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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
TNTversion 1.6, with a graphical interface forMacOSand Linux, including new routines in parallel	109
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	72
Simultaneous diversification of Polypodiales and angiosperms in the Mesozoic	46
Marimbondos: systematics, biogeography, and evolution of social behaviour of neotropical swarm‐founding wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Epiponini)	28
Diversification of the phytophagous lineages of true bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) shortly after that of the flowering plants	27
A reconsideration of inapplicable characters, and an approximation with step‐matrix recoding	22
A phylotranscriptomic framework for flesh fly evolution (Diptera, Calyptratae, Sarcophagidae)	22
Parsimony analysis of phylogenomic datasets (I): scripts and guidelines for using TNT (Tree Analysis using New Technology)	20
Seeing through the hedge: Phylogenomics of Thuja (Cupressaceae) reveals prominent incomplete lineage sorting and ancient introgression for Tertiary relict flora	20
The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps	19
Mitogenome phylogeny reveals Indochina Peninsula origin and spatiotemporal diversification of freshwater crabs (Potamidae: Potamiscinae) in China	19
Fundamental evolution of all Orthocoronavirinae including three deadly lineages descendent from Chiroptera‐hosted coronaviruses: SARS‐CoV, MERS‐CoV and SARS‐CoV‐2	18
Plastid phylogenomics provides novel insights into the infrafamilial relationship of Polypodiaceae	18
Advances in the reconstruction of the spider tree of life: A roadmap for spider systematics and comparative studies	18
Phylogeny of gracillariid leaf‐mining moths: evolution of larval behaviour inferred from phylogenomic and Sanger data	17
Highly diversified mitochondrial genomes provide new evidence for interordinal relationships in the Arachnida	16
Geographical sampling bias on the assessment of endemism areas for marine meiobenthic fauna	16
Phylogenomics of flavobacterial insect nutritional endosymbionts with implications for Auchenorrhyncha phylogeny	15
Phylogenomics reveals accelerated late Cretaceous diversification of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae)	15
New insights into the phylogeny of the complex thalloid liverworts (Marchantiopsida) based on chloroplast genomes	15
Morphology, nuclearSNPsand mate selection reveal thatCOIbarcoding overestimates species diversity in a Mediterranean freshwater amphipod by an order of magnitude	14
Two centuries of distribution data: detection of areas of endemism for the Brazilian angiosperms	14
Parsimony analysis of phylogenomic datasets (II): evaluation of PAUP*, MEGA and MPBoot	14
Combined data analysis of fossil and living mammals: a Paleogene sister taxon of Placentalia and the antiquity of Marsupialia	14
A molecular phylogeny of Thuridilla Bergh, 1872 sea slugs (Gastropoda, Sacoglossa) reveals a case of flamboyant and cryptic radiation in the marine realm	13

Somewhere I belong: phylogeny and morphological evolution in a species‐rich lineage of ectoparasitic flatworms infecting cichlid fishes	13
A novel probe set for the phylogenomics and evolution of RTA spiders	12
Similar pattern, different paths: tracing the biogeographical history of Megaloptera (Insecta: Neuropterida) using mitochondrial phylogenomics	12
Total‐evidence backbone phylogeny of Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)	12
ONTbarcoder 2.0: rapid species discovery and identification with real‐time barcoding facilitated by Oxford Nanopore R10.4	12
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	12
Untangling the evolution of soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) and the evaluation of the morphological phylogenetic signal in a soft‐bodied elateroid lineage	11
Phylogenomics and systematics of Entomobryoidea (Collembola): marker design, phylogeny and classification	11
Exploring systematic biases, rooting methods and morphological evidence to unravel the evolutionary history of the genus Ficus (Moraceae)	11
Historical biogeography of Tetrastigma (Vitaceae): Insights into floristic exchange patterns between Asia and Australia	10
Hyb‐Seq provides new insights into the phylogeny and evolution of the Chrysanthemum zawadskii species complex in China	10
Patterns of morphological simplification and innovation in the megadiverse Holometabola (Insecta)	10
Phylogeny and biogeography of the northern temperate genus Dracocephalum s.l. (Lamiaceae)	9
Total evidence and sensitivity phylogenetic analyses of egg‐brooding frogs (Anura: Hemiphractidae)	8
Female terminalia morphology and cladistic relations among Tok‐Tok beetles (Tenebrionidae: Sepidiini)	8
Phylogenetic analysis of Blaberoidea reveals non‐monophyly of taxa and supports the creation of multiple new subfamilies	8
The stepwise Indian–Eurasian collision and uplift of the Himalayan‐Tibetan plateau drove the diversification of high‐elevation Scytodes spiders	8
The role of Anatolia in the origin of the Caucasus biodiversity hotspot illustrated by land snails in the genusOxychilus	7
New troodontid theropod specimen from Inner Mongolia, China clarifies phylogenetic relationships of later‐diverging small‐bodied troodontids and paravian body size evolution	7
Phylogenomics and loci dropout patterns of deeply diverged Zodarion ant‐eating spiders suggest a high potential of RAD‐seq for genus‐level spider phylogenetics	7
Congruence between ultraconserved element‐based matrices and phylotranscriptomic datasets in the scorpion Tree of Life	7
Areas of endemism of Lauraceae: new insights on the biogeographic regionalization of the Espinhaço Range, Brazil	7
Evolution of the strikingly diverse submandibular muscles in Anura	7
Molecular phylogeny of the tropical wandering spiders (Araneae, Ctenidae) and the evolution of eye conformation in the RTA clade	6
Diversity, host specificity and biogeography in the Cladocorynidae (Hydrozoa, Capitata), with description of a new genus	6
Analysis of endemism of world arthropod distribution data supports biogeographic regions and many established subdivisions	6
Exploring the effects of weighting against homoplasy in genealogies of palaeontological phylogenetic matrices	6
