OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biological Reviews is 25. 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
The behavioural ecology of marine cleaning mutualisms	445
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A conceptual framework on the role of magnetic cues in songbird migration ecology	211
Patterns of variation in fleshy diaspore size and abundance from Late Triassic–Oligocene	210
The moulting arthropod: a complete genetic toolkit review	180
The challenging biogeography of the Juan Fernández Islands and Coast Range of central Chile explained by new models of East Pacific tectonics	149
Egg coverings in insects: ecological adaptation to abiotic and biotic selective pressures	137
Non‐verbal effecting – animal research sheds light on human emotion communication	131
The persistence and evolutionary consequences of vestigial behaviours	117
Direct and indirect effects of climate change on distribution and community composition of macrophytes in lentic systems	116
Prey specificity of predatory venoms	115
Whole‐body endothermy: ancient, homologous and widespread among the ancestors of mammals, birds and crocodylians	110
Unlocking the multifaceted molecular functions and diverse disease implications of lactylation	102
New insight into dyslipidemia‐induced cellular senescence in atherosclerosis	101
Large‐scale and long‐term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis	101
Avian adjustments to cold and non‐shivering thermogenesis: whats, wheres and hows	98
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Plant periderm as a continuum in structural organisation: a tracheophyte‐wide survey and hypotheses on evolution	86
Issue Information	84
The ecology of sleep in non‐avian reptiles	83
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Impacts of volcanic eruptions and early recovery in freshwater environments and organisms	81
Large mammals and trees in eastern monsoonal China: anthropogenic losses since the Late Pleistocene and restoration prospects in the Anthropocene	80
Defence against the intergenerational cost of reproduction in males: oxidative shielding of the germline	80
Successional theories	77

On the paradox of thriving cold‐water coral reefs in the food‐limited deep sea	77
The thermal environment as a moderator of social evolution	73
Animals in flow – towards the scientific study of intrinsic reward in animals	73
Form and function of anguilliform swimming	73
The relationship between the secondary vascular system and the lymphatic vascular system in fish	73
Temporal resource partitioning mitigates interspecific competition and promotes coexistence among insect parasites	73
Convergent evolution of toxin resistance in animals	72
Towards a mechanistic understanding of the impacts of nitrogen deposition on producer–consumer interactions	71
Sensing for survival: specialised regulatory mechanisms of Type III secretion systems in Gram‐negative pathogens	71
Acoustic indices as proxies for biodiversity: a meta‐analysis	69
Delete and survive: strategies of programmed genetic material elimination in eukaryotes	68
What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community	68
Language and learning: the cognitive revolution at 60‐odd	67
Reuniting philosophy and science to advance cancer research	65
Evolutionary plant–pollinator responses to anthropogenic land‐use change: impacts on ecosystem services	65
Anticipated effects of abiotic environmental change on intraspecific social interactions	64
The secretome of Verticillium dahliae in collusion with plant defence responses modulates Verticillium wilt symptoms	64
Microbes, metabolites and (synaptic) malleability, oh my! The effect of the microbiome on synaptic plasticity	63
Are hippos Africa's most influential megaherbivore? A review of ecosystem engineering by the semi‐aquatic common hippopotamus	63
Quantifying farm sustainability through the lens of ecological theory	61
Diversity and function of fluorescent molecules in marine animals	61
Diverse roles of microbial indole compounds in eukaryotic systems	61
A guide to area‐restricted search: a foundational foraging behaviour	60
Monitoring the phenology of plant pathogenic fungi: why and how?	60
Issue Information	58
Is self‐awareness necessary to have a theory of mind?	58
Parallels and discrepancies between non‐native species introductions and human migration	56
The IDIP framework for assessing protein function and its application to the prion protein	54
The ecological drivers and consequences of wildlife trade	53
Carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation using macroalgae: a state of knowledge review	53
Pollinator‐mediated effects of landscape‐scale land use on grassland plant community composition and ecosystem functioning – seven hypotheses	53
A conceptual framework to predict social information use based on food ephemerality and individual resource requirements	53
A guide to choosing and implementing reference models for social network analysis	51
eIF4E as a molecular wildcard in metazoans RNA metabolism	51
Long‐term sperm storage in eusocial Hymenoptera	51
Climate‐related drivers of migratory bird health in the south‐central USA	51
The importance of considering age when quantifying wild animals’ welfare	50
Unifying functional and population ecology to test the adaptive value of traits	50
Floral nectar production: what cost to a plant?	50
