OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cladistics is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Converging on the orb: denser taxon sampling elucidates spider phylogeny and new analytical methods support repeated evolution of the orb web	59
A re‐analysis of the data in Sharkey et al.’s (2021) minimalist revision reveals that BINs do not deserve names, but BOLD Systems needs a stronger commitment to open science	59
TNTversion 1.6, with a graphical interface forMacOSand Linux, including new routines in parallel	50
Simultaneous diversification of Polypodiales and angiosperms in the Mesozoic	36
The phylogeny of the Casque‐headed Treefrogs (Hylidae: Hylinae: Lophyohylini)	23
Marimbondos: systematics, biogeography, and evolution of social behaviour of neotropical swarm‐founding wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Epiponini)	21
Comparative phylogenomics reveal complex evolution of life history strategies in a clade of bivalves with parasitic larvae (Bivalvia: Unionoida: Ambleminae)	20
A phylotranscriptomic framework for flesh fly evolution (Diptera, Calyptratae, Sarcophagidae)	20
A dated phylogeny of Lardizabalaceae reveals an unusual long‐distance dispersal across the Pacific Ocean and the rapid rise of East Asian subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests in the late Miocene	20
The phylogeny of Dendropsophini (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae)	18
Exploring the phylogeny of the marattialean ferns	18
A reconsideration of inapplicable characters, and an approximation with step‐matrix recoding	18
Diversification of the phytophagous lineages of true bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) shortly after that of the flowering plants	17
Ultra‐Conserved Elements and morphology reciprocally illuminate conflicting phylogenetic hypotheses in Chalcididae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea)	17
A bi‐organellar phylogenomic study of Pandanales: inference of higher‐order relationships and unusual rate‐variation patterns	17
Fossil and phylogenetic analyses reveal recurrent periods of diversification and extinction in dictyopteran insects	16
Parsimony analysis of phylogenomic datasets (I): scripts and guidelines for using TNT (Tree Analysis using New Technology)	16
Origins of SARS‐CoV‐1 and SARS‐CoV‐2 are often poorly explored in leading publications	16
Seeing through the hedge: Phylogenomics of Thuja (Cupressaceae) reveals prominent incomplete lineage sorting and ancient introgression for Tertiary relict flora	15
Fundamental evolution of all Orthocoronavirinae including three deadly lineages descendent from Chiroptera‐hosted coronaviruses: SARS‐CoV, MERS‐CoV and SARS‐CoV‐2	14
Phylogenomics of flavobacterial insect nutritional endosymbionts with implications for Auchenorrhyncha phylogeny	13
Geographical sampling bias on the assessment of endemism areas for marine meiobenthic fauna	13
Mitogenome phylogeny reveals Indochina Peninsula origin and spatiotemporal diversification of freshwater crabs (Potamidae: Potamiscinae) in China	13
Plastid phylogenomics provides novel insights into the infrafamilial relationship of Polypodiaceae	12
Highly diversified mitochondrial genomes provide new evidence for interordinal relationships in the Arachnida	12

Two centuries of distribution data: detection of areas of endemism for the Brazilian angiosperms	12
Phylogenomics reveals accelerated late Cretaceous diversification of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae)	12
A molecular phylogeny of Thuridilla Bergh, 1872 sea slugs (Gastropoda, Sacoglossa) reveals a case of flamboyant and cryptic radiation in the marine realm	11
Phylogeny and evolution of Mesozoic and extant lineages of Histeridae (Coleoptera), with discovery of a new subfamily Antigracilinae from the Lower Cretaceous	11
Exploring systematic biases, rooting methods and morphological evidence to unravel the evolutionary history of the genus Ficus (Moraceae)	11
Parsimony analysis of phylogenomic datasets (II): evaluation of PAUP*, MEGA and MPBoot	11
Somewhere I belong: phylogeny and morphological evolution in a species‐rich lineage of ectoparasitic flatworms infecting cichlid fishes	10
Similar pattern, different paths: tracing the biogeographical history of Megaloptera (Insecta: Neuropterida) using mitochondrial phylogenomics	10
Combined data analysis of fossil and living mammals: a Paleogene sister taxon of Placentalia and the antiquity of Marsupialia	10
Defying death: incorporating fossils into the phylogeny of the complex thalloid liverworts (Marchantiidae, Marchantiophyta) confirms high order clades but reveals discrepancies in family‐level relatio	10