A unified view of homology	5
Phylogeny and biogeography of the ancient spider family Filistatidae (Araneae) is consistent both with long‐distance dispersal and vicariance following continental drift	5
Burrowing into the forest: Phylogeny of the Asian forest scorpions (Scorpionidae: Heterometrinae) and the evolution of ecomorphotypes	5
Phylogeny of Lithobiidae Newport, 1844, with emphasis on the megadiverse genus Lithobius Leach, 1814 (Myriapoda, Chilopoda)	5
PhylogeneticGraph (PhyG) a new phylogenetic graph search and optimization program	4
Unraveling the evolutionary history of the snakefly family Inocelliidae (Insecta: Raphidioptera) through integrative phylogenetics	4
Evolution of cephalic structures in extreme myrmecophiles: a lesson from Clavigeritae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)	4
Molecular phylogeny and evolution of Calaphidinae (Hemiptera: Aphididae)	4
Total‐evidence phylogeny and evolutionary morphology of New World pitvipers (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae)	4
Morphology and phylogenetic significance of the pelvic articular region in elasmobranchs (Chondrichthyes)	4
Relative performance of Bayesian morphological clock and parsimony methods for phylogenetic reconstructions: Insights from the case of Myomiminae and Dryomyinae glirid rodents	4
Fifth mass extinction event triggered the diversification of the largest family of freshwater gastropods (Caenogastropoda: Truncatelloidea: Hydrobiidae)	4
When phylogenetics met biogeography: Willi Hennig, Lars Brundin and the roots of phylogenetic and cladistic biogeography	4
Cretaceous lophocoronids with short proboscis and retractable female genitalia provide the earliest evidence for their feeding and oviposition habits	4
Phylogenetic value of jaw elements of lacertid lizards (Squamata: Lacertoidea): a case study with Oligocene material from France	3
Wing pattern diversity in Eunica butterflies (Nymphalidae: Biblidinae): phylogenetic analysis implies decoupled adaptive trends in dorsal sexual dimorphism and ventral eyespot evolution	3
Parsing a plethora of pollen: the role of pollen size and shape in the evolution of Boraginaceae	3
Phylogenetic relationships and revised classification of the true bug infraorder Dipsocoromorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera)	3
Parsimony optimization of phylogenetic networks	3
Distribution patterns of Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in the Americas: an analysis based on networks and endemicity	3
Multi‐gene phylogeny of North American clear‐winged moths (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae): a foundation for future evolutionary study of a speciose mimicry complex	3
Phylogenetic analysis of the family Megalopodidae (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea): better taxon‐sampling facilitates detection of new relationships and new taxa	2
Introgression and incomplete lineage sorting blurred phylogenetic relationships across the genomes of sclerophyllous oaks from southwest China	2

Early evolution of Anamorphidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea): the oldest known anamorphid beetles from Upper Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar and the first report of potential glandular pores in t	2
Benefits of alignment quality‐control processing steps and an Angiosperms353 phylogenomics pipeline applied to the Celastrales	2
Biogeographic–tectonic calibration of 14 nodes in a butterfly timetree	2
Homologues and homology and their related terms in phylogenetic systematics	2
Distance Wagner tree refinement as a heuristic approach to character‐based initial tree construction	2
Phylogenomic analysis of Tachinidae (Diptera: Calyptratae: Oestroidea): a transcriptomic approach to understanding the subfamily relationships	2
Insights from the first phylogenomic analysis of flat wasps (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) reveal two new subfamilies	2
Molecular phylogeny, divergence time, biogeography and trends in host plant usage in the agriculturally important tortricid tribe Grapholitini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae)	2
Evolution of sexual dimorphism and polychromatism in a lineage of tiger moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae): advancing knowledge of a taxonomically chaotic group	2
Phylogenetic supergraphs	2
Hierarchies, classifications, cladograms and phylogeny	2
Splitting one species into 22: an unusual tripling of molecular, morphological, and geographical differentiation in the fern family Didymochlaenaceae (Polypodiales)	2
Combined phylogenetic analysis of Pleurodema (Anura: Leptodactylidae: Leiuperinae)	2
Farewell to the requirement for character independence: phylogenetic methods to incorporate different types of dependence between characters	2
What is discoverable and what is interpreted	1
Intersubjective Corroboration	1
Behavioural evolution of Neotropical social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae): the queen selection process	1
A new abelisaurid dinosaur from the end Cretaceous of Patagonia and evolutionary rates among the Ceratosauria	1
Complete phylogeny of Micrathena spiders suggests multiple dispersal events among Neotropical rainforests, islands and landmasses, and indicates that Andean orogeny promotes speciation	1
Systematics and character evolution of capitate hydrozoans	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
Specialized ovipositor sensilla of Cretaceous wasps (Insecta: Hymenoptera) possibly reveal a unique way of host detection	1
Much ado about nothing: inapplicable data as insertion–deletion events	1
New Cretaceous empidoids and the Mesozoic dance fly revolution (Diptera: Empidoidea)	1
Large‐scale genomic data reveal the phylogeny and evolution of owlet moths (Noctuoidea)	1
What else is dentition telling us? A new specimen‐level phylogeny of Mesotheriidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata)	1
Areas of endemism of Pteridaceae (Polypodiopsida) in Brazil: a first approach	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
Ultraconserved elements from transcriptome and genome data provide insight into the phylogenomics of Sternorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera)	1