OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biological Reviews is 23. 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
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Sleep disruption as a potential mechanism contributing to post‐zygotic reproductive isolation in hybrids	265
Microclimate‐based oviposition site selection in butterflies and moths	182
Trade‐offs in avian parental care: a review of theory and meta‐analysis of brood size manipulations	178
Long‐term trends in parasite diversity and infection levels: approaches and patterns	167
Molecular bases of insect odorant receptor function: specificity and evolution	166
A conceptual framework on the role of magnetic cues in songbird migration ecology	165
Mechanisms underlying phenotypic plasticity in response to environmental change	160
Issue Information	142
Non‐verbal effecting – animal research sheds light on human emotion communication	141
The intricate relationship between stress and animal welfare: from historical perspective to new avenues	138
The challenging biogeography of the Juan Fernández Islands and Coast Range of central Chile explained by new models of East Pacific tectonics	127
Egg coverings in insects: ecological adaptation to abiotic and biotic selective pressures	125
Unlocking the multifaceted molecular functions and diverse disease implications of lactylation	116
Animal medical systems from Apis to apes: history, recent advances and future perspectives	107
Interactions between phytoplankton species and micro/nano‐plastics and heavy metal contamination	105
Patterns of variation in fleshy diaspore size and abundance from Late Triassic–Oligocene	100
Prey specificity of predatory venoms	99
Large‐scale and long‐term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis	96
The moulting arthropod: a complete genetic toolkit review	94
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Defence against the intergenerational cost of reproduction in males: oxidative shielding of the germline	83
Large mammals and trees in eastern monsoonal China: anthropogenic losses since the Late Pleistocene and restoration prospects in the Anthropocene	82
The costs of extra‐pair behaviours in birds	81

Plant periderm as a continuum in structural organisation: a tracheophyte‐wide survey and hypotheses on evolution	78
Towards a mechanistic understanding of the impacts of nitrogen deposition on producer–consumer interactions	69
The relationship between the secondary vascular system and the lymphatic vascular system in fish	66
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The plastisphere as a nexus for antimicrobial resistance: micro(nano)plastics in pathogen colonization, gene transfer, and global health risks	61
Form and function of anguilliform swimming	60
Sensing for survival: specialised regulatory mechanisms of Type III secretion systems in Gram‐negative pathogens	58
Animals in flow – towards the scientific study of intrinsic reward in animals	58
Successional theories	58
On the paradox of thriving cold‐water coral reefs in the food‐limited deep sea	55
Acoustic indices as proxies for biodiversity: a meta‐analysis	54
A conceptual framework to predict social information use based on food ephemerality and individual resource requirements	53
Parallels and discrepancies between non‐native species introductions and human migration	52
Is self‐awareness necessary to have a theory of mind?	52
Quantifying farm sustainability through the lens of ecological theory	51
Sexual conflict as a constraint on asexual reproduction: an empirical review	50
Continual decision‐making dynamics across biological organisms	50
The tandem–random transition of cellular patterning: proposed roles of N‐cadherin‐based orientational cell adhesions in the development, maintenance, and degeneration of the nucleus pulposus	49
What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits	48
On the importance of including both sexes in animal studies – insights from home‐cage monitoring	48
Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas	48
Grasping at water: a gap‐oriented approach to bridging shortfalls in freshwater biodiversity conservation	47
Pollinator‐mediated effects of landscape‐scale land use on grassland plant community composition and ecosystem functioning – seven hypotheses	47
Diversity and function of fluorescent molecules in marine animals	47
Language and learning: the cognitive revolution at 60‐odd	46
Evolutionary plant–pollinator responses to anthropogenic land‐use change: impacts on ecosystem services	46
The ecological drivers and consequences of wildlife trade	45
Are hippos Africa's most influential megaherbivore? A review of ecosystem engineering by the semi‐aquatic common hippopotamus	44
Carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation using macroalgae: a state of knowledge review	44
Reuniting philosophy and science to advance cancer research	43
Pollination ecology in the tropical Andes: moving towards a cross‐scale approach	42
Monitoring the phenology of plant pathogenic fungi: why and how?	42
Deciphering structural aspects of reverse cholesterol transport: mapping the knowns and unknowns	41
eIF4E as a molecular wildcard in metazoans RNA metabolism	41
Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base	40
Research progress on nitrogen‐removal characteristics and mechanisms in salt‐tolerant microorganisms	40
The evidence base for ranger patrol effectiveness in conservation and how to improve it	39
Early evolutionary history of the seed	39
Reading minds or reading scripts? De‐intellectualising theory of mind	39
The As and Bs of titi monkey linguistics: why emotional communication is not the enemy	39
Methylation and merriment: an exploration of epigenetic mechanisms underlying play behaviour	39
Ecology needs a causal overhaul	38
Floral nectar production: what cost to a plant?	38
