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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Chronic high-dose testosterone impairs economic decision making, but has no effect on memory in male rats	58
Not just for males: Flehmen as a tool for detection of reproductive status and individual recognition across sexes in four African equid species	45
Daily running trials increase sprint speed in endangered lizards (Gallotia simonyi)	31
Acute caffeine enhances sign-tracking in male Sprague-Dawley rats	31
Irrational behavior in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris): A violation of independence from irrelevant alternatives	27
ABA, AAB and ABC renewal with Pavlovian Conditioning of Tentacle Lowering procedure in the snail Cornu aspersum	23
Unpredictable mealtimes rather than social jetlag affects acquisition and retention of hippocampal dependent memory	21
Aroma-dillo or Area-dillo? An examination of armadillos’ sensory modality bias	20
1-Back reinforcement matching and mismatching by pigeons: Implicit or explicit learning?	19
Behavioral responses to predator and heterospecific alarm calls are habitat-specific in Eurasian tree sparrows	19
Behavioural changes of native freshwater prawn in the presence of a predator fish	17
Light, camera, action: Behavioral responses of the yellow scorpion Tityus serrulatus to different lights	17
A Pavlovian, conditioned-reinforcement approach to reducing impulsive choice	16
Three methods of behavioural testing to measure anxiety – A review	15
Learning about reward identities and time	15
Modeling resurgence with an evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics	14
Pigeon leadership hierarchies are not dependent on environmental contexts or individual phenotypes	14
Evaluation of temperament traits and its association with visual lateralisation in oval squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana)	14
An evaluation of hedonic responses in taste-potentiated odor aversion using the analysis of licking microstructure and orofacial reactivity	14
Social dynamics and behavior of zoo-housed red-footed tortoises at different housing densities	14
Prepulse inhibition deficits in inbred and outbred rats and between-strain differences in startle habituation do not depend on startle reactivity levels	13
Activity vs exploration: Locomotion in a known and unknown environment differs in Atlantic cod juveniles (Gadus morhua)	13
Responses to environmental enrichment are associated with personality characteristics in chestnut-bellied seed finches (Sporophila angolensis)	13
Verbal segments and multiple-pair training in relational responding under a transposition paradigm in children	12
Time, uncertainty, and suboptimal choice	12

Influence of web traits, height, and daily periods of exposition on prey captured by orb-weaver spiders	12
A test of the role of stimulus-response and stimulus-outcome associations in the effects of intermittent-access training	12
Does predation environment affect repeated responses to predation cues in the fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora?	11
Housing-dependent variation in goal-tracking behavior predicts use of a spatial strategy in a dual-solution Morris water maze task	11
SQAB 2021: Translational research using computation approaches	10
Individual differences in degree of discounting: Do different procedures and measures assess the same construct?	10
Interference of same/different learning by a spatial discrimination	10
Effects of individual or common resources availability in choosing individual or shared contingencies	10
Training primates to forage in virtual 3D environments	10
Non-invasive, real-time stress measurement: Vocalization compared with thermal imaging in kittens of the domestic cat in response to social separation	10
Environmental conditions shape learning in larval zebrafish	10
May unpredictable events affect monkey welfare under human care?	10
Effects of inter-trial interval on sign-tracking and conditioned reinforcer efficacy in female rats	9
Experimental analysis of choice behavior in Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)	9
Effects of probabilistic win-paired-cues on loss trials on risky choice in rats	9
Extrinsic traits consistently drive microhabitat decisions of an arboreal snake, independently of sex and personality	9
Female Java sparrows prefer high exploratory males without assortative mating	9
Environmental enrichment accelerates the acquisition of schedule-induced drinking in rats	9
No evidence of the choice overload effect in a computerized paradigm with rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella)	9
Fins of Fury or Fainéant: Fluoxetine impacts the aggressive behavior of fighting fish (Betta splendens)	9
