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Papers

(The median citation count of Ichnos-An International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Metre-scale, upward-radiating burrow systems in Pleistocene aeolian sandstone, Cape South Coast, South Africa: a new ichnotaxon	22
Diving neoichnology: underwater fieldwork focusing on organism and seafloor ecosystem interactions	19
Teredolitesdriftwood from the Arkadelphia Formation–Midway Group Contact (K–Pg), Malvern, Arkansas, USA	17
Trace fossils of hypersaline environment and its implication in identifying tidal inundation boundary in Great Rann of Kachchh, Western India	11
Report of 18 ^th International Ichnofabric Workshop, 26-31 May 2025 in Granada (Spain)	8
The role of neoichnology in environmental geoscience	7
First record of a small stegosaur footprint (cf.Stegopodus) from the ?Upper Jurassic-?Lower Cretaceous red beds of the Middle Atlas, Morocco	7
Trace fossils on megafaunal bone remains from Quaternary natural tank deposits of Brazil: A case study in João Cativo Paleontological site, Megafauna Valley, Brazil	7
Morphology of Radhostium carpaticum Plička and Říha, 1989 in new finds from the Outer Western Carpathians (Upper Cretaceous – Eocene flysch deposits of the Biele Karpaty Mountains, Slovakia)	6
Unraveling stratigraphic complexities of transgressive surfaces with trace fossil omission suites and juxtaposed softground suites	6
Taphonomic overprinting on the late Palaeozoic terrestrial plant–animal interactions: a noise in the record	6
Ichnology of a tropical delta and associated strandplain: the Oligocene–Miocene Ciénaga de Oro Formation of Colombia	6
The paleoichnofauna in bones of Brazilian Quaternary cave deposits and the proposition of two new ichnotaxa	6
Invertebrate trace fossils from Paleogene fluvial strata in Western Washington, USA	5
Sclerobionts on Oscillopha dichotoma (Bayle, 1849) from the Campanian Gurpi Formation, Zagros Basin (SW Iran)	5
New ichnospecies and redescription of Caedichnus Stafford et al., 2015, traces indicative of durophagous predation	5
The impacts of diagenesis on bioturbated ramp deposits: A study of Arab-D outcrops in Wadi Malham, Central Saudi Arabia	5
Review of 17th international ichnofabric workshop, 23–25 October 2023 in Faxe (Denmark)	5
Psammichnites from the Pennsylvanian Rod El-Hamal Formation of Egypt: revisiting paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic patterns of distribution of late Paleozoic ichnospeci	4
First record of Linichnus Jacobsen & Bromley, 2009, and Nihilichnus Mikuláš et al., 2006, in the Itaboraí Basin (early Eocene), in Sou	4
A gar-bitten vertebrate coprolite from the Neogene of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA, and a new ichnospecies of Machichnus Mikuláš et al., 2006	4
Well-preserved Piscichnus waitemata in tidal-flat deposits of the Miocene Shirahama Formation, southwestern Japan and its ichnological, palaeoecological,	4
Decoupling fossil trackways from trackmaker identity in locomotion studies	4
A brief overview of deep-sea neoichnology: recent advances and prospects for interpreting the trace fossil record	4
Possible shod-hominin tracks on South Africa’s Cape coast	4

Plant stem trace fossils from fluvial deposits of the Hell Creek Formation (Maastrichtian), Montana, USA	4
Neoichnology of Rhinella dorbignyi (Bufonidae) burrows: improving the recognition and interpretation of toad burrows	3
Aratichnus igen. nov. from the Eocene-aged Baronia Formation, Àger Basin, Lleida, Spain	3
Fundalutum tielongtanensis isp. nov., the first record of anomuran microcoprolites from the Upper Cretaceous Tielongtan Group of the Western Kunlun area, NW Tibet	3
Cochlichnus -like traces produced by chironomid midge larvae (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) and a summary of traces produced by modern chironomids	3
The importance of laboratory-based neoichnological experiments for aquatic palaeoecological analyses	3
The new ichnospecies Teredolites solitarius and its taphonomy from the Cenozoic carbonate intervals of Kutch Basin, India	2
Ichnofabrics and temporal disjunction: Miocene continental trace fossils in the Precambrian basement of the Orinoco Oil Belt of Venezuela	2
Burrow systems of modern subterranean rodents (Ctenomyidae): key neoichnologic features and recognition of fossil examples	2
Martin G. Lockley (1950–2023): prime mover of vertebrate footprint studies	2
Taphonomic history of a dinosaur skeleton from the upper Cretaceous Frenchman Formation, Canada: insights from ancient rhizoetchings and invertebrate bioerosion trace fossils	2
Taxonomic reappraisal of Nihilichnus from taphonomic perspectives of crocodile predatory ecology	2
Scolicia,ichnotaxonomic practices, and the limits of behavioural convergence	1
A new ichnospecies of Nihilichnus Mikuláš et al., 2006 from the Palaeogene of South America: trace makers and ichnological and palaeobiological implications	1
Soft-sediment deformation structures in the Lower Cretaceous Robberg Formation, South Africa: distinguishing the effects of dinosaurs and earthquakes in an estuarine, rift basin setting	1
A new ichnospecies of Machichnus Mikuláš et al., 2006 from the Quaternary of Northeastern Brazil: insights into rodent interactions with extinct megafaun	1
Effects of X-ray computed tomography (CT) on the ichnologic interpretation of the Mira River estuary sediment core, SW Portugal	1
Dating the Pleistocene hominin ichnosites on South Africa’s Cape south coast	1
Identifying and accounting for outcrop constraints on observations in field-based ichnological studies	1
The Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary in the Kurovice section (Southern Moravia, Czech Republic): trace fossils, stable isotopes, and magnetic susceptibility	1
Enigmatic vertebrate swimming trace fossils from the Wapiti Formation, Alberta, Canada, and their implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction	1
Coleopteran burrows from foreshore settings in Florianópolis, Brazil	1
Pleistocene fossil snake traces on South Africa’s Cape south coast	1
Reproducing and understanding a fossil trail in digitized worlds: a protocol to quantitative analyses of movement trajectories	1
An incisive and innovative ichnologist: remembering the outstanding contributions of Dr. S. George Pemberton, Distinguished University Professor, F.R.S.C	1
New records of Ctenopholeus in the early Devonian Hunsrück Slate of Bundenbach, SW Germany	1
Bioturbation changing porosity, permeability, and fracturability in chalk? Insights from an Upper Cretaceous chalk reservoir (Buda Formation, Texas, USA)	1