OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and B is 3. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Coping with the cold and fighting the heat: thermal homeostasis of a superorganism, the honeybee colony	42
Magnetic maps in animal navigation	29
Broadband 75–85 MHz radiofrequency fields disrupt magnetic compass orientation in night-migratory songbirds consistent with a flavin-based radical pair magnetoreceptor	29
To eat or not to eat: a Garcia effect in pond snails (Lymnaea stagnalis)	28
Acoustic particle motion detection in the snapping shrimp (Alpheus richardsoni)	24
Magnetoreception and magnetic navigation in fishes: a half century of discovery	18
Olfactory navigation in arthropods	17
Localisation of cryptochrome 2 in the avian retina	15
One hundred years of phase polymorphism research in locusts	14
Behavioral performance and division of labor influence brain mosaicism in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes	14
Lineages to circuits: the developmental and evolutionary architecture of information channels into the central complex	12
The sky compass network in the brain of the desert locust	12
A spider in motion: facets of sensory guidance	12
Visual navigation: properties, acquisition and use of views	12
Neuroanatomical differentiation associated with alternative reproductive tactics in male arid land bees, Centris pallida and Amegilla dawsoni	12
Oxygen sensing in crustaceans: functions and mechanisms	12
Jump takeoff in a small jumping spider	12
Contact chemoreception in multi-modal sensing of prey by Octopus	12
The discovery of the use of magnetic navigational information	11
Why is it so difficult to study magnetic compass orientation in murine rodents?	11
Optic flow based spatial vision in insects	11
Coleoptera claws and trichome interlocking	11
Contribution of cryptochromes and photolyases for insect life under sunlight	10
Leg loss decreases endurance and increases oxygen consumption during locomotion in harvestmen	10
Comparative psychophysics of colour preferences in two species of non-eusocial Australian native halictid bees	10

Waterfall low-frequency vibrations and infrasound: implications for avian migration and hazard detection	10
Trapped indoors? Long-distance dispersal in mygalomorph spiders and its effect on species ranges	9
Magnetosensation	9
Scanning behaviour in ants: an interplay between random-rate processes and oscillators	9
What view information is most important in the homeward navigation of an Australian bull ant, Myrmecia midas?	9
Einstein, von Frisch and the honeybee: a historical letter comes to light	8
Light, flight and the night: effect of ambient light and moon phase on flight activity of pteropodid bats	8
Measuring strain in the exoskeleton of spiders—virtues and caveats	8
Lesions of abdominal connectives reveal a conserved organization of the calling song central pattern generator (CPG) network in different cricket species	8
Gripping performance in the stick insect Sungaya inexpectata in dependence on the pretarsal architecture	8
Magnetosensation during re-learning walks in desert ants (Cataglyphis nodus)	8
A flavonoid, quercetin, is capable of enhancing long-term memory formation if encountered at different times in the learning, memory formation, and memory recall continuum	8
Spatial acuity-sensitivity trade-off in the principal eyes of a jumping spider: possible adaptations to a ‘blended’ lifestyle	8
Evolutionary kinematics of spinneret movements for rapid silk thread anchorage in spiders	8
Hearing in Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus): sensitivity to infrasound	8
Role of the pheromone for navigation in the group foraging ant, Veromessor pergandei	7
Neurophysiology goes wild: from exploring sensory coding in sound proof rooms to natural environments	7
Time measurement in insect photoperiodism: external and internal coincidence	7
The influence of stimulus history on directional coding in the monarch butterfly brain	7
The amphibian magnetic sense(s)	7
Understanding the limits to the hydraulic leg mechanism: the effects of speed and size on limb kinematics in vagrant arachnids	7
Navigation and dance communication in honeybees: a cognitive perspective	7
Allometric escape and acoustic signal features facilitate high-frequency communication in an endemic Chinese primate	7
Behavioural function and development of body-to-limb proportions and active movement ranges in three stick insect species	6
