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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Reproductive behavior of endangered spined loach Cobitis magnostriata in the field	11
A theory of spawning habitat selection in anurans	10
Observations of flipper rubbing in mother–calf pairs of captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) suggest a body-surface care function	9
Behavioral responses of the Japanese freshwater crab, Geothelphusa dehaani, to the leech, Myxobdella sinanensis	8
Basking aggregations in the adder (Vipera berus): attraction to conspecific cues or to scarce suitable microhabitats?	7
Differences in mating tactics performed by males of two local populations of the Japanese scorpionfly Panorpa japonica	6
Small males of the fiddler crab Austruca perplexa court more in the off-peak breeding period when large males court less	6
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2021	5
Shorter-legged males start breeding earlier in the barn swallow	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
Does food play a prominent role in visual attention to disgusting stimuli?	4
Aggregation pheromone interrupts death feigning in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	4
Are two South-Western Atlantic wrasses involved in a case of social mimicry?	4
Chemical compounds of a Neotropical plant constrain the anti-predator behaviour of sympatric tadpoles	4
Mate search or predation avoidance? Sex pheromone interrupts death feigning of males in the sweet potato weevil Cylas formicarius	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
Snake herders: novel anti-predator behavior by black-tailed prairie dogs in response to prairie rattlesnakes	3
Black-headed gulls are more wary of people dressed in red: a test of the concealment color hypothesis	3
An empirical test of bet-hedging polyandry hypothesis in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus	3
Correction to: Wing‑waving behaviors are used for conspecific display in the Japanese scorpionfly, Panorpa japonica	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
Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) predatory flexible feeding behaviors on schooling fish	3
Spatio-temporal variation influences the division of labour in Pseudomyrmex concolor Smith (Formicidae: Pseudomyrmecinae)	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
Video evidence of unusual antler-gnawing behavior of sika deer (Cervus nippon) in central Japan	3
Correction to: Defensive spray by a semiaquatic osmylid larva (Insecta: Neuroptera) for both aquatic and terrestrial predators	3
Defensive spray by a semiaquatic osmylid larva (Insecta: Neuroptera) for both aquatic and terrestrial predators	2
Temporary division of roles in group hunting for fish eggs by a coral reef fish	2
Correction to: An empirical test of bet-hedging polyandry hypothesis in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus	2
Social parasitism behavior between two species of edible wasps in China	2
Relationship between death-feigning behavior and population density in a beetle	2
Effects of human approach directness and path use on small mammal risk perception	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
Size-dependent predation risk in cryptic prey	2
Inter-population variation and phenotypic plasticity in kairomone use by a poly-specialist spider-eating predator	2
Does a roosting flock of migratory birds also echelon in high winds?	2
Diet color affects female preference for mate color in the guppy Poecilia reticulata	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
Group definition for underwater observation of wild Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins	2
No trans-generational maternal effects of early-life corticosterone exposure on neophobia and antipredator behaviour in the house sparrow	2
Correction to: Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) predatory flexible feeding behaviors on schooling fish	2
Day-after impact of simulated rival encounter in the common cuckoo	2
Collective movements during visits to water bodies in wild Asian elephants	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
Dendropsophus minutus (Hylidae) tadpole evaluation of predation risk by fishing spiders (Thaumasia sp.: Pisauridae) is modulated by size and social environment	2
Observation of yawn-like behavior in a dugong (Dugong dugon)	2
Overwintering strategy and longevity of European small carpenter bees (Ceratina)	2
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2023	1
Routine metabolic rate correlates with swimming speed in medaka	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
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
Encounter with heavier females changes courtship and fighting efforts of male field crickets Gryllus bimaculatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)	1
Mite dilemma: molting to acquire sexual maturity or not molting to ensure durability and dispersal ability in Phorytocarpais fimetorum (Parasitiformes; Gamasida; Parasitidae)	1
Correction: Cooperative den maintenance between male Japanese badgers that are delayed dispersers and their mothers	1
Wing-waving behaviors are used for conspecific display in the Japanese scorpionfly, Panorpa japonica	1
Correction: Reddish male swallows have short sperm	1
Locomotion and flow speed preferences in natural habitats by large water striders, Ptilomera tigrina, with micro-morphological adaptations for rowing	1
Sexual horn dimorphism predicts the expression of active personality trait: males perform better only in the sexually horn dimorphic Onthophagus dung beetle	1
Subjective resource value affects aggressive behavior independently of resource-holding-potential and color morphs in male common wall lizard	1
Polyandry works as bet-hedging in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, even after eliminating females in poor condition that cannot accept remating	1
Risk-taking behavior in birds foraging along interurban roads	1
Correction: Diet color affects female preference for mate color in the guppy Poecilia reticulata	1
Sex differences in offspring discrimination in the biparental California mouse (Peromyscus californicus)	1
Vole hunting: novel predatory and carnivorous behavior by California ground squirrels	0
Carpe diem: winner and loser effects are constrained to same-day competitions in collegiate baseball	0
Crabby commotions: visual not vibrational-orientated searching behaviours guide aggregation formation around key resources	0
Fish yawn: the state-change hypothesis in juvenile white-spotted char Salvelinus leucomaenis	0
2023 Editor’s Choice Award and Editor’s Choice articles	0
The origination events of gametic sexual reproduction and anisogamy	0
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2020	0

Video Insights, a new category of paper	0
Factors influencing the duration of death feigning in Eucryptorrhynchus scrobiculatus and E. brandti (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)	0
