OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecosystem Services 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Animal-named businesses are low-cost, accessible indicators of wildlife socio-cultural value	144
Policy-oriented ecosystem services research on tropical forests in South America: A systematic literature review	129
The various faces of transdisciplinarity in research on ecosystem services: Editorial to Special Issue	108
Animal and plant images in corporate marketing communications are ecosystem services that should be paid for	100
Wildfires impact on ecosystem service delivery in fire-prone maritime pine-dominated forests	80
Quantifying spatially explicit LCA midpoint characterization factors to assess the impact of specific farming practices on ecosystem services	73
Evaluation of main regulating, provisioning, and supporting ecosystem services of urban street trees: A literature review	70
Assessing a nationwide policy reform toward community-based conservation of biological diversity and ecosystem services in the Alpine North	69
Ecosystem services and gender in rural areas of Nicaragua: Different perceptions about the landscape	67
A nature-based approach to mitigate flood risk and improve ecosystem services in Shiga, Japan	64
Broadening the scope of ecosystem services research: Disaggregation as a powerful concept for sustainable natural resource management	62
Biological operability, a new concept based on ergonomics to assess the pertinence of ecosystem services optimization practices	62
Piloting a more inclusive governance innovation strategy for forest ecosystem services management in Primiero, Italy	59
Barriers to expanding continuous cover forestry in Sweden for delivering multiple ecosystem services	58
Crowdsourcing social values data: Flickr and public participation GIS provide different perspectives of ecosystem services in a remote coastal region	54
The Navigate framework: How the ecosystem services and resilience concepts can help us navigate in the current crises	51
A process perspective of conceptual innovation: Integrating equity in applications of the ecosystem services concept in Ireland	51
Tradeoffs in people’s perceptions about ecosystem services and disservices related to bats: Implications for managing agroecosystems and conserving bats	50
Measuring non-use values to proxy conservation preferences and policy impacts	50
Economic trade-offs of harvesting the ocean twilight zone: An ecosystem services approach	50
State-of-the art valuation of wetland ecosystem services in Small Island Developing States: A systematic review with an emphasis on future research needs	49
Monetary value of ecosystem services in unhealthy seagrass meadows in Indonesia	48
Birdwatching preferences reveal synergies and tradeoffs among recreation, carbon, and fisheries ecosystem services in Pacific Northwest estuaries, USA	47
Cultural ecosystem services and disservices in protected areas: Hotspots and influencing factors based on tourists’ digital footprints	46
Combining scientific and local knowledge improves evaluating future scenarios of forest ecosystem services	45

Mapping stakeholder networks for the co-production of multiple ecosystem services: A novel mixed-methods approach	45
Integrating social media data and machine learning to analyse scenarios of landscape appreciation	43
The importance of ecosystem services to support the governance of critical ecological assets	41
Value chain partnerships and farmer entrepreneurship as balancing ecosystem services: Implications for agri-food systems resilience	41
Guidance for stakeholder consultation to support national ecosystem services assessment: A case study from French marine assessment	39
On the comparative use of social media data and survey data in prioritizing ecosystem services for cost-effective governance	39
Opportunities for businesses to use and support development of SEEA-aligned natural capital accounts	38
Modeling impacts of broad-scale plantation forestry on ecosystem services in the past 60 years and for the future	38
Trade-offs in ecosystem services under various river management strategies of the Rhine Branches	37
The importance of indigenous territories for the provision of ecosystem services: A case study in the Brazilian Cerrado-Amazon Transition	35
The role of ecosystem services in the pursuit of the doughnut economy – Implications for meat and dairy agroecosystems	35
A new method to classify cultural ecosystem services and visualize their economic value: A case study of Guilin, a famous tourist destination in China	35