OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Mammalian Evolution is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Stuck between rivers: a new species of Ctenomys from northern Argentine Patagonia	25
New interpretation of dentition in Early Cretaceous docodontan Sibirotherium based on micro-computed tomography	23
Endocranial cast anatomy of the Early Miocene glyptodont Propalaehoplophorus australis (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) and its evolutionary implications	20
New reports, updates, and additional comments about Neobrachytherium ullumense Soria, 2001 (Litopterna, Proterotheriidae) in the Late Miocene of Uruguay and Argentina	18
New insights into the upper and lower deciduous dentition of Pyrotherium from the late Oligocene of South America	17
On the Eating Habits of Sloths: Finite Element Analysis and Niche Specialization	17
New Quaternary mammals support regional endemism in western Hispaniola	17
Phylogenetic relationships of Marmosops Matschie, 1916 in the Atlantic Forest and topography effects on the diversity of M. paulensis Tate, 1931 (Didelphidae: Thylamyini)	15
New Specimens of Reigitherium bunodontum from the Late Cretaceous La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina and Meridiolestidan Diversity in South America	15
Morphological and Functional Divergence of the Lower Jaw Between Native and Invasive Red Foxes	14
Ecomorphology of toothed whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti) as revealed by 3D skull geometry	13
New insights into the postcranial anatomy of Exaeretodon riograndensis (Eucynodontia: Traversodontidae): phylogenetic implications, body mass, and lifestyle	13
Cranial geometric morphometrics of jumping mice (Genera: Eozapus, Napaeozapus, and Zapus; Zapodinae, Rodentia): Implications for subspecies conservation	12
Trophic differentiation between the endemic Cypriot mouse and the house mouse: a study coupling stable isotopes and morphometrics	12
Investigating the land-to-sea transition in carnivorans from the evolution of sacrum morphology in pinnipeds	11
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
Temporal lobe evolution in extant and extinct Cercopithecoidea	10
Total Dental Occlusal Area as a Feeding Constraint Feature in Extant Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus), and Implications for the Evolution of Molluscivory in Odobenidae	9
Research trajectory, works, and legacy of Salvador Moyà-Solà as a vertebrate paleobiologist	9
Skeletal Variation and Taxonomic Boundaries in the Pen-tailed Treeshrew (Scandentia: Ptilocercidae; Ptilocercus lowii Gray, 1848)	9
Morphological variation of limb bones in three families of Neotropical bats from Argentina: exploring the influences of allometry, ecology, and phylogeny	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	9
Divergence, diagnosability, and description of a new subspecies of franciscana dolphin Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais & d’Orbigny, 1844)	8
Integrating paleopathology and paleoecology to unravel the lifestyle of the Pleistocene sloth Nothrotherium maquinense	8

Maybe So, Maybe Not: Canis lepophagus at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, Idaho, USA	8
Vestigial structures and variation in the evolution of the marsupial mammal dental development—a study of the woolly opossum Caluromys philander	8
Correction: The brain of fur seals, seals, and walrus (Pinnipedia): A comparative anatomical and phylogenetic study of cranial endocasts of semiaquatic mammals	8
Integrative Approach Uncovers New Patterns of Ecomorphological Convergence in Slow Arboreal Xenarthrans	8
Untangling the ecological signal in the dental morphology in the bat superfamily Noctilionoidea	8
First record of Posnanskytherium (Notoungulata, Toxodontidae) in the late Neogene of eastern Puna, Argentina	8
Measuring Molarization: Change Through Time in Premolar Function in An Extinct Stem Primate Lineage	8
Deinotherium levius and Tetralophodon longirostris (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene hominid locality Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany), and their biostratigraphic significance for the ter	7
The ancestral morphology of lumbar vertebrae and its diversification in early Cenozoic mammals	7
Phylogeography of the Endangered Franciscana Dolphin: Timing and Geological Setting of the Evolution of Populations	7
Suction causes novel tooth wear in marine mammals, with implications for feeding evolution in baleen whales	7
Correction to: A New Species of Ctenomys (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) from Patagonia Related to C. sociabilis	7
Trauma-induced alterations in the exoskeleton of glyptodonts (Cingulata, Xenarthra) associated with fighting behavior	7
Chaetophractus villosus (Desmarest, 1804) (Xenarthra: Euphractinae) in Uruguay (Upper Pleistocene): Taxon age, biogeography, and paleoclimatic implications	7
The Quaternary lions of Ukraine and a trend of decreasing size in Panthera spelaea	7
Dentary–squamosal jaw articulation in a late surviving tritylodontid synapsid from the Early Cretaceous of Western Siberia, Russia	7
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.	7
Earliest Vallesian suid remains from Creu de Conill 20 (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula)	7
Tungiasis and cutaneous pathologies in the exoskeleton of glyptodonts: new evidence and insights	6
The minimum free energy of G-quadruplex-forming sequences of the MSX1 intron is associated with relative molar and premolar size in eutherians	6
Muscular anatomy of the hindlimb of the tiger (Panthera tigris)	6
Craniodental anatomy of the hornless rhinocerotid Chilotherium schlosseri (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Late Miocene of Samos Island, Greece	5
Dental and mandibular morphology of Peligrotherium tropicalis (Mammalia, Meridiolestida) from the Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina	5
Pelvic sexual dimorphism and its association with cranial morphology in Neotropical spiny rats (Rodentia, Echimyidae)	5
Correction to: A complete skull of a stem mammal from the Late Triassic of Brazil illuminates the early evolution of prozostrodontian cynodonts	5
Comparison of Hindlimb Muscle Architecture Properties in Small-Bodied, Generalist Mammals Suggests Similarity in Soft Tissue Anatomy	5
Ecomorphology of the Early Pleistocene Badger Meles dimitrius from Greece	5
Oryctodelphys nom. nov., a new name for Streptorhynchus Carneiro et al., 2025 (Mammalia, Metatheria, Derorhynchidae)	5
Head myology of wild cavies (Caviidae, Caviomorpha) and functional implications of hystricomorphous and hystricognathous configurations	5
Serendipity and adaptation in New World marsupial evolution	5