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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Khasurty Fossil Insect Lagerstätte	30
New Finds of the Fossil Ant Genus Prionomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmeciinae) in Late Eocene European Amber	14
Neogene Regional Scale of the Eastern Paratethys, Stratigraphy and Paleontological Basis	13
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
Periplaneta (?) perialla sp. nov., a Cockroach Larva of the Subfamily Blattinae (Dictyoptera, Blattidae) from Rovno Amber	10
Asselian-Sakmarian Nautiloids of the Shakh-Tau Reef (Bashkortostan)	10
On New Records of Cephalopod Jaws from the Upper Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) of the Northern Caucasus (Russia, Karachay-Cherkessia)	9
Lophophore Evolution from the Cambrian to the Present	8
The Role of Microbial Communities in Soil Formation and Soil Ecosystem Health	8
New Bird Taxa (Aves: Galliformes, Gruiformes) from the Early Eocene of Mongolia	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
Trilobozoa, Precambrian Tri-Radial Organisms	7
Reproductive Strategies and Patterns in Marine Invertebrates: Diversity and Evolution	7
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
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
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
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
Paekthoblatta, a New Predatory Cockroach Genus (Insecta: Blattaria: Raphidiomimidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Paektho-Dong, Sinuiju, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea	5
New Damselflies of the Family Kennedyidae (Odonata) from the Permian of European Russia	5
Genus Bittium Gray, 1847 (Cerithiidae, Gastropoda) in the Tarkhanian–Chokrakian (Miocene) Deposits of the Eastern Paratethys	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
Morphology, Individual Age, DNA and Sex of the Yuka Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) from Northern Yakutia, Russia	5
A New Radiolarian Family Provisocyntridae fam. nov. from the Late Paleozoic	5
Rare and Endemic Elements in Triassic Tetrapod Assemblages of Obshchii Syrt Highland (Eastern Europe)	5
Asselian and Sakmarian (Lower Permian) Radiolarian Ecozones of the South Urals (Russia)	5
Striatolamia tchelkarnurensis Glickman (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes), the Youngest Valid Striatolamia Species	5
The Squamation Morphology and Stratigraphic Distribution of Isadia arefievi A. Minich (Actinopterygii, Eurynotoidiformes)	5
A New Pseudosuchian from the Early Triassic of Eastern Europe	5
The First Damselflies of the Family Kennedyidae (Odonata: Protozygoptera) from the Permian–Triassic Boundary Deposits of the Kuznetsk Basin, Russia	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
Fossil Organisms of the Redkino Regional Stage of the Upper Vendian of the Northwestern Russian Platform (Leningrad Region)	5
First Record of the Genus Cyrtanaspis Emery (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scraptiidae) from Baltic Amber	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 and Little Known Blattinopsidae (Insecta: Blattinopsida) from the Middle Permian of Russia	4
The First Record of Lacewings (Insecta: Neuroptera: Mesochrysopidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of South Korea	4
Coelom Metamerism in Echinodermata	4
Revision of Permian Ray-Finned Fishes from the Kazankovo-Markino Formation of the Kuznetsk Basin	4
Cave Bears (Ursus Spelaeus sensu lato) of the Urals	4
Fossil Stone Shelduck (Tadorna petrina) and Shoveler (Spatula praeclypeata sp. nov.)—the Oldest Early Pleistocene Ducks (Aves: Anatidae) from Crimea	4
Lignin of Ancient Plant Fossils	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
Comparison of the Crystallographic Texture of the Recent, Fossil and Subfossil Shells of Bivalves	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
New Tribe Palaeoanoplini trib. nov. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Baltic Amber	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	3
Definition, Correlation and Age of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, Lower–Middle Triassic of Pangea	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
Dinosaur Tracks from the Caucasian Mineral Waters Country in the Context of the Study of Lower Cretaceous Paleosols of This Region	3
Unbranched Holdfasts of Stemmed Echinoderms from the Ordovician of the Leningrad Region	3
Review of the Jurassic Weevils of the Genus Belonotaris Arnoldi (Coleoptera: Nemonychidae) with a Straight Rostrum	3
The Axial Complex of Echinoderms Represents the Kidney and Is Homologous to the Hemichordate Heart-Kidney	3
A Problem of Naming of the Families of Late Jurassic and Cretaceous Ichthyosaurs	3
A New Genus and Species of Malachite Beetles (Coleoptera, Dasytidae) in Baltic Amber	3
A New Genus of the Tribe Cossonini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Baltic Amber (Poland)	3
The First Finding of a Skin Beetle (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) from Sakhalinian Amber	3
A New Hybocrinid Genus (Echinodermata, Crinoidea) from the Middle Ordovician of Ladoga Glint on the Volkhov River	3
Radiolarians, Conodonts, and Palynomorphs from the Sakmarian–Artinskian Boundary Beds (Lower Permian) in the Dal’ny Tulkas Section, South Urals, Russia	3
First Record of Fungus of the Family Mycocaliciaceae in Rovno Amber (Ukraine)	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 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	3

Solutans (Echinoderms): Evolution Frozen between Torsion and Pentaradiality	3
Origin of Echinodermata	3
The Permian Ammonoid Family Medlicottiidae in the Verkhoyansk Region	3