A meta‐analysis of human disturbance effects on glucocorticoid hormones in free‐ranging wild vertebrates	38
Climate‐related drivers of migratory bird health in the south‐central USA	38
Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review	38
Carrion ecology: concepts, interdisciplinary synthesis, and perspectives	35
The physiological effects of APOE genotype in healthy young/middle‐aged individuals	35
Long‐term sperm storage in eusocial Hymenoptera	35
Correction statement for Recent advances in amniote palaeocolour reconstruction and a framework for future research (volume 95, issue 1, pp. 22–50)	35

The best of two worlds: ecology and evolution of ambophilous plants	35
Unifying functional and population ecology to test the adaptive value of traits	35
Forests are critically important to global pollinator diversity and enhance pollination in adjacent crops	35
Correction to “New perspectives on body size and shape evolution in dinosaurs”	34
Fraternal cooperation of hierarchical cancer parallels metazoan multicellularity and eusociality	34
Behavioural ecology at the spatial–social interface	33
An operational workflow for producing periodic estimates of species occupancy at national scales	33
Revisiting concepts of thermal physiology: understanding negative feedback and set‐point in mammals, birds, and lizards	33
Impacts of climate‐related stressors on social group cohesion and individual sociability in fish	32
The prospects of poop: a review of past achievements and future possibilities in faecal isotope analysis	32
Waders in a sea of debris: a global overview	32
Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals	32
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The Weak Worker Hypothesis: a new framework for understanding division of labour in social insects	32
Rewilded horses in European nature conservation – a genetics, ethics, and welfare perspective	32
A conceptual framework for conserving giant panda habitat: restoration and connectivity	31
Anatomical adaptations of mangroves to the intertidal environment and their dynamic responses to various stresses	31
Diet of bird‐like troodontid dinosaurs: synthesis of a contentious clade	31
Marine foundation species facilitate biodiversity: systematic and quantitative syntheses identify trait‐based standards to understand seascape functionality	31
Relevance of state–behaviour feedbacks for animal welfare	31
Issue Information	30
EthoCRED: a framework to guide reporting and evaluation of the relevance and reliability of behavioural ecotoxicity studies	30
Issue Information	30
Biotic homogenisation and differentiation as directional change in beta diversity: synthesising driver–response relationships to develop conceptual models across ecosystems	30
Prioritising research on endocrine disruption in the marine environment: a global perspective	29
Meta‐analyses reveal support for the Social Intelligence Hypothesis	29
Hydrodynamics in early animal evolution	29
Evolutionary implications of a deep‐time perspective on insect pollination	29
Ancestral‐area algorithms are unreliable	29
Does the potential strength of sexual selection differ between mating systems with and without defensive behaviours? A meta‐analysis	28
Trade‐offs in carbon‐degrading enzyme activities limit long‐term soil carbon sequestration with biochar addition	28
The influence of rivers on seabird foraging ecology	27
Integration of epigenetics into ecotoxicology: insights and fundamental research needs	27
Worms and gills, plates and spines: the evolutionary origins and incredible disparity of deuterostomes revealed by fossils, genes, and development	27
Small non‐coding satellite RNAs – the ‘game changers’ at the virus–host plant interaction?	27
Facing the facts: adaptive trade‐offs along body size ranges determine mammalian craniofacial scaling	27
Bees feeling the burn	27
Effective dispersal of fern spore and the ecological relevance of zoochory	27
Testosterone mediates life‐history trade‐offs in female mammals	27
Integrating microbiome science and evolutionary medicine into animal health and conservation	27
Circadian orchestration of host and gut microbiota in infection	27
Ecosystem services provided by spiders	27
The global genetic diversity of planktonic foraminifera reveals the structure of cryptic speciation in plankton	26
Loss, persistence and reversal of phenotypic traits	26
In silico studies of plant primary cell walls – structure and mechanics	26
Demographic and evolutionary consequences of hunting of wild birds	26
Tactics of evasion: strategies used by signallers to deter eavesdropping enemies from exploiting communication systems	26
Understanding the joint evolution of dispersal and host specialisation using phytophagous arthropods as a model group	26
How do parasites and predators choose their victim? A trade‐off between quality and vulnerability across antagonistic interactions	25
A neuro‐behavioural model of neophobia	25
Animal linguistics: a primer	24
Synthesis of sexual selection: a systematic map of meta‐analyses with bibliometric analysis	24
Insect–flower interactions, ecosystem functions, and restoration ecology in the northern Sahel: current knowledge and perspectives	23
A transdisciplinary view on curiosity beyond linguistic humans: animals, infants, and artificial intelligence	23
Reading hominin life history in fossil bones and teeth: methods to test hypotheses regarding its evolution	23
The importance of omega‐3 polyunsaturated fatty acids as high‐quality food in freshwater ecosystems with implications of global change	23
Mammalian odour‐guided navigation behaviour and neural processing in relation to the odour environment	23
Closing the air gap: the use of drones for studying wildlife ecophysiology	23
The cryptonephridial/rectal complex: an evolutionary adaptation for water and ion conservation	23
The evolution of reproduction in Ediacaran–Cambrian metazoans	23
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