Phylogeny of gracillariid leaf‐mining moths: evolution of larval behaviour inferred from phylogenomic and Sanger data	10
Dasycerine rove beetles: Cretaceous diversification, phylogeny and historical biogeography (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Dasycerinae)	9
On the value of Burmese amber for understanding insect evolution: Insights from †Heterobathmilla – an exceptional stem group genus of Strepsiptera (Insecta)	9
Advances in the reconstruction of the spider tree of life: A roadmap for spider systematics and comparative studies	9
Total‐evidence backbone phylogeny of Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)	9
Patterns of morphological simplification and innovation in the megadiverse Holometabola (Insecta)	9
Genomics‐based re‐examination of the taxonomy and phylogeny of human and simian Mastadenoviruses: an evolving whole genomes approach, revealing putative zoonosis, anthroponosis, and amph	9
Morphology, nuclear SNPs and mate selection reveal that COI barcoding overestimates species diversity in a Mediterranean freshwater amphipod by an order of magnitude	8
New insights into the phylogeny of the complex thalloid liverworts (Marchantiopsida) based on chloroplast genomes	8
Total‐evidence analysis of an undescribed fauna: resolving the evolution and classification of Australia’s golden trapdoor spiders (Idiopidae: Arbanitinae: Euoplini)	8
Evolution of the strikingly diverse submandibular muscles in Anura	7
Historical biogeography of Tetrastigma (Vitaceae): Insights into floristic exchange patterns between Asia and Australia	7
Sweet or salty? The origin of freshwater gastrotrichs (Gastrotricha, Chaetonotida) revealed by molecular phylogenetic analysis	7
Hyb‐Seq provides new insights into the phylogeny and evolution of the Chrysanthemum zawadskii species complex in China	7
The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps	7
Repeated colonization, adaptive radiation and convergent evolution in the sheet‐weaving spiders (Linyphiidae) of the south Pacific Archipelago of Juan Fernandez	7
Molecular phylogeny and trait evolution of Madeiran land snails: radiation of the Geomitrini (Stylommatophora: Helicoidea: Geomitridae)	6
Phylogeny and biogeography of the northern temperate genus Dracocephalum s.l. (Lamiaceae)	6
Total evidence and sensitivity phylogenetic analyses of egg‐brooding frogs (Anura: Hemiphractidae)	6
The stepwise Indian–Eurasian collision and uplift of the Himalayan‐Tibetan plateau drove the diversification of high‐elevation Scytodes spiders	6
Phylogenomics and loci dropout patterns of deeply diverged Zodarion ant‐eating spiders suggest a high potential of RAD‐seq for genus‐level spider phylogenetics	6
Female terminalia morphology and cladistic relations among Tok‐Tok beetles (Tenebrionidae: Sepidiini)	6
Diversity, host specificity and biogeography in the Cladocorynidae (Hydrozoa, Capitata), with description of a new genus	5
Phylogeny and biogeography of the ancient spider family Filistatidae (Araneae) is consistent both with long‐distance dispersal and vicariance following continental drift	5
The role of Anatolia in the origin of the Caucasus biodiversity hotspot illustrated by land snails in the genusOxychilus	5
A novel probe set for the phylogenomics and evolution of RTA spiders	5
Analysis of endemism of world arthropod distribution data supports biogeographic regions and many established subdivisions	5
Phylogenomics and systematics of Entomobryoidea (Collembola): marker design, phylogeny and classification	5
Phylogeny of Lithobiidae Newport, 1844, with emphasis on the megadiverse genus Lithobius Leach, 1814 (Myriapoda, Chilopoda)	4
Unraveling the evolutionary history of the snakefly family Inocelliidae (Insecta: Raphidioptera) through integrative phylogenetics	4
Areas of endemism of Lauraceae: new insights on the biogeographic regionalization of the Espinhaço Range, Brazil	4
Genetic capitalism and stabilizing selection of antimicrobial resistance genotypes in Escherichia coli	4
Molecular phylogeny of the tropical wandering spiders (Araneae, Ctenidae) and the evolution of eye conformation in the RTA clade	3
Dead on arrival: a postmortem assessment of “phylogenetic nomenclature”, 20+ years on	3
Total‐evidence phylogeny and evolutionary morphology of New World pitvipers (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae)	3
Burrowing into the forest: Phylogeny of the Asian forest scorpions (Scorpionidae: Heterometrinae) and the evolution of ecomorphotypes	3
Evolution of cephalic structures in extreme myrmecophiles: a lesson from Clavigeritae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)	3
Fifth mass extinction event triggered the diversification of the largest family of freshwater gastropods (Caenogastropoda: Truncatelloidea: Hydrobiidae)	2
