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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Size-dependent predation risk in cryptic prey	11
Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) predatory flexible feeding behaviors on schooling fish	10
Female cuckoo calls elicit anti-predatory behavior in birds	9
Reddish male swallows have short sperm	7
Locomotion and flow speed preferences in natural habitats by large water striders, Ptilomera tigrina, with micro-morphological adaptations for rowing	7
An empirical test of bet-hedging polyandry hypothesis in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus	6
Fight outcome influences male mating success in Drosophila prolongata	6
Communication sounds produced by captive narrow-ridged finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis)	5
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	4
Does food play a prominent role in visual attention to disgusting stimuli?	4
Effects of habitat conditions on the boldness and sociability of wild-caught fish (Zacco platypus) along a river	4
Subjective resource value affects aggressive behavior independently of resource-holding-potential and color morphs in male common wall lizard	4
Factors influencing the duration of death feigning in Eucryptorrhynchus scrobiculatus and E. brandti (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)	4
Cryptic bachelor sex change in haremic colonial groups of the coral-dwelling damselfish Dascyllus reticulatus	4
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	3
Fish yawn: the state-change hypothesis in juvenile white-spotted char Salvelinus leucomaenis	3
Optimal pit site selection in antlion larvae: the relationship between prey availability and pit maintenance costs	3
Observation of yawn-like behavior in a dugong (Dugong dugon)	3
Defensive spray by a semiaquatic osmylid larva (Insecta: Neuroptera) for both aquatic and terrestrial predators	3
Flipper rubbing reciprocity and partner choice in common bottlenose dolphins	3
Navigating from live to virtual social interactions: looking at but not manipulating smartphones provokes a spontaneous mimicry response in the observers	3
Stone handling in geladas (Theropithecus gelada): implications for spontaneous drawing-like activity as a playful behavior	3
Dendropsophus minutus (Hylidae) tadpole evaluation of predation risk by fishing spiders (Thaumasia sp.: Pisauridae) is modulated by size and social environment	3
The origination events of gametic sexual reproduction and anisogamy	3
Responses to artificial selection of dispersal activity in the circadian rhythm of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	3

Season does not influence the response of great tits (Parus major) to allopatric mobbing calls	3
Predation strategy of the brown widow spider Latrodectus geometricus Koch, 1841 against prey with different defensive mechanisms	3
Social play and affiliation as possible coping strategies in a group of Maremmana beef cattle	3
Temporary division of roles in group hunting for fish eggs by a coral reef fish	2
Black-headed gulls are more wary of people dressed in red: a test of the concealment color hypothesis	2
Geotropic, hydrokinetic and random walking differ between sympatric tick species: the deer tick Ixodes scapularis and the lone star tick Ambylomma americanum	2
Monogamy and protandry caused by exclusion of the same sex and random pairing in anemonefishes: a simulation model and aquarium experiments	2
Cost of defensive spraying by larval Osmylus hyalinatus (Neuroptera: Osmylidae) for post-larval development	2
Antibiotics affect migratory restlessness orientation	2
Encounter with heavier females changes courtship and fighting efforts of male field crickets Gryllus bimaculatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)	2
Overwintering strategy and longevity of European small carpenter bees (Ceratina)	2
Inter-population variation and phenotypic plasticity in kairomone use by a poly-specialist spider-eating predator	2
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	2
Nocturnal light-specific temporal partitioning facilitates coexistence for a small mesopredator, the eastern spotted skunk	2
Another usage of autotomized penis	2
Lack of discrimination of sex and maturity of conspecifics in the copulation attempts of the male stalk-eyed fly, Sphyracephala detrahens (Diptera: Diopsidae)	2
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	2
Mite dilemma: molting to acquire sexual maturity or not molting to ensure durability and dispersal ability in Phorytocarpais fimetorum (Parasitiformes; Gamasida; Parasitidae)	2
Cooperative den maintenance between male Japanese badgers that are delayed dispersers and their mothers	2
Nest defence by woodpeckers from inside vs. outside the cavity against the intruder	2
Comparison of mortality and feeding behavior of the false cleanerfish Aspidontus taeniatus and the lance blenny A. dussumieri regarding the effects of mimicry	2
Spatial cognitive abilities of a tide-pool fish show resilience to noise pollution	2
