OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 45. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Modelling exo-biospheres for biosignature predictions	162
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children	156
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs	114
The urgent search for predictive biomarkers in the emerging era of universal congenital cytomegalovirus screening	94
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals	88
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective	88
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison	83
The development of a silage-based biorefinery to deliver the maximum nutritional benefit for human consumption from UK grasslands	80
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies	74
Evolution of the cardiac dyad	73
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook	70
Comments from the departing Editor	70
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition	68
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?	68
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language	67
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica	64
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands	64
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	63
Pregnancy at high altitude: evolutionary and historical perspectives	63
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species	61
Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’	60
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery	59
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system	59
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model	56
The costs and benefits of dispersal in small populations	56

Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diversity	55
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes	55
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions	55
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology	54
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies	54
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective	54
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )	53
Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities	52
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species	50
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact	49
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion	49
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture	49
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review	47
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene	47
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure	46
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead	46
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness	45
Cage effects on synaptic plasticity and its modulation in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome	45
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems	45
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change	45
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis	45