OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Ethology is 0. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Reproductive behavior of endangered spined loach Cobitis magnostriata in the field	11
Observations of flipper rubbing in mother–calf pairs of captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) suggest a body-surface care function	10
Behavioral responses of the Japanese freshwater crab, Geothelphusa dehaani, to the leech, Myxobdella sinanensis	9
Basking aggregations in the adder (Vipera berus): attraction to conspecific cues or to scarce suitable microhabitats?	8
Small males of the fiddler crab Austruca perplexa court more in the off-peak breeding period when large males court less	7
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2021	6
Differences in mating tactics performed by males of two local populations of the Japanese scorpionfly Panorpa japonica	6
Are two South-Western Atlantic wrasses involved in a case of social mimicry?	5
Shorter-legged males start breeding earlier in the barn swallow	4
Does food play a prominent role in visual attention to disgusting stimuli?	4
Chemical compounds of a Neotropical plant constrain the anti-predator behaviour of sympatric tadpoles	4
Relationships of wingtip shape, song-flight and mating success in male black-headed buntings Emberiza melanocephala	4
Aggregation pheromone interrupts death feigning in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	4
Home range use in the West Australian seahorse Hippocampus subelongatus is influenced by sex and partner’s home range but not by body size or paired status	4
Video evidence of unusual antler-gnawing behavior of sika deer (Cervus nippon) in central Japan	3
Black-headed gulls are more wary of people dressed in red: a test of the concealment color hypothesis	3
A theory of spawning habitat selection in anurans	3
Spatio-temporal variation influences the division of labour in Pseudomyrmex concolor Smith (Formicidae: Pseudomyrmecinae)	3
Correction to: Wing‑waving behaviors are used for conspecific display in the Japanese scorpionfly, Panorpa japonica	3
Snake herders: novel anti-predator behavior by black-tailed prairie dogs in response to prairie rattlesnakes	3
Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) predatory flexible feeding behaviors on schooling fish	3
Correction: Polyandry works as bet-hedging in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, even after eliminating females in poor condition that cannot accept remating	3
Onset of estivation in western sand lance Ammodytes japonicus is not solely triggered by elevating water temperature	3
Behavioural interactions between a threatened native killifish and the alien invasive Eastern mosquitofish	3
Bigger male Eurasian nuthatches (Sitta europaea) behave more aggressively in playback-simulated territorial intrusion	3

Correction to: Defensive spray by a semiaquatic osmylid larva (Insecta: Neuroptera) for both aquatic and terrestrial predators	3
Mate search or predation avoidance? Sex pheromone interrupts death feigning of males in the sweet potato weevil Cylas formicarius	3
An empirical test of bet-hedging polyandry hypothesis in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus	3
No trans-generational maternal effects of early-life corticosterone exposure on neophobia and antipredator behaviour in the house sparrow	2
Risk-taking behavior in birds foraging along interurban roads	2
Group definition for underwater observation of wild Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins	2
Temporary division of roles in group hunting for fish eggs by a coral reef fish	2
Does a roosting flock of migratory birds also echelon in high winds?	2
Nest defence by woodpeckers from inside vs. outside the cavity against the intruder	2
Effect of diet quality on food consumption and body mass in Microtus pennsylvanicus	2
Effects of human approach directness and path use on small mammal risk perception	2
Relationship between death-feigning behavior and population density in a beetle	2
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2023	2
Size-dependent predation risk in cryptic prey	2
Social parasitism behavior between two species of edible wasps in China	2
Inter-population variation and phenotypic plasticity in kairomone use by a poly-specialist spider-eating predator	2
Collective movements during visits to water bodies in wild Asian elephants	2
Cooperative den maintenance between male Japanese badgers that are delayed dispersers and their mothers	2
Cryptic bachelor sex change in haremic colonial groups of the coral-dwelling damselfish Dascyllus reticulatus	2
Social play and affiliation as possible coping strategies in a group of Maremmana beef cattle	2
A message from new editor-in-chief	2
Day-after impact of simulated rival encounter in the common cuckoo	2
Diet color affects female preference for mate color in the guppy Poecilia reticulata	2
Defensive spray by a semiaquatic osmylid larva (Insecta: Neuroptera) for both aquatic and terrestrial predators	2
Correction to: Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) predatory flexible feeding behaviors on schooling fish	2
Correction to: An empirical test of bet-hedging polyandry hypothesis in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus	2
