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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Khasurty Fossil Insect Lagerstätte	28
New Finds of the Fossil Ant Genus Prionomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmeciinae) in Late Eocene European Amber	13
Periplaneta (?) perialla sp. nov., a Cockroach Larva of the Subfamily Blattinae (Dictyoptera, Blattidae) from Rovno Amber	9
A Revision of the Palaeocene–Eocene Mongolian Presbyornithidae (Aves: Anseriformes)	9
Lophophore Evolution from the Cambrian to the Present	8
Distribution and Differentiation of Fossil Oecophylla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Species by Wing Imprints	7
The First Fossil Tody (Aves: Todidae) from Cuba	7
Fossil Organisms of the Kotlin Regional Stage of the Upper Vendian of the Northwestern Russian Platform (Leningrad Region)	7
On New Records of Cephalopod Jaws from the Upper Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) of the Northern Caucasus (Russia, Karachay-Cherkessia)	7
Asselian-Sakmarian Nautiloids of the Shakh-Tau Reef (Bashkortostan)	7
On the Dimorph Pair Strenoceras acre/Orthogarantiana humilis (Ammonoidea: Stephanoceratidae) from the Upper Bajocian of the Northern Caucasus	6
A New Benthosuchid (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Lower Triassic of the Moscow Syncline	6
Fagaceae in the Eocene Palynoflora of the South of Primorskii Region: New Data on Taxonomy and Morphology	6
Evolutionary Transformations of the Metazoan Body Plan: Genomic-Morphogenetic Correlations	6
A Paleosol on a Pre-Cambrian Ferruginous Quartzite Weathering Crust (Stary Oskol, Belgorod Region, Russia)	6
Trilobozoa, Precambrian Tri-Radial Organisms	6
New Taxa of Soft-Winged Flower Beetles (Coleoptera, Malachiidae) in Baltic Amber	6
New Bird Taxa (Aves: Galliformes, Gruiformes) from the Early Eocene of Mongolia	5
Neogene Regional Scale of the Eastern Paratethys, Stratigraphy and Paleontological Basis	5
Ammonites and Stratigraphy of the Upper Bajocian Strenoceras niortense Zone in the Interfluve between the Kuban and Urup Rivers (Northern Caucasus)	5
Fossil Organisms of the Redkino Regional Stage of the Upper Vendian of the Northwestern Russian Platform (Leningrad Region)	5
New Damselflies of the Family Kennedyidae (Odonata) from the Permian of European Russia	5
New Blattinopsidae (Insecta: Blattinopsida) in the Permian of the Pechora Basin (Komi Republic, Russia) in the Context of Landscape and Vegetation Evolution	5
Rare and Endemic Elements in Triassic Tetrapod Assemblages of Obshchii Syrt Highland (Eastern Europe)	5
Infrazonal Ammonite Biostratigraphy, Paleobiogeography and Evolution of Volgian Craspeditid Ammonites	5

On the Earliest Leptosphinctes (Ammonoidea: Perisphinctidae) from the Upper Bajocian Niortense Zone (Middle Jurassic) of the Northern Caucasus	5
New Data on the Bajocian–Bathonian Parkinsoniidae (Ammonoidea, Perisphinctoidea)	5
Recent Studies of Co-Evolutionary Relationships of Fossil Plants and Fungi: Success, Problems, Prospects	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
Paekthoblatta, a New Predatory Cockroach Genus (Insecta: Blattaria: Raphidiomimidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Paektho-Dong, Sinuiju, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea	5
First Record of the Genus Cyrtanaspis Emery (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scraptiidae) from Baltic Amber	4
Comparison of the Crystallographic Texture of the Recent, Fossil and Subfossil Shells of Bivalves	4
A New Pseudosuchian from the Early Triassic of Eastern Europe	4
From Prokaryota to Eumetazoa: Symbiotic Associations in Fossil and Recent Bryozoans	4
First Finding of a Pterosaur in the Upper Cretaceous of the Southern Urals	4
New Tribe Palaeoanoplini trib. nov. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Baltic Amber	4
Asselian and Sakmarian (Lower Permian) Radiolarian Ecozones of the South Urals (Russia)	4
The Plantigrade Segnosaurians: Sloth Dinosaurs or Bear Dinosaurs?	4
Striatolamia tchelkarnurensis Glickman (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes), the Youngest Valid Striatolamia Species	4
Cave Bears (Ursus Spelaeus sensu lato) of the Urals	4
Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera: Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber—Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?	4
New and Little Known Blattinopsidae (Insecta: Blattinopsida) from the Middle Permian of Russia	4
The First Damselflies of the Family Kennedyidae (Odonata: Protozygoptera) from the Permian–Triassic Boundary Deposits of the Kuznetsk Basin, Russia	4
Coelom Metamerism in Echinodermata	4
Mesozoic Gall Midges (Diptera, Cecidomyioidea) with a Description of a New Genus and Species from the Santonian Amber of Taimyr (Ugolyak)	4
