OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 32. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The modularity of a social group does not affect the transmission speed of a novel, socially learned behaviour, or the formation of local variants	77
The development of sex differences in song in a tropical duetting wren	75
Natural alleles at the Doa locus underpin evolutionary changes in Drosophila lifespan and fecundity	71
Sex-specific speed–accuracy trade-offs shape neural processing of acoustic signals in a grasshopper	55
Evolutionary history limits species' ability to match colour sensitivity to available habitat light	53
Genomic estimates of mutation and substitution rates contradict the evolutionary speed hypothesis of the latitudinal diversity gradient	53
Phylogeny, function and ecology in the deep evolutionary history of the mammalian forelimb	50
Blessing or curse: how the epigenetic resolution of host-transposable element conflicts shapes their evolutionary dynamics	50
Were all trilobites fully marine? Trilobite expansion into brackish water during the early Palaeozoic	49
Millennial processes of population decline, range contraction and near extinction of the European bison	49
Craniofacial development illuminates the evolution of nightbirds (Strisores)	48
Retraction: ‘Parasite prevalence and the worldwide distribution of cognitive ability’ (2010), by Eppig, Fincher and Thornhill	48
Evidence of selection in the uncoupling protein 1 gene region suggests local adaptation to solar irradiance in savannah monkeys ( Chlorocebus spp.)	47
Senescence: why and where selection gradients might not decline with age	47
Asymmetric arms races between predators and prey: a tug of war between the life–dinner principle and the rare-enemy principle	46
Phenological sensitivity and seasonal variability explain climate-driven trends in Mediterranean butterflies	42
Long-term anti-predator learning and memory differ across populations and sexes in an intertidal snail	42
Species-specific but not phylosymbiotic gut microbiomes of New Guinean passerine birds are shaped by diet and flight-associated gut modifications	41
The Archean origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and extant cyanobacterial lineages	41
Effective population size mediates the impact of pollination services on pollen limitation	40
Rare edges and abundant cores: range-wide variation in abundance in North American birds	39
Swimming through sand: using accelerometers to observe the cryptic, pre-emergence life-stage of sea turtle hatchlings	39
Evolution of bioluminescence in Anthozoa with emphasis on Octocorallia	39
The genetic architecture and evolution of life-history divergence among perennials in theMimulus guttatusspecies complex	38
Complex economic decisions from simple neurocognitive processes: the role of interactive attention	37

Slow improvement to the archiving quality of open datasets shared by researchers in ecology and evolution	36
Sensory evolution in a cavefish radiation: patterns of neuromast distribution and associated behaviour inSinocyclocheilus(Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)	35
Limited vocal compensation for elevated ambient noise in bearded seals: implications for an industrializing Arctic Ocean	35
The evolution of age-specific resistance to infectious disease	34
Insects use lubricants to minimize friction and wear in leg joints	32
Fossils improve phylogenetic analyses of morphological characters	32
Reality and illusion: the assessment of angular separation of multi-modal signallers in a duetting bird	32
Fossilization can mislead analyses of phenotypic disparity	32
Evolutionary history of quadrupedal walking gaits shows mammalian release from locomotor constraint	32
Beringia and the peopling of the Western Hemisphere	32
Repeated loss of variation in insect ovary morphology highlights the role of development in life-history evolution	32