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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

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Metamorphism as the cause of bone alteration in the Jarrow assemblage (Langsettian, Pennsylvanian) of Ireland	32
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Oldest winged insects: first Megasecoptera from the early Carboniferous (Serpukhovian) of Argentina	20
Morphological disparity of mammalian limb bones throughout the Cenozoic: the role of biotic and abiotic factors	20
Phyllosphere fungi of Middle Jurassic gymnosperms from Poland	20
Negative ontogenetic allometry of cardinal spines in the early Cambrian arthropod Isoxys volucris indicates their defensive function	19
Decoding the drivers of deep‐time wetland biodiversity: insights from an early Permian tropical lake ecosystem	19
Preservational modes of some ichthyosaur soft tissues (Reptilia, Ichthyopterygia) from the Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany	19
Correction to ‘Ecological novelty at the start of the Cambrian and Ordovician radiations of echinoderms’	18
Plant dispersal in the Devonian world (c. 419–359 Ma)	15
Written in bones: palaeoclimate histotaphonomic history inferred from a complete Megatherium skeleton preserved in the Atacama Desert	15
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Bridging the extant and fossil record of planktonic foraminifera: implications for the Globigerina lineage	14
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Associations between trilobite intraspecific moulting variability and body proportions: Estaingia bilobata from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, Australia	14
Stuck in the mud: experimental taphonomy and computed tomography demonstrate the critical role of sediment in stabilizing the three‐dimensional external morphology of arthropod carcasses during early	13
Standardizing fossil disparity metrics using sample coverage	12
Phylogenetically‐informed estimates of notosuchian (Archosauria, Crocodylomorpha) body size and the challenges of inferring macroevolutionary patterns in extinct groups	12
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Standing giants: a digital biomechanical model for bipedal postures in sauropod dinosaurs	11
Putting the F into FBD analysis: tree constraints or morphological data?	11
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The effects of sensitive environmental indicators in interpreting faunas of the past: a case study from the Jurassic of China	10

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Extinction risk related to functional traits in Pliocene to Holocene West Atlantic molluscs	10
How should I publish my digital fossil? Recommendations for the publication of comprehensive 3D datasets in palaeontological studies	10
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The role of substrate in determining the dominance of immobile, epifaunal bivalves in the Late Cretaceous	10
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Locomotory and morphological evolution of the earliest Silurian graptolite Demirastrites selected by hydrodynamics	8
Palaeobiology and taphonomy of the rangeomorph Culmofrons plumosa	8
The endocast of Euparkeria sheds light on the ancestral archosaur nervous system	8
Priapulid neoichnology, ecosystem engineering, and the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition	7
Functional morphology and biomechanics of an ontogenetic series of the Triassic cynodont Brasilodon quadrangularis and bite performance in the sister tax	7
Correction to ‘Establishing temperate crustose early Holocene coralline algae as archives for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions of the shallow water habitats of the Mediterranean Sea’	7
Beaks of the Permo‐Triassic: a morpho‐functional analysis at the dawn of a novel structure in tetrapod evolution	7
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Inferred presence of extraoral tissues in Triassic archosauromorphs and the evolutionary implications for the clade Sauropsida	7
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The many ways toward punctuated evolution	7
Microstructural and geochemical evidence offers a solution to the cephalopod cameral deposits riddle	6
Cranial endocast of Anagale gobiensis (Anagalidae) and its implications for early brain evolution in Euarchontoglires	6
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High‐precision body mass predictors for small mammals: a case study in the Mesozoic	6
Machine‐learning‐based morphological analyses of leaf epidermal cells in modern and fossil ginkgo and their implications for palaeoclimate studies	6
Paradox lost: wide gape in the Ordovician brachiopod Rafinesquina explains how unattached filter‐feeding strophomenoids thrived on muddy substrates	5
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I believe I can fly… New implications for the mode of life and palaeoecology of the Late Triassic Ozimek volans based on its unique long bone histology	5
Anatomical network analysis of sauropodomorph cranial topology	5
Gradual warming prior to the end‐Permian mass extinction	5
Climatic niche stability and lability in Holarctic non‐marine ostracods: implications for Quaternary palaeoclimate reconstruction	5
Convergent evolution among non‐carnivorous, desert‐dwelling theropods as revealed by the dentary of the noasaurid Berthasaura leopoldinae (Cretaceous of Brazil)	5
Corrigendum to ‘Oldest evidence of a weasel reveals a Miocene origin of the Mustelinae (Mammalia, Carnivora)’	5
Developmental models shed light on the earliest dental tissues, using Astraspis as an example	5
The utility of probability plotting in palaeobiology	5
Finite element and microstructural analyses indicate that pteraspid heterostracan oral plate microstructure was adapted to a mechanical function	5