The Genus Cadomites (Ammonoidea: Stephanoceratidae) from the Upper Bajocian–Lower Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) of the Kuban River Basin (Northern Caucasus, Russia)	4
Late Artinskian Nautiloids of the Shakh-Tau Reef (Bashkortostan)	4
New Damselflies of the Family Kennedyidae (Odonata: Protozygoptera) from the Upper Permian of the Vologda Region	4
Riabininohadros, a New Genus for the Ornithischian Dinosaur Orthomerus weberae (Ornithopoda, Iguanodontia) from the Late Cretaceous of Crimea	4
Transformation of the Ancestral Body Plan and Axial Growth in Echinoderms: Ontogenetic and Paleontological Data	4
A New Radiolarian Family Provisocyntridae fam. nov. from the Late Paleozoic	4
The First Record of Lacewings (Insecta: Neuroptera: Mesochrysopidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of South Korea	4
New Weevils of the Family Brentidae (Coleoptera) in Baltic Amber	3
The Role of Microbial Communities in Soil Formation and Soil Ecosystem Health	3
Unbranched Holdfasts of Stemmed Echinoderms from the Ordovician of the Leningrad Region	3
New Early Permian Species of Radiolaria of the South Urals and Western Mugodzhary	3
Sexual Dimorphism in the Postcranial Skeleton of Dinosaurs	3
Symmetry of Vendobionta (Late Precambrian Metazoa)	3
A New Species of the Genus Protaneuretus Wheeler (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Bitterfeld Amber (Late Eocene), with a Key to the Species of the Genus	3
Climate Dynamics and the History of Soil Formation in the Steppe Zone of Eastern Europe in the Holocene	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
The Permian Ammonoid Family Medlicottiidae in the Verkhoyansk Region	3
A New Conodont Species Scythogondolella dolosa sp. nov. from the Anasibirites nevolini Zone (Lower Triassic) of Southern Primorye	3
Asselian-Sakmarian Ammonoids of the Early Permian Shakh-Tau Reef (Bashkortostan)	3
First Report of Insect Endophytic Oviposition from the Upper Permian of the Pechora Basin, on a Leaf of Phylladoderma (Peltaspermopsida: Cardiolepidaceae)	3
New Caddisflies (Insecta, Trichoptera) of the Families Vitimotauliidae and Philopotamidae from the Khasurty Locality (Lower Cretaceous, Russia) with a Brief Review of the World Fossil Fauna	3
Small Vertebrates from the Pleistocene Sediments of the East Chamber of Denisova Cave, Northwestern Altai Mountains	3
On the Earliest Parkinsonia (Ammonoidea: Parkinsoniidae) from the Upper Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) of the Northern Caucasus, Russia	3
Multituberculata from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia	3
New Siluro-Devonian Anomalocystitids (Echinodermata, Stylophora) from Bolivia and Canada, and a Reevaluation of Skeletal Homologies in Mitrates	3
On the Zonal Index-Species of the Standard Scale of the Ryazanian Stage on the Russian Platform	3
Late Bajocian and Early Bathonian Ostracods of the Russian Plate. Part I: Genera Plumhoffia Brand and Aaleniella Plumhoff	3
Reproductive Strategies and Patterns in Marine Invertebrates: Diversity and Evolution	3
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	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

New Ammonoids from the Devonian–Carboniferous Boundary Beds in Berchogur (Western Kazakhstan)	3
The First Finding of Basilosauridae (Mammalia: Cetacea) in the Upper Eocene of the Baltic States (Russia, Kaliningrad Region)	3
Permian Bivalves of the Pronchishchev Ridge (North Siberia): New Data on Taxonomic Composition, Biostratigraphy, and Biogeographic Relationships	3
A New Genus and Species of Malachite Beetles (Coleoptera, Dasytidae) in Baltic Amber	3
Genus Bittium Gray, 1847 (Cerithiidae, Gastropoda) in the Tarkhanian–Chokrakian (Miocene) Deposits of the Eastern Paratethys	3
On the First Record of Infragarantiana (Ammonoidea: Perisphinctidae) from the Upper Bajocian Niortense Zone (Middle Jurassic) of the Northern Caucasus, Russia	3
A New Genus of the Tribe Cossonini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Baltic Amber (Poland)	3
Review of the Jurassic Weevils of the Genus Belonotaris Arnoldi (Coleoptera: Nemonychidae) with a Straight Rostrum	3
A New Hybocrinid Genus (Echinodermata, Crinoidea) from the Middle Ordovician of Ladoga Glint on the Volkhov River	3
New Blattinopsidae (Insecta: Blattinopsida) from the Middle Permian of European Russia	3
Paleopathology: Occurrence of Anomalies in the Elements of Devonian Conodonts	2
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	2
Sea Lilies in Spring: Crinoid Diversification during the Early Ordovician	2
Morphology, Paleobiology and Systematics of the Mobergellids, a Group of Cambrian Problematic Fossils	2
A New Megasecopteran Species of the Genus Aspidothorax Brongniart, 1893 (Insecta: Mischopterida = Megasecoptera: Aspidothoracidae) from the Middle Permian of Perm Region, Russia	2
