OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Ethology is 2. 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
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
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