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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2021	10
Temporary division of roles in group hunting for fish eggs by a coral reef fish	9
Behavioural interactions between a threatened native killifish and the alien invasive Eastern mosquitofish	9
Observations of flipper rubbing in mother–calf pairs of captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) suggest a body-surface care function	9
Costs of size increase prior to oceanic migration inferred from predation-caused wounds in an anadromous fish	9
Does a roosting flock of migratory birds also echelon in high winds?	8
Day-after impact of simulated rival encounter in the common cuckoo	7
Social parasitism behavior between two species of edible wasps in China	7
Collective movements during visits to water bodies in wild Asian elephants	7
Number matters: effect of the number of models on mate-choice copying in female guppies	6
Correction: Cooperative den maintenance between male Japanese badgers that are delayed dispersers and their mothers	5
Social play and affiliation as possible coping strategies in a group of Maremmana beef cattle	5
Risk-taking behavior in birds foraging along interurban roads	5
Stone handling in geladas (Theropithecus gelada): implications for spontaneous drawing-like activity as a playful behavior	4
Season does not influence the response of great tits (Parus major) to allopatric mobbing calls	4
Association between visual cues and time of day in an ant	4
In between the web and the ground: sexual encounters in the South American wolf spider Aglaoctenus oblongus	4
Polyandry works as bet-hedging in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, even after eliminating females in poor condition that cannot accept remating	4
Sweet mama: affiliative interactions are related to the reproductive success of dominant female Alpine marmots (Marmota marmota)	4
Risk-taking behavior of birds in urban environment: assessment using flight initiation distance in Tokyo, Japan	4
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2022	4
Variation of vibratory performance during courtship of a cursorial spider	4
Responses to artificial selection of dispersal activity in the circadian rhythm of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	3
Differences in mating tactics performed by males of two local populations of the Japanese scorpionfly Panorpa japonica	3
Diet color affects female preference for mate color in the guppy Poecilia reticulata	3

Fight outcome influences male mating success in Drosophila prolongata	3
Reduced fitness in losers of leg-biting male combat compared to uncontested males in Zophobas atratus	3
Snake herders: novel anti-predator behavior by black-tailed prairie dogs in response to prairie rattlesnakes	3
Paternal care in the redhead goby, Elacatinus puncticulatus	3
The origination events of gametic sexual reproduction and anisogamy	3
Host preference of a symbiotic flatworm and its response to conspecific and host mucus	3
Onset of estivation in western sand lance Ammodytes japonicus is not solely triggered by elevating water temperature	3
Relationships of wingtip shape, song-flight and mating success in male black-headed buntings Emberiza melanocephala	3
Learned associations are retained over extended periods and memory performance is influenced by social rank and age in chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus)	2
Sneaking around: is a dammed environment capable of influencing echolocation behavioral patterns of river dolphins?	2
Beyond noise playback: the effect of an audible and visible sound source on bird flushing behavior	2
Squirting ink may play a role in the copulation of the pygmy squid	2
Do body size and habitat shape call frequencies of Brazilian hylids (Amphibia: Anura)?	2
Correction: Fish yawn: the state-change hypothesis in juvenile white-spotted char Salvelinus leucomaenis	2
Correction to: Encounter with heavier females changes courtship and fighting efforts of male field crickets Gryllus bimaculatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)	2
Correction: Diet color affects female preference for mate color in the guppy Poecilia reticulata	2
Observation of tandem running behavior in dealates of Asian dampwood termite, Hodotermopsis sjostedti	2
Agonistic behavior and feeding competition in the largest piranha species, Pygocentrus piraya, in a zoo	2
Large-scale spatial pattern of bird responses to a potential predator suggests that predator-specific mobbing is a plastic trait	2
A message from new editor-in-chief	2
Mating behavior in the Japanese badger Meles anakuma	2
