that environmental DNA outperforms traditional surveys, but warrants better reporting standards	98
SDMtune: An R package to tune and evaluate species distribution models	97
Abundance decline in the avifauna of the European Union reveals cross‐continental similarities in biodiversity change	77
Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on field instruction and remote teaching alternatives: Results from a survey of instructors	72
Variation in leaf traits at different altitudes reflects the adaptive strategy of plants to environmental changes	61
Field courses narrow demographic achievement gaps in ecology and evolutionary biology	58
Changes in soil carbon fractions and enzyme activities under different vegetation types of the northern Loess Plateau	56
Paint it black: Efficacy of increased wind turbine rotor blade visibility to reduce avian fatalities	53
Shifting spaces: Which disparity or dissimilarity measurement best summarize occupancy in multidimensional spaces?	53
From panic to pedagogy: Using online active learning to promote inclusive instruction in ecology and evolutionary biology courses and beyond	52
Marine water environmental DNA metabarcoding provides a comprehensive fish diversity assessment and reveals spatial patterns in a large oceanic area	52
Automated facial recognition for wildlife that lack unique markings: A deep learning approach for brown bears	48
Acoustic localization of terrestrial wildlife: Current practices and future opportunities	46
The traits of “trait ecologists”: An analysis of the use of trait and functional trait terminology	45
Cell size, genome size, and maximum growth rate are near‐independent dimensions of ecological variation across bacteria and archaea	45
Generation and application of river network analogues for use in ecology and evolution	42
Effect of soil microorganisms and labile C availability on soil respiration in response to litter inputs in forest ecosystems: A meta‐analysis	42
Molecular diet analysis of neotropical bats based on fecal DNA metabarcoding	42
Automatic detection of fish and tracking of movement for ecology	41
Collecting eco‐evolutionary data in the dark: Impediments to subterranean research and how to overcome them	40
Moving academic conferences online: Aids and barriers to delegate participation	39
Performance evaluation of cetacean species distribution models developed using generalized additive models and boosted regression trees	39
The role of replication studies in ecology	38

A total crapshoot? Evaluating bioinformatic decisions in animal diet metabarcoding analyses	38
Spatiotemporal maintenance of flora in the Himalaya biodiversity hotspot: Current knowledge and future perspectives	38
Current and future distribution of the deciduous shrub Hydrangea macrophylla in China estimated by MaxEnt	37
Which factors contribute most to genome size variation within angiosperms?	37
The conservation status and population decline of the African penguin deconstructed in space and time	36
Are native and non‐native pollinator friendly plants equally valuable for native wild bee communities?	36
Tackling unresolved questions in forest ecology: The past and future role of simulation models	36
The transformation of Caribbean coral communities since humans	35
Revisiting the effect of PCR replication and sequencing depth on biodiversity metrics in environmental DNA metabarcoding	35
Meta‐replication, sampling bias, and multi‐scale model selection: A case study on snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in western China	35
NGSpeciesID: DNA barcode and amplicon consensus generation from long‐read sequencing data	35
Heat stress responses and population genetics of the kelp Laminaria digitata (Phaeophyceae) across latitudes reveal differentiation among North Atlantic populations	35