OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Paleobiology 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
How to build a dinosaur: Musculoskeletal modeling and simulation of locomotor biomechanics in extinct animals	61
Cretaceous–Paleogene plant extinction and recovery in Patagonia	25
Our past creates our present: a brief overview of racism and colonialism in Western paleontology	21
Toward an understanding of cosmopolitanism in deep time: a case study of ammonoids from the middle Permian to the Middle Triassic	18
A new method for quantifying heterochrony in evolutionary lineages	16
Evolution, diversity, and disparity of the tiger shark lineageGaleocerdoin deep time	16
Exceptional multifunctionality in the feeding apparatus of a mid-Cambrian radiodont	16
Seven rules for simulations in paleobiology	15
Evolvability in the fossil record	15
Increasing the salience of marine live–dead data in the Anthropocene	14
Macroevolutionary patterns of body plan canalization in euarthropods	14
Reconstructing dietary ecology of extinct strepsirrhines (Primates, Mammalia) with new approaches for characterizing and analyzing tooth shape	14
Understanding the ecology of host plant–insect herbivore interactions in the fossil record through bipartite networks	14
Automatic taxonomic identification based on the Fossil Image Dataset (>415,000 images) and deep convolutional neural networks	13
Disentangling ecological and taphonomic signals in ancient food webs	13
A method to the madness: Ontogenetic changes in the hydrostatic properties of Didymoceras (Nostoceratidae: Ammonoidea)	13
Relationships of mass properties and body proportions to locomotor habit in terrestrial Archosauria	12
Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxonomic diversity during the end-Permian mass extinction	12
Size variations in foraminifers from the early Permian to the Late Triassic: implications for the Guadalupian–Lopingian and the Permian–Triassic mass extinctions	12
The rise to dominance of lanternfishes (Teleostei: Myctophidae) in the oceanic ecosystems: a paleontological perspective	11
The taphonomic clock in fish otoliths	11
Machine learning identifies ecological selectivity patterns across the end-Permian mass extinction	11
Discerning the diets of sweep-feeding eurypterids: assessing the importance of prey size to survivorship across the Late Devonian mass extinction in a phylogenetic context	11
Estimating dispersal and evolutionary dynamics in diploporan blastozoans (Echinodermata) across the great Ordovician biodiversification event	10
Principal component analysis of avian hind limb and foot morphometrics and the relationship between ecology and phylogeny	10

Verifiability of genus-level classification under quantification and parsimony theories: a case study of follicucullid radiolarians	9
Photosymbiosis in planktonic foraminifera across the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum	9
Testing size–frequency distributions as a method of ontogenetic aging: a life-history assessment of hadrosaurid dinosaurs from the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada, with implications for had	9
The effects of geographic range size and abundance on extinction during a time of “sluggish”’ evolution	8
Fossilized pollen malformations as indicators of past environmental stress and meiotic disruption: insights from modern conifers	8
Fossil bivalves and the sclerochronological reawakening	7
Selecting and averaging relaxed clock models in Bayesian tip dating of Mesozoic birds	7
The geography of phylogenetic paleoecology: integrating data and methods to better understand biotic response to climate change	7
Accounting for uncertainty from zero inflation and overdispersion in paleoecological studies of predation using a hierarchical Bayesian framework	7
The structure of the nonmarine fossil record: predictions from a coupled stratigraphic–paleoecological model of a coastal basin	7
Evaluating the responses of three closely related small mammal lineages to climate change across the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum	7
Absolute axial growth and trunk segmentation in the early Cambrian trilobite Oryctocarella duyunensis	7
Paleohistological inferences of thermometabolic regimes in Notosuchia (Pseudosuchia: Crocodylomorpha) revisited	6
Phylogenetic and ecomorphologic diversifications of spiriferinid brachiopods after the end-Permian extinction	6
Paleobiogeography, paleoecology, diversity, and speciation patterns in the Eublastoidea (Blastozoa: Echinodermata)	6
Size-driven preservational and macroecological biases in the latest Maastrichtian terrestrial vertebrate assemblages of North America	6
Combined paleohistological and isotopic inferences of thermometabolism in extinct Neosuchia, usingGoniopholisandDyrosaurus(Pseudosuchia: Crocodylomorpha) as case studies	6
Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca ratios support trophic partitioning within a Silurian conodont community from Gotland, Sweden	6
Comparisons of Late Ordovician ecosystem dynamics before and after the Richmondian invasion reveal consequences of invasive species in benthic marine paleocommunities	6
In search of predictive models for stenolaemate morphometry across the skeletal–polypide divide	6
Spatial scaling of beta diversity in the shallow-marine fossil record	6
Did shell-crushing predators drive the evolution of ammonoid septal shape?	6
Is the hyoid a constraint on innovation? A study in convergence driving feeding in fish-shaped marine tetrapods	5
Challenges and directions in analytical paleobiology	5
Influence of phylogeny on the estimation of diet from dental morphology in the Carnivora	5
Do paleontologists dream of electric dinosaurs? Investigating the presumed inefficiency of dinosaurs contact incubating partially buried eggs	5
On calibrating the completometer for the mammalian fossil record	5
Hearing from the ocean and into the river: the evolution of the inner ear of Platanistoidea (Cetacea: Odontoceti)	5
Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans	5
Does evolutionary relatedness predict ecological similarity?	5
