OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Acta Ethologica 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Bringing animal behaviour into marine conservation: insights and future directions	22
Reproductive consequences of male interference in ladybird beetles	11
Ultrasonic distress calls and associated defensive behaviors in Neotropical frogs	10
First record of mutual allogrooming in wild northern red muntjac Muntiacus Vaginalis	8
Social behaviour of the crested porcupine in urban and rural areas	8
Scared of the dark? Nychthemeral sociality in territorial black wildebeest (Connnochaetes gnou) bulls	7
Can contrasting habitats influence predatory behavior in tropical forest scorpions?	7
Competition and sex-age class alter the effects of group size on vigilance in white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus	6
Copulation behaviour in the Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)	6
Mobbing behaviour of hosts and non-hosts towards cuckoo Cuculus canorus of different sex	6
Detrimental impact of a heatwave on male reproductive behaviour and fertility	6
Females of the sailfin tetra prefer red illuminated environments	5
The underground system of Clyomys laticeps changes in structure and composition according to climatic and vegetation variations	4
Blue-winged parrotlet Forpus xanthopterygius (Aves: Psittacidae), feeding over water in Southeast Brazil	4
Invasive Italian wall lizards outcompete native congeneric species in finding food in a Y-maze	3
A conceptual framework for the analysis of animal behaviour: an hierarchical script-episodes-gestures structure	3
Correction to: Invasive Italian wall lizards outcompete native congeneric species in finding food in a Y‑maze	3
Interaction between vasotocin and gonadal hormones in the regulation of reproductive behavior in a cichlid fish	3
Assessing the impact of engine and non-engine urban noises on the calls of urban frogs: a natural experiment	3
Epimeletic behavior in a free-ranging female Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus)	3
Reproductive behavior analysis in the annual killifish Austrolebias nigripinnis (Regan, 1912) (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae)	3
Emergence and pre-emergence behavior of two species of solitary bees of the tribe Anthidiini in trap nests	2
Halloween day! a molossid bat trapped in a communal spider web in the Paraná flooded savanna of eastern Argentina	2
Intra-sexual selection in a North American annual killifish: does the color-polymorphism matter?	2
The unique case of marking behaviour in juvenile lynx	2

Testing the environmental buffering hypothesis of cooperative breeding in the Seychelles warbler	2
Correction to: Copulation behaviour in the Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)	2
The environment matters: season and female contact affect the behavior of captive Addax nasomaculatus male antelope	2
Alloparenting and family behaviours in leopards (Panthera pardus fusca)	1
Heterospecific eavesdropping of jays (Garrulus glandarius) on blackbird (Turdus merula) mobbing calls	1
Correction to: A novel mode of bathing behavior of hummingbirds recorded in the Brazilian ruby Heliodoxa rubricauda and allies (Aves: Trochilidae)	1
First report of visual displays in the Neotropical treefrog Dendropsophus carnifex	1
Safe in the heights: trees as safer sites for female jaguars and their cubs in the Pantanal	1
Underground environment increases the differentiation of personality traits between male and female plateau zokors (Eospalax baileyi)	1
Occurrence of long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) and killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Icelandic coastal waters and their interspecific interactions	1
Hide and flirt: observed behavior of female jaguars (Panthera onca) to protect their young cubs from adult males	1
First evidence for active carnivorous predation in the European ground squirrel	1
Feeding behavior and prey of three migratory shorebirds (Aves: Charadriiformes) during the nonbreeding season in southern Brazil	1
Fruit scent as an indicator of ripeness status in ‘bat fruits’ to attract ‘fruit bats’: chemical basis of chiropterochory	1
Thanatosis in juvenile notolabrus celidotus, the New Zealand spotty wrasse	1
Zebra finches increase social behavior in traffic noise: Implications for urban songbirds	1
Role of cuticular hydrocarbons and social cues in mate recognition and copulatory behavior of ladybird beetle, Cheilomenes sexmaculata (Fabricius)	1
Unkenreflex in anurans– new observations with a review of published records	1
Promiscuity in the Greater Rhea: a genetic approach	1
Unusual intra-specific aggression in striped hyena	1