OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolutionary Biology is 4. 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
Evolvability and Macroevolution: Overview and Synthesis	21
On the Misidentification of Species: Sampling Error in Primates and Other Mammals Using Geometric Morphometrics in More Than 4000 Individuals	21
How Changes in Functional Demands Associated with Captivity Affect the Skull Shape of a Wild Boar (Sus scrofa)	18
Overcoming the Spurious Groups Problem in Between-Group PCA	12
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	11
Centric Allometry: Studying Growth Using Landmark Data	10
The Predictable Complexity of Evolutionary Allometry	9
Evolution of Cranial Ontogeny in South American Canids (Carnivora: Canidae)	9
Body Plan Identity: A Mechanistic Model	9
Can Anyone Climb? The Skills of a Non-specialized Toad and its Bearing on the Evolution of New Niches	9
The Network Ontogeny of the Parrot: Altriciality, Dynamic Skeletal Assemblages, and the Avian Body Plan	8
Unlinking the Speciation Steps: Geographical Factors Drive Changes in Sexual Signals of an Amazonian Nurse-Frog Through Body Size Variation	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
Is Allometric Variation in the Cephalic Horn on Male Rhinoceros Beetles Discontinuously Dimorphic?	7
The Evolution of Brain Size in Ectothermic Tetrapods: Large Brain Mass Trades-Off with Lifespan in Reptiles	6
Repeatability and Validity of Phenotypic Trait Measurements in Birds	6
Genetic Divergence Across Glacial Refugia Despite Interglacial Gene Flow in a Crested Newt	6
Misconceptions About Historical Sciences in Evolutionary Biology	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
Can we Restore Balance to Geometric Morphometrics? A Theoretical Evaluation of how Sample Imbalance Conditions Ordination and Classification	5
Procrustes Shape Cannot be Analyzed, Interpreted or Visualized one Landmark at a Time	5
Natural Barriers and Internal Sources for the Reproductive Isolation in Sympatric Salmonids from the Lake–River System	5
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	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
Reworking Geometric Morphometrics into a Methodology of Transformation Grids	4
Effects of Procrustes Superimposition and Semilandmark Sliding on Modularity and Integration: An Investigation Using Simulations of Biological Data	4
Lack of Female Preference for Nuptial Gifts May Have Led to Loss of the Male Sexual Trait	4
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of the Human-Gut Microbiota Symbiosis in a Changing Nutritional Environment	4
Cranial Anatomical Integration and Disparity Among Bones Discriminate Between Primates and Non-primate Mammals	4