New Early Permian Species of Radiolaria of the South Urals and Western Mugodzhary	3
Revision of Plioperdix (Aves: Phasianidae) from the Plio-Pleistocene of Ukraine	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
Taxonomic Structure and Endemism of the Bryozoan Fauna of the Arctic Region	3
New Blattinopsidae (Insecta: Blattinopsida) from the Middle Permian of European Russia	3
New Weevils of the Family Brentidae (Coleoptera) in Baltic Amber	3
Small Vertebrates from the Pleistocene Sediments of the East Chamber of Denisova Cave, Northwestern Altai Mountains	3
New Siluro-Devonian Anomalocystitids (Echinodermata, Stylophora) from Bolivia and Canada, and a Reevaluation of Skeletal Homologies in Mitrates	3
New Ammonoids from the Devonian–Carboniferous Boundary Beds in Berchogur (Western Kazakhstan)	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
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
Permian Bivalves of the Pronchishchev Ridge (North Siberia): New Data on Taxonomic Composition, Biostratigraphy, and Biogeographic Relationships	3
Symmetry of Vendobionta (Late Precambrian Metazoa)	3
On the Zonal Index-Species of the Standard Scale of the Ryazanian Stage on the Russian Platform	3
First Record of the Genus Unionites Wissmann (Bivalvia) in the Boreal Permian of Northeast Russia	3
Late Bajocian and Early Bathonian Ostracods of the Russian Plate. Part III. Genera Camptocythere Triebel and Procytheridea Peterson	3
The First Record of the Genus Megalovis (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) in the Lower Pleistocene of Taurida Cave in the Crimea	2
A Review on Knowledge and Research of Interstitial Sea Cucumber	2
Radiolarians of the Kungurian Stage of the Lower Permian in the South Urals of Russia	2
Permian Triaplids (Coleoptera, Triaplidae), Yet Another Group of Mesozoic Beetles from the Terminal Permian	2
Topographic Morphology of the Postcranial Osteoderm Cover of an Adult Scutosaurus tuberculatus (Amalitzky) (Pareiasaurina) from the Late Permian of Eastern Europe	2
Encrusting Bryozoans from the Upper Cretaceous of the Middle Volga Region and Crimea	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
Pseudocolonies of Silurian Rugoses Microplasma schmidti Dybowski from Estonia: Morphology and Origin	2
Traces of Sublethal Injuries in Upper Cretaceous Echinoid Tests from the Vicinity of Volsk (Lower Volga Region)	2
An Exceptionally Large Lower Jaw of Lytoceratoidea from the Upper Bajocian of the Northern Caucasus	2
The First Data on the Callovian Ostracodes of Central Dagestan	2
A New Species of the Apionine Genus Baltoconapium Legalov, 2020 (Coleoptera: Brentidae) from Baltic Amber	2
Leaves of Ettingshausenia cuneifolia (Bronn) Stiehler (Angiospermae) and Associated Carpels and Stamens from the Turonian of Southern Kazakhstan	2
A Fossil Bunting Emberiza shaamarica (Aves, Emberizidae) from the Upper Pliocene of Central Asia	2
Review of Records of Mioproteus (Caudata: Proteidae) from Southeastern Europe	2
Paleogene Molluscan Communities in the Kopet-Dagh Basin, NE Iran	2
CHAPTER I. ANNOTATED SYSTEMATIC CATALOG OF TRIASSIC TETRAPODS OF RUSSIA	2
New Callovian–Lower Oxfordian Ostracods from the Russian Plate (Genera Camptocythere Triebel and Procytherura Whatley) and Their Stratigraphic Significance	2
Aptian–Albian Oysters from the Southwestern Spurs of the Gissar Ridge. Part 1. Genus Amphidonte Fischer de Waldheim	2
New Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Baltic Amber	2
A New Species of the Genus Pseudauletes Voss (Coleoptera: Rhynchitidae) 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
New Radiolarian Species of the Genus Patellula Kozlova from the Turonian–Maastrichtian Sections of Cyprus and Crimea	2
Morphological Relationships of Ancyrospora Species from the Givetian and Frasnian Deposits of the Pan-Arctic Region	2
On Some Parkinsonia (Ammonoidea: Parkinsoniidae) from the Uppermost Bajocian of the Kuban and Urup Rivers Interfluve (Northern Caucasus, Russia)	2
Evolution of Red Blood Cells in Extant and Extinct Tetrapods	2
Role of Bacteria in the Accumulation of Cambrian–Ordovician Phosphate-Bearing Obolus Beds in the North-West of the Russian Plate	2
Paleopathology: Occurrence of Anomalies in the Elements of Devonian Conodonts	2
Microbially Mediated Organomineralization in Paleozoic Carbonate Ooids	2
A New Kotlassiid (Amphibia, Seymouriamorpha) from the Terminal Permian of Eastern Europe	2
Culturable Bacterial Communities Isolated from Cryo-Arid Soils: Phylogenetic and Physiological Characteristics	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
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
On the Pseudosuchians Tsylmosuchus donensis and Scythosuchus basileus from the Early Triassic of Eastern Europe	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
On the Late Paleozoic Genus Somoholites Ruzhencev (Somoholitidae, Ammonoidea)	2
Sarmatian Gastropods of the Belaya River Basin (Western Ciscaucasia)	2
The First Record of a Pteranodontid (Pterosauria, Pteranodontidae) from the Late Cretaceous of the Lower Volga 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
Sea Lilies in Spring: Crinoid Diversification during the Early Ordovician	2
On the Revision of the Permian Ray-Finned Fishes of European Russia. Part 2	2
A New Species of Stromateid Fish (Perciformes, Stromateoidei) of the Genus Pinichthys from the Tarkhanian (Lowermost Middle Miocene) of the Northwestern Caucasus	2
New Belemnites of the Family Cylindroteuthididae from the Lower Cretaceous of Northern East Siberia, Nordvik Peninsula	2
Morphology, Paleobiology and Systematics of the Mobergellids, a Group of Cambrian Problematic Fossils	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 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