Observation of yawn-like behavior in a dugong (Dugong dugon)	1
Correction: Mite dilemma: molting to acquire sexual maturity or not molting to ensure durability and dispersal ability in Phorytocarpais fimetorum (Parasitiformes; Gamasida; Parasitidae)	1
Encounter with heavier females changes courtship and fighting efforts of male field crickets Gryllus bimaculatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)	1
Sexual horn dimorphism predicts the expression of active personality trait: males perform better only in the sexually horn dimorphic Onthophagus dung beetle	1
Addendum to: harmonic and temporal structure of electric organ discharges of the wave-type in Amazonian knifefishes (Gymnotiformes). [Journal of Ethology, 37 (2019), 1–11]	1
Routine metabolic rate correlates with swimming speed in medaka	1
Subjective resource value affects aggressive behavior independently of resource-holding-potential and color morphs in male common wall lizard	1
Mite dilemma: molting to acquire sexual maturity or not molting to ensure durability and dispersal ability in Phorytocarpais fimetorum (Parasitiformes; Gamasida; Parasitidae)	1
Wing-waving behaviors are used for conspecific display in the Japanese scorpionfly, Panorpa japonica	1
Polyandry works as bet-hedging in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, even after eliminating females in poor condition that cannot accept remating	1
Correction: Cooperative den maintenance between male Japanese badgers that are delayed dispersers and their mothers	1
Correction: Reddish male swallows have short sperm	1
Dendropsophus minutus (Hylidae) tadpole evaluation of predation risk by fishing spiders (Thaumasia sp.: Pisauridae) is modulated by size and social environment	1
Locomotion and flow speed preferences in natural habitats by large water striders, Ptilomera tigrina, with micro-morphological adaptations for rowing	1
Correction: Diet color affects female preference for mate color in the guppy Poecilia reticulata	1
Agonistic behavior and feeding competition in the largest piranha species, Pygocentrus piraya, in a zoo	0
Effect of artificial light on activity in frugivorous bats (Pteropodidae)	0
Adaptive foraging tactics of greater short-nosed fruit bats on a spiny shrub and its effect on seed dispersal	0
A preliminary study on habitat selection of the Japanese serow (Capricornis crispus) at two temporal scales, season and time of day, in a montane forest	0
Correction to: Encounter with heavier females changes courtship and fighting efforts of male field crickets Gryllus bimaculatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)	0
Stone handling in geladas (Theropithecus gelada): implications for spontaneous drawing-like activity as a playful behavior	0
Correction: Optimal pit site selection in antlion larvae: the relationship between prey availability and pit maintenance costs	0
Correction: Sexual horn dimorphism predicts the expression of active personality trait: males perform better only in the sexually horn dimorphic Onthophagus dung beetle	0
Interspecific variability of the external female genital mutilation rate and its relationship with female aggression and sexual cannibalism in Cyclosa spiders	0

Fight outcome influences male mating success in Drosophila prolongata	0
Season does not influence the response of great tits (Parus major) to allopatric mobbing calls	0
Crabby commotions: visual not vibrational-orientated searching behaviours guide aggregation formation around key resources	0
2021 Editor's Choice Award and Editor's Choice Articles	0
Navigating from live to virtual social interactions: looking at but not manipulating smartphones provokes a spontaneous mimicry response in the observers	0
The origination events of gametic sexual reproduction and anisogamy	0
The use of social information about predation risk by foraging house sparrows: a feeder experiment	0
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2022	0
Correction to: Another usage of autotomized penis	0
European badger's mating activities associated with moon phase	0
Large-scale spatial pattern of bird responses to a potential predator suggests that predator-specific mobbing is a plastic trait	0
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2020	0
Female cuckoo calls elicit anti-predatory behavior in birds	0
Reddish male swallows have short sperm	0
Ant nesting site selection mediated by insects frass	0
Great tits alter incubation behaviour in noisy environments	0
Contest competition and injury in adult male sub-Antarctic fur seals	0
Mating behavior in the Japanese badger Meles anakuma	0
Claws and claw waving attract both sexes in the dotillid crab Ilyoplax pusilla	0
Multiple vs. single predator effects: differing experimental responses by the spotted fringe-fingered lizard (Acanthodactylus maculatus) facing aerial and terrestrial predators	0
Correction to: Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) predatory flexible feeding behaviors on schooling fish	0
Signal response is context-dependent in Polistes dominula	0
Lack of discrimination of sex and maturity of conspecifics in the copulation attempts of the male stalk-eyed fly, Sphyracephala detrahens (Diptera: Diopsidae)	0
Squirting ink may play a role in the copulation of the pygmy squid	0