New Find of Inoceramus-Like Bivalves of the Genus Atomodesma in the Southern Verkhoyansk Region, and Invasions of Extra-Boreal Mollusks into Northeastern Asia during the Permian	2
A Review of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic Mammals of Mongolia	2
New Genus and Species of Lymexylidae (Coleoptera) from Baltic Amber	2
A New Species of the Genus Pseudauletes Voss (Coleoptera: Rhynchitidae) from Baltic Amber	2
A New Leptoropha (Kotlassiidae, Seymouriamorpha) Species from the Upper Urzhumian of European Russia	2
Unique 39 Thousand Cal. BP Brain of the “Yuka” Mammoth Mummified Fossils: A History and Methods of the Examination: Paleoneurological Perspectives	2
Early Evolution of Beetles of the Suborder Polyphaga (Insecta: Coleoptera) at the Permian–Triassic Boundary	2
Radiolarians, Conodonts, and Palynomorphs from the Sakmarian–Artinskian Boundary Beds (Lower Permian) in the Dal’ny Tulkas Section, South Urals, Russia	2
Taxonomic Structure and Endemism of the Bryozoan Fauna of the Arctic Region	2
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	2
The First Record of a Pteranodontid (Pterosauria, Pteranodontidae) from the Late Cretaceous of the Lower Volga Region	2
Solutans (Echinoderms): Evolution Frozen between Torsion and Pentaradiality	2
Pseudocolonies of Silurian Rugoses Microplasma schmidti Dybowski from Estonia: Morphology and Origin	2
New Belemnites of the Family Cylindroteuthididae from the Lower Cretaceous of Northern East Siberia, Nordvik Peninsula	2
The First Data on the Callovian Ostracodes of Central Dagestan	2
The First Finding of a Skin Beetle (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) from Sakhalinian Amber	2
The Youngest Triassic Land Vertebrate Assemblage of Russia: Composition and Dating	2
The Use of Zygapophyseal Skeletochronology in Individual Age Determination of a Basal Mosasauroid (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Campanian of Saratov Region	2
Permian Triaplids (Coleoptera, Triaplidae), Yet Another Group of Mesozoic Beetles from the Terminal Permian	2
Rare Nematoceran Dipterans (Insecta: Diptera) from the Khasurty Locality, Transbaikalia	2
A New Lizard (Agamidae, Iguania) from the Late Paleocene of South Mongolia	2
A Review on Knowledge and Research of Interstitial Sea Cucumber	2
On the Pseudosuchians Tsylmosuchus donensis and Scythosuchus basileus from the Early Triassic of Eastern Europe	2
Morphology, Individual Age, DNA and Sex of the Yuka Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) from Northern Yakutia, Russia	2
On the Late Paleozoic Genus Somoholites Ruzhencev (Somoholitidae, Ammonoidea)	2
Morphological Relationships of Ancyrospora Species from the Givetian and Frasnian Deposits of the Pan-Arctic Region	2
Lignin of Ancient Plant Fossils	2
Evolution of Red Blood Cells in Extant and Extinct Tetrapods	2
Revision of Permian Ray-Finned Fishes from the Kazankovo-Markino Formation of the Kuznetsk Basin	2
A New Species of Stromateid Fish (Perciformes, Stromateoidei) of the Genus Pinichthys from the Tarkhanian (Lowermost Middle Miocene) of the Northwestern Caucasus	2
Dinosaur Tracks from the Caucasian Mineral Waters Country in the Context of the Study of Lower Cretaceous Paleosols of This Region	2
Microbially Mediated Organomineralization in Paleozoic Carbonate Ooids	2
Paleogene Molluscan Communities in the Kopet-Dagh Basin, NE Iran	2
Culturable Bacterial Communities Isolated from Cryo-Arid Soils: Phylogenetic and Physiological Characteristics	2
A Fossil Bunting Emberiza shaamarica (Aves, Emberizidae) from the Upper Pliocene of Central Asia	2
On the Revision of the Permian Ray-Finned Fishes of European Russia. Part 1	2
A New Species of the Apionine Genus Baltoconapium Legalov, 2020 (Coleoptera: Brentidae) from Baltic Amber	2
Revision of Plioperdix (Aves: Phasianidae) from the Plio-Pleistocene of Ukraine	2
Aptian–Albian Oysters from the Southwestern Spurs of the Gissar Ridge. Part 1. Genus Amphidonte Fischer de Waldheim	2
Fossil Stone Shelduck (Tadorna petrina) and Shoveler (Spatula praeclypeata sp. nov.)—the Oldest Early Pleistocene Ducks (Aves: Anatidae) from Crimea	2
The Squamation Morphology and Stratigraphic Distribution of Isadia arefievi A. Minich (Actinopterygii, Eurynotoidiformes)	2
A New Species of the Weevil Genus Anthonomus Germar, 1817 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Dominican Amber	2
First Record of Fungus of the Family Mycocaliciaceae in Rovno Amber (Ukraine)	2
Definition, Correlation and Age of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, Lower–Middle Triassic of Pangea	2
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)	2
Leaves of Ettingshausenia cuneifolia (Bronn) Stiehler (Angiospermae) and Associated Carpels and Stamens from the Turonian of Southern Kazakhstan	2