OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Evolutionary Biology is 1. 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
A Registration and Deep Learning Approach to Automated Landmark Detection for Geometric Morphometrics	28
Walking on Kendall’s Shape Space: Understanding Shape Spaces and Their Coordinate Systems	20
How Changes in Functional Demands Associated with Captivity Affect the Skull Shape of a Wild Boar (Sus scrofa)	16
Making Heads or Tails of Combined Landmark Configurations in Geometric Morphometric Data	15
Why Clusters and Other Patterns Can Seem to be Found in Analyses of High-Dimensional Data	15
Evolvability and Macroevolution: Overview and Synthesis	15
Ancestral State Estimation with Phylogenetic Ridge Regression	15
On the Misidentification of Species: Sampling Error in Primates and Other Mammals Using Geometric Morphometrics in More Than 4000 Individuals	14
How Exactly Did the Nose Get That Long? A Critical Rethinking of the Pinocchio Effect and How Shape Changes Relate to Landmarks	13
Evolvability and Constraint in the Primate Basicranium, Shoulder, and Hip and the Importance of Multi-trait Evolution	11
A Cautionary Note on Phylogenetic Signal Estimation from Imputed Databases	10
Overcoming the Spurious Groups Problem in Between-Group PCA	9
Centric Allometry: Studying Growth Using Landmark Data	9
Darwin’s Tree of Life is Numbered. Resolving the Origins of Species by Mass	9
Can Anyone Climb? The Skills of a Non-specialized Toad and its Bearing on the Evolution of New Niches	8
Body Plan Identity: A Mechanistic Model	8
The Tyrant Lizard King, Queen and Emperor: Multiple Lines of Morphological and Stratigraphic Evidence Support Subtle Evolution and Probable Speciation Within the North American Genus Tyrannosaurus	7
Is There More to Within-plant Variation in Seed Size than Developmental Noise?	7
Evolution of the Mammalian Ear: An Evolvability Hypothesis	7
The Network Ontogeny of the Parrot: Altriciality, Dynamic Skeletal Assemblages, and the Avian Body Plan	7
Is Allometric Variation in the Cephalic Horn on Male Rhinoceros Beetles Discontinuously Dimorphic?	6
Interrelations Between the Cranium, the Mandible and Muscle Architecture in Modern Domestic Dogs	6
Unlinking the Speciation Steps: Geographical Factors Drive Changes in Sexual Signals of an Amazonian Nurse-Frog Through Body Size Variation	6
Evolution of Cranial Ontogeny in South American Canids (Carnivora: Canidae)	6
The Link Between Adaptive Memory and Cultural Attraction: New Insights for Evolutionary Ethnobiology	6

The Predictable Complexity of Evolutionary Allometry	6
Examination of Sample Size Determination in Integration Studies Based on the Integration Coefficient of Variation (ICV)	6
Genetic Divergence Across Glacial Refugia Despite Interglacial Gene Flow in a Crested Newt	5
Male Sexual Trait Decay in Two Asexual Springtail Populations Follows Neutral Mutation Accumulation Theory	5
The Importance of Intraspecific Variation for Niche Differentiation and Species Distribution Models: The Ecologically Diverse Frog Pleurodema thaul as Study Case	5
Morphological and Genetic Divergence in a Gill Monogenean Parasitizing Distant Cichlid Lineages of Lake Tanganyika: Cichlidogyrus nshomboi (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) from Representatives of Boulenger	5
Repeatability and Validity of Phenotypic Trait Measurements in Birds	5
Insufficient Evidence for Multiple Species of Tyrannosaurus in the Latest Cretaceous of North America: A Comment on “The Tyrant Lizard King, Queen and Emperor: Multiple Lines of Morphological and Stra	5
A Morphological Method to Approximate Jumping Performance in Anurans for Macroevolutionary Studies	4
Misconceptions About Historical Sciences in Evolutionary Biology	4
Genes that are Used Together are More Likely to be Fused Together in Evolution by Mutational Mechanisms: A Bioinformatic Test of the Used-Fused Hypothesis	4
Effects of Phenotypic Robustness on Adaptive Evolutionary Dynamics	4
The Evolution of Brain Size in Ectothermic Tetrapods: Large Brain Mass Trades-Off with Lifespan in Reptiles	3
Dimensions of Morphological Integration	3
Comparative Quantitative Genetics of the Pelvis in Four-Species of Rodents and the Conservation of Genetic Covariance and Correlation Structure	3
Decoupling in Diversification and Body Size Rates During the Radiation of Phyllodactylus: Evidence Suggests Minor Role of Ecology in Shaping Phenotypes	3
A Giant Eocene Whale from Ukraine Uncovers Early Cetacean Adaptations to the Fully Aquatic Life	3
Natural Barriers and Internal Sources for the Reproductive Isolation in Sympatric Salmonids from the Lake–River System	3
