OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Mammalian Evolution is 2. 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
Endocranial cast anatomy of the Early Miocene glyptodont Propalaehoplophorus australis (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) and its evolutionary implications	21
New reports, updates, and additional comments about Neobrachytherium ullumense Soria, 2001 (Litopterna, Proterotheriidae) in the Late Miocene of Uruguay and Argentina	18
New Quaternary mammals support regional endemism in western Hispaniola	18
New interpretation of dentition in Early Cretaceous docodontan Sibirotherium based on micro-computed tomography	17
New insights into the upper and lower deciduous dentition of Pyrotherium from the late Oligocene of South America	16
Stuck between rivers: a new species of Ctenomys from northern Argentine Patagonia	16
On the Eating Habits of Sloths: Finite Element Analysis and Niche Specialization	15
Phylogenetic relationships of Marmosops Matschie, 1916 in the Atlantic Forest and topography effects on the diversity of M. paulensis Tate, 1931 (Didelphidae: Thylamyini)	14
Cranial geometric morphometrics of jumping mice (Genera: Eozapus, Napaeozapus, and Zapus; Zapodinae, Rodentia): Implications for subspecies conservation	13
New insights into the postcranial anatomy of Exaeretodon riograndensis (Eucynodontia: Traversodontidae): phylogenetic implications, body mass, and lifestyle	13
New Specimens of Reigitherium bunodontum from the Late Cretaceous La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina and Meridiolestidan Diversity in South America	12
Morphological and Functional Divergence of the Lower Jaw Between Native and Invasive Red Foxes	12
Ecomorphology of toothed whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti) as revealed by 3D skull geometry	12
A New Mammal Skull from the Late Cretaceous of Romania and Phylogenetic Affinities of Kogaionid Multituberculates	11
Investigating the land-to-sea transition in carnivorans from the evolution of sacrum morphology in pinnipeds	11
Temporal lobe evolution in extant and extinct Cercopithecoidea	10
From Embryo to Adult: The Complete Development and Unusual Replacement of the Dentition of the Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii)	10
Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Miocene of Damiao, Nei Mongol, China	10
First Apatemyid Mammal from Central Asia	9
Trophic differentiation between the endemic Cypriot mouse and the house mouse: a study coupling stable isotopes and morphometrics	9
Gliding between continents: a review of the North American record of the giant flying squirrel Miopetaurista (Rodentia, Sciuridae) with the description of new material from the Gray Fossil Site (Tenne	8
Untangling the ecological signal in the dental morphology in the bat superfamily Noctilionoidea	8
Morphological variation of limb bones in three families of Neotropical bats from Argentina: exploring the influences of allometry, ecology, and phylogeny	8
Skeletal Variation and Taxonomic Boundaries in the Pen-tailed Treeshrew (Scandentia: Ptilocercidae; Ptilocercus lowii Gray, 1848)	8
Total Dental Occlusal Area as a Feeding Constraint Feature in Extant Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus), and Implications for the Evolution of Molluscivory in Odobenidae	8

Megantereon adroveri from the Early Pleistocene of Taurida Cave, Crimea, and the European Lineage of Dirk-toothed Cats	8
Divergence, diagnosability, and description of a new subspecies of franciscana dolphin Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais & d’Orbigny, 1844)	7
Ontogenetic and Intraspecific Variation in the Skull Morphology of the Late Miocene Bovid Hezhengia bohlini	7
The ancestral morphology of lumbar vertebrae and its diversification in early Cenozoic mammals	7
Trauma-induced alterations in the exoskeleton of glyptodonts (Cingulata, Xenarthra) associated with fighting behavior	7
Correction: The brain of fur seals, seals, and walrus (Pinnipedia): A comparative anatomical and phylogenetic study of cranial endocasts of semiaquatic mammals	7
Maybe So, Maybe Not: Canis lepophagus at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, Idaho, USA	7
Integrating paleopathology and paleoecology to unravel the lifestyle of the Pleistocene sloth Nothrotherium maquinense	7
Vestigial structures and variation in the evolution of the marsupial mammal dental development—a study of the woolly opossum Caluromys philander	7
Integrative Approach Uncovers New Patterns of Ecomorphological Convergence in Slow Arboreal Xenarthrans	7
First record of Posnanskytherium (Notoungulata, Toxodontidae) in the late Neogene of eastern Puna, Argentina	6