Vole hunting: novel predatory and carnivorous behavior by California ground squirrels	2
Bigger male Eurasian nuthatches (Sitta europaea) behave more aggressively in playback-simulated territorial intrusion	1
2022 editor’s choice award and editor’s choice articles	1
Video Insights, a new category of paper	1
Effects of reproductive status and experience on sexual motivation and mate preference in female guppies	1
Effects of human approach directness and path use on small mammal risk perception	1
Video evidence of unusual antler-gnawing behavior of sika deer (Cervus nippon) in central Japan	1
Male guarding behavior of Trypoxylon opacum (Hymenoptera; Crabronidae): an adaptation to maximize its paternity?	1
Correction: Optimal pit site selection in antlion larvae: the relationship between prey availability and pit maintenance costs	1
Body movements of the first-instar larva of the endoparasitic insect Blissoxenos esakii (Insecta: Strepsiptera) during host penetration	1
Extreme herding behavior in adult male sub-Antarctic fur seals	1
Effect of artificial light on activity in frugivorous bats (Pteropodidae)	1
Ritualized male–male combat resulting from intraspecific food competition in three Agkistrodon species	1
Correction: Squirting ink may play a role in the copulation of the pygmy squid	1
Multiple vs. single predator effects: differing experimental responses by the spotted fringe-fingered lizard (Acanthodactylus maculatus) facing aerial and terrestrial predators	1
Correction: Polyandry works as bet-hedging in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, even after eliminating females in poor condition that cannot accept remating	1
Mite dilemma: molting to acquire sexual maturity or not molting to ensure durability and dispersal ability in Phorytocarpais fimetorum (Parasitiformes; Gamasida; Parasitidae)	1
Perception and discrimination of chemical and visual stimuli in Antillean manatees under human care	1
Routine metabolic rate correlates with swimming speed in medaka	1
Female-mimicking spawning by subordinate males of the coral-dwelling damselfish Dascyllus reticulatus—a possible sneaking tactic observed in wild groups	1
Behavioral manipulation in a cobweb spider: insights from comparisons between parasitized and healthy spiders	1
Fish yawn: the state-change hypothesis in juvenile white-spotted char Salvelinus leucomaenis	1
Nestling retrieval behavior in two bunting hosts of the common cuckoo	0
Fish yawn: interpopulation variation in yawning characteristics of juvenile white-spotted char Salvelinus leucomaenis	0
Acoustic interactions between free-living mother–calf Antillean manatees, Trichechus manatus manatus	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
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2024	0
Black-headed gulls are more wary of people dressed in red: a test of the concealment color hypothesis	0
Dropping of apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata) by carrion crows (Corvus corone)	0

Constraints on paternal care capacity favor a monogamous mating system in the group-living gobiid fish Trimma marinae	0
Nest-relief behaviors and usage of call types in the Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)	0
Correction: Effects of reproductive status and experience on sexual motivation and mate preference in female guppies	0
Breeding spatial behavior of an Iberian dimorphic raptor (Circus cyaneus) based on GPS tracking	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
Double-income anisogamy offsets the twofold cost of sex by resource defense	0
Male ejaculate volume is adjusted according to sperm stock and not influenced by female reproductive potential or mating status in Japanese pygmy squid	0
2023 Editor’s Choice Award and Editor’s Choice articles	0
Left-handed mating: lateralized mating behavior in a termite-associated rove beetle	0
2024 Editor’s Choice Award and Editor’s Choice Articles	0
Cockroach social network position does not influence exploration tendency	0
Qualitative sperm depletion: successive mating reduces initial sperm velocity in medaka fish	0
Optimal pit site selection in antlion larvae: the relationship between prey availability and pit maintenance costs	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
Complex object manipulations in an innovative extractive foraging of coconut by an adult male long-tailed macaque Macaca fascicularis (Raffles, 1821) in Southern Philippines	0
Incomplete genital mutilation ensures nearly perfect paternity in an orb-web spider	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
Dispersal of oviposition sites by females is not associated with increased offspring number in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	0
