OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Paleobiology is 6. 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
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
The rise to dominance of lanternfishes (Teleostei: Myctophidae) in the oceanic ecosystems: a paleontological perspective	11
The taphonomic clock in fish otoliths	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

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
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
Fossilized pollen malformations as indicators of past environmental stress and meiotic disruption: insights from modern conifers	8
The effects of geographic range size and abundance on extinction during a time of “sluggish”’ evolution	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