OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Science of Nature 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
A novel approach using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and chemometric analysis to distinguish male and female human hair samples	87
Discrepancies in the number of lines of arrested growth (LAG) in the tissues of the humerus and phalanx of sea turtles	24
Developmental basis of natural tooth shape variation in cichlid fishes	20
Morphological and DNA analysis of pollen grains on butterfly individuals reveal their flower visitation history	18
The 2023 Arnold Berliner Award for research on spider photoreceptors	15
The first healed injury in a hyolith operculum	14
A new short-faced archosauriform from the Upper Triassic Placerias/Downs’ quarry complex, Arizona, USA, expands the morphological diversity of the Triassic archosauriform radiation	11
Hydrocarbons in Formicidae: influence of chemical footprints on ant behavioral strategies	11
Homeotic transformation in a terrestrial isopod: insights into the appendage identity in crustaceans	11
Ant-following behavior is correlated with plumage traits in African understory birds	10
Wings are not perfect: increased wing asymmetry in a tropical butterfly as a response to forest fragmentation	10
Functional importance of the mandibular skeleto-muscular system in the bivalved arthropod Heterocypris incongruens (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Cyprididae)	10
Chemical signatures of egg maternity and Dufour’s gland in Vespine wasps	9
The long proboscis of the aphid Stomaphis yanonis (Aphididae Lachninae) is advantageous for avoiding predation by tending ants	9
Dynamic environments do not appear to constrain spider web building behaviour	9
A seabird’s eye view: visual fields of some seabirds (Laridae and Procellariidae) from tropical latitudes	9
Bryozoans from the Early Ordovician Fenhsiang Formation (Tremadocian) of South China and the early diversification of the phylum	9
Size-related increase in inducible mechanical variability of major ampullate silk in a huntsman spider (Araneae: Sparassidae)	8
Effect of intraspecific seed trait variation on the germination of eight tropical dry forest species	8
Phoretic behavior of the pseudoscorpion Megachernes ryugadensis on the Japanese wood mouse Apodemus speciosus	8
A parasitoid’s dilemma between food and host resources: the role of volatiles from nectar-providing marigolds and host-infested plants attracting Aphidius platensis	8
Eurasian beavers in Central Italy: perceptions in the local community	7
Energy storage in salamanders’ tails: the role of sex and ecology	7
Carrion insects living within the bones of large mammals: insect conservation and forensic entomology implications	7
Seasonal formation of ikaite in slime flux jelly on an infected tree (Populus fremontii) wound from the Sonoran Desert	7

The beneficial roles of poisonous skin secretions in survival strategies of the odorous frog Odorrana andersonii	7
Individual identity of alarm calls in wild-living Brandt’s voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii)	7
Live birth in a 47-million-year-old snake	6
Vibrational signalling, an underappreciated mode in cricket communication	6
Material gradients in gastropod radulae and their biomechanical significance: a combined approach on the paludomid Lavigeria grandis	6
Fungal heat shock proteins: molecular phylogenetic insights into the host takeover	6
Unusual fingerprint patterns in humans: implications for forensic casework and fingerprint research	6
A new carcharodontosaurid specimen sheds light on the anatomy of South American giant predatory dinosaurs	6
Should I stay or should I fly? Migration phenology, individual-based migration decision and seasonal changes in foraging behaviour of Common Woodpigeons	6
Drivers of flower visit and resource sharing between the honeybee and native bees in Neotropical coastal sand dunes	6
Hooding cobras can get ahead of other snakes in the ability to evoke human fear	6
The ontogeny of elements: distinct ontogenetic patterns in the radular tooth mineralization of gastropods	5
Investigating the reproductive strategies of Deuterocohnia meziana (Bromeliaceae), an endangered and restricted species from South American rocky outcrops	5
Teratological trilobites from the Silurian (Wenlock and Ludlow) of Australia	5
The Arnold Berliner Award 2021 honors research on bombardier beetles	5
Do calcium oxalate crystals protect against herbivory?	5
With the dead under the mat: the zombie ant extended phenotype under a new perspective	5
Skin structure, coloration, and habitat utilization in typical and melanistic morphs of the grass snake (Natrix natrix)	4
Some sawfly larvae survive predator-prey interactions with pentatomid Picromerus bidens	4
Is it possible to estimate sex from signatures and handwriting? A review of literature, observations, and future perspectives	4
Florivory can facilitate rain-assisted autogamy in a deceptive tropical orchid	4
Branched tyramides from males of the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius	4