Choice reaction time in pigeons fails to increase as predicted by Hick’s law	9
Contextualising courtship: Exploring male body odour effects on vocal modulation	9
Some properties of habituation of siphon withdrawal in the slimy clam (Ruditapes decussatus)	8
Consummatory successive positive contrast with aversive solutions in infant rats: Replication and generalization to a higher concentration of a bitter solution	8
Topographical aspects of brief-stimulus presentations: A re-examination of the problem of conditioned reinforcement	8
Covariation among behavioral traits and hatching time in zebrafish	8
Characteristics influencing local enhancement in free-living striped mice	8
Ejaculation latency determines susceptibility to stress in the male rat	8
A preliminary evaluation of habituation and dishabituation of operant responding in mice	8
Editorial Board	8
Altruism, reciprocity, and probability: Examining relations through a discounting framework	8
Comparison of ultrasonic isolation calls of pure-breeding and interspecies hybrid Phodopus dwarf hamster pups	8
Effects of external cues and group mate body size on the collective behavior of shoaling crucian carp	8
Trained dogs do not give up: Effects of advanced training on the persistence of domestic dogs	8
Domestication and social environment modulate fear responses in young chickens	7
Ontogeny of pup isolation-induced ultrasonic calls in a highly social rodent, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	7
Effects of domestication on neophobia: A comparison between the domesticated Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica) and its wild ancestor, the white-rumped munia (Lonchura striata)	7
Stag beetle Cyclommatus mniszechi employs both mutual- and self-assessment strategies in male-male combat	7
Autoshaped impulsivity: Some explorations with a neural network model	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
Persistent fine-tuning of egg rejection based on parasitic timing in a cuckoo host even after relaxation of parasitism pressure	7
A computational perspective on rapid reacquisition: Phenotype-specific effects of reinforcement history	7
Effects of pre-session feeding, an abolishing operation, on resurgence in rats	7
Applying an eye tracking technique to gibbons: First study using scanpath measurements for visual stimuli	7
Generalizability of time-based interventions: Effects of choice procedure and smaller-sooner delay	7
Instructional control in choice tasks: The relation between type of schedule and relative expected values	7
Nearest neighbour distance does not affect escape behaviour in urban hooded crows	7
Motivational state-dependent renewal and reinstatement of operant responding under food and water deprivation states	7
Examining resurgence and repetition with the evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics	7

Trap versus net: Behavioural sampling bias caused by capture method in three-spined sticklebacks	7
Resurgence increases with repetition	7
Editorial Board	7
Extra-experimental scarcity impacts hypothetical operant demand: A natural SARS-CoV-2 eperiment	7
Editorial Board	7
Alcohol exposure and environmental enrichment effects on contextual fear conditioning in zebrafish	6
Never smile at a crocodile: Gaping behaviour in the Nile crocodile at Ndumo Game Reserve, South Africa	6
Editorial Board	6
Effort-motivated behavior resolves paradoxes in appetitive conditioning	6
Maternal deprivation effect on morphine-induced CPP is related to changes in opioid receptors in selected rat brain regions (hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and nucleus accumbens)	6
Abbreviated fixed-interval interventions promote self-control in rats	6
Effects of housing density on anxiety-like behavior of zebrafish in the plus maze with ramp	6
Chicks make stochastic decisions based on gain rates of different time constants	6
Matching is acquired faster than mismatching by pigeons when salient stimuli are presented manually	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
Reproductive consequences of material use in avian nest construction	6
Observation of female-male mounting in the carrion crow	6
Coup in the coop: Rank changes in chicken dominance hierarchies over maturation	6
Editorial Board	6
Attention bias and novel object test in rams (Ovis aries) under intensive farming	6
Sex-based differences, diurnal and seasonal trends in thermoregulatory behaviour of nesting Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala)	6
Anxiety in Brazilian dogs: Typical behaviors, anxiety-inducing situations, and sociodemographic factors	5
