OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Brain Behavior and Evolution is 1. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A Farewell to the Encephalization Quotient: A New Brain Size Measure for Comparative Primate Cognition	27
Evolving Views on the Pallium	17
The Lamprey Forebrain – Evolutionary Implications	13
Time in Neurogenesis: Conservation of the Developmental Formation of the Cerebellar Circuitry	11
Sickness and the Social Brain: How the Immune System Regulates Behavior across Species	10
Timing as a Mechanism of Development and Evolution in the Cerebral Cortex	10
Current Status of the Hypothesis of a Claustro-Insular Homolog in Sauropsids	9
The Independent Evolution of Dorsal Pallia in Multiple Vertebrate Lineages	8
The Paracingulate Sulcus Is a Unique Feature of the Medial Frontal Cortex Shared by Great Apes and Humans	8
Decreases in Brain Size and Encephalization in Anatomically Modern Humans	8
The Neuromeric/Prosomeric Model in Teleost Fish Neurobiology	8
Multi-Level Effects Driving Cognitive and Behavioral Variability among Prairie Voles: Insights into Reproductive Decision-Making from Biological Levels of Organization	7
Relative Brain Size and Cognitive Equivalence in Fishes	7
Analysis of the Expression Pattern of Cajal-Retzius Cell Markers in the <b><i>Xenopus laevis</i></b> Forebrain	6
Is There a Prechordal Region and an Acroterminal Domain in Amphioxus?	6
Evolution and Development of Amygdala Subdivisions: Pallial, Subpallial, and Beyond	6
The Tempo of Mammalian Embryogenesis: Variation in the Pace of Brain and Body Development	6
Immunolabeling Provides Evidence for Subregions in the Songbird Nucleus Accumbens and Suggests a Context-Dependent Role in Song in Male European Starlings (<b><i>Sturnus vulgaris</i>	6
Organizational Conservation and Flexibility in the Evolution of Birdsong and Avian Motor Control	6
Neurogenetic Heterochrony in Chick, Lizard, and Rat Mapped with Wholemount Acetylcholinesterase and the Prosomeric Model	5
Anuran Vocal Communication: Effects of Genome Size, Cell Number and Cell Size	5
Phenotypic Alterations in Cortical Organization and Connectivity across Different Time Scales	4
The Everted Amygdala of Ray-Finned Fish: Zebrafish Makes a Case	4
Role of Melatonin in Temperature-Induced Activation of the Neuroendocrine Reproductive Axis in Garter Snakes	4
Ecology, Cognition, and the Hippocampus: A Tale of Two Frogs	4

Vocal Communication in Hummingbirds	4
A Smaller Habenula is Associated with Increasing Intensity of Sexual Selection	4
Evolutionary and Allometric Insights into Anuran Auditory Sensitivity and Morphology	3
Can the Dynamic Colouration and Patterning of Bluelined Goatfish (Mullidae; <b><i>Upeneichthys lineatus</i></b>) Be Perceived by Conspecifics?	3
Relative Brain Volume of Carnivorans Has Evolved in Correlation with Environmental and Dietary Variables Differentially among Clades	3
High Encephalization in a Fossil Rorqual Illuminates Baleen Whale Brain Evolution	3
Comparative Neuroanatomy of the Mechanosensory Subgenual Organ Complex in the Peruvian Stick Insect, Oreophoetes peruana	3
Identifying Amygdala-Like Territories in <b><i>Scyliorhinus canicula</i></b> (Chondrichthyan): Evidence for a Pallial Amygdala	3
Exceptionally Steep Brain-Body Evolutionary Allometry Underlies the Unique Encephalization of Osteoglossiformes	3
Tyramine 1 Receptor Distribution in the Brain of Corbiculate Bees Points to a Conserved Function	3
Topological Analysis of the Brainstem of the Australian Lungfish <b><i>Neoceratodus forsteri</i></b>	3
Forebrain Architecture and Development in Cyclostomes, with Reference to the Early Morphology and Evolution of the Vertebrate Head	3
Climate Change Influences Brain Size in Humans	3
The Multiple Contexts of Brain Scaling: Phenotypic Integration in Brain and Behavioral Evolution	3
Hippocampal, Whole Midbrain, Red Nucleus, and Ventral Tegmental Area Volumes Are Increased by Selective Breeding for High Voluntary Wheel-Running Behavior	2
The relationship between cognition and brain size or neuron number	2
A Relationship between the Characteristics of the Oval Nucleus of the Mesopallium and Parrot Vocal Response to Playback	2
Mapping Human Brain Pathways: Challenges and Opportunities in the Integration of Scales	2
Cytoarchitecture of Mudskipper (Boleophthalmus pectinirostris) Brain	2
Cerebellar Inputs in the American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)	2
Higher Rate of Male Sexual Displays Correlates with Larger Ventral Posterior Amygdala Volume and Neuron Soma Volume in Wild-Caught Common Side-Blotched Lizards, <b><i>Uta stansburiana</	2
Signaler’s Vasotocin Alters the Relationship between the Responder’s Forebrain Catecholamines and Communication Behavior in Lizards (<b><i>Anolis carolinensis</i></b>)	1
Evolution of Developmental Timing as a Driving Force of Brain Diversity	1
Peripheral Auditory System Divergence Does Not Explain Species Differences in Call Preference	1
Molecular Diversity of Neuron Types in the Salamander Amygdala and Implications for Amygdalar Evolution	1
Analysis of the Pallial Amygdala in Anurans: Derivatives and Cellular Components	1
The Diversity of the Brains of Ray-Finned Fishes	1
Color Discrimination Provides Insight into the Relationship between Personality Cognition and Brain Morphology in the Western Mosquitofish (<b><i>Gambusia affinis</i></b>)	1
Endocranial Casts of Camelops hesternus and Palaeolama sp.: New Insights into the Recent History of the Camelid Brain	1
Evolution of Local Circuit Neurons in Two Sensory Thalamic Nuclei in Amniotes	1