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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Modelling exo-biospheres for biosignature predictions	157
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery	151
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure	111
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica	97
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes	88
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs	85
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review	84
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model	80
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion	80
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system	78
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective	71
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children	70
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison	69
The costs and benefits of dispersal in small populations	69
The development of a silage-based biorefinery to deliver the maximum nutritional benefit for human consumption from UK grasslands	65
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies	64
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies	64
Comments from the departing Editor	63
Evolution of the cardiac dyad	63
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook	62
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition	60
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )	59
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?	59
Pregnancy at high altitude: evolutionary and historical perspectives	58
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	56

Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene	55
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture	55
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species	54
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language	53
Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’	53
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species	52
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness	52
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology	52
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions	51
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diversity	50
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals	49
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact	47
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands	46
Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities	46
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis	45
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change	45
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems	45
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective	45
Cage effects on synaptic plasticity and its modulation in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome	44
Of popsicles and crackers: when spatio-temporal memory is not integrated into children’s decision-making	44
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead	44
The concept of critical age group for density dependence: bridging the gap between demographers, evolutionary biologists and behavioural ecologists	44
Local and regional factors influencing historical forest fires in eastern Fennoscandia	44