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

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	63
Acute caffeine enhances sign-tracking in male Sprague-Dawley rats	45
ABA, AAB and ABC renewal with Pavlovian Conditioning of Tentacle Lowering procedure in the snail Cornu aspersum	32
Unpredictable mealtimes rather than social jetlag affects acquisition and retention of hippocampal dependent memory	32
1-Back reinforcement matching and mismatching by pigeons: Implicit or explicit learning?	27
Light, camera, action: Behavioral responses of the yellow scorpion Tityus serrulatus to different lights	24
Behavioural changes of native freshwater prawn in the presence of a predator fish	23
Learning about reward identities and time	20
A Pavlovian, conditioned-reinforcement approach to reducing impulsive choice	20
Modeling resurgence with an evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics	19
Aroma-dillo or Area-dillo? An examination of armadillos’ sensory modality bias	17
Behavioral responses to predator and heterospecific alarm calls are habitat-specific in Eurasian tree sparrows	16
Three methods of behavioural testing to measure anxiety – A review	16
Responses to environmental enrichment are associated with personality characteristics in chestnut-bellied seed finches (Sporophila angolensis)	15
Chronic high-dose testosterone impairs economic decision making, but has no effect on memory in male rats	15
Prepulse inhibition deficits in inbred and outbred rats and between-strain differences in startle habituation do not depend on startle reactivity levels	15
Evaluation of temperament traits and its association with visual lateralisation in oval squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana)	15
Activity vs exploration: Locomotion in a known and unknown environment differs in Atlantic cod juveniles (Gadus morhua)	15
Social dynamics and behavior of zoo-housed red-footed tortoises at different housing densities	15
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
An evaluation of hedonic responses in taste-potentiated odor aversion using the analysis of licking microstructure and orofacial reactivity	13
Pigeon leadership hierarchies are not dependent on environmental contexts or individual phenotypes	13
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

Verbal segments and multiple-pair training in relational responding under a transposition paradigm in children	12
Effects of individual or common resources availability in choosing individual or shared contingencies	11
SQAB 2021: Translational research using computation approaches	11
Non-invasive, real-time stress measurement: Vocalization compared with thermal imaging in kittens of the domestic cat in response to social separation	11
May unpredictable events affect monkey welfare under human care?	11
Effects of inter-trial interval on sign-tracking and conditioned reinforcer efficacy in female rats	10
Behavioural plasticity in a solitary foraging ant: Effect of experience and food distribution	10
Environmental conditions shape learning in larval zebrafish	10
Does predation environment affect repeated responses to predation cues in the fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora?	10
Fins of Fury or Fainéant: Fluoxetine impacts the aggressive behavior of fighting fish (Betta splendens)	10
Individual differences in degree of discounting: Do different procedures and measures assess the same construct?	10
Environmental enrichment accelerates the acquisition of schedule-induced drinking in rats	9
Training primates to forage in virtual 3D environments	9
Choice reaction time in pigeons fails to increase as predicted by Hick’s law	9
Effects of probabilistic win-paired-cues on loss trials on risky choice in rats	9
Experimental analysis of choice behavior in Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)	9
No evidence of the choice overload effect in a computerized paradigm with rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella)	9
Extrinsic traits consistently drive microhabitat decisions of an arboreal snake, independently of sex and personality	8
Ontogeny of pup isolation-induced ultrasonic calls in a highly social rodent, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	8
Resurgence increases with repetition	8
Characteristics influencing local enhancement in free-living striped mice	8
Examining resurgence and repetition with the evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics	8
Some properties of habituation of siphon withdrawal in the slimy clam (Ruditapes decussatus)	8
Effects of pre-session feeding, an abolishing operation, on resurgence in rats	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
Female Java sparrows prefer high exploratory males without assortative mating	8
Motivational state-dependent renewal and reinstatement of operant responding under food and water deprivation states	8
A computational perspective on rapid reacquisition: Phenotype-specific effects of reinforcement history	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
Trained dogs do not give up: Effects of advanced training on the persistence of domestic dogs	7
Stag beetle Cyclommatus mniszechi employs both mutual- and self-assessment strategies in male-male combat	7
Domestication and social environment modulate fear responses in young chickens	7
Editorial Board	7
Female aggression towards same-sex rivals depends on context in a tropical songbird	7
Autoshaped impulsivity: Some explorations with a neural network model	7
Covariation among behavioral traits and hatching time in zebrafish	7
Effects of external cues and group mate body size on the collective behavior of shoaling crucian carp	7
Nearest neighbour distance does not affect escape behaviour in urban hooded crows	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
Applying an eye tracking technique to gibbons: First study using scanpath measurements for visual stimuli	7
A preliminary evaluation of habituation and dishabituation of operant responding in mice	7
Editorial Board	7
Plasticity in sex roles and female competition in Neotropical dung roller beetles	7
Ejaculation latency determines susceptibility to stress in the male rat	7
Extra-experimental scarcity impacts hypothetical operant demand: A natural SARS-CoV-2 eperiment	7
Alcohol exposure and environmental enrichment effects on contextual fear conditioning in zebrafish	7
Editorial Board	6

