OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science of Nature is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Side-effects of pesticides on non-target insects in agriculture: a mini-review	75
Global population trends in shorebirds: migratory behaviour makes species at risk	20
Circadian rhythms of insect pheromone titer, calling, emission, and response: a review	20
The role of mucilage envelope in the endozoochory of selected plant taxa	19
Do calcium oxalate crystals protect against herbivory?	18
New record of a Mesozoic gondwanatherian mammaliaform from Southern Patagonia	17
Material gradients in gastropod radulae and their biomechanical significance: a combined approach on the paludomid Lavigeria grandis	15
Anti-icing strategies of plant surfaces: the ice formation on leaves visualized by Cryo-SEM experiments	14
Biogeomorphological eco-evolutionary feedback between life and geomorphology: a theoretical framework using fossorial mammals	11
The jumping spider Saitis barbipes lacks a red photoreceptor to see its own sexually dimorphic red coloration	11
Are physiological and behavioural responses to stressors displayed concordantly by wild urban rodents?	11
The beneficial roles of poisonous skin secretions in survival strategies of the odorous frog Odorrana andersonii	11
Studying phenotypic variation and DNA methylation across development, ecology and evolution in the clonal marbled crayfish: a paradigm for investigating epigenotype-phenotype relationships in macro-in	10
Reduced ectoparasite load, body mass and blood haemolysis in Eurasian kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) along an urban–rural gradient	10
Spiders in space—orb-web-related behaviour in zero gravity	10
Wild non-eusocial bees learn a colour discrimination task in response to simulated predation events	10
Pheromone communication among sexes of the garden cross spider Araneus diadematus	9
Pollination generalization and reproductive assurance by selfing in a tropical montane ecosystem	9
Vibrational signalling, an underappreciated mode in cricket communication	9
Camera traps reveal interspecific differences in the diel and seasonal patterns of cicada nymph predation	9
Teratological trilobites from the Silurian (Wenlock and Ludlow) of Australia	9
Antiquity and fundamental processes of the antler cycle in Cervidae (Mammalia)	9
Material heterogeneity of male genitalia reduces genital damage in a bushcricket during sperm removal behaviour	9
The ontogeny of elements: distinct ontogenetic patterns in the radular tooth mineralization of gastropods	8
Societal importance of Antarctic negative feedbacks on climate change: blue carbon gains from sea ice, ice shelf and glacier losses	8

Experience-expectant brain plasticity corresponds to caste-specific abiotic challenges in dampwood termites (Zootermopsis angusticollis and Z. nevadensis)	7
Eurasian beavers in Central Italy: perceptions in the local community	7
Museum records indicate male bias in pollinators of sexually deceptive orchids	7
Bumblebee electric charge stimulates floral volatile emissions in Petunia integrifolia but not in Antirrhinum majus	7
Diversity and substrate-specificity of green algae and other micro-eukaryotes colonizing amphibian clutches in Germany, revealed by DNA metabarcoding	7
A derived dryolestid mammal indicates possible insular endemism in the Late Jurassic of Germany	7
Can nuclear aquatic environmental DNA be a genetic marker for the accurate estimation of species abundance?	7
A re-assessment of the oldest therapsid Raranimus confirms its status as a basal member of the clade and fills Olson’s gap	6
Temporal variation in the effect of ants on the fitness of myrmecophilic plants: seasonal effect surpasses periodic benefits	6
Negative effects of light pollution on pollinator visits are outweighed by positive effects on the reproductive success of a bat-pollinated tree	6
The implication of morphometrics and growth rate of dipteran flies in forensic entomotoxicology research: a review	6
Coping with the ‘Indian summer’: unique nesting cycle and nest architecture of the paper wasp, Polistes wattii	6
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	6
The damping properties of the foam-filled shaft of primary feathers of the pigeon Columba livia	6
Does leaf flushing in the dry season affect leaf traits and herbivory in a tropical dry forest?	6
The involvement of a floral scent in plant-honeybee interaction	6
Epicormic bud protection traits vary along a latitudinal gradient in a neotropical savanna	6
Chemical composition of cell wall changes during developmental stages of galls on Matayba guianensis (Sapindaceae): perspectives obtained by immunocytochemistry analysis	6
Climate change risk to pheromone application in pest management	6
Wolbachia impairs post-eclosion host preference in a parasitoid wasp	5
Phenological variation in parasite load and inflammatory response in a lizard with an asynchronous reproductive cycle	5
Temporal organization among pollination systems in a tropical seasonal forest	5
Bryozoans from the Early Ordovician Fenhsiang Formation (Tremadocian) of South China and the early diversification of the phylum	5
Structural plasticity in roots of the hemiepiphyte Vanilla phaeantha Rchb.f. (Orchidaceae): a relationship between environment and function	5
Pygidial glands of the blue ground beetle Carabus intricatus: chemical composition of the secretion and its antimicrobial activity	5
Feel the beat: cape fur seal males encode their arousal state in their bark rate	4
Reconstructing the ecology of a Cretaceous cockroach: destructive and high-resolution imaging of its micro sensory organs	4
Methyl acetate, a highly volatile floral semiochemical mediating specialized plant-beetle interactions	4
Wings are not perfect: increased wing asymmetry in a tropical butterfly as a response to forest fragmentation	4
Do male panther chameleons use different aspects of color change to settle disputes?	4
On the way from Asia to America: eutriconodontan mammals from the Early Cretaceous of Yakutia, Russia	4
Importance of the morphological plasticity of Cervus elaphus in the biochronology of the Middle and Late Pleistocene of the Italian peninsula	4
Sex-specific developmental trajectories in an extremely sexually size dimorphic spider	4
Dynamic environments do not appear to constrain spider web building behaviour	4
Temporal stability of fecal cortisol metabolites in mountain-dwelling ungulates	4
Close-range cues used by males of Polistes dominula in sex discrimination	4
A new species of jewel beetle (Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Agrilus) triggers the production of the Brazilian red propolis	4
Short-term plasticity and variation in acacia ant-rewards under different conditions of ant occupancy and herbivory	4
Seasonal formation of ikaite in slime flux jelly on an infected tree (Populus fremontii) wound from the Sonoran Desert	4
Irrupting prey populations in the absence of a mammalian apex predator drive shifts in prey selection by eagles	4