OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Animal Behaviour is 20. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Association Page	85
Erratum to “Extreme temperatures can intensify predator–prey interactions” [Animal Behaviour 225, July 2025, 123242]	57
Sexual size dimorphism of brood-parasitic nestlings does not affect host chick survival, size or fledging phenology	39
Editors Page	39
Olfaction and reproductive isolation in birds	38
Foraging location preferences reflect memory interference associated with spatial learning tasks in a food-caching bird	37
Environment-dependent benefits of interindividual variation in honey bee recruitment	36
Coordination of care is facilitated by delayed feeding and collective arrivals in the long-tailed tit	34
Prepared learning in plant–pollinator interactions	30
Diel timing of migration is not plastic in a migratory ungulate	27
Reducing the bias due to unknown relationships in measuring the steepness of a dominance hierarchy	26
Editors Page	25
Editors’ Acknowledgments	25
Punishment from dominant breeders increases helping effort of subordinates in a cooperatively breeding cichlid	25
Sperm oxidative status varies with the level of sperm competition and affects male reproductive success	25
Strong ties formation, composition and processes at play during the developmental period of juvenile vervet monkeys	23
Male reproductive strategies are influenced by the maternal sociosexual environment	22
Parental predator exposure affects offspring boldness and laterality in the stickleback	22
Behavioural plasticity and the anthropause: an urban bird becomes less aggressive	21
Brown-headed cowbirds select nests to parasitize based on individual host attributes rather than nest type	21
Hatchling vocalizations and beneficial social interactions in subterranean nests of a widespread reptile	20
Conceptual representations of animal social networks: an overview	20
28 minutes later: investigating the role of aflatrem-like compounds in Ophiocordyceps parasite manipulation of zombie ants	20
Fitness incentives to male fighters undermine fighting performance in intergroup contests	20
Honey bee foraging behaviour can be influenced by preferencesfor oscillating flowers	20