Behavioral patterns that determine the mating rates in a wing dimorphic riffle bug, Microvelia horvathi Lundblad, 1933 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae)	2
Signal response is context-dependent in Polistes dominula	2
Adaptive foraging tactics of greater short-nosed fruit bats on a spiny shrub and its effect on seed dispersal	2
Wing-waving behaviors are used for conspecific display in the Japanese scorpionfly, Panorpa japonica	2
The use of social information about predation risk by foraging house sparrows: a feeder experiment	1
Carpe diem: winner and loser effects are constrained to same-day competitions in collegiate baseball	1
Sexual horn dimorphism predicts the expression of active personality trait: males perform better only in the sexually horn dimorphic Onthophagus dung beetle	1
Onset of estivation in western sand lance Ammodytes japonicus is not solely triggered by elevating water temperature	1
Small males of the fiddler crab Austruca perplexa court more in the off-peak breeding period when large males court less	1
Association between visual cues and time of day in an ant	1
Ritualized male–male combat resulting from intraspecific food competition in three Agkistrodon species	1
Characterization of the reproductive behaviour of the roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus)	1
Relationship between death-feigning behavior and population density in a beetle	1
Relationships of wingtip shape, song-flight and mating success in male black-headed buntings Emberiza melanocephala	1
Observations of flipper rubbing in mother–calf pairs of captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) suggest a body-surface care function	1
Movement orders in spontaneous group movements in cattle: 6-year monitoring of a beef cow herd with changing composition	1
European badger's mating activities associated with moon phase	1
Male procurement of breeding site is valued over male size by monogamous female convict cichlids (Amatitlania nigrofasciata)	1
Correction to: Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) predatory flexible feeding behaviors on schooling fish	1
Basking aggregations in the adder (Vipera berus): attraction to conspecific cues or to scarce suitable microhabitats?	1
Agonistic behavior and feeding competition in the largest piranha species, Pygocentrus piraya, in a zoo	1
Group definition for underwater observation of wild Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins	0
Do body size and habitat shape call frequencies of Brazilian hylids (Amphibia: Anura)?	0
Diet color affects female preference for mate color in the guppy Poecilia reticulata	0
Nest-relief behaviors and usage of call types in the Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)	0
Day-after impact of simulated rival encounter in the common cuckoo	0
Correction to: Experimental tail shortening affects feeding rate depending on original tail length in female barn swallows Hirundo rustica gutturalis	0
Does a roosting flock of migratory birds also echelon in high winds?	0

Correction to: Widespread army ant aversion among East African jumping spiders (Salticidae)	0
Mate search or predation avoidance? Sex pheromone interrupts death feigning of males in the sweet potato weevil Cylas formicarius	0
Correction to: Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) predatory flexible feeding behaviors on schooling fish	0
Reduced fitness in losers of leg-biting male combat compared to uncontested males in Zophobas atratus	0
Bigger male Eurasian nuthatches (Sitta europaea) behave more aggressively in playback-simulated territorial intrusion	0
Claws and claw waving attract both sexes in the dotillid crab Ilyoplax pusilla	0
Crabby commotions: visual not vibrational-orientated searching behaviours guide aggregation formation around key resources	0
Video evidence of unusual antler-gnawing behavior of sika deer (Cervus nippon) in central Japan	0
In between the web and the ground: sexual encounters in the South American wolf spider Aglaoctenus oblongus	0
2020 Editor’s Choice Award and Editor’s Choice Articles	0
Aggregation pheromone interrupts death feigning in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	0
Sex differences in offspring discrimination in the biparental California mouse (Peromyscus californicus)	0
Contest competition and injury in adult male sub-Antarctic fur seals	0
Reproductive behavior of endangered spined loach Cobitis magnostriata in the field	0
Correction: Cooperative den maintenance between male Japanese badgers that are delayed dispersers and their mothers	0
Differences in mating tactics performed by males of two local populations of the Japanese scorpionfly Panorpa japonica	0
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2023	0
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2020	0
Effects of human approach directness and path use on small mammal risk perception	0
Correction to: Another usage of autotomized penis	0
Climbing behavior of guarding males in the hermit crab Pagurus minutus: the effect of rivals, female size, and being weaponless	0
