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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Mitonuclear dynamics in unisexual vertebrates	135
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children	119
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species	119
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology	117
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes	96
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica	92
Comments from the departing Editor	89
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands	87
Honey-hunting with honeyguides in northern Ghana: cultural continuity amid change	77
Preface	74
Tracking the spatial and longitudinal dynamics of mixed infections of urogenital and intestinal schistosomiasis, inclusive of Schistosoma mattheei , in t	70
The relation between children’s shyness and their contingent dialogical actions when reacting to a social robot’s instructions	69
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion	68
Evolution of the cardiac dyad	67
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure	66
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies	66
The urgent search for predictive biomarkers in the emerging era of universal congenital cytomegalovirus screening	66
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery	64
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals	63
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions	63
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness	62
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective	61
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )	61
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison	58
Pregnancy at high altitude: evolutionary and historical perspectives	56

Pragmatic comprehension and inferential ability: interplay with executive functions and Theory of Mind	56
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies	55
The development of a silage-based biorefinery to deliver the maximum nutritional benefit for human consumption from UK grasslands	55
Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities	55
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?	54
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook	54
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review	54
Distinct Anthropocene biosphere recorded by the rise of green algae and chrysophytes in varved sediments of Crawford Lake (Ontario, Canada)	52
Modelling exo-biospheres for biosignature predictions	52
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact	51
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model	51
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene	48
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition	47
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system	46
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change	45
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language	45
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead	45
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems	45
The interplay of social identity and norm psychology in the evolution of human groups	44