OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Paleontological Journal is 2. 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
The Khasurty Fossil Insect Lagerstätte	31
Neogene Regional Scale of the Eastern Paratethys, Stratigraphy and Paleontological Basis	16
New Finds of the Fossil Ant Genus Prionomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmeciinae) in Late Eocene European Amber	14
A Revision of the Palaeocene–Eocene Mongolian Presbyornithidae (Aves: Anseriformes)	10
Ammonites and Stratigraphy of the Upper Bajocian Strenoceras niortense Zone in the Interfluve between the Kuban and Urup Rivers (Northern Caucasus)	10
Asselian-Sakmarian Nautiloids of the Shakh-Tau Reef (Bashkortostan)	10
Periplaneta (?) perialla sp. nov., a Cockroach Larva of the Subfamily Blattinae (Dictyoptera, Blattidae) from Rovno Amber	10
Trilobozoa, Precambrian Tri-Radial Organisms	8
Lophophore Evolution from the Cambrian to the Present	8
New Bird Taxa (Aves: Galliformes, Gruiformes) from the Early Eocene of Mongolia	8
The Role of Microbial Communities in Soil Formation and Soil Ecosystem Health	8
Transformation of the Ancestral Body Plan and Axial Growth in Echinoderms: Ontogenetic and Paleontological Data	7
Distribution and Differentiation of Fossil Oecophylla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Species by Wing Imprints	7
Evolutionary Transformations of the Metazoan Body Plan: Genomic-Morphogenetic Correlations	7
Reproductive Strategies and Patterns in Marine Invertebrates: Diversity and Evolution	7
The Genus Cadomites (Ammonoidea: Stephanoceratidae) from the Upper Bajocian–Lower Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) of the Kuban River Basin (Northern Caucasus, Russia)	6
A Paleosol on a Pre-Cambrian Ferruginous Quartzite Weathering Crust (Stary Oskol, Belgorod Region, Russia)	6
New Blattinopsidae (Insecta: Blattinopsida) in the Permian of the Pechora Basin (Komi Republic, Russia) in the Context of Landscape and Vegetation Evolution	6
Infrazonal Ammonite Biostratigraphy, Paleobiogeography and Evolution of Volgian Craspeditid Ammonites	6
On the Earliest Leptosphinctes (Ammonoidea: Perisphinctidae) from the Upper Bajocian Niortense Zone (Middle Jurassic) of the Northern Caucasus	6
Mesozoic Gall Midges (Diptera, Cecidomyioidea) with a Description of a New Genus and Species from the Santonian Amber of Taimyr (Ugolyak)	6
Multituberculata from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia	6
Late Artinskian Nautiloids of the Shakh-Tau Reef (Bashkortostan)	5
On the First Record of Infragarantiana (Ammonoidea: Perisphinctidae) from the Upper Bajocian Niortense Zone (Middle Jurassic) of the Northern Caucasus, Russia	5
Asselian-Sakmarian Ammonoids of the Early Permian Shakh-Tau Reef (Bashkortostan)	5

Morphology, Individual Age, DNA and Sex of the Yuka Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) from Northern Yakutia, Russia	5
The First Damselflies of the Family Kennedyidae (Odonata: Protozygoptera) from the Permian–Triassic Boundary Deposits of the Kuznetsk Basin, Russia	5
Paekthoblatta, a New Predatory Cockroach Genus (Insecta: Blattaria: Raphidiomimidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Paektho-Dong, Sinuiju, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea	5
Fossil Organisms of the Redkino Regional Stage of the Upper Vendian of the Northwestern Russian Platform (Leningrad Region)	5
Genus Bittium Gray, 1847 (Cerithiidae, Gastropoda) in the Tarkhanian–Chokrakian (Miocene) Deposits of the Eastern Paratethys	5
A New Pseudosuchian from the Early Triassic of Eastern Europe	5
The Squamation Morphology and Stratigraphic Distribution of Isadia arefievi A. Minich (Actinopterygii, Eurynotoidiformes)	5
First Finding of a Pterosaur in the Upper Cretaceous of the Southern Urals	5
Recent Studies of Co-Evolutionary Relationships of Fossil Plants and Fungi: Success, Problems, Prospects	5
Asselian and Sakmarian (Lower Permian) Radiolarian Ecozones of the South Urals (Russia)	5
