OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Behavioural Processes is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Not just for males: Flehmen as a tool for detection of reproductive status and individual recognition across sexes in four African equid species	73
Aroma-dillo or Area-dillo? An examination of armadillos’ sensory modality bias	36
Three methods of behavioural testing to measure anxiety – A review	31
Chronic high-dose testosterone impairs economic decision making, but has no effect on memory in male rats	23
Learning about reward identities and time	22
Acute caffeine enhances sign-tracking in male Sprague-Dawley rats	21
Behavioral responses to predator and heterospecific alarm calls are habitat-specific in Eurasian tree sparrows	20
A Pavlovian, conditioned-reinforcement approach to reducing impulsive choice	20
ABA, AAB and ABC renewal with Pavlovian Conditioning of Tentacle Lowering procedure in the snail Cornu aspersum	18
Unpredictable mealtimes rather than social jetlag affects acquisition and retention of hippocampal dependent memory	18
Behavioural changes of native freshwater prawn in the presence of a predator fish	18
Evaluation of temperament traits and its association with visual lateralisation in oval squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana)	17
Light, camera, action: Behavioral responses of the yellow scorpion Tityus serrulatus to different lights	17
Verbal segments and multiple-pair training in relational responding under a transposition paradigm in children	16
An evaluation of hedonic responses in taste-potentiated odor aversion using the analysis of licking microstructure and orofacial reactivity	16
A test of the role of stimulus-response and stimulus-outcome associations in the effects of intermittent-access training	15
Activity vs exploration: Locomotion in a known and unknown environment differs in Atlantic cod juveniles (Gadus morhua)	15
Time, uncertainty, and suboptimal choice	14
Responses to environmental enrichment are associated with personality characteristics in chestnut-bellied seed finches (Sporophila angolensis)	14
Interference of same/different learning by a spatial discrimination	12
Social dynamics and behavior of zoo-housed red-footed tortoises at different housing densities	12
Overt physiological responses and atypical behavior evoked in adult zebrafish in the novel tank test by two acute ‘survival’ stressors	12
I call dibs on it! Chemical cues of intraspecific competitors potentiate food consumption in anuran tadpoles	12
SQAB 2021: Translational research using computation approaches	12
Combined effects of reinstatement and spontaneous recovery	12

May unpredictable events affect monkey welfare under human care?	11
Behavioural plasticity in a solitary foraging ant: Effect of experience and food distribution	11
Environmental conditions shape learning in larval zebrafish	11
Does predation environment affect repeated responses to predation cues in the fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora?	11
Individual differences in degree of discounting: Do different procedures and measures assess the same construct?	11
Non-invasive, real-time stress measurement: Vocalization compared with thermal imaging in kittens of the domestic cat in response to social separation	11
Effects of individual or common resources availability in choosing individual or shared contingencies	11
Housing-dependent variation in goal-tracking behavior predicts use of a spatial strategy in a dual-solution Morris water maze task	11
Environmental enrichment accelerates the acquisition of schedule-induced drinking in rats	10
Effects of inter-trial interval on sign-tracking and conditioned reinforcer efficacy in female rats	10
Choice reaction time in pigeons fails to increase as predicted by Hick’s law	10
Experimental analysis of choice behavior in Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)	10
Adapting rodent cued threat conditioning to planarians: Memory acquisition, consolidation, and reconsolidation	10
Some properties of habituation of siphon withdrawal in the slimy clam (Ruditapes decussatus)	9
Effects of external cues and group mate body size on the collective behavior of shoaling crucian carp	9
Sex differences in locomotor recovery across mating contexts in Drosophila melanogaster	9
Effects of probabilistic win-paired-cues on loss trials on risky choice in rats	9
Motivational state-dependent renewal and reinstatement of operant responding under food and water deprivation states	9
Altruism, reciprocity, and probability: Examining relations through a discounting framework	9