Effects of housing density on anxiety-like behavior of zebrafish in the plus maze with ramp	6
Never smile at a crocodile: Gaping behaviour in the Nile crocodile at Ndumo Game Reserve, South Africa	6
Attention bias and novel object test in rams (Ovis aries) under intensive farming	6
Editorial Board	6
Choices about whether to wait: Changes in delay discounting without changes in time perception	6
Observation of female-male mounting in the carrion crow	6
Abbreviated fixed-interval interventions promote self-control in rats	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
Chicks make stochastic decisions based on gain rates of different time constants	6
Editorial Board	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
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
Evaluating effects of context changes on resurgence in humans	5
Anxiety in Brazilian dogs: Typical behaviors, anxiety-inducing situations, and sociodemographic factors	5
Ecology of acoustic partitioning in insect assemblages	5
Overmatching under food uncertainty in foraging pigeons	5
Reducing impulsive choice: VIII. Effects of delay-exposure training in female rats	5
Blackouts can serve as a contextual feature and enhance resurgence	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
Can a traditional partner preference test quantify monogamous behavior in captive coyotes?	5
Sex-based differences, diurnal and seasonal trends in thermoregulatory behaviour of nesting Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala)	5
Removing the opportunity to respond induces resurgence	5
Effects of water restriction and dirt on grooming behavior in neotropical rodents (Trinomys setosus and T. yonenagae) (Echimyidae)	5
Threespine stickleback do not use social cues to learn about predation risk	5
Primacy and recency effects in hierarchical renewal in rats	5
Size matters: Antagonistic effects of body size on courtship and digging in a wolf spider with non-traditional sex roles	5
Patrolling the area, not ousting intruders, relates to reproductive success for territorial male Leon Springs pupfish, Cyprinodon bovinus	5
Measuring behavioral coping style and stress reactivity experimentally in wild olive baboons	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
Investigating individual learning behaviour of dogs during a yes/no detection task	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
Resurgence of target behavior after negative punishment of alternative behavior	5
Prevention of self-grooming in rats: Evidence for a rebound effect	5
Bottlenose dolphin communication during a role-specialized group foraging task	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
Aerial urination in Amazon river dolphins: reassessing its social significance and implications for sensory biology	4
Number-of-responses matching in pigeons (Columba livia): Choice biases following delay and no-sample tests	4
Behavioural response of female Lewis rats toward 31-kHz ultrasonic calls	4
Editorial Board	4
Behavioural changes in aposematic Heliconius melpomene butterflies in response to their predatory bird calls	4
Witnessing others interact with a novel object has sex- and size-specific effects on neophilia in mosquitofish	4
Auditory pattern discrimination in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)	4
Measurement of the exploration–exploitation response of dogs through a concurrent visual discrimination task	4
Evidence of AAB, ABA, and ABC renewal procedures for instrumental response in elementary school children	4
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
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
Familiarity, personality, and foraging performance in three-spined sticklebacks	4
Learning to stop responding	4
Deciding what to do: Observations from a psycho-motor laboratory, including the discovery of pre-crastination	4
Acoustic traits of male ultrasonic courtship song in a rodent with induced ovulation, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	4
The effects of olfactory stimulation on the behaviour of captive slender lorises (Loris lydekkerianus)	4
The temporal copulatory patterns of female rat sexual behavior	4
Oral antibiotics reduce voluntary exercise behavior in athletic mice	4
Adaptive forgetting of place/object memory for dung in the domestic horse (Equus ferus caballus): Memory for a day	4
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Chronic social defeat stress induces context avoidance in mice	4
Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans	4