OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Animal Cognition is 12. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
“Cognition in marine mammals: the strength of flexibility in adapting to marine life”	87
Thinking about order: a review of common processing of magnitude and learned orders in animals	44
Does owner handedness influence paw preference in dogs?	40
Assessment of predation risk through conspecific cues by anuran larvae	38
Life is in motion (through a chick’s eye)	37
Pet dogs (Canis familiaris) re-engage humans after joint activity	30
Cognitive flexibility in a Tanganyikan bower-building cichlid, Aulonocranus dewindti	28
Grouping rule in tadpole: is quantity more or size assortment more important?	26
Injury shortens life expectancy in ants and affects some risk-related decisions of workers	24
Sex differences in social buffering and social contagion of alarm responses in zebrafish	23
Spot the odd one out: do snake pictures capture macaques’ attention more than other predators?	23
Horses discriminate between human facial and vocal expressions of sadness and joy	23
Learning and organization of within-session sequences by pigeons (Columba livia)	22
Both age and experience are important for successful problem solving in juvenile fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rats Melomys cervinipes	22
Lessons learned in animal acoustic cognition through comparisons with humans	21
On being a Hydra with, and without, a nervous system: what do neurons add?	21
Cognitive control of song production by humpback whales	20
The PROUST hypothesis: the embodiment of olfactory cognition	20
What drives horse success at following human-given cues? An investigation of handler familiarity and living conditions	19
Smart sharks: a review of chondrichthyan cognition	19
Penguins perceive variations of source- and filter-related vocal parameters of species-specific vocalisations	19
A comparative study of mirror self-recognition in three corvid species	19
Impact of exploration behavior, aptitude for pellet consumption, and the predation practice on the performance in consecutive live prey foraging tests in a piscivorous species	19
Left or right, that is the question: use of egocentric frame of reference and the right-eye advantage for understanding gestural signs in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)	17
Behavioral laterality is correlated with problem-solving performance in a songbird	16

Cue polarization and representation in mouse home base behaviors	16
Can rats and ants exchange information between the horizontal and vertical domains?	16
Orientation by environmental geometry and feature cues in the green and black poison frog (Dendrobates auratus)	16
Volumetric and connectivity assessment of the caudate nucleus in California sea lions and coyotes	15
Basal cognition: shifting the center of gravity (again)	15
Emulative learning of a two-step task in free-ranging domestic pigs	14
African jewel fish (Hemichromis bimaculatus) distinguish individual faces based on their unique iridophore patterns	14
Are you better than me? Social comparisons in carrion crows (Corvus corone)	14
Performance on inhibitory tasks does not relate to handedness in several small groups of Callitrichids	14
After 150 years of watching: is there a need for synthetic ethology?	14
The deterrent effects of individual monoterpene odours on the dietary decisions of African elephants	13
Tolerant macaque species are less impulsive and reactive	13
Visual perception of emotion cues in dogs: a critical review of methodologies	13
Varieties of visual navigation in insects	13
Novel object recognition in Octopus maya	13
Nest box entrance hole size can influence nest site selection and nest defence behaviour in Japanese tits	12
Gender differences in animal cognition science	12
Behavioural synchronization and social referencing of dogs and humans: walking in dyad vs in group	12
Social experience drives the development of holistic face processing in paper wasps	12
Repeated testing does not confound cognitive performance in the Western Australian magpie (Cracticus tibicen dorsalis)	12
First record of geophagy in Jungle Babbler (Turdoides striata) prior to egg-laying: an instinct for calcium supplement	12
Juvenile vervet monkeys rely on others when responding to danger	12