2023 Editor’s Choice Award and Editor’s Choice articles	0
Correction to: An empirical test of bet-hedging polyandry hypothesis in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus	0
Correction to: Encounter with heavier females changes courtship and fighting efforts of male field crickets Gryllus bimaculatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)	0
Correction: Optimal pit site selection in antlion larvae: the relationship between prey availability and pit maintenance costs	0
Social parasitism behavior between two species of edible wasps in China	0
Effect of diet quality on food consumption and body mass in Microtus pennsylvanicus	0
Correction to: Effects of habitat conditions on the boldness and sociability of wild‑caught fish (Zacco platypus) along a river	0
Snake herders: novel anti-predator behavior by black-tailed prairie dogs in response to prairie rattlesnakes	0
Labidochromis caeruleus cichlid preference for background colour varied between individuals and groups but did not vary for body colour of other fish	0
Host preference of a symbiotic flatworm and its response to conspecific and host mucus	0
Correction to: Defensive spray by a semiaquatic osmylid larva (Insecta: Neuroptera) for both aquatic and terrestrial predators	0
Effect of artificial light on activity in frugivorous bats (Pteropodidae)	0
Sweet mama: affiliative interactions are related to the reproductive success of dominant female Alpine marmots (Marmota marmota)	0
Shorter-legged males start breeding earlier in the barn swallow	0
2022 editor’s choice award and editor’s choice articles	0
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2022	0
A theory of spawning habitat selection in anurans	0
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]	0
Dropping of apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata) by carrion crows (Corvus corone)	0
Are two South-Western Atlantic wrasses involved in a case of social mimicry?	0
Correction: Reddish male swallows have short sperm	0
Chemical compounds of a Neotropical plant constrain the anti-predator behaviour of sympatric tadpoles	0
Routine metabolic rate correlates with swimming speed in medaka	0
Acoustic interactions between free-living mother–calf Antillean manatees, Trichechus manatus manatus	0
No trans-generational maternal effects of early-life corticosterone exposure on neophobia and antipredator behaviour in the house sparrow	0
Subterranean to submarine: stress-induced locomotor repertoire expansion and aquatic escape in the Anatolian mole rat (Nannospalax xanthodon) under risk of predation	0
A message from new editor-in-chief	0
Ants’ capability of associating odors with time periods of the day	0
Correction to: Qualitative description of the submission and agonistic behavior of the Spix’s Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii, Spix 1824), with special reference to the displacement displays	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
Correction to: Route reassessment by transporter ants improves speed and directional accuracy of cooperative transport in Formica japonica	0
Collective movements during visits to water bodies in wild Asian elephants	0
Spatio-temporal variation influences the division of labour in Pseudomyrmex concolor Smith (Formicidae: Pseudomyrmecinae)	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
Correction: Polyandry works as bet-hedging in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, even after eliminating females in poor condition that cannot accept remating	0
Mating behavior in the Japanese badger Meles anakuma	0
Correction: Fish yawn: the state-change hypothesis in juvenile white-spotted char Salvelinus leucomaenis	0
Correction to: Wing‑waving behaviors are used for conspecific display in the Japanese scorpionfly, Panorpa japonica	0
Interspecific variability of the external female genital mutilation rate and its relationship with female aggression and sexual cannibalism in Cyclosa spiders	0
Large-scale spatial pattern of bird responses to a potential predator suggests that predator-specific mobbing is a plastic trait	0
Behavioural interactions between a threatened native killifish and the alien invasive Eastern mosquitofish	0
Great tits alter incubation behaviour in noisy environments	0
2021 Editor's Choice Award and Editor's Choice Articles	0
Behavioral responses of the Japanese freshwater crab, Geothelphusa dehaani, to the leech, Myxobdella sinanensis	0
Correction: Mite dilemma: molting to acquire sexual maturity or not molting to ensure durability and dispersal ability in Phorytocarpais fimetorum (Parasitiformes; Gamasida; Parasitidae)	0
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2021	0
Risk-taking behavior in birds foraging along interurban roads	0
Ant nesting site selection mediated by insects frass	0
Polyandry works as bet-hedging in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, even after eliminating females in poor condition that cannot accept remating	0
Correction to: Herding mechanisms to maintain the cohesion of a harem group: two interaction phases during herding	0