OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 47. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Impact of extreme weather conditions on European crop production in 2018	140
Childhood as a solution to explore–exploit tensions	118
The importance of intrinsic postzygotic barriers throughout the speciation process	110
A historical, geographical and ecological perspective on the 2018 European summer drought	89
How sperm competition shapes the evolution of testes and sperm: a meta-analysis	86
Reframing cognition: getting down to biological basics	85
Roles of the gut microbiota in the adaptive evolution of mammalian species	82
Life in fluctuating environments	80
Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV (COVID-19): early estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic size estimates	80
Challenges in control of COVID-19: short doubling time and long delay to effect of interventions	75
Speciation through chromosomal fusion and fission in Lepidoptera	75
TheDrosophilaseminal proteome and its role in postcopulatory sexual selection	75
Towards the completion of speciation: the evolution of reproductive isolation beyond the first barriers	74
How does epigenetics influence the course of evolution?	73
Sensitivity of gross primary productivity to climatic drivers during the summer drought of 2018 in Europe	72
Separating vascular and neuronal effects of age on fMRI BOLD signals	71
The study of host–microbiome (co)evolution across levels of selection	70
The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies	69
Citizen science and marine conservation: a global review	65
Impacts of extreme summers on European ecosystems: a comparative analysis of 2003, 2010 and 2018	64
Stable isotopes of fatty acids: current and future perspectives for advancing trophic ecology	62
Microbiome-mediated plasticity directs host evolution along several distinct time scales	62
The impact of testing and infection prevention and control strategies on within-hospital transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in English hospitals	61
Epigenetics and the success of invasive plants	61
Neural versus alternative integrative systems: molecular insights into origins of neurotransmitters	60

The emergence of emotionally modern humans: implications for language and learning	60
The cognitive and perceptual correlates of ideological attitudes: a data-driven approach	60
Pathogen resistance may be the principal evolutionary advantage provided by the microbiome	59
Evolution of master sex determiners: TGF-β signalling pathways at regulatory crossroads	59
Rhesus macaques as a tractable physiological model of human ageing	57
Olfaction scaffolds the developing human from neonate to adolescent and beyond	56
Life-history theory in psychology and evolutionary biology: one research programme or two?	56
The role of soil in regulation of climate	56
Real-time nowcasting and forecasting of COVID-19 dynamics in England: the first wave	55
Molluscan mitochondrial genomes break the rules	55
Compartmentalization drives the evolution of symbiotic cooperation	55
The chemical brain hypothesis for the origin of nervous systems	53
A mechanism for learning with sleep spindles	53
Continuous decisions	52
Spatial chloroplast-to-nucleus signalling involving plastid–nuclear complexes and stromules	51
Linking mitochondrial and chloroplast retrograde signalling in plants	50
A neutral model for the loss of recombination on sex chromosomes	49
Social bonds, social status and survival in wild baboons: a tale of two sexes	49
WolbachiastrainwAlbB maintains high density and dengue inhibition following introduction into a field population ofAedes aegypti	48
Modelling that shaped the early COVID-19 pandemic response in the UK	47
Conceptual developments in sperm competition: a very brief synopsis	47
Novel control strategies for mosquito-borne diseases	47
Comparative transcriptomic analysis of the mechanisms underpinning ageing and fecundity in social insects	47
Sweet solutions: nectar chemistry and quality	47