New Damselflies of the Family Kennedyidae (Odonata) from the Permian of European Russia	5
Comparison of the Crystallographic Texture of the Recent, Fossil and Subfossil Shells of Bivalves	5
Striatolamia tchelkarnurensis Glickman (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes), the Youngest Valid Striatolamia Species	5
On the First Finding of Soergelia minor (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) in the Lower Pleistocene of Taurida Cave in the Crimea and the History of the Genus Soergelia	5
Fossil Stone Shelduck (Tadorna petrina) and Shoveler (Spatula praeclypeata sp. nov.)—the Oldest Early Pleistocene Ducks (Aves: Anatidae) from Crimea	5
Rare and Endemic Elements in Triassic Tetrapod Assemblages of Obshchii Syrt Highland (Eastern Europe)	5
A New Radiolarian Family Provisocyntridae fam. nov. from the Late Paleozoic	5
A New Species of Spinaeblattina Hinkelman, 2019 (Insecta, Blattaria, Mesoblattinidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Paektho-Dong, Sinuiju, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea	5
Lignin of Ancient Plant Fossils	4
Definition, Correlation and Age of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, Lower–Middle Triassic of Pangea	4
First Record of the Genus Cyrtanaspis Emery (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scraptiidae) from Baltic Amber	4
Revision of Permian Ray-Finned Fishes from the Kazankovo-Markino Formation of the Kuznetsk Basin	4
Late Bajocian and Early Bathonian Ostracods of the Russian Plate. Part I: Genera Plumhoffia Brand and Aaleniella Plumhoff	4
From Prokaryota to Eumetazoa: Symbiotic Associations in Fossil and Recent Bryozoans	4
Late Bajocian and Early Bathonian Ostracods of the Russian Plate. Part II. Genera: Procytherura Whatley, Pseudohutsonia Wienholz, Acrocythere Neale, Nanacythere Herrig and Trachycythere Triebel et Kli	4
On the Earliest Parkinsonia (Ammonoidea: Parkinsoniidae) from the Upper Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) of the Northern Caucasus, Russia	4
The Plantigrade Segnosaurians: Sloth Dinosaurs or Bear Dinosaurs?	4
Sexual Dimorphism in the Postcranial Skeleton of Dinosaurs	4
New Damselflies of the Family Kennedyidae (Odonata: Protozygoptera) from the Upper Permian of the Vologda Region	4
Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera: Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber—Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?	4
New Tribe Palaeoanoplini trib. nov. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Baltic Amber	4
The First Record of Lacewings (Insecta: Neuroptera: Mesochrysopidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of South Korea	4
Cave Bears (Ursus Spelaeus sensu lato) of the Urals	4
New and Little Known Blattinopsidae (Insecta: Blattinopsida) from the Middle Permian of Russia	4
New Siluro-Devonian Anomalocystitids (Echinodermata, Stylophora) from Bolivia and Canada, and a Reevaluation of Skeletal Homologies in Mitrates	3
Revision of the Genera Spinodeflandrella Kozur, 1981, Holdsworthella Kozur, 1981 and Haplodiacanthus Nazarov et Rudenko, 1981 (Early Permian Radiolarians of the Order Albaillellaria) in the South Ural	3
Dinosaur Tracks from the Caucasian Mineral Waters Country in the Context of the Study of Lower Cretaceous Paleosols of This Region	3
Taxonomic Structure and Endemism of the Bryozoan Fauna of the Arctic Region	3
A New Hybocrinid Genus (Echinodermata, Crinoidea) from the Middle Ordovician of Ladoga Glint on the Volkhov River	3
First Record of Fungus of the Family Mycocaliciaceae in Rovno Amber (Ukraine)	3
Small Vertebrates from the Pleistocene Sediments of the East Chamber of Denisova Cave, Northwestern Altai Mountains	3
Coelom Metamerism in Echinodermata	3
New Early Permian Species of Radiolaria of the South Urals and Western Mugodzhary	3
A New Genus and Species of Malachite Beetles (Coleoptera, Dasytidae) in Baltic Amber	3
The Permian Ammonoid Family Medlicottiidae in the Verkhoyansk Region	3
