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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Light, camera, action: Behavioral responses of the yellow scorpion Tityus serrulatus to different lights	70
Not just for males: Flehmen as a tool for detection of reproductive status and individual recognition across sexes in four African equid species	34
ABA, AAB and ABC renewal with Pavlovian Conditioning of Tentacle Lowering procedure in the snail Cornu aspersum	29
Aroma-dillo or Area-dillo? An examination of armadillos’ sensory modality bias	22
Behavioural changes of native freshwater prawn in the presence of a predator fish	21
Three methods of behavioural testing to measure anxiety – A review	20
Chronic high-dose testosterone impairs economic decision making, but has no effect on memory in male rats	19
Acute caffeine enhances sign-tracking in male Sprague-Dawley rats	19
Behavioral responses to predator and heterospecific alarm calls are habitat-specific in Eurasian tree sparrows	18
Evaluation of temperament traits and its association with visual lateralisation in oval squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana)	17
A Pavlovian, conditioned-reinforcement approach to reducing impulsive choice	17
Unpredictable mealtimes rather than social jetlag affects acquisition and retention of hippocampal dependent memory	17
Learning about reward identities and time	17
Activity vs exploration: Locomotion in a known and unknown environment differs in Atlantic cod juveniles (Gadus morhua)	16
An evaluation of hedonic responses in taste-potentiated odor aversion using the analysis of licking microstructure and orofacial reactivity	16
Verbal segments and multiple-pair training in relational responding under a transposition paradigm in children	16
A test of the role of stimulus-response and stimulus-outcome associations in the effects of intermittent-access training	14
Time, uncertainty, and suboptimal choice	14
Social dynamics and behavior of zoo-housed red-footed tortoises at different housing densities	13
Responses to environmental enrichment are associated with personality characteristics in chestnut-bellied seed finches (Sporophila angolensis)	13
Housing-dependent variation in goal-tracking behavior predicts use of a spatial strategy in a dual-solution Morris water maze task	12
Overt physiological responses and atypical behavior evoked in adult zebrafish in the novel tank test by two acute ‘survival’ stressors	12
Combined effects of reinstatement and spontaneous recovery	12
Non-invasive, real-time stress measurement: Vocalization compared with thermal imaging in kittens of the domestic cat in response to social separation	12
Interference of same/different learning by a spatial discrimination	12

I call dibs on it! Chemical cues of intraspecific competitors potentiate food consumption in anuran tadpoles	12
Does predation environment affect repeated responses to predation cues in the fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora?	11
SQAB 2021: Translational research using computation approaches	11
Environmental conditions shape learning in larval zebrafish	11
Effects of individual or common resources availability in choosing individual or shared contingencies	11
May unpredictable events affect monkey welfare under human care?	11
Individual differences in degree of discounting: Do different procedures and measures assess the same construct?	11
Training primates to forage in virtual 3D environments	10
Choice reaction time in pigeons fails to increase as predicted by Hick’s law	10
Behavioural plasticity in a solitary foraging ant: Effect of experience and food distribution	10
Environmental enrichment accelerates the acquisition of schedule-induced drinking in rats	10
Adapting rodent cued threat conditioning to planarians: Memory acquisition, consolidation, and reconsolidation	10
Effects of probabilistic win-paired-cues on loss trials on risky choice in rats	10
Altruism, reciprocity, and probability: Examining relations through a discounting framework	9
Extrinsic traits consistently drive microhabitat decisions of an arboreal snake, independently of sex and personality	9
Experimental analysis of choice behavior in Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)	9
Motivational state-dependent renewal and reinstatement of operant responding under food and water deprivation states	9
Female Java sparrows prefer high exploratory males without assortative mating	9
Some properties of habituation of siphon withdrawal in the slimy clam (Ruditapes decussatus)	9
Effects of inter-trial interval on sign-tracking and conditioned reinforcer efficacy in female rats	9
Topographical aspects of brief-stimulus presentations: A re-examination of the problem of conditioned reinforcement	8
Editorial Board	8
Ontogeny of pup isolation-induced ultrasonic calls in a highly social rodent, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	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
Examining resurgence and repetition with the evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics	8
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
Coup in the coop: Rank changes in chicken dominance hierarchies over maturation	7
Applying an eye tracking technique to gibbons: First study using scanpath measurements for visual stimuli	7
Plasticity in sex roles and female competition in Neotropical dung roller beetles	7
Trained dogs do not give up: Effects of advanced training on the persistence of domestic dogs	7
Consummatory successive positive contrast with aversive solutions in infant rats: Replication and generalization to a higher concentration of a bitter solution	7
Female aggression towards same-sex rivals depends on context in a tropical songbird	7
Choices about whether to wait: Changes in delay discounting without changes in time perception	7
Domestication and social environment modulate fear responses in young chickens	7
