OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution is 37. 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
Are Temperate Alpine Plants With Distinct Phenology More Vulnerable to Extraordinary Climate Events Than Their Continuously Flowering Relatives in Tropical Mountains?	114
Are cocoa plantations suitable habitats? Network between parasites (Diptera: Hippoboscidea) and hosts (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in cocoa-dominated landscapes of the Brazilian Amazon	83
Editorial: Methods in paleoecology: 2021	79
Relative Importance for Lincoln’s Sparrow (Melospiza lincolnii) Occupancy of Vegetation Type versus Noise Caused by Industrial Development	72
An Individual-Based Model of the Red Alga Agarophyton chilense Unravels the Complex Demography of Its Intertidal Stands	66
High genetic connectivity among large populations of Pteronotus gymnonotus in bat caves in Brazil and its implications for conservation	65
Morphological and physiological response of Chinese tallow (Triadica sebifera) to an extreme cold spell in subtropical, coastal forests of China	63
DNA Metabarcoding Enables High-Throughput Detection of Spotted Wing Drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) Within Unsorted Trap Catches	61
Ecological indication metrics on dung beetles metacommunities in native forests and Pinus monocultures	60
Assessment of green sustainable development in plateau lakeside cities	59
A hypothesis about the influence of oxidative stress on amino acid protein composition during evolution	58
Water quality degradation processes and driving mechanisms in typical macrophytic lakes of the Yangtze River mid-lower reaches: a case study of East Taihu Lake and Liangzi Lake	55
Microflora Influence: The Aquatic Environment Changes Grouping Risk and Development Speed of Toad Tadpoles	54
Editorial: Ecology, impact, and management of squirrel invasions	53
Sonotopes reveal dynamic spatio-temporal patterns in a rural landscape of Northern Italy	52
Warming promoted CH4 absorption compared with precipitation addition in typical steppe in Inner Mongolia	51
Can meteorological data and normalized difference vegetation index be used to quantify soil pH in grasslands?	51
Influence of grazing on the activity pattern and temporal niche of two dominant rodent species in Alxa desert	49
Including Host Availability and Climate Change Impacts on the Global Risk Area of Carpomya pardalina (Diptera: Tephritidae)	49
A first glimpse into the biogeographic affinities of the shallow benthic communities from the sub-Antarctic Crozet archipelago	47
Coexisting with the alien: Evidence for environmental control on trophic interactions between a native (Atherina boyeri) and a non-indigenous fish species (Gambusia holbrooki) in a Mediterranean coast	46
Scaling migrations to communities: An empirical case of migration network in the Arctic	46
“Keep on rolling”: circulating cells in a botryllid ascidian torpor	45
Biogeographic patterns and environmental drivers of species richness in the globally distributed Millettioid/Phaseoloid clade (Fabaceae, subfamily Papilionoideae)	45
Climate and dispersal limitation drive tree species range shifts in post-glacial Europe: results from dynamic simulations	45

Aquatic protected area system in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau: establishment, challenges and prospects	45
Hydrogeochemical processes controlling the salinity of surface water and groundwater in an inland saline-alkali wetland in western Jilin, China	42
Urbanization indices development and use in the coastal ecological realm: a review	41
High-Throughput Sequencing for Examining Salmonella Prevalence and Pathogen—Microbiota Relationships in Barn Swallows	40
Comparative Ecological Perspectives of Two Ancient Lineages of Gray Wolves: Woolly Wolf (Canis lupus chanco) and Indian Wolf (Canis lupus pallipes)	40
Significant floral changes across the Permian-Triassic and Triassic-Jurassic transitions induced by widespread wildfires	40
Late Holocene riparian vegetation dynamics, environmental changes, and human impact in the Harapan forest of Sumatra, Indonesia	39
Allostatic Load in Gambel’s White Crowned Sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii: Relationships With Glucocorticoids	39
Genotyping by sequencing and a newly developed mRNA-GBS approach to link population genetic and transcriptome analyses reveal pattern differences between sites and treatments in red clover (Trifolium	38
Editorial: Drivers of small-mammal community structure in tropical savannas	38
Conservation assessment of the Drakaea livida (Orchidaceae) ecotypes and an evaluation of methods for their identification	37
Body size and age estimation of Chinese sea bass (Lateolabrax maculatus) and evidence of Late Neolithic fishing strategies, a case study from the Guye site	37