Labidochromis caeruleus cichlid preference for background colour varied between individuals and groups but did not vary for body colour of other fish	0
Effects of group composition on social foraging in cattle: inclusion of a leader cow in replacement of a follower facilitates expansion of grazing distribution patterns of beef cows	0
Vole hunting: novel predatory and carnivorous behavior by California ground squirrels	0
Movement orders in spontaneous group movements in cattle: 6-year monitoring of a beef cow herd with changing composition	0
Cost of defensive spraying by larval Osmylus hyalinatus (Neuroptera: Osmylidae) for post-larval development	0
Association between visual cues and time of day in an ant	0
2024 Editor’s Choice Award and Editor’s Choice Articles	0
Carpe diem: winner and loser effects are constrained to same-day competitions in collegiate baseball	0
Nocturnal light-specific temporal partitioning facilitates coexistence for a small mesopredator, the eastern spotted skunk	0
Communication sounds produced by captive narrow-ridged finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis)	0
Host preference of a symbiotic flatworm and its response to conspecific and host mucus	0
Geotropic, hydrokinetic and random walking differ between sympatric tick species: the deer tick Ixodes scapularis and the lone star tick Ambylomma americanum	0
Nest-relief behaviors and usage of call types in the Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)	0
Correction: Fish yawn: the state-change hypothesis in juvenile white-spotted char Salvelinus leucomaenis	0
Fish yawn: the state-change hypothesis in juvenile white-spotted char Salvelinus leucomaenis	0
Correction: Lack of discrimination of sex and maturity of conspecifics in the copulation attempts of the male stalk-eyed fly, Sphyracephala detrahens (Diptera: Diopsidae)	0
Sweet mama: affiliative interactions are related to the reproductive success of dominant female Alpine marmots (Marmota marmota)	0
Flipper rubbing reciprocity and partner choice in common bottlenose dolphins	0
2022 editor’s choice award and editor’s choice articles	0
Responses to artificial selection of dispersal activity in the circadian rhythm of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	0
In between the web and the ground: sexual encounters in the South American wolf spider Aglaoctenus oblongus	0
Predation strategy of the brown widow spider Latrodectus geometricus Koch, 1841 against prey with different defensive mechanisms	0
Antibiotics affect migratory restlessness orientation	0
Correction to: Effects of habitat conditions on the boldness and sociability of wild‑caught fish (Zacco platypus) along a river	0
Why was he murdered? The first report of the motive for conspecific killing in a flock of captive tree sparrows (Passer montanus) through direct video surveillance	0
Optimal pit site selection in antlion larvae: the relationship between prey availability and pit maintenance costs	0
Video Insights, a new category of paper	0
Do body size and habitat shape call frequencies of Brazilian hylids (Amphibia: Anura)?	0
Subterranean to submarine: stress-induced locomotor repertoire expansion and aquatic escape in the Anatolian mole rat (Nannospalax xanthodon) under risk of predation	0
Correction: Mate search or predation avoidance? Sex pheromone interrupts death feigning of males in the sweet potato weevil Cylas formicarius	0
Spatial cognitive abilities of a tide-pool fish show resilience to noise pollution	0
Small-scale migratory behavior of three facultative soaring raptors approaching a water body: a radar study investigating the effect of weather, topography and flock size	0
Behavioral patterns that determine the mating rates in a wing dimorphic riffle bug, Microvelia horvathi Lundblad, 1933 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae)	0
Reduced fitness in losers of leg-biting male combat compared to uncontested males in Zophobas atratus	0
Ritualized male–male combat resulting from intraspecific food competition in three Agkistrodon species	0
Factors influencing the duration of death feigning in Eucryptorrhynchus scrobiculatus and E. brandti (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)	0
Acoustic interactions between free-living mother–calf Antillean manatees, Trichechus manatus manatus	0
Ants’ capability of associating odors with time periods of the day	0
Comparison of mortality and feeding behavior of the false cleanerfish Aspidontus taeniatus and the lance blenny A. dussumieri regarding the effects of mimicry	0
Another usage of autotomized penis	0
2023 Editor’s Choice Award and Editor’s Choice articles	0
Effects of habitat conditions on the boldness and sociability of wild-caught fish (Zacco platypus) along a river	0
Monogamy and protandry caused by exclusion of the same sex and random pairing in anemonefishes: a simulation model and aquarium experiments	0
Sex differences in offspring discrimination in the biparental California mouse (Peromyscus californicus)	0
Dropping of apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata) by carrion crows (Corvus corone)	0
Male procurement of breeding site is valued over male size by monogamous female convict cichlids (Amatitlania nigrofasciata)	0