Vocal phenotype of male rutting roars and genetic markers delineate East European red deer (Cervus elaphus) from Central and West European populations	4
Intermittent and temporally variable bioturbation by some terrestrial invertebrates: implications for ichnology	4
Burrow builders as ecosystem engineers for pit-building antlions (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae)	4
New insights into endolithic palaeocommunity development in mobile hard substrate using CT imaging of bioeroded clasts from the Pliocene (Almería, SE Spain)	4
Modeling of the respiratory system of the long-necked Triassic reptile Tanystropheus (Archosauromorpha)	4
Reproduction-related interactions and loads induce continuous turn alternation leading to linearity in a terrestrial isopod	4
Short-term plasticity and variation in acacia ant-rewards under different conditions of ant occupancy and herbivory	4
Sex-specific developmental trajectories in an extremely sexually size dimorphic spider	4
Mid-flight prey switching in the fringed-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus)	4
The damping properties of the foam-filled shaft of primary feathers of the pigeon Columba livia	4
Passive dispersal potential of medaka eggs by attaching to waterbirds	3
Methods of forensic facial reconstruction and human identification: historical background, significance, and limitations	3
Mandibular anatomy of a new specimen of a prozostrodontian cynodont (Eucynodontia: Probainognathia) from the Upper Triassic of Brazil	3
Plumage and eggshell colouration covary with the level of sex-specific parental contributions to nest building in birds	3
Sexual dimorphism and topological variability in fingerprint ridge density in a north-west Indian population	3
Müllerian mimicry between oil-producing orchids and Malpighiaceae? An old hypothesis finally tested	3
Anatomical, histochemical, and developmental approaches reveal the long-term functioning of the floral nectary in Tocoyena formosa (Rubiaceae)	3
The protective effects of Zingiber zerumbet rhizome against fevers in rats	3
Phenological variation in parasite load and inflammatory response in a lizard with an asynchronous reproductive cycle	3
Behavioral corroboration that Saitis barbipes jumping spiders cannot discriminate between males’ red and black ornaments	3
Extranuptial nectaries in bromeliads: a new record for Pitcairnia burchellii and perspectives for Bromeliaceae	3
Pollination generalization and reproductive assurance by selfing in a tropical montane ecosystem	3
Discovery of a novel ejaculation mechanism in danceflies (Diptera: Empididae), with implications for genital elongation	3
Methyl acetate, a highly volatile floral semiochemical mediating specialized plant-beetle interactions	3
Revisiting the neuroanatomy of Massetognathus pascuali (Eucynodontia: Cynognathia) from the early Late Triassic of South America using Neutron Tomography	3
Japanese honey bees (Apis cerana japonica) have swarmed more often over the last two decades	3
Using your head — cranial steering in pterosaurs	3
Complex preference relationships between native and non-native angiosperms and foraging insect visitors in a suburban greenspace under field and laboratory conditions	3

Public perception and acceptance of coypu Myocastor coypus removal in urban areas: influences of age and education	2
Life in a Central European warm-temperate to subtropical open forest: Paleoecology of the rhinocerotids from Ulm-Westtangente (Aquitanian, Early Miocene, Germany)	2
Human life expectancy and season of birth in Taiwan: A retrospective cohort study	2
Revisiting the chondrichthyan egg capsules inventory from the Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) of Belgium: new data and perspectives	2
Spatially associated or composite life traces from Holocene paleosols and dune sands provide evidence for past biotic interactions	2
Postdoctoral struggles in the Global South: insights from India	2
Impact of genetic relatedness on reproductive behavior in Pelvicachromis pulcher, a biparental cichlid fish with mutual mate choice and ornamentation	2
Negative effects of light pollution on pollinator visits are outweighed by positive effects on the reproductive success of a bat-pollinated tree	2
Obstacle negotiation in female desert locust oviposition digging	2
Growth constraints set an upper limit to theropod dinosaur body size	2
Animal family discrimination from hair using ATR-FTIR and machine learning methods for applications in illegal wildlife trafficking	2
Climate change risk to pheromone application in pest management	2
Correction to: Societal importance of Antarctic negative feedbacks on climate change: blue carbon gains from sea ice, ice shelf and glacier losses	2
Global population trends in shorebirds: migratory behaviour makes species at risk	2
Importance of the morphological plasticity of Cervus elaphus in the biochronology of the Middle and Late Pleistocene of the Italian peninsula	2
Electrogenic performance and carbon sequestration potential of biophotovoltaics	2
