OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecosystem Services is 36. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of ecosystem services in the pursuit of the doughnut economy – Implications for meat and dairy agroecosystems	151
Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in Austria	144
Evaluation of main regulating, provisioning, and supporting ecosystem services of urban street trees: A literature review	110
Opportunities for businesses to use and support development of SEEA-aligned natural capital accounts	94
Innovations for securing forest ecosystem service provision in Europe – A systematic literature review	92
A nature-based approach to mitigate flood risk and improve ecosystem services in Shiga, Japan	80
Economic trade-offs of harvesting the ocean twilight zone: An ecosystem services approach	76
Cultural ecosystem services: Linking landscape and social attributes to ecotourism in protected areas	70
Value transfer in economic valuation of ecosystem services – Some methodological challenges	68
Understanding the impact of the war on people-nature relationships in Ukraine	68
Using crowdsourced imagery to assess cultural ecosystem services in data-scarce urban contexts: The case of the metropolitan area of Cali, Colombia	64
Linking management practices and soil properties to Ecosystem Services in Mediterranean mixed orchards	62
Co-creating urban ecosystem accounting: Physical and monetary accounts of runoff retention service provided by urban green spaces	59
Spatial patterns and interactions among multiple cultural ecosystem services across urban greenspaces	59
Examining weak sustainability for storm protection by mangroves	56
Dealing with negative monetary ecosystem services values in environmental and economic accounting	55
Conceptual integration of ecosystem services and natural capital within Irish national policy: An analysis over time and between policy sectors	53
Indigenous and local values of nature through a gender lens: A literature review	51
Ecosystem services governance: A cross-realm lever for sustainability transformation	51
Not just an engineering problem: The role of knowledge and understanding of ecosystem services for adaptive management of coastal erosion	51
Measuring the natural capital of Amazonian forests: A case study of the National Forest of Carajás, Brazil	51
Traditional and modern ecosystem services thinking in nomadic Mongolia: Framing differences, common concerns, and ways forward	49
Quantifying and mapping forest-related environmental education and training in Saxony, Germany	48
A review of agroforestry biodiversity-driven provision of ecosystem services and implications for karst desertification control	41
Effects of ecological restoration projects on ecosystem services flows	41

Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a results-based model	41
Towards a holistic understanding of non-native tree impacts on ecosystem services: A review of Acacia, Eucalyptus and Pinus in Africa	39
Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality	38
Modelling the net environmental and economic impacts of urban nature-based solutions by combining ecosystem services, system dynamics and life cycle thinking: An application to urban forests	38
A functional connectivity approach for exploring interactions of multiple ecosystem services in the context of agricultural landscapes in the Canadian prairies	38
Mapping indicators of cultural ecosystem services use in urban green spaces based on text classification of geosocial media data	38
Mapping the flows of ecosystem service values in the global land market: The winners and losers of large-scale land acquisitions	38
Participatory ecosystem service assessment to enhance environmental decision-making in a border city of South Korea	38
The nexus between pressures and ecosystem services in floodplains: New methods to integrate stakeholders’ knowledge for water quality management in Serbia	37
The influence of urbanization on local perception of the effect of traditional landscapes on human wellbeing: A case study of a pondscape in Chongqing, China	37
Framing the relationship between justice and ecosystem services: A systematic review	36
Integrated assessment of a payment for ecosystem services program in China from the effectiveness, efficiency and equity perspective	36
Uncovering spatial patterns of ecosystem services and biodiversity through local communities' preferences and perceptions	36