OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theoretical Population Biology is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
A Wright–Fisher graph model and the impact of directional selection on genetic variation	31
Extinction threshold and large population limit of a plant metapopulation model with recurrent extinction events and a seed bank component	25
Muller’s ratchet in a near-critical regime: Tournament versus fitness proportional selection	20
The mutation process on the ancestral line under selection	18
Mate guarding in primates arises due to partner scarcity, even if the father provides no paternal care at all	13
Clade size distribution under neutral evolutionary models	11
Limiting distribution of X-chromosomal coalescence times under first-cousin consanguineous mating	10
Hominin forager technology, food sharing, and diet breadth	10
Character displacement in the presence of multiple trait differences: Evolution of the storage effect in germination and growth	8
Model of two competing populations in two habitats with migration: Application to optimal marine protected area size	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	8
Metacommunities, fitness and gradual evolution	8
Editorial Board	7
A central limit theorem concerning uncertainty in estimates of individual admixture	7
Waiting times in a branching process model of colorectal cancer initiation	7
Dynamics of SIR model with heterogeneous response to intervention policy	6
Pneumococcus and the stress-gradient hypothesis: A trade-off links	6
Evolutionary rescue via niche construction: Infrequent construction can prevent post-invasion extinction	6
Copuling population dynamics and diel migration patterns	6
A simple model and rules for the evolution of microbial mutualistic symbiosis with positive fitness feedbacks	5
Cultural transmission, competition for prey, and the evolution of cooperative hunting	5
Editorial Board	5
Demographic inference for spatially heterogeneous populations using long shared haplotypes	5
A model of the burglar alarm hypothesis of prey alarm calls	5

On random conformity bias in cultural transmission of polychotomous traits	5
Stochastic offspring distributions amplify selection bias in mutation accumulation experiments	5
Spatial invasion of cooperative parasites	5
Drewnowski’s index to measure lifespan variation: Revisiting the Gini coefficient of the life table	5
The Recombination Hotspot Paradox: Co-evolution between PRDM9 and its target sites	4
Population models, mathematical epidemiology, and the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Editorial Board	4
Male mating choices: The drive behind menopause?	4
Patterns of spawning and settlement of reef fishes as strategic responses to post-settlement competition	4
The grapheme-valued Wright–Fisher diffusion with mutation	4
Editorial Board	4
A mathematical framework for evo-devo dynamics	4
Bifurcations and hydra effects in Bazykin’s predator–prey model	4
Computing the probability of gene trees concordant with the species tree in the multispecies coalescent	4
Interconnection between density-regulation and stability in competitive ecological network	3
Improving the realism of neutral ecological models by incorporating transient dynamics with temporal changes in community size	3
Selection on age-specific survival: Constant versus fluctuating environment	3
Selection, recombination, and the ancestral initiation graph	3
Editorial Board	3
Evolution of trustfulness in the case where resources for cooperation are sometimes absent	3
Taylor’s law for exponentially growing local populations linked by migration	3
Editorial Board	3
The optimal momentum of population growth and decline	3
The impact of dormancy on evolutionary branching	3
Evolution of delayed dispersal with group size effect and population dynamics	3
Effects of cultural transmission of surnaming decisions on the sex ratio at birth	3
Bernoulli factories and duality in Wright–Fisher and Allen–Cahn models of population genetics	3
Editorial Board	3
Mathematical epidemiology for a later age	3