OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and B is 5. 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
Coping with the cold and fighting the heat: thermal homeostasis of a superorganism, the honeybee colony	42
Broadband 75–85 MHz radiofrequency fields disrupt magnetic compass orientation in night-migratory songbirds consistent with a flavin-based radical pair magnetoreceptor	29
Magnetic maps in animal navigation	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
Behavioral performance and division of labor influence brain mosaicism in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes	14
One hundred years of phase polymorphism research in locusts	14
Contact chemoreception in multi-modal sensing of prey by Octopus	12
A spider in motion: facets of sensory guidance	12
Visual navigation: properties, acquisition and use of views	12
The sky compass network in the brain of the desert locust	12
Oxygen sensing in crustaceans: functions and mechanisms	12
Jump takeoff in a small jumping spider	12
Neuroanatomical differentiation associated with alternative reproductive tactics in male arid land bees, Centris pallida and Amegilla dawsoni	12
Lineages to circuits: the developmental and evolutionary architecture of information channels into the central complex	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
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

Contribution of cryptochromes and photolyases for insect life under sunlight	10
Scanning behaviour in ants: an interplay between random-rate processes and oscillators	10
Trapped indoors? Long-distance dispersal in mygalomorph spiders and its effect on species ranges	9
Magnetosensation	9
What view information is most important in the homeward navigation of an Australian bull ant, Myrmecia midas?	9
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
Measuring strain in the exoskeleton of spiders—virtues and caveats	8
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
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
Neurophysiology goes wild: from exploring sensory coding in sound proof rooms to natural environments	7
Role of the pheromone for navigation in the group foraging ant, Veromessor pergandei	7
Allometric escape and acoustic signal features facilitate high-frequency communication in an endemic Chinese primate	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
Approaches to studying injury-induced sensitization and the potential role of an endocannabinoid transmitter	6
Visual detection thresholds in the Asian honeybee, Apis cerana	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
Early olfactory, but not gustatory processing, is affected by the selection of heritable cognitive phenotypes in honey bee	6
Behavioural function and development of body-to-limb proportions and active movement ranges in three stick insect species	6
“It is becoming increasingly difficult to find reviewers”—myths and facts about peer review	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
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
How might magnetic secular variation impact avian philopatry?	6
On the origin and evolution of the dual oscillator model underlying the photoperiodic clockwork in the suprachiasmatic nucleus	5
Opsin knockdown specifically slows phototransduction in broadband and UV-sensitive photoreceptors in Periplaneta americana	5
Performance of polarization-sensitive neurons of the locust central complex at different degrees of polarization	5
Visual control of refuge recognition in the whip spider Phrynus marginemaculatus	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
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
Aerodynamics and the role of the earth’s electric field in the spiders’ ballooning flight	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
Electrophysiology and the magnetic sense: a guide to best practice	5