PhylogeneticGraph (PhyG) a new phylogenetic graph search and optimization program	2
Molecular phylogeny and evolution of Calaphidinae (Hemiptera: Aphididae)	2

Distance Wagner tree refinement as a heuristic approach to character‐based initial tree construction	2
When phylogenetics met biogeography: Willi Hennig, Lars Brundin and the roots of phylogenetic and cladistic biogeography	2
Cretaceous lophocoronids with short proboscis and retractable female genitalia provide the earliest evidence for their feeding and oviposition habits	2
Phylogenetic value of jaw elements of lacertid lizards (Squamata: Lacertoidea): a case study with Oligocene material from France	2
Distribution patterns of Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in the Americas: an analysis based on networks and endemicity	2
A unified view of homology	2
Monophyletic classification and information content	2
Evolution of sexual dimorphism and polychromatism in a lineage of tiger moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae): advancing knowledge of a taxonomically chaotic group	2
Parsimony optimization of phylogenetic networks	2
Hierarchies, classifications, cladograms and phylogeny	2
New troodontid theropod specimen from Inner Mongolia, China clarifies phylogenetic relationships of later‐diverging small‐bodied troodontids and paravian body size evolution	2
Parsing a plethora of pollen: the role of pollen size and shape in the evolution of Boraginaceae	2
Multi‐gene phylogeny of North American clear‐winged moths (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae): a foundation for future evolutionary study of a speciose mimicry complex	2
Untangling the evolution of soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) and the evaluation of the morphological phylogenetic signal in a soft‐bodied elateroid lineage	2
Combined phylogenetic analysis of Pleurodema (Anura: Leptodactylidae: Leiuperinae)	2
Morphology and phylogenetic significance of the pelvic articular region in elasmobranchs (Chondrichthyes)	2
Splitting one species into 22: an unusual tripling of molecular, morphological, and geographical differentiation in the fern family Didymochlaenaceae (Polypodiales)	1
Phylogenetic supergraphs	1
Congruence between ultraconserved element‐based matrices and phylotranscriptomic datasets in the scorpion Tree of Life	1
Exploring the role of climatic niche changes in the evolution of the southern South American genus Baripus (Coleoptera: Carabidae): optimization of non‐hereditary climatic variables and phyloge	1
What is discoverable and what is interpreted	1
On the four complementary aspects of hierarchical character relationships and their bearing on scoring constraints, expressed in a new syntax for character dependencies	1
Molecular phylogeny, divergence time, biogeography and trends in host plant usage in the agriculturally important tortricid tribe Grapholitini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae)	1
Cretaceous and Eocene fossils of the rare extant genus Synneuron Lundstrom (Diptera: Canthyloscledidae): evidence of a true Pangean clade	1
Phylogenetic analysis of the family Megalopodidae (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea): better taxon‐sampling facilitates detection of new relationships and new taxa	1
Homologues and homology and their related terms in phylogenetic systematics	1
Large‐scale genomic data reveal the phylogeny and evolution of owlet moths (Noctuoidea)	1
Intersubjective Corroboration	1
Phylogenetic relationships and revised classification of the true bug infraorder Dipsocoromorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera)	1
Wing pattern diversity in Eunica butterflies (Nymphalidae: Biblidinae): phylogenetic analysis implies decoupled adaptive trends in dorsal sexual dimorphism and ventral eyespot evolution	1
Phylogenetic analysis of Blaberoidea reveals non‐monophyly of taxa and supports the creation of multiple new subfamilies	1
Epidemiology needs more interdisciplinary teams with expertise in molecular systematics, public health and food safety	1
Phylogenomic analysis of Tachinidae (Diptera: Calyptratae: Oestroidea): a transcriptomic approach to understanding the subfamily relationships	1
Relative performance of Bayesian morphological clock and parsimony methods for phylogenetic reconstructions: Insights from the case of Myomiminae and Dryomyinae glirid rodents	1
Benefits of alignment quality‐control processing steps and an Angiosperms353 phylogenomics pipeline applied to the Celastrales	1
ONTbarcoder 2.0: rapid species discovery and identification with real‐time barcoding facilitated by Oxford Nanopore R10.4	1