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of the Human-Gut Microbiota Symbiosis in a Changing Nutritional Environment	3
Can we Restore Balance to Geometric Morphometrics? A Theoretical Evaluation of how Sample Imbalance Conditions Ordination and Classification	3
Do Geographic Range Sizes Evolve Faster in Endotherms?	3
Do Longevity and Fecundity Change by Selection on Mating Success at Elevated Temperature? Correlated Selection Responses in Drosophila buzzatii	2
Cranial Anatomical Integration and Disparity Among Bones Discriminate Between Primates and Non-primate Mammals	2
Predictive Factors of Chemical and Visual Sensory Organ Size: The Roles of Sex, Environment, and Evolution	2
Reworking Geometric Morphometrics into a Methodology of Transformation Grids	2
High-Density Three-Dimensional Morphometric Analyses Reveal Predation-Based Disparity and Evolutionary Modularity in Spider ‘Jaws’	2
Lack of Female Preference for Nuptial Gifts May Have Led to Loss of the Male Sexual Trait	2
A Pre-registered Meta-analysis Based on Three Empirical Studies Reveals No Association Between Prenatal (Amniotic) Cortisol Exposure and Fluctuating Asymmetry in Human Infants	2
Evolution of Reproductive Efficiency in Caenorhabditis elegans Under Obligatory Outcrossing	2
Procrustes Shape Cannot be Analyzed, Interpreted or Visualized one Landmark at a Time	2
Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Ocular Patterns as a Species Identifier in the South African Endemic Trapdoor Spider Genus Stasimopus Simon, 1892 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Stasimopidae)	2
Is the Shape of Turtle Claws Driven by Locomotor Modes?	2
Comparing Rates of Linage Diversification with Rates of Size and Shape Evolution in Catarrhine Crania	2
The Dynamic Ontogenetic Shape Patterns of Adaptive Divergence and Sexual Dimorphism	2
Evolutionary History and host Ecology Determine Acanthocephalan Egg Shape	1
On the Trail of Spatial Patterns of Genetic Variation	1
Patterns of Performance Variation Between Animal Hybrids and their Parents: A Meta-analysis	1
What if… Sponges Originated 890 Million Years Ago? On the Emergence of Some Precursors of Animal Sentience	1
Evolutionary History of food Withdraw Movements in Primates: Food Withdraw is Mediated by Nonvisual Strategies in 22 Species of Strepsirrhines	1
New Avenues for Old Travellers: Phenotypic Evolutionary Trends Meet Morphodynamics, and Both Enter the Global Change Biology Era	1
Quadratic Trends: A Morphometric Tool Both Old and New	1
ES-sim-GLM, a Multiple Regression Trait-Dependent Diversification Approach	1
Anatomical Correlates of Cursoriality are Compromised by Body Size and Propensity to Burrow in a Group of Small Mammals (Lagomorpha)	1
Evolutionary Invasion Analysis in Structured Populations	1
Microgeographic Morphophysiological Divergence in an Amazonian Soil Mite	1
Morphological and Genetic Variation Among Callithrix Hybrids in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1
Intra- and interspecific variability of the cranial ossification sequences in Barbus sensu lato.	1
Evolution of Type B Influenza Virus Using a Mass Spectrometry Based Phylonumerics Approach	1
Evidence of Morphological Divergence and Reproductive Isolation in a Narrow Elevation Gradient	1
Consistent Prevalence of Spondyloarthropathy Over 2300 Years: Ancient Egyptians and the Synchronic Baboon Catacomb	1

The Functional and Allometric Implications of Hipbone Trabecular Microarchitecture in a Sample of Eutherian and Metatherian Mammals	1
How Aestivation Evolved in Turtles: A Macroevolutionary and Morphological Approach	1
Annual Temperatures and Dynamics of Food Availability are Associated with the Pelagic-Benthic Diversification in a Sympatric Pair of Salmonid Fish	1
Enhanced Negative Regulation of the DHH Signaling Pathway as a Potential Mechanism of Ascrotal Testes in Laurasiatherians	1
Microinvertebrate Colonization of New Zealand’s Thermally Extreme Environments	1
Island Tiger Snakes (Notechis scutatus) Gain a ‘Head Start’ in Life: How Both Phenotypic Plasticity and Evolution Underlie Skull Shape Differences	1
Climatic Niche Divergence and Conservatism Promote Speciation in Snake-Eyed Skinks (Sauria: Scincidae): New Insight into the Evolution and Diversification of Ablepharus Species	1
Investigating the Relationship Between Body Shape and Life History Traits in Toothed Whales: Can Body Shape Predict Fast-Slow Life Histories?	1
Can Patterns of Static Allometry be Inferred from Regimes of Sexual Selection in the Japanese Beetle?	1
A New Method for Landmark-Based Studies of the Dynamic Stability of Growth, with Implications for Evolutionary Analyses	1