OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 49. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Comments from the departing Editor	120
Children's fingernail cortisol among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin: associations with fathers' roles	118
Shaping birth: variation in the birth canal and the importance of inclusive obstetric care	108
A researcher's guide to the comparative assessment of vocal production learning	106
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies	90
Drivers of parasite β-diversity among anuran hosts depend on scale, realm and parasite group	87
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness	83
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs	82
Engagement and adherence trade-offs for SARS-CoV-2 contact tracing	75
Cross-frequency coupling explains the preference for simple ratios in rhythmic behaviour and the relative stability across non-synchronous patterns	72
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology	71
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies	67
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure	67
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model	67
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children	67
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	66
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis	66
Gossip and competitive altruism support cooperation in a Public Good game	65
Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’	62
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery	61
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )	61
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective	61
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook	61
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition	61
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene	60

Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes	59
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison	57
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact	57
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica	57
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?	57
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review	55
Evolution of the cardiac dyad	55
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands	55
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diversity	55
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems	54
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language	54
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species	53
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion	53
The costs and benefits of dispersal in small populations	53
A 180 Myr-old female-specific genome region in sturgeon reveals the oldest known vertebrate sex determining system with undifferentiated sex chromosomes	52
The role of soils in the regulation of hazards and extreme events	52
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture	51
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions	51
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective	51
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead	50
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system	50
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change	50
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species	50
A vector representation for phylogenetic trees	49
Individual and ecological heterogeneity promote complex communication in social vertebrate group decisions	49