OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Paleobiology is 7. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
PAB volume 49 issue 4 Cover	35
Ankylosaurian body armor function and evolution with insights from osteohistology and morphometrics of new specimens from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica	25
PAB volume 50 issue 1 Cover	24
Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States	21
The category-modifier system: a hierarchical classification scheme for vertebrate tooth marks	19
Aligning paleobiological research with conservation priorities using elasmobranchs as a model	19
Addressing the “open world”: detecting and segmenting pollen on palynological slides with deep learning	16
Fossil Lagerstätten and the enigma of anactualistic fossil preservation	16
An implementation of the Brownian motion model for Bayesian phylogenetic inference using continuous traits with missing states	15
Exploring rates of change and modes of evolution in blastozoan echinoderms	15
From fossils to phylogenies: exploring the integration of paleontological data into Bayesian phylogenetic inference	14
History of Native American land and natural resource policy in the United States: impacts on the field of paleontology	14
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction – CORRIGENDUM	14
Taking the temperature of punctuated equilibrium on its semicentennial	14
Punctuated equilibria and a general theory of biology	12
AI and paleontology: effects of vertebrate fossil sample size on machine learning image classification	11
Spatial heterogeneity in benthic foraminiferal assemblages tracks regional impacts of paleoenvironmental change across Cretaceous OAE2	11
Marine biological responses to abrupt climate change in deep time	11
Rise and diversification of chondrichthyans in the Paleozoic	11
PAB volume 49 issue 3 Cover	11
Exploring the influence of cameral deposits on the stability, orientation, and maneuverability of orthocone cephalopods	10
Paleobiogeographic insights gained from ecological niche models: progress and continued challenges	10
Global Phanerozoic biodiversity—can variation be explained by spatial sampling intensity?	10
The evolution of hearing and brain size in Eocene whales	10
Growth rate affects blood flow rate to the tibia of the dinosaur Maiasaura	10

Ecological and paleontological implications of trematode-induced morphospace inflation and pallial sinus reduction in bivalve hosts	10
“Super-progenitor” species and the distribution of sampled descendants	9
Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzi	9
Growth allometry and dental topography in Upper Triassic conodonts support trophic differentiation and molar-like element function	9
Reflections on punctuated equilibria	9
Is 3D, a more accurate quantitative method than 2D, crucial for analyzing disparity patterns in extinct marine arthropods (Trilobita)?	8
Bayesian inference of phylogenetic trees is not misled by correlated discrete morphological characters	8
Geometric morphometrics as a tool for evaluating Eublastoidea morphological variation	8
Biotic and abiotic factors and the phylogenetic structure of extinction in the evolution of Tethysuchia	8
Beyond species recognition hypothesis: evolutionary trends in Abelisauridae cranial ornamentation	8
Developmental plasticity in deep time: a window to population ecological inference	8
The extended common cause: causal links between punctuated evolution and sedimentary processes – ERRATUM	8
A new biomechanical approach to cranial suture function: the role of contact elements in linear and nonlinear models	8
Functional aspects of the headshield processes in ostracoderms	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 51 issue 3 Cover	8
Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans	7
Drivers of fossil sampling heterogeneity: lessons from planktonic foraminifera	7
Gastrolith shape as an indicator of digestive function and its implications for dinosaurian digestive strategies	7
Larval brooding correlated with high early origination rates in cheilostome Bryozoa	7
Diversification trajectories and paleobiogeography of Neogene chondrichthyans from Europe	7
Distinguishing punctuated and continuous-time models of character evolution for discrete characters and the implications for macroevolutionary theory	7
The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things	7
Hydrodynamic trade-offs in potential swimming efficiency of planispiral ammonoids	7
PAB volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	7
Latitudinal influences on bryozoan calcification through the Paleozoic	7