Modular timer networks: abdominal interneurons controlling the chirp and pulse pattern in a cricket calling song	6
Spatial resolution and sensitivity of the eyes of the stingless bee, Tetragonula iridipennis	6
Epigenetics and seasonal timing in animals: a concise review	6
Visual discrimination and resolution in freshwater stingrays (Potamotrygon motoro)	6
Visual detection thresholds in the Asian honeybee, Apis cerana	6
The effect of change in mass distribution due to defensive posture on gait in fat‐tailed scorpions	6
Measuring auditory cortical responses in Tursiops truncatus	6
Polarized iridescence of the tropical carpenter bee, Xylocopa latipes	6
Uncovering how animals use combinations of magnetic field properties to navigate: a computational approach	6
Early olfactory, but not gustatory processing, is affected by the selection of heritable cognitive phenotypes in honey bee	6
Approaches to studying injury-induced sensitization and the potential role of an endocannabinoid transmitter	6
“It is becoming increasingly difficult to find reviewers”—myths and facts about peer review	6
Female preferences for the spectral content of advertisement calls in Cope’s gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis)	6
Environmental sources of radio frequency noise: potential impacts on magnetoreception	6
Jumping of flea beetles onto inclined platforms	6
How might magnetic secular variation impact avian philopatry?	6
Photoperiod controls egg laying and caudodorsal cell hormone expression but not gonadal development in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis	5
The Journal of Comparative Physiology A: rooted in great tradition, committed to innovation and discovery	5
Electrophysiology and the magnetic sense: a guide to best practice	5
Locomotion and kinematics of arachnids	5
Spatial tuning of translational optic flow responses in hawkmoths of varying body size	5
Development of hearing in the big brown bat	5
Ingeborg Beling and the time memory in honeybees: almost one hundred years of research	5
Drosophila ezoana uses morning and evening oscillators to adjust its rhythmic activity to different daylengths but only the morning oscillator to measure night length for photoperiodic responses	5
Neurons sensitive to non-celestial polarized light in the brain of the desert locust	5
Performance of polarization-sensitive neurons of the locust central complex at different degrees of polarization	5

Aerodynamics and the role of the earth’s electric field in the spiders’ ballooning flight	5
Visual control of refuge recognition in the whip spider Phrynus marginemaculatus	5
On the origin and evolution of the dual oscillator model underlying the photoperiodic clockwork in the suprachiasmatic nucleus	5
Ant foragers might present variation and universal property in their movements	4
Forward masking in a bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus: dependence on azimuthal positions of the masker and test sources	4
Neural mechanism of circadian clock-based photoperiodism in insects and snails	4
Opsin knockdown specifically slows phototransduction in broadband and UV-sensitive photoreceptors in Periplaneta americana	4
The potential underlying mechanisms during learning flights	4
Seeing the world through the eyes of a butterfly: visual ecology of the territorial males of Pararge aegeria (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)	4
The circadian and photoperiodic clock of the pea aphid	4
Integration of photoperiodic and temperature cues by the circadian clock to regulate insect seasonal adaptations	4
Insect magnetoreception: a Cry for mechanistic insights	4
One hundred years of excellence: the top one hundred authors of the Journal of Comparative Physiology A	4
The role of learning-walk related multisensory experience in rewiring visual circuits in the desert ant brain	4
Optocollic responses in adult barn owls (Tyto furcata)	4
Impact of central complex lesions on innate and learnt visual navigation in ants	4
Male antiphonal calls and phonotaxis evoked by female courtship calls in the large odorous frog (Odorrana graminea)	4
Fluoride alters feeding and memory in Lymnaea stagnalis	4
Magnetotactic bacteria: concepts, conundrums, and insights from a novel in situ approach using digital holographic microscopy (DHM)	4
Ruth Beutler: the woman behind Karl von Frisch	4