Non-individualistic ultrasonic and audible isolation calls throughout ontogeny in a rodent, Eolagurus luteus	5
Domestication effects on aggressiveness: Comparison of biting motivation and bite force between wild and domesticated finches	5
Gain-loss asymmetry in delay and effort discounting of different amounts	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
Evaluating effects of context changes on resurgence in humans	5
Exploring innovative problem-solving in African lions (Panthera leo) and snow leopards (Panthera uncia)	5
Individual vocal identity may be obscured following colony assembly in captive black-capped chickadees	5
Removing the opportunity to respond induces resurgence	5
Patrolling the area, not ousting intruders, relates to reproductive success for territorial male Leon Springs pupfish, Cyprinodon bovinus	5
Primacy and recency effects in hierarchical renewal in rats	5
Degrading stimuli by reducing image resolution impairs performance in a rodent continuous performance test	5
Resurgence of target behavior after negative punishment of alternative behavior	5
Analixity: An open source, low-cost analysis system for the elevated plus maze test, based on computer vision techniques	5
Measuring behavioral coping style and stress reactivity experimentally in wild olive baboons	5
Effects of water restriction and dirt on grooming behavior in neotropical rodents (Trinomys setosus and T. yonenagae) (Echimyidae)	5
Ecology of acoustic partitioning in insect assemblages	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
Blackouts can serve as a contextual feature and enhance resurgence	5
Invasive social wasp learning abilities when foraging in human modified environments	5
Investigating individual learning behaviour of dogs during a yes/no detection task	5
Prevention of self-grooming in rats: Evidence for a rebound effect	5
Overmatching under food uncertainty in foraging pigeons	5
Bringing the past into the present: Control by exteroceptive stimuli and key-peck location in a concurrent-chains procedure	4
Foraging behaviour of Pheidole latinoda: An impetus for employing a heuristic approach to address optimization challenges	4
Reducing impulsive choice: VIII. Effects of delay-exposure training in female rats	4
Measurement of the exploration–exploitation response of dogs through a concurrent visual discrimination task	4
Oral antibiotics reduce voluntary exercise behavior in athletic mice	4
Editorial Board	4
Familiarity, personality, and foraging performance in three-spined sticklebacks	4
No evidence for mate copying in Danio rerio	4
Behavioural changes in aposematic Heliconius melpomene butterflies in response to their predatory bird calls	4
The temporal copulatory patterns of female rat sexual behavior	4
The effects of olfactory stimulation on the behaviour of captive slender lorises (Loris lydekkerianus)	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
Evidence of AAB, ABA, and ABC renewal procedures for instrumental response in elementary school children	4
Auditory pattern discrimination in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)	4
The acoustic behavior of the Brazilian caatinga big rodent is incongruent to its actual position in Hydrochoerinae	4
Soft calls do not modulate aggressiveness in male common cuckoos toward conspecific territorial intruders: A sequential playback study	4
Recently encountered delay lengths produce contrast effects on delay discounting	4
Deciding what to do: Observations from a psycho-motor laboratory, including the discovery of pre-crastination	4
The investigation of sexual and interspecies disparities in spatial learning and memory across two rodent species	4
Adaptive forgetting of place/object memory for dung in the domestic horse (Equus ferus caballus): Memory for a day	4
Number-of-responses matching in pigeons (Columba livia): Choice biases following delay and no-sample tests	4
Size matters: Antagonistic effects of body size on courtship and digging in a wolf spider with non-traditional sex roles	4
Equivalent learning, but unequal participation: Male bumble bees learn comparably to females, but participate in cognitive assessments at lower rates	4
Aerial urination in Amazon river dolphins: reassessing its social significance and implications for sensory biology	4
Behavioural response of female Lewis rats toward 31-kHz ultrasonic calls	4
Learning to stop responding	4
Which form of environmental enrichment is most effective in rodent models of autism?	4
Acoustic traits of male ultrasonic courtship song in a rodent with induced ovulation, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	4
Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans	4
Bottlenose dolphin communication during a role-specialized group foraging task	4