OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Palaeontology is 5. 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
Climatic drivers of latitudinal variation in Late Triassic tetrapod diversity	35
Comparing surface digitization techniques in palaeontology using visual perceptual metrics and distance computations between 3D meshes	23
Planetary‐scale change to the biosphere signalled by global species translocations can be used to identify the Anthropocene	18
Fast production of large, time‐calibrated, informal supertrees with tree.merger	16
Sporopollenin chemistry and its durability in the geological record: an integration of extant and fossil chemical data across the seed plants	15
A new solution to an old riddle: elongate dinosaur tracks explained as deep penetration of the foot, not plantigrade locomotion	15
A method for mapping morphological convergence on three‐dimensional digital models: the case of the mammalian sabre‐tooth	15
Palaeontology meets metacommunity ecology: the Maastrichtian dinosaur fossil record of North America as a case study	14
Stranger than a scorpion: a reassessment of Parioscorpio venator, a problematic arthropod from the Llandoverian Waukesha Lagerstätte	14
Computational fluid dynamics confirms drag reduction associated with trilobite queuing behaviour	14
Mammal‐bearing gastric pellets potentially attributable to Troodonformosus at the Cretaceous Egg Mountain locality, Two Medicine Formation, Montana, USA	14
Ups and downs of belemnite diversity in the Early Jurassic of Western Tethys	13
Cephalic biomechanics underpins the evolutionary success of trilobites	13
Dietary constraints of phytosaurian reptiles revealed by dental microwear textural analysis	12
Deep origin of the crossed‐lamellar microstructure in early Cambrian molluscs	12
Palaeobiology of the early sauropodomorph Mussaurus patagonicus inferred from its long bone histology	11
Network‐based biostratigraphy for the late Permian to mid‐Triassic Beaufort Group (Karoo Supergroup) in South Africa enhances biozone applicability and stratigraphic correlation	10
Experimental analysis of organ decay and pH gradients within a carcass and the implications for phosphatization of soft tissues	10
Empirical distributions of homoplasy in morphological data	10
Morphological diversity, evolution and biogeography of early Pleistocene rabbits (Genus Oryctolagus)	10
The ontogenetic pattern of neurocentral suture closure in the axial skeleton of Hyperodapedontinae (Archosauromorpha, Rhynchosauria) and its evolutionary implications	9
Go large or go conical: allometric trajectory of an early Cambrian acrotretide brachiopod	9
Discovery of proteinaceous moieties in Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshell	9
Postcrania of Borealestes (Mammaliformes, Docodonta) and the emergence of ecomorphological diversity in early mammals	9
Patterns of bilateral asymmetry and allometry in Late Devonian Polygnathus conodonts	8

Sr‐O‐C isotope signatures reveal herbivore niche‐partitioning in a Cretaceous ecosystem	8
Ventral organization of Jianfengia multisegmentalis Hou, and its implications for the head segmentation of megacheirans	8
One million years of diversity shifts in amphibians and reptiles in a Mediterranean landscape: resilience rules the Quaternary	8
Dryopithecine palaeobiodiversity in the Iberian Miocene revisited on the basis of molar endostructural morphology	8
Validating marine Devonian biogeography: a study in bioregionalization	8
Skeletal and soft tissue completeness of the acanthodian fossil record	8
Crypsis in the pelagic realm: evidence from exceptionally preserved fossil fish larvae from the Eocene Stolleklint Clay of Denmark	8
Quantitative palaeobathymetric reconstructions based on foraminiferal proxies: a case study from the Neogene of south‐west Spain	8
Putting the F into FBD analysis: tree constraints or morphological data?	7
Epidermal complexity in the theropod dinosaurJuravenatorfrom the Upper Jurassic of Germany	7
Gradual warming prior to the end‐Permian mass extinction	7
Feeding habits of the Middle Triassic pseudosuchian Batrachotomus kupferzellensis from Germany and palaeoecological implications for archosaurs	7
Slow and fast evolutionary rates in the history of lepidosaurs	7
Climate, competition, and the rise of mosasauroid ecomorphological disparity	7
Morphological disparity and evolutionary rates of cranial and postcranial characters in sloths (Mammalia, Pilosa, Folivora)	6
Phylogenetic sampling affects evolutionary patterns of morphological disparity	6
The endocast of Euparkeria sheds light on the ancestral archosaur nervous system	6
Inaccurate fossil placement does not compromise tip‐dated divergence times	6
Early Cenozoic increases in mammal diversity cannot be explained solely by expansion into larger body sizes	6
Lasanius, an exceptionally preserved Silurian jawless fish from Scotland	6
Dietary shifts in a group of early Eocene euarchontans (Microsyopidae) in association with climatic change	6
Systematic analysis of exceptionally preserved fossils: correlated patterns of decay and preservation	6
Unique damage‐related, gap‐filling tooth replacement in pycnodont fishes	6
Palaeohistological inferences of resting metabolic rates inConcornisandIberomesornis(Enantiornithes, Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous of Las Hoyas (Spain)	5
Assessing bite force estimates in extinct mammals and archosaurs using phylogenetic predictions	5
Skin patterning and internal anatomy in a fossil moonfish from the Eocene Bolca Lagerstätte illuminate the ecology of ancient reef fish communities	5
Decoding the drivers of deep‐time wetland biodiversity: insights from an early Permian tropical lake ecosystem	5
First application of dental microwear texture analysis to infer theropod feeding ecology	5
Associations between trilobite intraspecific moulting variability and body proportions: Estaingia bilobata from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, Australia	5
When is enough, enough? Questions of sampling in vertebrate ichnology	5
Snout shape and masticatory apparatus of the rodent‐like mesotheriid ungulates (Notoungulata, Typotheria): exploring evolutionary trends in dietary strategies through ancestral reconstructions	5
Relative skull size evolution in Mesozoic archosauromorphs: potential drivers and morphological uniqueness of erythrosuchid archosauriforms	5
Human face‐off: a new method for mapping evolutionary rates on three‐dimensional digital models	5
Phylogenetic response of naraoiid arthropods to early–middle Cambrian environmental change	5