OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Ecology & Evolution is 68. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Eoraptor lunensis	507
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen	408
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	248
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	212
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference	179
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	170
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	164
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	159
Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory	154
Evolution alters ecological resilience	153
Rebuilding Ukraine’s capacity for fundamental research in evolutionary biology	145
Ferula sinkiangensis (新疆阿魏, xin jiang a wei)	140
Emma Johnston (1973–2025)	138
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	136
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	136
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	133
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	128
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction	127
Multicellularity for free	122
Nonlinearity in marine fish populations is amplified by temperature variation and fast life histories	122
Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis)	118
Key lessons from 50 years of Germany’s impact mitigation regulation for biodiversity offsetting	115
Growing nickel supply from the tropics threatens priority conservation areas	115
Growth form and lifespan of herbaceous species mediate the role of traits in short-term drought response	113
Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition	112

Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	112
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	111
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	110
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	109
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting	105
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	101
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	101
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	100
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	98
Sea change	97
Old fish debate settled	97
Several ways to balance sex differences	96
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells	96
Deep mutational scans clarify the record of evolution	94
Author Correction: Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory	94
John Alcock (1943–2023)	94
Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom	94
Spotlight on our AI policies	93
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure	86
Animal networks become more connected in densely populated areas	86
A complicated character	85
Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak	83
Biodegradable sensors are ready to transform autonomous ecological monitoring	83
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation	83
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations	80
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change	79
A blueprint for assessing national progress towards ‘30 by 30’	78
Hidden patterns in fauna compensation values in European biodiversity legislation	78
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils	76
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant	75
Photoholes within cyanobacterial mats can account for the origin of anammox bacteria and ancient nitrogen loss	73
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons	71
Climatic differences among habitats shape the balance between maximum lifespan and life expectancy in Japanese tree species	71
Synergistic evolution to trick a bird	71
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area	71
Mapping where marine megafauna move	71
A digital twin for real-time biodiversity forecasting with citizen science data	70
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	70
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom	70
Chytrid invasion drives frog redistributions	69
Worn down by the weather	69
Reply to: Australian fairy circles and termite linyji are not caused by the same mechanism	69
Understanding how well plants use carbon worldwide	68