OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 44. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Drivers of parasite β-diversity among anuran hosts depend on scale, realm and parasite group	146
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery	137
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook	102
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion	93
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals	79
A researcher's guide to the comparative assessment of vocal production learning	79
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )	76
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies	76
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review	75
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition	75
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective	74
Gossip and competitive altruism support cooperation in a Public Good game	73
Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’	70
The costs and benefits of dispersal in small populations	67
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis	66
Evolution of the cardiac dyad	64
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies	64
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language	63
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology	62
In situ-produced¹⁰Be and²⁶Al indirect dating of Elarmékora Earlier Stone Age artefacts: first attempt in a savannah forest mosaic in the middle Ogooué valley, Gabon	62
Comments from the departing Editor	61
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands	60
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children	60
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison	60
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions	57

Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes	57
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene	57
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diversity	55
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective	54
Modelling exo-biospheres for biosignature predictions	53
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species	52
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead	52
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure	52
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture	52
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species	52
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica	51
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system	51
Pregnancy at high altitude: evolutionary and historical perspectives	51
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems	50
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness	50
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact	49
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs	48
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model	47
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?	47
Systematic review of global historical marine ecology reveals geographical and taxonomic research gaps and biases	44
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change	44
The social dynamics of complex gestural communication in great and lesser apes ( Pan troglodytes , Pongo abelii, Symphalangus syndactylus	44