Nature Ecology & Evolution

Papers
(The H4-Index of Nature Ecology & Evolution is 63. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Falcon flyways330
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort244
Eoraptor lunensis236
Author Correction: Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity198
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen194
Publisher Correction: Talk the talk and walk the walk175
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics172
Implementation of the COP26 declaration to halt forest loss must safeguard and include Indigenous people165
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain161
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts153
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats153
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction147
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance138
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference137
Policy responses to the Ukraine crisis threaten European biodiversity134
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits129
Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition127
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction117
Lower lignin for wood efficiency117
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation112
Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range110
Dosage sensitivity and exon shuffling shape the landscape of polymorphic duplicates in Drosophila and humans103
Evolution alters ecological resilience102
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA100
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel95
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature94
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally93
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability92
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands91
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments90
Sea change89
The wilderness myth86
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells86
Predation drives diversity85
Old fish debate settled84
A decisive decade84
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations84
John Alcock (1943–2023)81
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant81
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation80
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure79
Evolution of cod supergenes76
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons76
Biodegradable sensors are ready to transform autonomous ecological monitoring75
A complicated character75
Embryonic muscle splitting patterns reveal homologies of amniote forelimb muscles74
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom74
Climatic differences among habitats shape the balance between maximum lifespan and life expectancy in Japanese tree species73
Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak73
Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes71
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees71
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change69
Antigenic escape selects for the evolution of higher pathogen transmission and virulence69
Spatial structure governs the mode of tumour evolution69
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils68
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area68
Privately protected areas increase global protected area coverage and connectivity67
A flurry of sex-ratio distorters67
The journey of bacterial genes66
Author Correction: Dispersal governs the reorganization of ecological networks under environmental change64
Edward O. Wilson (1929–2021)64
Publisher Correction: A lamprey neural cell type atlas illuminates the origins of the vertebrate brain63
Chytrid invasion drives frog redistributions63
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