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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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	67
ABA, AAB and ABC renewal with Pavlovian Conditioning of Tentacle Lowering procedure in the snail Cornu aspersum	34
Unpredictable mealtimes rather than social jetlag affects acquisition and retention of hippocampal dependent memory	32
Light, camera, action: Behavioral responses of the yellow scorpion Tityus serrulatus to different lights	29
A Pavlovian, conditioned-reinforcement approach to reducing impulsive choice	24
Chronic high-dose testosterone impairs economic decision making, but has no effect on memory in male rats	21
Learning about reward identities and time	21
Aroma-dillo or Area-dillo? An examination of armadillos’ sensory modality bias	20
Three methods of behavioural testing to measure anxiety – A review	18
Acute caffeine enhances sign-tracking in male Sprague-Dawley rats	18
Behavioral responses to predator and heterospecific alarm calls are habitat-specific in Eurasian tree sparrows	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
Social dynamics and behavior of zoo-housed red-footed tortoises at different housing densities	17
A test of the role of stimulus-response and stimulus-outcome associations in the effects of intermittent-access training	16
Pigeon leadership hierarchies are not dependent on environmental contexts or individual phenotypes	16
Activity vs exploration: Locomotion in a known and unknown environment differs in Atlantic cod juveniles (Gadus morhua)	16
Time, uncertainty, and suboptimal choice	16
Responses to environmental enrichment are associated with personality characteristics in chestnut-bellied seed finches (Sporophila angolensis)	16
Verbal segments and multiple-pair training in relational responding under a transposition paradigm in children	14
I call dibs on it! Chemical cues of intraspecific competitors potentiate food consumption in anuran tadpoles	14
Overt physiological responses and atypical behavior evoked in adult zebrafish in the novel tank test by two acute ‘survival’ stressors	13
An evaluation of hedonic responses in taste-potentiated odor aversion using the analysis of licking microstructure and orofacial reactivity	13
Combined effects of reinstatement and spontaneous recovery	13
Does predation environment affect repeated responses to predation cues in the fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora?	12

Environmental conditions shape learning in larval zebrafish	12
Interference of same/different learning by a spatial discrimination	12
Housing-dependent variation in goal-tracking behavior predicts use of a spatial strategy in a dual-solution Morris water maze task	12
Behavioural plasticity in a solitary foraging ant: Effect of experience and food distribution	11
May unpredictable events affect monkey welfare under human care?	11
SQAB 2021: Translational research using computation approaches	11
Effects of individual or common resources availability in choosing individual or shared contingencies	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
Adapting rodent cued threat conditioning to planarians: Memory acquisition, consolidation, and reconsolidation	11
Training primates to forage in virtual 3D environments	10
Extrinsic traits consistently drive microhabitat decisions of an arboreal snake, independently of sex and personality	10
Some properties of habituation of siphon withdrawal in the slimy clam (Ruditapes decussatus)	9
Female Java sparrows prefer high exploratory males without assortative mating	9
Experimental analysis of choice behavior in Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)	9
Comparison of ultrasonic isolation calls of pure-breeding and interspecies hybrid Phodopus dwarf hamster pups	9
Consummatory successive positive contrast with aversive solutions in infant rats: Replication and generalization to a higher concentration of a bitter solution	9
Environmental enrichment accelerates the acquisition of schedule-induced drinking in rats	9
Effects of inter-trial interval on sign-tracking and conditioned reinforcer efficacy in female rats	9
Ejaculation latency determines susceptibility to stress in the male rat	9
Effects of probabilistic win-paired-cues on loss trials on risky choice in rats	9
Choice reaction time in pigeons fails to increase as predicted by Hick’s law	9
Topographical aspects of brief-stimulus presentations: A re-examination of the problem of conditioned reinforcement	8
Stag beetle Cyclommatus mniszechi employs both mutual- and self-assessment strategies in male-male combat	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
Editorial Board	8
Motivational state-dependent renewal and reinstatement of operant responding under food and water deprivation states	8
Altruism, reciprocity, and probability: Examining relations through a discounting framework	8
A computational perspective on rapid reacquisition: Phenotype-specific effects of reinforcement history	8
Domestication and social environment modulate fear responses in young chickens	7
Sex differences in locomotor recovery across mating contexts in Drosophila melanogaster	7
Editorial Board	7
Instructional control in choice tasks: The relation between type of schedule and relative expected values	7
Effects of housing density on anxiety-like behavior of zebrafish in the plus maze with ramp	7
Trained dogs do not give up: Effects of advanced training on the persistence of domestic dogs	7
Nearest neighbour distance does not affect escape behaviour in urban hooded crows	7
Plasticity in sex roles and female competition in Neotropical dung roller beetles	7
Editorial Board	7
Extra-experimental scarcity impacts hypothetical operant demand: A natural SARS-CoV-2 eperiment	7
Effects of external cues and group mate body size on the collective behavior of shoaling crucian carp	7