Exploratory responses of rats to cage-mates and conspecifics from another cage in a habituation–dishabituation paradigm with multiple habituation stimuli	9
Training primates to forage in virtual 3D environments	9
Consummatory successive positive contrast with aversive solutions in infant rats: Replication and generalization to a higher concentration of a bitter solution	9
Ontogeny of pup isolation-induced ultrasonic calls in a highly social rodent, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	9
Female Java sparrows prefer high exploratory males without assortative mating	9
Comparison of ultrasonic isolation calls of pure-breeding and interspecies hybrid Phodopus dwarf hamster pups	8
Ejaculation latency determines susceptibility to stress in the male rat	8
Plasticity in sex roles and female competition in Neotropical dung roller beetles	8
Topographical aspects of brief-stimulus presentations: A re-examination of the problem of conditioned reinforcement	8
Editorial Board	8
A preliminary evaluation of habituation and dishabituation of operant responding in mice	8
Effects of pre-session feeding, an abolishing operation, on resurgence in rats	8
A computational perspective on rapid reacquisition: Phenotype-specific effects of reinforcement history	7
Examining resurgence and repetition with the evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics	7
Autoshaped impulsivity: Some explorations with a neural network model	7
Instructional control in choice tasks: The relation between type of schedule and relative expected values	7
Chicks make stochastic decisions based on gain rates of different time constants	7
Stag beetle Cyclommatus mniszechi employs both mutual- and self-assessment strategies in male-male combat	7
Trained dogs do not give up: Effects of advanced training on the persistence of domestic dogs	7
Female aggression towards same-sex rivals depends on context in a tropical songbird	7
Applying an eye tracking technique to gibbons: First study using scanpath measurements for visual stimuli	7
Extra-experimental scarcity impacts hypothetical operant demand: A natural SARS-CoV-2 eperiment	7
Editorial Board	7
Never smile at a crocodile: Gaping behaviour in the Nile crocodile at Ndumo Game Reserve, South Africa	7
Domestication and social environment modulate fear responses in young chickens	7
Editorial Board	7
Choices about whether to wait: Changes in delay discounting without changes in time perception	7
Observation of female-male mounting in the carrion crow	7
Removing the opportunity to respond induces resurgence	6
Matching is acquired faster than mismatching by pigeons when salient stimuli are presented manually	6
Rats’ preferences in the suboptimal-choice procedure are affected by the perceptual salience of the stimuli	6

Nearest neighbour distance does not affect escape behaviour in urban hooded crows	6
Editorial Board	6
Effects of housing density on anxiety-like behavior of zebrafish in the plus maze with ramp	6
Anxiety in Brazilian dogs: Typical behaviors, anxiety-inducing situations, and sociodemographic factors	6
Are you talking to me? Captive Asian elephants react to voice familiarity and Elephant-Directed speech	6
Sex-based differences, diurnal and seasonal trends in thermoregulatory behaviour of nesting Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala)	6
Coup in the coop: Rank changes in chicken dominance hierarchies over maturation	6
Exploratory behaviour shapes nutrient versus energy foraging priorities in Java sparrows	6
Primacy and recency effects in hierarchical renewal in rats	5
Investigating the role of environmental enrichment initiated in adolescence against the detrimental effects of chronic unpredictable stress in adulthood: Sex-specific differences in behavioral and neu	5
Patrolling the area, not ousting intruders, relates to reproductive success for territorial male Leon Springs pupfish, Cyprinodon bovinus	5
Threespine stickleback do not use social cues to learn about predation risk	5
Degrading stimuli by reducing image resolution impairs performance in a rodent continuous performance test	5
Abbreviated fixed-interval interventions promote self-control in rats	5
Social hierarchy determination in rams: A comparison of different methods	5
Individual vocal identity may be obscured following colony assembly in captive black-capped chickadees	5
Foraging behaviour of Pheidole latinoda: An impetus for employing a heuristic approach to address optimization challenges	5
Prey selection and foraging behavior of Eriocheir sinensis towards three freshwater mollusk species: Mechanisms and ecological implications	5