Monogamy and protandry caused by exclusion of the same sex and random pairing in anemonefishes: a simulation model and aquarium experiments	0
Contest competition and injury in adult male sub-Antarctic fur seals	0
Symbiotic cleaning relationship between a sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) and remoras (Remora osteochir)	0
Unveiling anti-predator responses of river lapwing, Vanellus duvaucelii (Lesson, 1826)	0
Correction: Vole hunting: novel predatory and carnivorous behavior by California ground squirrels	0
Leg-biting fights reduce the number of sperm transferred by the loser and in draws in Zophobas atratus	0
Is an individual recognition immutable? Subordinate hermit crabs fight with a familiar but weaponless dominant	0
Interspecific variability of the external female genital mutilation rate and its relationship with female aggression and sexual cannibalism in Cyclosa spiders	0
Correction: Reddish male swallows have short sperm	0
The relationship of activity patterns between brown bears and humans in eastern Hokkaido	0
Great tits alter incubation behaviour in noisy environments	0
Plasticity in sex roles for parental care in the goby Lubricogobius exiguus, revealed by field observations	0
Correction: Symbiotic cleaning relationship between a sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) and remoras (Remora osteochir)	0
European badger's mating activities associated with moon phase	0
Aggregation pheromone interrupts death feigning in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	0
Communication sounds produced by captive narrow-ridged finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis)	0
Experimental evidence for egg signature recognition in two bunting species rarely parasitized by cuckoos	0
Female preference for exaggerated waving signals in the dotillid crab Ilyoplax pusilla: a conflict between sexual selection and species recognition	0
Tales from the tail: unravelling the role of the tail in the emblematic giant anteater	0
Observation of group courtship/copulating behavior for free-living Indo-Pacific Leopard sharks, Stegostoma tigrinum	0
Group definition for underwater observation of wild Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins	0
Protectors, enablers, or signallers? Investigating the effects of Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis) flocks on accompanying avifauna in a key wetland area	0
Sexual horn dimorphism predicts the expression of active personality trait: males perform better only in the sexually horn dimorphic Onthophagus dung beetle	0
Subterranean to submarine: stress-induced locomotor repertoire expansion and aquatic escape in the Anatolian mole rat (Nannospalax xanthodon) under risk of predation	0
Contribution of female-side evolution to the extended postmating refractory period in Drosophila prolongata and D. rhopaloa	0
Behavioral responses of the Japanese freshwater crab, Geothelphusa dehaani, to the leech, Myxobdella sinanensis	0
A theory of spawning habitat selection in anurans	0
Behavioral response of bed Bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) to wet surfaces	0
Temporal swimming impairment during estivation in western sand lance Ammodytes japonicus	0
2025 editor’s choice award and editor’s choice articles	0
Correction: Mate search or predation avoidance? Sex pheromone interrupts death feigning of males in the sweet potato weevil Cylas formicarius	0
Circadian rhythms of locomotor activity in the New World tarantula Neoholothele incei (Araneae: Theraphosidae)	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
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
Ants’ capability of associating odors with time periods of the day	0
Chemical compounds of a Neotropical plant constrain the anti-predator behaviour of sympatric tadpoles	0
Labidochromis caeruleus cichlid preference for background colour varied between individuals and groups but did not vary for body colour of other fish	0
Henpecked husbands: parental roles in the monogamous social fish Amphiprion clarkii depend on sex rather than relative size differences within pairs	0
Mate search or predation avoidance? Sex pheromone interrupts death feigning of males in the sweet potato weevil Cylas formicarius	0
Communal roosting in the Japanese toad Bufo japonicus	0
Cost of defensive spraying by larval Osmylus hyalinatus (Neuroptera: Osmylidae) for post-larval development	0
The social environment and female mate choice	0
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2023	0
Trophic ecology and feeding behavior comparisons between two pelagic juvenile fish species inhabiting the same microhabitat in an Amazonian estuary	0