Earliest Vallesian suid remains from Creu de Conill 20 (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula)	6
Chaetophractus villosus (Desmarest, 1804) (Xenarthra: Euphractinae) in Uruguay (Upper Pleistocene): Taxon age, biogeography, and paleoclimatic implications	6
Suction causes novel tooth wear in marine mammals, with implications for feeding evolution in baleen whales	6
The Quaternary lions of Ukraine and a trend of decreasing size in Panthera spelaea	6
Measuring Molarization: Change Through Time in Premolar Function in An Extinct Stem Primate Lineage	6
A new genus and two new species of malleodectid (Marsupialia, Malleodectidae) from the Middle and Late Miocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland.	6
Phylogeography of the Endangered Franciscana Dolphin: Timing and Geological Setting of the Evolution of Populations	6
Muscular anatomy of the hindlimb of the tiger (Panthera tigris)	5
The minimum free energy of G-quadruplex-forming sequences of the MSX1 intron is associated with relative molar and premolar size in eutherians	5
High Allelic Diversity of Dog Leukocyte Antigen Class II in East Asian Dogs: Identification of New Alleles and Haplotypes	5
Correction to: A New Species of Ctenomys (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) from Patagonia Related to C. sociabilis	5
Comparison of Hindlimb Muscle Architecture Properties in Small-Bodied, Generalist Mammals Suggests Similarity in Soft Tissue Anatomy	5
Correction to: A complete skull of a stem mammal from the Late Triassic of Brazil illuminates the early evolution of prozostrodontian cynodonts	5
Deinotherium levius and Tetralophodon longirostris (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene hominid locality Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany), and their biostratigraphic significance for the ter	5
Tooth Size Variation in Assemblages of Tremacyllus (Hegetotheriidae, Notoungulata): Insights into Geographical Gradients, Systematics, and Sexual Dimorphism	5
Oryctodelphys nom. nov., a new name for Streptorhynchus Carneiro et al., 2025 (Mammalia, Metatheria, Derorhynchidae)	5
Dental and mandibular morphology of Peligrotherium tropicalis (Mammalia, Meridiolestida) from the Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina	5
A new early Miocene bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Panama confirms middle Cenozoic chiropteran dispersal between the Americas	4
Occurrence of the ground sloth Nothrotheriops (Xenarthra, Folivora) in the Late Pleistocene of Uruguay: new information on its dietary and habitat preferences based on stable isotope analysis	4
Comparative craniometric analysis between two species of South American canids and domestic dogs	4
Correction to: The Endocranial Cast of Indohyus (Artiodactyla, Raoellidae): The Origin of the Cetacean Brain	4
Temperature changes affected mammal dispersal during the Great American Biotic Interchange	4
Ecomorphology of the Early Pleistocene Badger Meles dimitrius from Greece	4
The slow revolution of biological nomenclature	4
Investigating the reliability of metapodials as taxonomic Indicators for Beringian horses	4
The skull base in Cingulata (Xenarthra, Mammalia): early ossification, homologies, and comparisons across mammals	4
Serendipity and adaptation in New World marsupial evolution	4
Head myology of wild cavies (Caviidae, Caviomorpha) and functional implications of hystricomorphous and hystricognathous configurations	4
Validity Analysis of the Morphological Identification of Three Highly Morphologically Similar Species Belonging to the Genus Niviventer (Rodentia: Muridae)	4
A Diverse Metailurine Guild from the Latest Miocene Xingjiawan Fauna, Yongdeng, Northwestern China, and Generic Differentiation of Metailurine Felids	4
Deciduous dentition, tooth replacement, and mandibular growth in the Late Jurassic docodontan Haldanodon exspectatus (Mammaliaformes)	4
Anatomical, Ontogenetic, and Genomic Homologies Guide Reconstructions of the Teeth-to-Baleen Transition in Mysticete Whales	4
Looking under stones: A new Ctenomys species from the rocky foothills of the Sierras Grandes of central Argentina	4
Pelvic sexual dimorphism and its association with cranial morphology in Neotropical spiny rats (Rodentia, Echimyidae)	4
The inner ear of caviomorph rodents: Phylogenetic implications and application to extinct West Indian taxa	3
A new multituberculate from the latest Cretaceous of central China and its implications for multituberculate tooth homologies and occlusion	3
Memories of the blows: severe soft-tissue injuries in caudal vertebrae of Panochthus Burmeister (Xenarthra, Glyptodontidae)	3