Sex differences in locomotor recovery across mating contexts in Drosophila melanogaster	7
A computational perspective on rapid reacquisition: Phenotype-specific effects of reinforcement history	7
Never smile at a crocodile: Gaping behaviour in the Nile crocodile at Ndumo Game Reserve, South Africa	7
Observation of female-male mounting in the carrion crow	7
Stag beetle Cyclommatus mniszechi employs both mutual- and self-assessment strategies in male-male combat	7
Effects of external cues and group mate body size on the collective behavior of shoaling crucian carp	7
Editorial Board	7
Are you talking to me? Captive Asian elephants react to voice familiarity and Elephant-Directed speech	6
Editorial Board	6
Rats’ preferences in the suboptimal-choice procedure are affected by the perceptual salience of the stimuli	6
Editorial Board	6
Autoshaped impulsivity: Some explorations with a neural network model	6
Extra-experimental scarcity impacts hypothetical operant demand: A natural SARS-CoV-2 eperiment	6
Instructional control in choice tasks: The relation between type of schedule and relative expected values	6

Anxiety in Brazilian dogs: Typical behaviors, anxiety-inducing situations, and sociodemographic factors	6
Chicks make stochastic decisions based on gain rates of different time constants	6
Nearest neighbour distance does not affect escape behaviour in urban hooded crows	6
Exploratory behaviour shapes nutrient versus energy foraging priorities in Java sparrows	6
Effects of housing density on anxiety-like behavior of zebrafish in the plus maze with ramp	6
Effects of water restriction and dirt on grooming behavior in neotropical rodents (Trinomys setosus and T. yonenagae) (Echimyidae)	5
Degrading stimuli by reducing image resolution impairs performance in a rodent continuous performance test	5
Patrolling the area, not ousting intruders, relates to reproductive success for territorial male Leon Springs pupfish, Cyprinodon bovinus	5
Resurgence of target behavior after negative punishment of alternative behavior	5
Removing the opportunity to respond induces resurgence	5
Sex-based differences, diurnal and seasonal trends in thermoregulatory behaviour of nesting Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala)	5
Investigating individual learning behaviour of dogs during a yes/no detection task	5
Exploring innovative problem-solving in African lions (Panthera leo) and snow leopards (Panthera uncia)	5
Does boldness stamp a morphological mark? Evidence of decoupling in the invasive giant African snail Lissachatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822)	5
Prevention of self-grooming in rats: Evidence for a rebound effect	5
Prey selection and foraging behavior of Eriocheir sinensis towards three freshwater mollusk species: Mechanisms and ecological implications	5
Abbreviated fixed-interval interventions promote self-control in rats	5
Individual vocal identity may be obscured following colony assembly in captive black-capped chickadees	5
Matching is acquired faster than mismatching by pigeons when salient stimuli are presented manually	5
Attention bias and novel object test in rams (Ovis aries) under intensive farming	5
Evidence of conditioned food aversion in Japanese fire-bellied newts (Cynops pyrrhogaster)	5
Threespine stickleback do not use social cues to learn about predation risk	5
Primacy and recency effects in hierarchical renewal in rats	5
Can a traditional partner preference test quantify monogamous behavior in captive coyotes?	5
Invasive social wasp learning abilities when foraging in human modified environments	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
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
Ecology of acoustic partitioning in insect assemblages	5
Overmatching under food uncertainty in foraging pigeons	5
Predictive processing in volatile environments	5
Oral antibiotics reduce voluntary exercise behavior in athletic mice	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
Social hierarchy determination in rams: A comparison of different methods	4
Aerial urination in Amazon river dolphins: reassessing its social significance and implications for sensory biology	4
Measurement of the exploration–exploitation response of dogs through a concurrent visual discrimination task	4
Examination of the joint Simon effect in rats: Changes in task performance based on actions of the partner	4
No evidence for mate copying in Danio rerio	4
The investigation of sexual and interspecies disparities in spatial learning and memory across two rodent species	4
Acoustic traits of male ultrasonic courtship song in a rodent with induced ovulation, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	4
Adaptive forgetting of place/object memory for dung in the domestic horse (Equus ferus caballus): Memory for a day	4
Bottlenose dolphin communication during a role-specialized group foraging task	4
Editorial Board	4
Foraging behaviour of Pheidole latinoda: An impetus for employing a heuristic approach to address optimization challenges	4
Witnessing others interact with a novel object has sex- and size-specific effects on neophilia in mosquitofish	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
Editorial Board	4
Deciding what to do: Observations from a psycho-motor laboratory, including the discovery of pre-crastination	4
Optimal prey choice in a daily foraging bout	4
The effects of olfactory stimulation on the behaviour of captive slender lorises (Loris lydekkerianus)	4
Evidence of AAB, ABA, and ABC renewal procedures for instrumental response in elementary school children	4
Auditory pattern discrimination in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)	4
Cognition in captivity: Investigating learning, anxiety, and brain mass differences between captive and wild fathead minnow	4
Familiarity, personality, and foraging performance in three-spined sticklebacks	4
Chronic social defeat stress induces context avoidance in mice	4
Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans	4