A New Genus of the Tribe Cossonini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Baltic Amber (Poland)	3
Solutans (Echinoderms): Evolution Frozen between Torsion and Pentaradiality	3
On the Zonal Index-Species of the Standard Scale of the Ryazanian Stage on the Russian Platform	3
Review of the Jurassic Weevils of the Genus Belonotaris Arnoldi (Coleoptera: Nemonychidae) with a Straight Rostrum	3
Late Bajocian and Early Bathonian Ostracods of the Russian Plate. Part III. Genera Camptocythere Triebel and Procytheridea Peterson	3

New Blattinopsidae (Insecta: Blattinopsida) from the Middle Permian of European Russia	3
New Weevils of the Family Brentidae (Coleoptera) in Baltic Amber	3
A New Radiolarian Genus Nestelliana gen. nov. and New Species from the Late Devonian of the Polar Urals and the Early Carboniferous of the Volga–Ural Basin of Russia	3
Origin of Echinodermata	3
Permian Bivalves of the Pronchishchev Ridge (North Siberia): New Data on Taxonomic Composition, Biostratigraphy, and Biogeographic Relationships	3
Small Ducks (Aves: Anatidae) from the Early–Middle Miocene of Eurasia. 1. A revision of Anas velox Milne-Edwards, 1868 and Anas soporata Kurochkin, 1976	3
Redescription of Chama clavaticostata Klushnikov (Bivalvia) from the Middle Eocene of Ukraine	3
The First Finding of a Skin Beetle (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) from Sakhalinian Amber	3
The First Finds of the Most Ancient Oyster-Like Bivalves of the Genus Prospondylus Zimmermann (Pectinidae, Prospondylidae) in the Lower Permian of the Southern Cis-Urals (Russia)	3
Climate Dynamics and the History of Soil Formation in the Steppe Zone of Eastern Europe in the Holocene	3
First Record of the Genus Unionites Wissmann (Bivalvia) in the Boreal Permian of Northeast Russia	3
Radiolarians, Conodonts, and Palynomorphs from the Sakmarian–Artinskian Boundary Beds (Lower Permian) in the Dal’ny Tulkas Section, South Urals, Russia	3
Reply to: “Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites” and “Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber—Wind Transpor	3
Unbranched Holdfasts of Stemmed Echinoderms from the Ordovician of the Leningrad Region	3
The Axial Complex of Echinoderms Represents the Kidney and Is Homologous to the Hemichordate Heart-Kidney	3
Review of Records of Mioproteus (Caudata: Proteidae) from Southeastern Europe	3
Symmetry of Vendobionta (Late Precambrian Metazoa)	3
A Problem of Naming of the Families of Late Jurassic and Cretaceous Ichthyosaurs	3
On the Pseudosuchians Tsylmosuchus donensis and Scythosuchus basileus from the Early Triassic of Eastern Europe	2
Topographic Morphology of the Postcranial Osteoderm Cover of an Adult Scutosaurus tuberculatus (Amalitzky) (Pareiasaurina) from the Late Permian of Eastern Europe	2
Late Bajocian and Early Bathonian Ostracods of the Russian Plate. Part IV. The Lineage Glyptocythere aspera (Khabarova) → G. bathonica sp. nov.	2
Consortia of Conifers and Fungi in the Paleocene of the Amur Region, Russia	2
The Oldest Representative of the Superfamily Hagloidea (Orthoptera) from the Upper Permian of Russia, with Remarks on Katydid-Like Forms from the Paleozoic	2
Evolution of Red Blood Cells in Extant and Extinct Tetrapods	2
Paleopathology: Occurrence of Anomalies in the Elements of Devonian Conodonts	2
Traces of Sublethal Injuries in Upper Cretaceous Echinoid Tests from the Vicinity of Volsk (Lower Volga Region)	2
Microbially Mediated Organomineralization in Paleozoic Carbonate Ooids	2
A New Species of the Apionine Genus Baltoconapium Legalov, 2020 (Coleoptera: Brentidae) from Baltic Amber	2
Culturable Bacterial Communities Isolated from Cryo-Arid Soils: Phylogenetic and Physiological Characteristics	2
A Review of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic Mammals of Mongolia	2
A New Radiolarian Genus Alexialeks gen. nov. and New Species from the Early Permian of the South Urals, Russia	2
Revision of Permosialidae (Insecta: Palaeomanteida) from the Uppermost Lower and Lower Middle Permian of European Russia	2