A complete skull of a stem mammal from the Late Triassic of Brazil illuminates the early evolution of prozostrodontian cynodonts	3
The hindlimb of Amphicynodon leptorhynchus from the lower Oligocene of the Quercy Phosphorites (France): Highlight of new climbing adaptations of this early arctoid	3

The Evolutionary Ecology of Primate Hair Coloration: A Phylogenetic Approach	3
Limb osteology of Miocene tragulids from Napak (Uganda) and inferences on palaeoecology in comparison to other extinct and extant relatives	3
The effects of ordered multistate morphological characters on phylogenetic analyses of eutherian mammals	3
Sign-oriented Dirichlet Normal Energy: Aligning Dental Topography and Dental Function in the R-package molaR	3
Endocranial Morphology of a Middle Miocene South American Dugongid and the Neurosensorial Evolution of Sirenians	3
Tetraconodontines and suines (Artiodactyla: Suidae) from the earliest Vallesian site of Castell de Barberà (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula)	3
Comparison of the Homology Between Muskrat Scented Gland and Mouse Preputial Gland	3
The brain of fur seals, seals, and walrus (Pinnipedia): A comparative anatomical and phylogenetic study of cranial endocasts of semiaquatic mammals	3
The Early Eocene Climatic Optimum at the Lower Section of the Lumbrera Formation (Ypresian, Salta Province, Northwestern Argentina): Origin and Early Diversification of the Cingulata	3
Late Miocene Hipparion (Equidae, Perissodactyla) fossils from Fugu, northern Shaanxi, China, and their stratigraphic significance	3
Description of the Type Specimen of the Extinct Tenerife Giant Rat (Canariomys bravoi)	2
Iterative Habitat Transitions are Associated with Morphological Convergence of the Backbone in Delphinoids	2
Coexistence of Indarctos and Amphimachairodus (Carnivora) in the Late Early Hemphillian of Florida, North America	2
A reassessment of Nemolestes (Mammalia, Metatheria): Systematics and evolutionary implications for Sparassodonta	2
Comparative Endocranial Anatomy, Encephalization, and Phylogeny of Notoungulata (Placentalia, Mammalia)	2
Distal Humeral Morphology Indicates Locomotory Divergence in Extinct Giant Kangaroos	2
Craniometric variation and taxonomic boundaries in the Madras Treeshrew (Scandentia, Tupaiidae: Anathana ellioti [Waterhouse, 1850]) from India	2
An evolutionary ecomorphological perspective on the assembly of a neotropical bat metacommunity	2
Proportional variation and scaling in the hindlimbs of hopping mammals, including convergent evolution in argyrolagids and jerboas	2
DNA Barcode is Efficient for Identifying Bat Species	2
Anatomy and phylogeny of a new small macraucheniid (Mammalia: Litopterna) from the Bahía Inglesa Formation (late Miocene), Atacama Region, Northern Chile	2
Patterns of molar development and loss of the hypoconulid in treeshrews (Scandentia)	2
Using Ultraconserved Elements to Unravel Lagomorph Phylogenetic Relationships	2
Bayesian network analysis reveals the assembly drivers and emergent stability of Eurasian Pleistocene large mammal communities	2
New data from South American hotspots uncover a greater diversity in Gracilinanus (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) mouse opossums	2
A New Glyptodont (Xenarthra: Cingulata) from the Late Miocene of Argentina: New Clues About the Oldest Extra-Patagonian Radiation in Southern South America	2
Sesamoids and Morphological Variation: a Hypothesis on the Origin of Rod-like Skeletal Elements in Aerial Mammals	2
Growing apart: comparative cranial ontogeny in the myrmecophagous aardwolf (Proteles cristata) and the bone-cracking spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta)	2
Quantitative Analyses of Feliform Humeri Reveal the Existence of a Very Large Cat in North America During the Miocene	2
Cranial integration and modularity in chamois: The effects of subspecies and sex	2
The Oldest Species of Dolichotis (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the Pliocene of Argentina: Redescription and Taxonomic Status of “Orthomyctera” chapalmalense	2
Quaternary Eurasian badgers: Intraspecific variability and species validity	2
Sizing up swords: Correlated evolution of antlers and tusks in ruminants	2
The “Diahot Tooth” is a Miocene rhinocerotid fossil brought by humans to New Caledonia	2
Phylogeographic relationships, structure, and genetic diversity of the Mexican endemic volcano Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys chrysopsis (Rodentia, Cricetidae)	2
Correction to: New Specimens of Reigitherium bunodontum from the Late Cretaceous La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina and Meridiolestidan Diversity in South America	2