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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Improved estimation of macroevolutionary rates from fossil data using a Bayesian framework	58
How to build a dinosaur: Musculoskeletal modeling and simulation of locomotor biomechanics in extinct animals	54
The Burgess Shale paleocommunity with new insights from Marble Canyon, British Columbia	39
Assessing the impact of incomplete species sampling on estimates of speciation and extinction rates	24
Cretaceous–Paleogene plant extinction and recovery in Patagonia	23
Body size, sampling completeness, and extinction risk in the marine fossil record	18
A new method for quantifying heterochrony in evolutionary lineages	16
Toward an understanding of cosmopolitanism in deep time: a case study of ammonoids from the middle Permian to the Middle Triassic	16
Exceptional multifunctionality in the feeding apparatus of a mid-Cambrian radiodont	14
Macroevolutionary patterns of body plan canalization in euarthropods	13
Early Paleocene tropical forest from the Ojo Alamo Sandstone, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA	13
On four measures of taxonomic richness	13
Understanding the ecology of host plant–insect herbivore interactions in the fossil record through bipartite networks	13
Seven rules for simulations in paleobiology	12
A method to the madness: Ontogenetic changes in the hydrostatic properties of Didymoceras (Nostoceratidae: Ammonoidea)	12
Evolvability in the fossil record	12
Our past creates our present: a brief overview of racism and colonialism in Western paleontology	11
Relationships of mass properties and body proportions to locomotor habit in terrestrial Archosauria	11
Bill disparity and feeding strategies among fossil and modern penguins	11
Reconstructing dietary ecology of extinct strepsirrhines (Primates, Mammalia) with new approaches for characterizing and analyzing tooth shape	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
Disentangling ecological and taphonomic signals in ancient food webs	11
Size variations in foraminifers from the early Permian to the Late Triassic: implications for the Guadalupian–Lopingian and the Permian–Triassic mass extinctions	11
Estimating dispersal and evolutionary dynamics in diploporan blastozoans (Echinodermata) across the great Ordovician biodiversification event	10
The many faces of synapsid cranial allometry	10

A framework for the integrated analysis of the magnitude, selectivity, and biotic effects of extinction and origination	10
Evolution, diversity, and disparity of the tiger shark lineage Galeocerdo in deep time	10
Increasing the salience of marine live–dead data in the Anthropocene	10
The taphonomic clock in fish otoliths	10
Evaluating Devonian bioregionalization: quantifying biogeographic areas	10
Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxonomic diversity during the end-Permian mass extinction	9
Photosymbiosis in planktonic foraminifera across the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum	9
The rise to dominance of lanternfishes (Teleostei: Myctophidae) in the oceanic ecosystems: a paleontological perspective	8
Ephemeral species in the fossil record? Synchronous coupling of macroevolutionary dynamics in mid-Paleozoic zooplankton	8
Extinction of North AmericanCuvieronius(Mammalia: Proboscidea: Gomphotheriidae) driven by dietary resource competition with sympatric mammoths and mastodons	8
Automatic taxonomic identification based on the Fossil Image Dataset (>415,000 images) and deep convolutional neural networks	8
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	7
Evolution of reproductive strategies in coleoid mollusks	7
Bony lesions in early tetrapods and the evolution of mineralized tissue repair	7
Machine learning identifies ecological selectivity patterns across the end-Permian mass extinction	7
The effects of geographic range size and abundance on extinction during a time of “sluggish”’ evolution	7
Hierarchical controls on extinction selectivity across the diplobathrid crinoid phylogeny	7
Fossil bivalves and the sclerochronological reawakening	7
Verifiability of genus-level classification under quantification and parsimony theories: a case study of follicucullid radiolarians	6
Size-driven preservational and macroecological biases in the latest Maastrichtian terrestrial vertebrate assemblages of North America	6
Paleobiogeography, paleoecology, diversity, and speciation patterns in the Eublastoidea (Blastozoa: Echinodermata)	6
The geography of phylogenetic paleoecology: integrating data and methods to better understand biotic response to climate change	6
Aragonite bias exhibits systematic spatial variation in the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, North America	6
Strangers in a strange land: Ecological dissimilarity to metatherian carnivores may partly explain early colonization of South America by Cyonasua-group procyonids	6
Absolute axial growth and trunk segmentation in the early Cambrian trilobite Oryctocarella duyunensis	6
Accounting for uncertainty from zero inflation and overdispersion in paleoecological studies of predation using a hierarchical Bayesian framework	6
In search of predictive models for stenolaemate morphometry across the skeletal–polypide divide	6
Evaluating the responses of three closely related small mammal lineages to climate change across the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum	6
Principal component analysis of avian hind limb and foot morphometrics and the relationship between ecology and phylogeny	6