Live, dead, and fossil mollusks in Florida freshwater springs and spring-fed rivers: Taphonomic pathways and the formation of multisourced, time-averaged death assemblages	5
The role of bioturbation-driven substrate disturbance in the Mesozoic brachiopod decline	5
Respiratory medium and circulatory anatomy constrain size evolution in marine macrofauna	5
Ediacara growing pains: modular addition and development in Dickinsonia costata	5
The sponge pump as a morphological character in the fossil record	5
Phylogenetic paleoecology: macroecology within an evolutionary framework	4
Exploring the impact of unstable terminals on branch support values in paleontological data	4
Going round the twist—an empirical analysis of shell coiling in helicospiral gastropods	4
A biased fossil record can preserve reliable phylogenetic signal	4
Applying the Prigogine view of dissipative systems to the major transitions in evolution	4
Bivalve body-size distribution through the Late Triassic mass extinction event	4
Evidence that more than a third of Paleozoic articulate brachiopod genera (Strophomenata) lived infaunally	4
Relatedness and the composition of communities over time: Evaluating phylogenetic community structure in the late Cenozoic record of bivalves	4
Estimating spatial variation in origination and extinction in deep time: a case study using the Permian–Triassic marine invertebrate fossil record	3
Quantifying shell outline variability in extant and fossilLaqueus(Brachiopoda: Terebratulida): are outlines good proxies for long-looped brachidial morphology and can they help us characterize	3
A quantitative assessment of ontogeny and molting in a Cambrian radiodont and the evolution of arthropod development	3
Spatial point pattern analysis of traces (SPPAT): An approach for visualizing and quantifying site-selectivity patterns of drilling predators	3
Developmental change during a speciation event: evidence from planktic foraminifera	3
Frog limbs in deep time: is jumping locomotion at the roots of the anuran Bauplan?	3
The chondrichthyan fossil record of the Florida Platform (Eocene–Pleistocene)	3

Linking host plants to damage types in the fossil record of insect herbivory	3
The life and times of Pteridinium simplex	3
Permian–Triassic phylogenetic and morphologic evolution of rhynchonellide brachiopods	3
A downcore increase in time averaging is the null expectation from the transit of death assemblages through a mixed layer	3
Reassessing growth and mortality estimates for the Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus eatoni	3
Coupling of geographic range and provincialism in Cambrian marine invertebrates	3
Carbonate shelf development and early Paleozoic benthic diversity in Baltica: a hierarchical diversity partitioning approach using brachiopod data	3
The environmental factors limiting the distribution of shallow-water terebratulid brachiopods	3
Intraspecific facial bite marks in tyrannosaurids provide insight into sexual maturity and evolution of bird-like intersexual display	3
The Pull of the Recent revisited: negligible species-level effect in a regional marine fossil record	3
Seasonal paleoecological records from antler collagen δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N	2
Controls on range shifts of coastal Californian bivalves during the peak of the last interglacial and baseline predictions for today	2
Dietary and body-mass reconstruction of the Miocene neotropical batNotonycteris magdalenensis(Phyllostomidae) from La Venta, Colombia	2
Patterns and processes in the history of body size in turritelline gastropods, Jurassic to Recent	2
Relative species abundance and population densities of the past: developing multispecies occupancy models for fossil data	2
A new approach for investigating spatial relationships of ichnofossils: a case study of Ediacaran–Cambrian animal traces	2
Bivalve growth and the invisible hand of heterogeneity	2
Frond orientations with independent current indicators demonstrate the reclining rheotropic mode of life of several Ediacaran rangeomorph taxa	2
Body size correlates with discrete-character morphological proxies	2
Morphometric analysis ofSkiagia-plexus acritarchs from the early Cambrian of North Greenland: toward a meaningful evaluation of phenotypic plasticity	2
Insights for modern invasion ecology from biotic changes of the Clarksville Phase of the Richmondian Invasion (Ordovician, Katian)	2
Growth allometry and dental topography in Upper Triassic conodonts support trophic differentiation and molar-like element function	2
Blood flow rates to leg bones of extinct birds indicate high levels of cursorial locomotion	2
The Phanerozoic aftermath of the Cambrian information revolution: sensory and cognitive complexity in marine faunas	2
Morphological conservatism of the family Naticidae (Gastropoda) through time: potential causes and consequences	2
Convergence, parallelism, and function of extreme parietal callus in diverse groups of Cenozoic Gastropoda	2
History of Native American land and natural resource policy in the United States: impacts on the field of paleontology	2
Developmental plasticity in deep time: a window to population ecological inference	2
Size and shape variation in the calcareous nannoplankton genusBraarudosphaerafollowing the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) mass extinction: clues as to its evolutionary success	2
Geographic contingency, not species sorting, dominates macroevolutionary dynamics in an extinct clade of neogastropods (Volutospina; Volutidae)	2
Ontogeny in the steinmanellines (Bivalvia: Trigoniida): an intra- and interspecific appraisal using the Early Cretaceous faunas from the Neuquén Basin as a case study	2
Why the long teeth? Morphometric analysis suggests different selective pressures on functional occlusal traits in Plio-Pleistocene African suids	2
Latest Maastrichtian middle- and high-latitude mosasaurs and fish isotopic composition: carbon source, thermoregulation strategy, and thermal latitudinal gradient	2
Diversification trajectories and paleobiogeography of Neogene chondrichthyans from Europe	2