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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Endocranial cast anatomy of the Early Miocene glyptodont Propalaehoplophorus australis (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) and its evolutionary implications	26
New insights into the upper and lower deciduous dentition of Pyrotherium from the late Oligocene of South America	25
New Quaternary mammals support regional endemism in western Hispaniola	21
Stuck between rivers: a new species of Ctenomys from northern Argentine Patagonia	18
New reports, updates, and additional comments about Neobrachytherium ullumense Soria, 2001 (Litopterna, Proterotheriidae) in the Late Miocene of Uruguay and Argentina	18
On the Eating Habits of Sloths: Finite Element Analysis and Niche Specialization	17
Phylogenetic relationships of Marmosops Matschie, 1916 in the Atlantic Forest and topography effects on the diversity of M. paulensis Tate, 1931 (Didelphidae: Thylamyini)	14
New interpretation of dentition in Early Cretaceous docodontan Sibirotherium based on micro-computed tomography	14
Morphological and Functional Divergence of the Lower Jaw Between Native and Invasive Red Foxes	11
New insights into the postcranial anatomy of Exaeretodon riograndensis (Eucynodontia: Traversodontidae): phylogenetic implications, body mass, and lifestyle	11
Cranial geometric morphometrics of jumping mice (Genera: Eozapus, Napaeozapus, and Zapus; Zapodinae, Rodentia): Implications for subspecies conservation	11
Trophic differentiation between the endemic Cypriot mouse and the house mouse: a study coupling stable isotopes and morphometrics	10
Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Miocene of Damiao, Nei Mongol, China	10
Temporal lobe evolution in extant and extinct Cercopithecoidea	10
Ecomorphology of toothed whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti) as revealed by 3D skull geometry	10
Untangling the ecological signal in the dental morphology in the bat superfamily Noctilionoidea	9
Morphological variation of limb bones in three families of Neotropical bats from Argentina: exploring the influences of allometry, ecology, and phylogeny	9
Total Dental Occlusal Area as a Feeding Constraint Feature in Extant Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus), and Implications for the Evolution of Molluscivory in Odobenidae	9
From Embryo to Adult: The Complete Development and Unusual Replacement of the Dentition of the Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii)	9
Research trajectory, works, and legacy of Salvador Moyà-Solà as a vertebrate paleobiologist	9
Investigating the land-to-sea transition in carnivorans from the evolution of sacrum morphology in pinnipeds	9
Correction: The brain of fur seals, seals, and walrus (Pinnipedia): A comparative anatomical and phylogenetic study of cranial endocasts of semiaquatic mammals	8
Vestigial structures and variation in the evolution of the marsupial mammal dental development—a study of the woolly opossum Caluromys philander	8
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
Measuring Molarization: Change Through Time in Premolar Function in An Extinct Stem Primate Lineage	8

Divergence, diagnosability, and description of a new subspecies of franciscana dolphin Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais & d’Orbigny, 1844)	8
The ancestral morphology of lumbar vertebrae and its diversification in early Cenozoic mammals	8
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
Integrating paleopathology and paleoecology to unravel the lifestyle of the Pleistocene sloth Nothrotherium maquinense	7
An easy-to-apply method to reconstruct proportions and sizes of masticatory muscles in extinct herbivorous mammals	7
First record of Posnanskytherium (Notoungulata, Toxodontidae) in the late Neogene of eastern Puna, Argentina	7
Phylogeography of the Endangered Franciscana Dolphin: Timing and Geological Setting of the Evolution of Populations	7
Trauma-induced alterations in the exoskeleton of glyptodonts (Cingulata, Xenarthra) associated with fighting behavior	7
Maybe So, Maybe Not: Canis lepophagus at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, Idaho, USA	7
Chaetophractus villosus (Desmarest, 1804) (Xenarthra: Euphractinae) in Uruguay (Upper Pleistocene): Taxon age, biogeography, and paleoclimatic implications	6
The Quaternary lions of Ukraine and a trend of decreasing size in Panthera spelaea	6
Dentary–squamosal jaw articulation in a late surviving tritylodontid synapsid from the Early Cretaceous of Western Siberia, Russia	6
Suction causes novel tooth wear in marine mammals, with implications for feeding evolution in baleen whales	6
Earliest Vallesian suid remains from Creu de Conill 20 (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula)	6
Deinotherium levius and Tetralophodon longirostris (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene hominid locality Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany), and their biostratigraphic significance for the ter	5
Correction to: A complete skull of a stem mammal from the Late Triassic of Brazil illuminates the early evolution of prozostrodontian cynodonts	5
Craniodental anatomy of the hornless rhinocerotid Chilotherium schlosseri (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Late Miocene of Samos Island, Greece	5
Temperature changes affected mammal dispersal during the Great American Biotic Interchange	5
Oryctodelphys nom. nov., a new name for Streptorhynchus Carneiro et al., 2025 (Mammalia, Metatheria, Derorhynchidae)	5
Tungiasis and cutaneous pathologies in the exoskeleton of glyptodonts: new evidence and insights	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
Comparison of Hindlimb Muscle Architecture Properties in Small-Bodied, Generalist Mammals Suggests Similarity in Soft Tissue Anatomy	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
Muscular anatomy of the hindlimb of the tiger (Panthera tigris)	5
Serendipity and adaptation in New World marsupial evolution	5
Ecomorphology of the Early Pleistocene Badger Meles dimitrius from Greece	5