On the Revision of the Permian Ray-Finned Fishes of European Russia. Part 1	2
New Callovian–Lower Oxfordian Ostracods from the Russian Plate (Genera Camptocythere Triebel and Procytherura Whatley) and Their Stratigraphic Significance	2
Permian Triaplids (Coleoptera, Triaplidae), Yet Another Group of Mesozoic Beetles from the Terminal Permian	2
On the Late Paleozoic Genus Somoholites Ruzhencev (Somoholitidae, Ammonoidea)	2
Radiolarians of the Kungurian Stage of the Lower Permian in the South Urals of Russia	2
New Radiolarian Species of the Genus Patellula Kozlova from the Turonian–Maastrichtian Sections of Cyprus and Crimea	2
The First Record of a Pteranodontid (Pterosauria, Pteranodontidae) from the Late Cretaceous of the Lower Volga Region	2
On Some Parkinsonia (Ammonoidea: Parkinsoniidae) from the Uppermost Bajocian of the Kuban and Urup Rivers Interfluve (Northern Caucasus, Russia)	2
An Exceptionally Large Lower Jaw of Lytoceratoidea from the Upper Bajocian of the Northern Caucasus	2
A New Species of Stromateid Fish (Perciformes, Stromateoidei) of the Genus Pinichthys from the Tarkhanian (Lowermost Middle Miocene) of the Northwestern Caucasus	2
On the Revision of the Permian Ray-Finned Fishes of European Russia. Part 2	2
New Belemnites of the Family Cylindroteuthididae from the Lower Cretaceous of Northern East Siberia, Nordvik Peninsula	2
Pseudocolonies of Silurian Rugoses Microplasma schmidti Dybowski from Estonia: Morphology and Origin	2
A New Kotlassiid (Amphibia, Seymouriamorpha) from the Terminal Permian of Eastern Europe	2
A Review on Knowledge and Research of Interstitial Sea Cucumber	2
The Use of Zygapophyseal Skeletochronology in Individual Age Determination of a Basal Mosasauroid (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Campanian of Saratov Region	2
New Genus and Species of Lymexylidae (Coleoptera) from Baltic Amber	2
A New Tortoise from the Pleistocene of Argentina with Comments on the Extinction of Late Pleistocene Tortoises and Plant Communities	2
Aptian–Albian Oysters from the Southwestern Spurs of the Gissar Ridge. Part 1. Genus Amphidonte Fischer de Waldheim	2
Early Evolution of Beetles of the Suborder Polyphaga (Insecta: Coleoptera) at the Permian–Triassic Boundary	2
A New Species of the Genus Pseudauletes Voss (Coleoptera: Rhynchitidae) from Baltic Amber	2
New Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Baltic Amber	2
Encrusting Bryozoans from the Upper Cretaceous of the Middle Volga Region and Crimea	2
Sarmatian Gastropods of the Belaya River Basin (Western Ciscaucasia)	2
Morphological Relationships of Ancyrospora Species from the Givetian and Frasnian Deposits of the Pan-Arctic Region	2
New Radiolarian Species from the Lower Carboniferous of the Volga–Ural Basin and the Upper Carboniferous of the South Urals of Russia	2
Role of Bacteria in the Accumulation of Cambrian–Ordovician Phosphate-Bearing Obolus Beds in the North-West of the Russian Plate	2
Sea Lilies in Spring: Crinoid Diversification during the Early Ordovician	2
The First Data on the Callovian Ostracodes of Central Dagestan	2
Paleogene Molluscan Communities in the Kopet-Dagh Basin, NE Iran	2
Leaves of Ettingshausenia cuneifolia (Bronn) Stiehler (Angiospermae) and Associated Carpels and Stamens from the Turonian of Southern Kazakhstan	2
Rare Nematoceran Dipterans (Insecta: Diptera) from the Khasurty Locality, Transbaikalia	2
Morphophysiological Peculiarities of Articulated Brachiopods and Marine Bryozoans as a Reason for Their Different Evolutionary Consequences of the Permian–Triassic Crisis	2
A Fossil Bunting Emberiza shaamarica (Aves, Emberizidae) from the Upper Pliocene of Central Asia	2
CHAPTER I. ANNOTATED SYSTEMATIC CATALOG OF TRIASSIC TETRAPODS OF RUSSIA	2
The First Record of the Genus Megalovis (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) in the Lower Pleistocene of Taurida Cave in the Crimea	2
Unique 39 Thousand Cal. BP Brain of the “Yuka” Mammoth Mummified Fossils: A History and Methods of the Examination: Paleoneurological Perspectives	2