Observation of drinking behaviour in the Ursus arctos marsicanus at a tree cavity (dendrotelm) in the central Apennines	5
Prevention of self-grooming in rats: Evidence for a rebound effect	5
Attention bias and novel object test in rams (Ovis aries) under intensive farming	5
Resurgence of target behavior after negative punishment of alternative behavior	5
Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) discriminate between naturally-ordered and scramble-ordered chick-a-dee calls and individual preference is related to rate of learning	5
Evidence of AAB, ABA, and ABC renewal procedures for instrumental response in elementary school children	5
Investigating individual learning behaviour of dogs during a yes/no detection task	5
Invasive social wasp learning abilities when foraging in human modified environments	5
Does boldness stamp a morphological mark? Evidence of decoupling in the invasive giant African snail Lissachatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822)	5
Ecology of acoustic partitioning in insect assemblages	5
Effects of water restriction and dirt on grooming behavior in neotropical rodents (Trinomys setosus and T. yonenagae) (Echimyidae)	5
Evidence of conditioned food aversion in Japanese fire-bellied newts (Cynops pyrrhogaster)	5
Editorial Board	5
Overmatching under food uncertainty in foraging pigeons	5
Can a traditional partner preference test quantify monogamous behavior in captive coyotes?	5
The ‘less-is-better’ effect in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus sp.): Some data and a contrast-like hypothesis	4
Structural consistency of exploratory behaviour of sub-adult and adult spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus) in seven different tests	4
Familiarity, personality, and foraging performance in three-spined sticklebacks	4
The effectiveness of Go/Nogo dual-task is modulated by SOA and Go/Nogo ratio	4
Editorial Board	4
Witnessing others interact with a novel object has sex- and size-specific effects on neophilia in mosquitofish	4
Soft calls do not modulate aggressiveness in male common cuckoos toward conspecific territorial intruders: A sequential playback study	4
No evidence for mate copying in Danio rerio	4
Aerial urination in Amazon river dolphins: reassessing its social significance and implications for sensory biology	4
The effects of olfactory stimulation on the behaviour of captive slender lorises (Loris lydekkerianus)	4
Editorial Board	4
Predictive processing in volatile environments	4
Territorial defense is ineffective at protecting eggs from predation in the endangered Leon Springs pupfish (Cyprinodon bovinus)	4
Vocal individuality in two sympatric seabird species: The role of developmental strategy, analytical approach and sample size	4
Sex differences in the expression of aggressive behavior and influences on social choice in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	4
Acute noise is harmful on the anti-predator behaviour of commercially important juvenile coral reef fishes	4
Editorial Board	4
Chronic social defeat stress induces context avoidance in mice	4
Learning to stop responding	4
Adaptive forgetting of place/object memory for dung in the domestic horse (Equus ferus caballus): Memory for a day	4
The temporal copulatory patterns of female rat sexual behavior	4
White Leghorn and Red Junglefowl female chicks use distal and local cues similarly, but differ in persistency behaviors, during a spatial orientation task	4
Cognition in captivity: Investigating learning, anxiety, and brain mass differences between captive and wild fathead minnow	4
Behavioural response of female Lewis rats toward 31-kHz ultrasonic calls	4
Behavioural changes in aposematic Heliconius melpomene butterflies in response to their predatory bird calls	4
Examination of the joint Simon effect in rats: Changes in task performance based on actions of the partner	4
Editorial Board	4
Inhibition of alloparental behavior by acute stress in virgin male California mice (Peromyscus californicus)	4
Auditory pattern discrimination in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)	4
Editorial Board	4
Acoustic traits of male ultrasonic courtship song in a rodent with induced ovulation, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	4
The investigation of sexual and interspecies disparities in spatial learning and memory across two rodent species	4
Bottlenose dolphin communication during a role-specialized group foraging task	4
Optimal prey choice in a daily foraging bout	4
Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans	4