OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Paleobiology is 5. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Our past creates our present: a brief overview of racism and colonialism in Western paleontology	25
Understanding the ecology of host plant–insect herbivore interactions in the fossil record through bipartite networks	20
Exceptional multifunctionality in the feeding apparatus of a mid-Cambrian radiodont	20
Automatic taxonomic identification based on the Fossil Image Dataset (>415,000 images) and deep convolutional neural networks	17
Evolution, diversity, and disparity of the tiger shark lineageGaleocerdoin deep time	16
Evolvability in the fossil record	16
Reconstructing dietary ecology of extinct strepsirrhines (Primates, Mammalia) with new approaches for characterizing and analyzing tooth shape	16
The rise to dominance of lanternfishes (Teleostei: Myctophidae) in the oceanic ecosystems: a paleontological perspective	15
The taphonomic clock in fish otoliths	14
Machine learning identifies ecological selectivity patterns across the end-Permian mass extinction	14
Disentangling ecological and taphonomic signals in ancient food webs	14
Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxonomic diversity during the end-Permian mass extinction	13
Fossil bivalves and the sclerochronological reawakening	11
Photosymbiosis in planktonic foraminifera across the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum	11
The effects of geographic range size and abundance on extinction during a time of “sluggish”’ evolution	10
On calibrating the completometer for the mammalian fossil record	10
Fossilized pollen malformations as indicators of past environmental stress and meiotic disruption: insights from modern conifers	10
The structure of the nonmarine fossil record: predictions from a coupled stratigraphic–paleoecological model of a coastal basin	10
Paleohistological inferences of thermometabolic regimes in Notosuchia (Pseudosuchia: Crocodylomorpha) revisited	9
Size-driven preservational and macroecological biases in the latest Maastrichtian terrestrial vertebrate assemblages of North America	9
Challenges and directions in analytical paleobiology	8
Intraspecific facial bite marks in tyrannosaurids provide insight into sexual maturity and evolution of bird-like intersexual display	8
Accounting for uncertainty from zero inflation and overdispersion in paleoecological studies of predation using a hierarchical Bayesian framework	8
Selecting and averaging relaxed clock models in Bayesian tip dating of Mesozoic birds	8
Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans	8

Combined paleohistological and isotopic inferences of thermometabolism in extinct Neosuchia, usingGoniopholisandDyrosaurus(Pseudosuchia: Crocodylomorpha) as case studies	8
Evaluating the responses of three closely related small mammal lineages to climate change across the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum	7
The sponge pump as a morphological character in the fossil record	7
Is the hyoid a constraint on innovation? A study in convergence driving feeding in fish-shaped marine tetrapods	7
Ediacara growing pains: modular addition and development in Dickinsonia costata	7
Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca ratios support trophic partitioning within a Silurian conodont community from Gotland, Sweden	7
Absolute axial growth and trunk segmentation in the early Cambrian trilobite Oryctocarella duyunensis	7
The geography of phylogenetic paleoecology: integrating data and methods to better understand biotic response to climate change	7
Estimating spatial variation in origination and extinction in deep time: a case study using the Permian–Triassic marine invertebrate fossil record	6
Did shell-crushing predators drive the evolution of ammonoid septal shape?	6
Fitting and evaluating univariate and multivariate models of within-lineage evolution	6
The life and times of Pteridinium simplex	6
Influence of phylogeny on the estimation of diet from dental morphology in the Carnivora	6
Diversification trajectories and paleobiogeography of Neogene chondrichthyans from Europe	6
Bedrock geological map predictions for Phanerozoic fossil occurrences	5
Does evolutionary relatedness predict ecological similarity?	5
The role of bioturbation-driven substrate disturbance in the Mesozoic brachiopod decline	5
Going round the twist—an empirical analysis of shell coiling in helicospiral gastropods	5
Frond orientations with independent current indicators demonstrate the reclining rheotropic mode of life of several Ediacaran rangeomorph taxa	5
Hearing from the ocean and into the river: the evolution of the inner ear of Platanistoidea (Cetacea: Odontoceti)	5
Phylogenetic paleoecology: macroecology within an evolutionary framework	5
A biased fossil record can preserve reliable phylogenetic signal	5