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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
External and internal driving forces of community and functional group stability in the forest mammal community	93
Asymmetric arms races between predators and prey: a tug of war between the life–dinner principle and the rare-enemy principle	67
Ants act as olfactory bio-detectors of tumours in patient-derived xenograft mice	66
Evolutionary trade-offs between male secondary sexual traits revealed by a phylogeny of the hyperdiverse tribe Eumaeini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)	59
Exploring the connection between autophagy and heat-stress tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster	58
Multiscale analysis of the randomization limits of the chromosomal gene organization between Lepidoptera and Diptera	58
A dawn and dusk chorus will emerge if males sing in the absence of their mate	56
Genotype-by-environment interactions influence the composition of the Drosophila seminal proteome	56
Beak morphometry and morphogenesis across avian radiations	54
Human adults prefer to cooperate even when it is costly	52
Uncovering the Holocene roots of contemporary disease-scapes: bringing archaeology into One Health	51
Sub-communities of the vaginal microbiota in pregnant and non-pregnant women	51
Auditory mechanics in the grig ( Cyphoderris monstrosa ): tympanal travelling waves and frequency discrimination as a precursor to inner ear tonotopy	50
The ontogeny of asymmetry in echolocating whales	45
The gaze of a social monkey is perceptible to conspecifics and predators but not prey	45
Insect cross-tolerance to freezing and drought stress: role of metabolic rearrangement	45
Evolution of competitive traits changes species diversity in a natural field	43
The importance of migratory drop-off for island colonization in birds	41
Shifts in predator behaviour following climate induced disturbance on coral reefs	41
Quantitative genetic-by-soil microbiome interactions in a perennial grass affect functional traits	40
Correction to: ‘Age determination in echinoderms: first evidence of annual growth rings in holothuroids’ 2022 by Sun et al.	38
Seeds of language-like generativity in bird call combinations	38
In search of the genetic variants of human sex ratio at birth: was Fisher wrong about sex ratio evolution?	37
Ecological shifts underlie parallels between ontogenetic and evolutionary allometries in parrotfishes	35
Seed size variation impacts local adaptation and life-history strategies in a perennial grass	34

Complexity and diversity of motion amplification and control strategies in motile carnivorous plant traps	34
Win-Stay-Lose-Shift as a self-confirming equilibrium in the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma	34
Labour's pain: strenuous subsistence work, mechanical wear-and-tear and musculoskeletal pain in a non-industrialized population	33
Bee flowers drive macroevolutionary diversification in long-horned bees	33
Correction to: First monk seal from the Southern Hemisphere rewrites the evolutionary history of true seals	33
Modelling the emergence of synchrony from decentralized rhythmic interactions in animal communication	32
Kin selection of time travel: the social evolutionary causes and consequences of dormancy	32
Which peer reviewers voluntarily reveal their identity to authors? Insights into the consequences of open-identities peer review	32
The psychology of relative state, desperation and violence: a commentary on de Courson et al. (2023)	32