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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Ankylosaurian body armor function and evolution with insights from osteohistology and morphometrics of new specimens from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica	35
PAB volume 49 issue 4 Cover	25
Fossil Lagerstätten and the enigma of anactualistic fossil preservation	24
PAB volume 50 issue 1 Cover	24
Aligning paleobiological research with conservation priorities using elasmobranchs as a model	18
The category-modifier system: a hierarchical classification scheme for vertebrate tooth marks	17
Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States	16
Understanding the appearance of heterospory and derived plant reproductive strategies in the Devonian	16
From fossils to phylogenies: exploring the integration of paleontological data into Bayesian phylogenetic inference	15
PAB volume 49 issue 3 Cover	15
Punctuated equilibria and a general theory of biology	15
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction – CORRIGENDUM	14
Marine biological responses to abrupt climate change in deep time	14
Growth rate affects blood flow rate to the tibia of the dinosaur Maiasaura	13
Paleobiogeographic insights gained from ecological niche models: progress and continued challenges	13
History of Native American land and natural resource policy in the United States: impacts on the field of paleontology	13
A new approach for investigating spatial relationships of ichnofossils: a case study of Ediacaran–Cambrian animal traces	12
Spatial heterogeneity in benthic foraminiferal assemblages tracks regional impacts of paleoenvironmental change across Cretaceous OAE2	12
The evolution of hearing and brain size in Eocene whales	10
Global Phanerozoic biodiversity—can variation be explained by spatial sampling intensity?	10
Is 3D, a more accurate quantitative method than 2D, crucial for analyzing disparity patterns in extinct marine arthropods (Trilobita)?	9
Influence of phylogeny on the estimation of diet from dental morphology in the Carnivora	9
PAB volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	9
Rise and diversification of chondrichthyans in the Paleozoic	9
Reflections on punctuated equilibria	9

Paleodiet of Lamini camelids (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the Pleistocene of southern Brazil: insights from stable isotope analysis (δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O)	8
Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite), South Australia	8
The taphonomic clock in fish otoliths	8
Growth allometry and dental topography in Upper Triassic conodonts support trophic differentiation and molar-like element function	8
Drilling predation on Early Jurassic bivalves and behavioral patterns of the presumed gastropod predator—evidence from Pliensbachian soft-bottom deposits of northern Germany	8
PAB volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	8
The chondrichthyan fossil record of the Florida Platform (Eocene–Pleistocene)	7
The extended common cause: causal links between punctuated evolution and sedimentary processes – ERRATUM	7
A new biomechanical approach to cranial suture function: the role of contact elements in linear and nonlinear models	7
The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things	7
Geometric morphometrics as a tool for evaluating Eublastoidea morphological variation	7
Developmental plasticity in deep time: a window to population ecological inference	7
Biotic and abiotic factors and the phylogenetic structure of extinction in the evolution of Tethysuchia	7
Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans	7
Developmental change during a speciation event: evidence from planktic foraminifera	6
Latitudinal influences on bryozoan calcification through the Paleozoic	6
Applying the Prigogine view of dissipative systems to the major transitions in evolution	6
Hydrodynamic trade-offs in potential swimming efficiency of planispiral ammonoids	6
Endocranial morphology of three early-diverging ceratopsians and implications for the behavior and the evolution of the endocast in ceratopsians	5
The sponge pump as a morphological character in the fossil record	5
PAB volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	5
Diversification trajectories and paleobiogeography of Neogene chondrichthyans from Europe	5
PAB volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	5
On calibrating the completometer for the mammalian fossil record	5
PAB volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	5
Terrestrialization: toward a shared framework for ecosystem evolution	4
PAB volume 50 issue 2 Cover	4
Growth of the enigmatic Ediacaran Parvancorina minchami	4
Carbonate shelf development and early Paleozoic benthic diversity in Baltica: a hierarchical diversity partitioning approach using brachiopod data	4
Ontogenetic mechanisms of size change: implications for the Lilliput effect and beyond	4
PAB volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
Our past creates our present: a brief overview of racism and colonialism in Western paleontology	4
Early eukaryote diversity: a review and a reinterpretation	4
An abundance- and morphology-based similarity index	4
Relative species abundance and population densities of the past: developing multispecies occupancy models for fossil data	4
Death on “live broadcast”—fish mortichnia from the Upper Cretaceous plattenkalk of Lebanon	3
Morphological evolution in a time of phenomics	3
Ultrastructural evidence shows adaptation to a pelagic lifestyle in Ordovician caryocaridids (Crustacea: phyllocarida)	3
Reassessment of body temperature and thermoregulation strategies in Mesozoic marine reptiles	3
Mass extinctions and their rebounds: a macroevolutionary framework	3
Evolvability in the fossil record	3
Size-driven preservational and macroecological biases in the latest Maastrichtian terrestrial vertebrate assemblages of North America	3
Small but mighty: how overlooked small species maintain community structure through middle Eocene climate change	3
Intraspecific facial bite marks in tyrannosaurids provide insight into sexual maturity and evolution of bird-like intersexual display	3
PAB volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	3
The paleobiologic implications of modern nonmarine ecological gradients	3
Understanding the ecology of host plant–insect herbivore interactions in the fossil record through bipartite networks—Corrigendum	3
PAB volume 51 issue 1 Cover	3
Selecting and averaging relaxed clock models in Bayesian tip dating of Mesozoic birds	3
Data equity in paleobiology: progress, challenges, and future outlook	2

Diversification dynamics of vegetation during the Cenozoic in the Neotropics: a palynological perspective from Colombia	2
Latest Maastrichtian middle- and high-latitude mosasaurs and fish isotopic composition: carbon source, thermoregulation strategy, and thermal latitudinal gradient	2
Punctuated equilibrium: state of the evidence	2
Reassessing growth and mortality estimates for the Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus eatoni	2
Changing diets over time: knock-on effects of marine megafauna overexploitation on their competitors in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean	2
Reevaluating climate change responses in Rancho La Brea birds and mammals: new dates and new data	2
PAB volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Morphological trends across the Norian/Rhaetian boundary within Late Triassic conodonts in western Canada: implications for protracted paleoenvironmental disturbance preceding the end-Triassic mass ex	2
Stratigraphic paleobiology	2
Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: capacity building for the big data future	2
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction	2
Bivalve body-size distribution through the Late Triassic mass extinction event	2
Sediment-encased pressure–temperature maturation experiments elucidate the impact of diagenesis on melanin-based fossil color and its paleobiological implications	2
Automatic taxonomic identification based on the Fossil Image Dataset (>415,000 images) and deep convolutional neural networks	2
Coupling of geographic range and provincialism in Cambrian marine invertebrates	2
Blood flow rates to leg bones of extinct birds indicate high levels of cursorial locomotion	2
James Valentine (20 November 1926–7 April 2023), co-founder of Paleobiology and master of idiographically informed nomothetism	2
Environmental correlates of molluscan predator–prey body size in the northern Gulf of Mexico	2