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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
PAB volume 49 issue 4 Cover	29
PAB volume 50 issue 1 Cover	23
Taking the temperature of punctuated equilibrium on its semicentennial	22
Ankylosaurian body armor function and evolution with insights from osteohistology and morphometrics of new specimens from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica	21
Fossil Lagerstätten and the enigma of anactualistic fossil preservation	16
Understanding the appearance of heterospory and derived plant reproductive strategies in the Devonian	15
The category-modifier system: a hierarchical classification scheme for vertebrate tooth marks	15
Aligning paleobiological research with conservation priorities using elasmobranchs as a model	15
Addressing the “open world”: detecting and segmenting pollen on palynological slides with deep learning	14
From fossils to phylogenies: exploring the integration of paleontological data into Bayesian phylogenetic inference	14
PAB volume 49 issue 3 Cover	14
Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States	14
History of Native American land and natural resource policy in the United States: impacts on the field of paleontology	13
Marine biological responses to abrupt climate change in deep time	12
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction – CORRIGENDUM	12
Punctuated equilibria and a general theory of biology	12
Spatial heterogeneity in benthic foraminiferal assemblages tracks regional impacts of paleoenvironmental change across Cretaceous OAE2	11
Growth rate affects blood flow rate to the tibia of the dinosaur Maiasaura	11
Paleobiogeographic insights gained from ecological niche models: progress and continued challenges	11
The evolution of hearing and brain size in Eocene whales	11
Global Phanerozoic biodiversity—can variation be explained by spatial sampling intensity?	10
A new approach for investigating spatial relationships of ichnofossils: a case study of Ediacaran–Cambrian animal traces	10
Rise and diversification of chondrichthyans in the Paleozoic	10
PAB volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	9
Is 3D, a more accurate quantitative method than 2D, crucial for analyzing disparity patterns in extinct marine arthropods (Trilobita)?	9

Functional aspects of the headshield processes in ostracoderms	8
Reflections on punctuated equilibria	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
Bayesian inference of phylogenetic trees is not misled by correlated discrete morphological characters	8
Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite), South Australia	8
The chondrichthyan fossil record of the Florida Platform (Eocene–Pleistocene)	8
Growth allometry and dental topography in Upper Triassic conodonts support trophic differentiation and molar-like element function	8
Geometric morphometrics as a tool for evaluating Eublastoidea morphological variation	7
Paleodiet of Lamini camelids (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the Pleistocene of southern Brazil: insights from stable isotope analysis (δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O)	7
Larval brooding correlated with high early origination rates in cheilostome Bryozoa	7
PAB volume 51 issue 3 Cover	7
The extended common cause: causal links between punctuated evolution and sedimentary processes – ERRATUM	7
Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans	6
Applying the Prigogine view of dissipative systems to the major transitions in evolution	6
Latitudinal influences on bryozoan calcification through the Paleozoic	6
The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things	6
Hydrodynamic trade-offs in potential swimming efficiency of planispiral ammonoids	6
Diversification trajectories and paleobiogeography of Neogene chondrichthyans from Europe	6
PAB volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	6
Developmental plasticity in deep time: a window to population ecological inference	6
A new biomechanical approach to cranial suture function: the role of contact elements in linear and nonlinear models	6
PAB volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	6
Distinguishing punctuated and continuous-time models of character evolution for discrete characters and the implications for macroevolutionary theory	6
Biotic and abiotic factors and the phylogenetic structure of extinction in the evolution of Tethysuchia	6