OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Frontiers in Forests and Global Change is 25. 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
Host and abiotic constraints on the distribution of the pine fungal pathogen Sphaeropsis sapinea (= Diplodia sapinea)	136
The Percentage of Trees Bearing Cones as a Predictor for Annual Longleaf Pine Cone Production	74
Comparing Global and Regional Maps of Intactness in the Boreal Region of North America: Implications for Conservation Planning in One of the World’s Remaining Wilderness Areas	69
Bark water affects the isotopic composition of xylem water in tropical rainforest trees	67
Editorial: Forest Management Alters Forest Water Use and Drought Vulnerability	57
Palm Functional Traits, Soil Fertility and Hydrology Relationships in Western Amazonia	55
Multispectral drone images for the early detection of bark beetle infestations: assessment over large forest areas in the Italian South-Eastern Alps	49
Editorial: Dynamics of Asia’s and Australasia’s forests in a changing world	37
Influence of hydrothermal factors on a coniferous forest canopy in the semiarid alpine region of Northwest China	37
Response mechanism of subtropical forest carbon balance to climate change based on InTEC model	36
Halophyte adaptations in gray mangrove seedlings to salinity on the Persian Gulf coastline	36
Water balance for gaged watersheds in the Central Sierra Nevada, California and Nevada, United States	36
Age-Related Changes in Culm Respiration of Phyllostachys pubescens Culms With Their Anatomical and Morphological Traits	35
Spring phenology, phenological response, and growing season length	32
Editorial: Vital rates of forest dynamics driven by traits and performance of trees	31
Response: Commentary: What We Know About Stemflow's Infiltration Area	31
Coordination in functional traits of Populus euphratica leaves under salt stress	30
Maize stover transfers from maize fields to banana-based agroforestry homegardens and the corresponding nutrient flows in central-northern Tanzania	29
Enhancing aboveground biomass estimation in Moso bamboo forests: the role of on-year and off-year phenomena in remote sensing	28
Arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal plants together shape seedling diversity in a subtropical forest	27
Increasing vulnerability of an endemic Mediterranean-climate conifer to changing climate and fire regime	27
Provenance influences seed germination and phenotypic responses to water restriction in the endemic Beilschmiedia miersii (Gay) Kosterm	27
Assessing costs and constraints of forest residue disposal by pile burning	27
Beneath the Bark: Assessing Woody Stem Water and Carbon Fluxes and Its Prevalence Across Climates and the Woody Plant Phylogeny	25
The pivotal role of water potential in phenology and seed germination of Abies spectabilis in the western Himalayan treeline region	25

Small-Area Estimation for the USDA Forest Service, National Woodland Owner Survey: Creating a Fine-Scale Land Cover and Ownership Layer to Support County-Level Population Estimates	25
Editorial: Achieving sustainable development goal 13: resilience and adaptive capacity of temperate and boreal forests under climate change	25
Response of wood decomposition to different forms of N deposition in subtropical forests	25