OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolutionary Biology is 5. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

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
Modularity of the Neck in Birds (Aves)	18
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 Does Masticatory Muscle Architecture Covary with Mandibular Shape in Domestic Dogs?	13
How Exactly Did the Nose Get That Long? A Critical Rethinking of the Pinocchio Effect and How Shape Changes Relate to Landmarks	12
Measuring Complex Morphological Traits with 3D Photogrammetry: A Case Study with Deer Antlers	11
Evolvability and Constraint in the Primate Basicranium, Shoulder, and Hip and the Importance of Multi-trait Evolution	10
A Cautionary Note on Phylogenetic Signal Estimation from Imputed Databases	10
Darwin’s Tree of Life is Numbered. Resolving the Origins of Species by Mass	9
Overcoming the Spurious Groups Problem in Between-Group PCA	9
Body Plan Identity: A Mechanistic Model	8
Facultative Transitions Have Trouble Committing, But Stable Life Cycles Predict Salamander Genome Size Evolution	8
Centric Allometry: Studying Growth Using Landmark Data	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
Can Anyone Climb? The Skills of a Non-specialized Toad and its Bearing on the Evolution of New Niches	7
Evolution of the Mammalian Ear: An Evolvability Hypothesis	7
Is There More to Within-plant Variation in Seed Size than Developmental Noise?	7
Evolution of Cranial Ontogeny in South American Canids (Carnivora: Canidae)	6
Interrelations Between the Cranium, the Mandible and Muscle Architecture in Modern Domestic Dogs	6

The Network Ontogeny of the Parrot: Altriciality, Dynamic Skeletal Assemblages, and the Avian Body Plan	6
Is Allometric Variation in the Cephalic Horn on Male Rhinoceros Beetles Discontinuously Dimorphic?	6
The Link Between Adaptive Memory and Cultural Attraction: New Insights for Evolutionary Ethnobiology	6
Examination of Sample Size Determination in Integration Studies Based on the Integration Coefficient of Variation (ICV)	6
Climatic Niche Evolution in the Arremon brunneinucha Complex (Aves: Passerellidae) in a Mesoamerican Landscape	6
Unlinking the Speciation Steps: Geographical Factors Drive Changes in Sexual Signals of an Amazonian Nurse-Frog Through Body Size Variation	6
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
The Predictable Complexity of Evolutionary Allometry	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