Organization of the parallel antennal-lobe tracts in the moth	4
Integration of ocular and non-ocular photosensory information in the brain of the terrestrial slug Limax	4
DPOAEs and tympanal membrane vibrations reveal adaptations of the sexually dimorphic ear of the concave-eared torrent frog, Odorrana tormota	4
Echo feedback mediates noise-induced vocal modifications in flying bats	4
Effect of levodopa/carbidopa on stress response in zebrafish	4
Neuroethology of sound localization in anurans	4
From the eye to the wing: neural circuits for transforming optic flow into motor output in avian flight	4
The importance of time of day for magnetic body alignment in songbirds	4
Comparative biology of spatial navigation in three arachnid orders (Amblypygi, Araneae, and Scorpiones)	4
Cochlear tuning and the peripheral representation of harmonic sounds in mammals	4
Stable flies sense and behaviorally respond to the polarization of light	3
In-air hearing in Hawaiian monk seals: implications for understanding the auditory biology of Monachinae seals	3
Giant steps: adhesion and locomotion in theraphosid tarantulas	3
Crickets in the spotlight: exploring the impact of light on circadian behavior	3
Anxiety induces long-term memory forgetting in the crayfish	3
Behind the mask(ing): how frogs cope with noise	3
Physiological properties of the visual system in the Green Weaver ant, Oecophylla smaragdina	3
Role of legs and foot adhesion in salticid spiders jumping from smooth surfaces	3
Olfactory learning and memory in the greater short-nosed fruit bat Cynopterus sphinx: the influence of conspecifics distress calls	3
Molecular identification of an androgen receptor and the influence of long-term aggressive interaction on hypothalamic genes expression in black rockfish (Sebastes schlegelii)	3
Honeybee queen mandibular pheromone fails to regulate ovary activation in the common wasp	3
Roles for cerebellum and subsumption architecture in central pattern generation	3
Sub-cell scale features govern the placement of new cells by honeybees during comb construction	3
Slingshot spiders build tensed, underdamped webs for ultrafast launches and speedy halts	3
Tensile mechanical properties and finite element simulation of the wings of the butterfly Tirumala limniace	3
Avian navigation: the geomagnetic field provides compass cues but not a bicoordinate “map” plus a brief discussion of the alternative infrasound direction-finding hypothesis	3
Flat on its back: the impact of substrate on righting methods of the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys	3
Investigating the interactions between multiple memory stores in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis	3
Birth temperature followed by a visual critical period determines cooperative group membership	3
The seasons within: a theoretical perspective on photoperiodic entrainment and encoding	3
Cribellate thread production as model for spider’s spinneret kinematics	3
Functional compliance and protective stiffness: cross-veins in the hind wing of locust Locusta migratoria	3
Sexual discrimination and attraction through scents in the water vole, Arvicola terrestris	3
A formative journal for a formative career: a personal recollection of how JCPA has inspired and guided my research life	3
Global inhibition in head-direction neural circuits: a systematic comparison between connectome-based spiking neural circuit models	3
Clock-talk: have we forgotten about geographic variation?	3
Threatened chronotopes: can chronobiology help endangered species?	3
What do oysters smell? Electrophysiological evidence that the bivalve osphradium is a chemosensory organ in the oyster, Magallana gigas	3
Morphology and receptive field organization of a temporal processing region in Apteronotus albifrons	3
Effect of natural abiotic soil vibrations, rainfall and wind on anuran calling behavior: a test with captive-bred midwife toads (Alytes obstetricans)	3
Model organisms and systems in neuroethology: one hundred years of history and a look into the future	3
Peking geckos (Gekko swinhonis) traversing upward steps: the effect of step height on the transition from horizontal to vertical locomotion	3
The effect of urethane and MS-222 anesthesia on the electric organ discharge of the weakly electric fish Apteronotus leptorhynchus	3
Suggested reviewers: friends or foes?	3
A clock for all seasons in the subterranean	3