Applying an eye tracking technique to gibbons: First study using scanpath measurements for visual stimuli	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
Rats’ preferences in the suboptimal-choice procedure are affected by the perceptual salience of the stimuli	6
Never smile at a crocodile: Gaping behaviour in the Nile crocodile at Ndumo Game Reserve, South Africa	6
Removing the opportunity to respond induces resurgence	6
Abbreviated fixed-interval interventions promote self-control in rats	6

Chicks make stochastic decisions based on gain rates of different time constants	6
Coup in the coop: Rank changes in chicken dominance hierarchies over maturation	6
Matching is acquired faster than mismatching by pigeons when salient stimuli are presented manually	6
Editorial Board	6
Observation of female-male mounting in the carrion crow	6
Autoshaped impulsivity: Some explorations with a neural network model	6
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	6
Patrolling the area, not ousting intruders, relates to reproductive success for territorial male Leon Springs pupfish, Cyprinodon bovinus	5
Effects of water restriction and dirt on grooming behavior in neotropical rodents (Trinomys setosus and T. yonenagae) (Echimyidae)	5
Individual vocal identity may be obscured following colony assembly in captive black-capped chickadees	5
Exploring innovative problem-solving in African lions (Panthera leo) and snow leopards (Panthera uncia)	5
Ecology of acoustic partitioning in insect assemblages	5
The effects of olfactory stimulation on the behaviour of captive slender lorises (Loris lydekkerianus)	5
Evidence of AAB, ABA, and ABC renewal procedures for instrumental response in elementary school children	5
Prey selection and foraging behavior of Eriocheir sinensis towards three freshwater mollusk species: Mechanisms and ecological implications	5
Aerial urination in Amazon river dolphins: reassessing its social significance and implications for sensory biology	5
Can a traditional partner preference test quantify monogamous behavior in captive coyotes?	5
Threespine stickleback do not use social cues to learn about predation risk	5
Attention bias and novel object test in rams (Ovis aries) under intensive farming	5
Anxiety in Brazilian dogs: Typical behaviors, anxiety-inducing situations, and sociodemographic factors	5
Does boldness stamp a morphological mark? Evidence of decoupling in the invasive giant African snail Lissachatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822)	5
Degrading stimuli by reducing image resolution impairs performance in a rodent continuous performance test	5
Invasive social wasp learning abilities when foraging in human modified environments	5
White Leghorn and Red Junglefowl female chicks use distal and local cues similarly, but differ in persistency behaviors, during a spatial orientation task	5
Foraging behaviour of Pheidole latinoda: An impetus for employing a heuristic approach to address optimization challenges	5
Prevention of self-grooming in rats: Evidence for a rebound effect	5
Evidence of conditioned food aversion in Japanese fire-bellied newts (Cynops pyrrhogaster)	5
Sex-based differences, diurnal and seasonal trends in thermoregulatory behaviour of nesting Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala)	5
Overmatching under food uncertainty in foraging pigeons	5
Resurgence of target behavior after negative punishment of alternative behavior	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
Primacy and recency effects in hierarchical renewal in rats	5
Investigating individual learning behaviour of dogs during a yes/no detection task	5
Behavioural response of female Lewis rats toward 31-kHz ultrasonic calls	4
Auditory pattern discrimination in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)	4
Chronic social defeat stress induces context avoidance in mice	4
Editorial Board	4
The investigation of sexual and interspecies disparities in spatial learning and memory across two rodent species	4
Witnessing others interact with a novel object has sex- and size-specific effects on neophilia in mosquitofish	4
Editorial Board	4
Soft calls do not modulate aggressiveness in male common cuckoos toward conspecific territorial intruders: A sequential playback study	4
Emergent relations and competing behavior: Effects on interruptions, accuracy and reaction time	4
No evidence for mate copying in Danio rerio	4
Oral antibiotics reduce voluntary exercise behavior in athletic mice	4
The temporal copulatory patterns of female rat sexual behavior	4
Bottlenose dolphin communication during a role-specialized group foraging task	4
Optimal prey choice in a daily foraging bout	4
Acoustic traits of male ultrasonic courtship song in a rodent with induced ovulation, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	4
Learning to stop responding	4
Territorial defense is ineffective at protecting eggs from predation in the endangered Leon Springs pupfish (Cyprinodon bovinus)	4
Behavioural changes in aposematic Heliconius melpomene butterflies in response to their predatory bird calls	4
Structural consistency of exploratory behaviour of sub-adult and adult spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus) in seven different tests	4
Adaptive forgetting of place/object memory for dung in the domestic horse (Equus ferus caballus): Memory for a day	4
Measurement of the exploration–exploitation response of dogs through a concurrent visual discrimination task	4
Cognition in captivity: Investigating learning, anxiety, and brain mass differences between captive and wild fathead minnow	4
Social hierarchy determination in rams: A comparison of different methods	4
Deciding what to do: Observations from a psycho-motor laboratory, including the discovery of pre-crastination	4
Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans	4
Editorial Board	4
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