Great tits alter incubation behaviour in noisy environments	0
Large-scale spatial pattern of bird responses to a potential predator suggests that predator-specific mobbing is a plastic trait	0
Ant nesting site selection mediated by insects frass	0
Male procurement of breeding site is valued over male size by monogamous female convict cichlids (Amatitlania nigrofasciata)	0
Reddish male swallows have short sperm	0
Contest competition and injury in adult male sub-Antarctic fur seals	0
Adaptive foraging tactics of greater short-nosed fruit bats on a spiny shrub and its effect on seed dispersal	0
Stone handling in geladas (Theropithecus gelada): implications for spontaneous drawing-like activity as a playful behavior	0
Multiple vs. single predator effects: differing experimental responses by the spotted fringe-fingered lizard (Acanthodactylus maculatus) facing aerial and terrestrial predators	0
Mating behavior in the Japanese badger Meles anakuma	0
Correction to: Encounter with heavier females changes courtship and fighting efforts of male field crickets Gryllus bimaculatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)	0
Squirting ink may play a role in the copulation of the pygmy squid	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
Interspecific variability of the external female genital mutilation rate and its relationship with female aggression and sexual cannibalism in Cyclosa spiders	0
Movement orders in spontaneous group movements in cattle: 6-year monitoring of a beef cow herd with changing composition	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
Communication sounds produced by captive narrow-ridged finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis)	0
Behavioral patterns that determine the mating rates in a wing dimorphic riffle bug, Microvelia horvathi Lundblad, 1933 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae)	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
2024 Editor’s Choice Award and Editor’s Choice Articles	0
Ants’ capability of associating odors with time periods of the day	0
Association between visual cues and time of day in an ant	0
Geotropic, hydrokinetic and random walking differ between sympatric tick species: the deer tick Ixodes scapularis and the lone star tick Ambylomma americanum	0
Subterranean to submarine: stress-induced locomotor repertoire expansion and aquatic escape in the Anatolian mole rat (Nannospalax xanthodon) under risk of predation	0
Nocturnal light-specific temporal partitioning facilitates coexistence for a small mesopredator, the eastern spotted skunk	0
Another usage of autotomized penis	0
Signal response is context-dependent in Polistes dominula	0
Fight outcome influences male mating success in Drosophila prolongata	0
Predation strategy of the brown widow spider Latrodectus geometricus Koch, 1841 against prey with different defensive mechanisms	0
Correction: Fish yawn: the state-change hypothesis in juvenile white-spotted char Salvelinus leucomaenis	0
Flipper rubbing reciprocity and partner choice in common bottlenose dolphins	0
In between the web and the ground: sexual encounters in the South American wolf spider Aglaoctenus oblongus	0
The use of social information about predation risk by foraging house sparrows: a feeder experiment	0
Responses to artificial selection of dispersal activity in the circadian rhythm of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	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
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
Optimal pit site selection in antlion larvae: the relationship between prey availability and pit maintenance costs	0
Labidochromis caeruleus cichlid preference for background colour varied between individuals and groups but did not vary for body colour of other fish	0
Correction to: Widespread army ant aversion among East African jumping spiders (Salticidae)	0
Claws and claw waving attract both sexes in the dotillid crab Ilyoplax pusilla	0
Correction to: Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) predatory flexible feeding behaviors on schooling fish	0
2020 Editor’s Choice Award and Editor’s Choice Articles	0
Nest-relief behaviors and usage of call types in the Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)	0
Ritualized male–male combat resulting from intraspecific food competition in three Agkistrodon species	0
Acoustic interactions between free-living mother–calf Antillean manatees, Trichechus manatus manatus	0
Navigating from live to virtual social interactions: looking at but not manipulating smartphones provokes a spontaneous mimicry response in the observers	0
Sweet mama: affiliative interactions are related to the reproductive success of dominant female Alpine marmots (Marmota marmota)	0
Correction to: Another usage of autotomized penis	0
European badger's mating activities associated with moon phase	0
Reduced fitness in losers of leg-biting male combat compared to uncontested males in Zophobas atratus	0
Correction to: Herding mechanisms to maintain the cohesion of a harem group: two interaction phases during herding	0
Do body size and habitat shape call frequencies of Brazilian hylids (Amphibia: Anura)?	0
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2022	0
Monogamy and protandry caused by exclusion of the same sex and random pairing in anemonefishes: a simulation model and aquarium experiments	0
Female cuckoo calls elicit anti-predatory behavior in birds	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
2022 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
Dropping of apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata) by carrion crows (Corvus corone)	0
Effect of artificial light on activity in frugivorous bats (Pteropodidae)	0
Host preference of a symbiotic flatworm and its response to conspecific and host mucus	0
Agonistic behavior and feeding competition in the largest piranha species, Pygocentrus piraya, in a zoo	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
Characterization of the reproductive behaviour of the roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus)	0
Correction: Mate search or predation avoidance? Sex pheromone interrupts death feigning of males in the sweet potato weevil Cylas formicarius	0
Antibiotics affect migratory restlessness orientation	0
Correction: Optimal pit site selection in antlion larvae: the relationship between prey availability and pit maintenance costs	0
Cost of defensive spraying by larval Osmylus hyalinatus (Neuroptera: Osmylidae) for post-larval development	0
Correction to: Effects of habitat conditions on the boldness and sociability of wild‑caught fish (Zacco platypus) along a river	0
2021 Editor's Choice Award and Editor's Choice Articles	0
Season does not influence the response of great tits (Parus major) to allopatric mobbing calls	0
Spatial cognitive abilities of a tide-pool fish show resilience to noise pollution	0