The jumping spider Saitis barbipes lacks a red photoreceptor to see its own sexually dimorphic red coloration	2
Social factors drive vocal exchanges in red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus)	2
Correction to: Vibrational signalling, an underappreciated mode in cricket communication	2
Societal importance of Antarctic negative feedbacks on climate change: blue carbon gains from sea ice, ice shelf and glacier losses	2
Pygidial glands of the blue ground beetle Carabus intricatus: chemical composition of the secretion and its antimicrobial activity	2
Diet composition of wild columbiform birds: next-generation sequencing of plant and metazoan DNA in faecal samples	1
A new species of jewel beetle (Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Agrilus) triggers the production of the Brazilian red propolis	1
No impact of a short-term climatic “El Niño” fluctuation on gut microbial diversity in populations of the Galápagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus)	1
New data on Propyrotherium (Mammalia, Pyrotheria) from the middle Eocene age (Chubut, Argentina): anatomy, age constraints, and phylogeny	1
Antifungal capabilities of gut microbial communities of three dung beetle species (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)	1
Competition through ritualized aggressive interactions between sympatric colonies in solitary foraging neotropical ants	1
How to train your dragon: absolute conditioning in larval dragonflies	1
First Neotropical record of the association between brown sclerotium-forming fungi and termite eggs in a nest of Coptotermes gestroi (Blattaria, Isoptera, Rhinotermitidae)	1
Chemical composition of cell wall changes during developmental stages of galls on Matayba guianensis (Sapindaceae): perspectives obtained by immunocytochemistry analysis	1
To roll or not to roll: nyctinastic behavior in young leaves of sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera	1
Cypress terpenes in sawfly larva of Susana cupressi (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Tenthredinoidea)	1
Reconstructing the ecology of a Cretaceous cockroach: destructive and high-resolution imaging of its micro sensory organs	1
Permanent deformation of triangle weaver silk enables ultrafast tangle-free release of spider webs	1
Inferring the lifestyles of extinct Crocodyliformes using osteoderm ornamentation	1
Evidence of a thoracic crop in workers, soldiers, and queens of Carebara perpusilla ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae)	1
Subterranean termites raise the alarm when their anti-fungal weapon falters	1
Diet and occurrences of the letter-winged kite in a predation refuge	1
Fingerprint resemblance amongst siblings and non-siblings — Forensic and anthropological implications	1
The first fossil longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Australia	1
The maxillary canal of the titanosuchid Jonkeria (Synapsida, Dinocephalia)	1
Anti-icing strategies of plant surfaces: the ice formation on leaves visualized by Cryo-SEM experiments	1
Rapid and efficient mating in mayflies (Ephemeroptera): morphological and reproductive strategies in primitive winged insects	1
Pigmentary colouration of hairy carpenter bees, genus Xylocopa	1
Fields of flowers with few strikes: how oligolectic bees manage their foraging behavior on Calibrachoa elegans (Solanaceae)	1
Novel alkaloids from the fire ant, Solenopsis geminata	1
Modelling the effects of climate and land-cover changes on the potential distribution and landscape connectivity of three earth snakes (Genus Conopsis, Günther 1858) in central Mexico	1
Quasispecies productivity	1
Chemical components change along the ontogeny of a bat fruit (Neolamarckia cadamba) with ripening asynchrony in favour of its fruit selection and seed dispersal	1
Discovering spider fly (Diptera: Acroceridae) hosts and their biology using citizen science	1
Coastal dunes as drivers of genetic differentiation in the honeypot ant Myrmecocystus baja (Formicidae: Formicinae)	1
Unveiling a novel morphometric approach in claws and canines for species discrimination and age stratification in leopard (Panthera pardus fusca)	1
Correction: Unusual fingerprint patterns in humans: implications for forensic casework and fingerprint research	1
Symbiont demand guides resource supply: leaf-cutting ants preferentially deliver their harvested fragments to undernourished fungus gardens	1
Using ensemble modeling to predict the current distribution of Pistacia atlantica Desf. in Algeria	1
A derived dryolestid mammal indicates possible insular endemism in the Late Jurassic of Germany	1
Changes in physico-mechanical properties of water caltrop fruit (Trapa natans L.) during the drying process	1
Epidermal and subepidermal changes during the formation of hairy galls induced by Eriophyidae on Avicennia schaueriana leaves	1
Extracts from the leaves of knotweeds (Reynoutria spp.) have a stimulating effect on the germination and initial growth of wheat grains	1
Function of snail shell hairs in anti-predator defense	1