OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Ecology & Evolution is 66. 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
COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife	372
Species better track climate warming in the oceans than on land	357
Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems	341
The Brazilian Amazon deforestation rate in 2020 is the greatest of the decade	221
Impact of 2019–2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat	205
A meta-analysis of biological impacts of artificial light at night	204
Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology	189
A global-scale expert assessment of drivers and risks associated with pollinator decline	179
Conserving Africa’s wildlife and wildlands through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond	169
Thresholds for ecological responses to global change do not emerge from empirical data	153
Mapping the deforestation footprint of nations reveals growing threat to tropical forests	151
Temperature-related biodiversity change across temperate marine and terrestrial systems	150
Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water	149
Polarization of microbial communities between competitive and cooperative metabolism	138
Ensuring effective implementation of the post-2020 global biodiversity targets	136
Temporal trade-off between gymnosperm resistance and resilience increases forest sensitivity to extreme drought	134
Global forest restoration and the importance of prioritizing local communities	127
The delayed and geographically heterogeneous diversification of flowering plant families	127
No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US Long Term Ecological Research sites	125
Impacts of hypoxic events surpass those of future ocean warming and acidification	124
Microbial transmission in animal social networks and the social microbiome	122
Global targets that reveal the social–ecological interdependencies of sustainable development	121
Tropical and Mediterranean biodiversity is disproportionately sensitive to land-use and climate change	117
Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning	107
Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space	105

Integrated ocean management for a sustainable ocean economy	104
Metagenome-wide association analysis identifies microbial determinants of post-antibiotic ecological recovery in the gut	100
Impacts of wildlife trade on terrestrial biodiversity	97
Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation	96
Conserving intraspecific variation for nature’s contributions to people	94
A guide to ecosystem models and their environmental applications	92
Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment	92
Conservation needs to break free from global priority mapping	91
Eight problems with literature reviews and how to fix them	91
Exacerbated drought impacts on global ecosystems due to structural overshoot	91
The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic	91
Palaeoclimate ocean conditions shaped the evolution of corals and their skeletons through deep time	90
A 14C chronology for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria	90
Human disturbance causes widespread disruption of animal movement	89
Balancing selection maintains hyper-divergent haplotypes in Caenorhabditis elegans	88
The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass	88
Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation	88
ACE2 receptor usage reveals variation in susceptibility to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 infection among bat species	84
Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	83
An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas	83
The genome of Prasinoderma coloniale unveils the existence of a third phylum within green plants	82
Biogeography of marine giant viruses reveals their interplay with eukaryotes and ecological functions	80
Using the IUCN Red List to map threats to terrestrial vertebrates at global scale	79
Phylotype diversity within soil fungal functional groups drives ecosystem stability	78
Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts	78
Enhanced habitat loss of the Himalayan endemic flora driven by warming-forced upslope tree expansion	78
The island rule explains consistent patterns of body size evolution in terrestrial vertebrates	75
Phylogenetic analyses with systematic taxon sampling show that mitochondria branch within Alphaproteobacteria	74
Heterogeneity–diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests	74
Resource–diversity relationships in bacterial communities reflect the network structure of microbial metabolism	72
A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia	72
Improve forest restoration initiatives to meet Sustainable Development Goal 15	72
Scientific foundations for an ecosystem goal, milestones and indicators for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework	71
Dominant bee species and floral abundance drive parasite temporal dynamics in plant-pollinator communities	70
Mobilizing the past to shape a better Anthropocene	70
On the causes of geographically heterogeneous parallel evolution in sticklebacks	69
The evolution of oxygen-utilizing enzymes suggests early biosphere oxygenation	69
Monolingual searches can limit and bias results in global literature reviews	68
The evolution of niche overlap and competitive differences	66
Somatic genetic drift and multilevel selection in a clonal seagrass	66
Safe fieldwork strategies for at-risk individuals, their supervisors and institutions	66
A unifying framework for studying and managing climate-driven rates of ecological change	66