The best of two worlds: ecology and evolution of ambophilous plants	50
A meta‐analysis of human disturbance effects on glucocorticoid hormones in free‐ranging wild vertebrates	50
Deciphering structural aspects of reverse cholesterol transport: mapping the knowns and unknowns	49
Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base	48
Reading minds or reading scripts? De‐intellectualising theory of mind	47
Fire as a driver and mediator of predator–prey interactions	46
A roadmap to plant functional island biogeography	46
Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review	45
An operational workflow for producing periodic estimates of species occupancy at national scales	44
Plant susceptible responses: the underestimated side of plant–pathogen interactions	44
The prospects of poop: a review of past achievements and future possibilities in faecal isotope analysis	44

Forests are critically important to global pollinator diversity and enhance pollination in adjacent crops	44
Correction statement for Recent advances in amniote palaeocolour reconstruction and a framework for future research (volume 95, issue 1, pp. 22–50)	44
Behavioural ecology at the spatial–social interface	43
Revisiting concepts of thermal physiology: understanding negative feedback and set‐point in mammals, birds, and lizards	43
Anatomical adaptations of mangroves to the intertidal environment and their dynamic responses to various stresses	42
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Relevance of state–behaviour feedbacks for animal welfare	40
Role of epigenetics in parturition and preterm birth	40
Rewilded horses in European nature conservation – a genetics, ethics, and welfare perspective	40
Uncovering the ‘sphinx’ of sphingosine 1‐phosphate signalling: from cellular events to organ morphogenesis	39
Impacts of climate‐related stressors on social group cohesion and individual sociability in fish	39
Insecticide‐contaminated honeydew: risks for beneficial insects	39
EthoCRED: a framework to guide reporting and evaluation of the relevance and reliability of behavioural ecotoxicity studies	37
How feedback and feed‐forward mechanisms link determinants of social dominance	37
Parent–offspring cannibalism throughout the animal kingdom: a review of adaptive hypotheses	37
Evolutionary implications of a deep‐time perspective on insect pollination	36
Biotic homogenisation and differentiation as directional change in beta diversity: synthesising driver–response relationships to develop conceptual models across ecosystems	36
Corrigendum to ‘A review of predation as a limiting factor for bird populations in mesopredator‐rich landscapes: a case study of the UK’, published in Biological Reviews 93, p	36
Does the potential strength of sexual selection differ between mating systems with and without defensive behaviours? A meta‐analysis	35
Issue Information	35
Meta‐analyses reveal support for the Social Intelligence Hypothesis	35
Hydrodynamics in early animal evolution	34
Sophistication in a seemingly simple creature: a review of wild holothurian nutrition in marine ecosystems	34
A pan‐metazoan concept for adult stem cells: the wobbling Penrose landscape	34
A method for assessing sustainability, with beef production as an example	33
Social complexity and the fractal structure of group size in primate social evolution	33
Exploring the causes and consequences of cooperative behaviour in wild animal populations using a social network approach	32
Male alternative reproductive tactics and sperm competition: a meta‐analysis	32
Litter quality and stream physicochemical properties drive global invertebrate effects on instream litter decomposition	32
The impact of environmental and social factors on learning abilities: a meta‐analysis	31
Testosterone mediates life‐history trade‐offs in female mammals	31
Integrating microbiome science and evolutionary medicine into animal health and conservation	31
Facing the facts: adaptive trade‐offs along body size ranges determine mammalian craniofacial scaling	30
Understanding the ecological and evolutionary function of stopover in migrating birds	29
Trade‐offs in carbon‐degrading enzyme activities limit long‐term soil carbon sequestration with biochar addition	29
Issue Information	28
The global genetic diversity of planktonic foraminifera reveals the structure of cryptic speciation in plankton	28
Small non‐coding satellite RNAs – the ‘game changers’ at the virus–host plant interaction?	28
Worms and gills, plates and spines: the evolutionary origins and incredible disparity of deuterostomes revealed by fossils, genes, and development	28
The global regulatory logic of organ regeneration: circuitry lessons from skin and its appendages	28
Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application	27
Tactics of evasion: strategies used by signallers to deter eavesdropping enemies from exploiting communication systems	27
The biomechanics of pollen release: new perspectives on the evolution of wind pollination in angiosperms	27
Circadian orchestration of host and gut microbiota in infection	27
A global synthesis of ecosystem services provided and disrupted by freshwater bivalve molluscs	27
The ecology of electricity and electroreception	27
Demographic and evolutionary consequences of hunting of wild birds	26
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Fluorescent nanoparticles as tools in ecology and physiology	26
Synthesis of sexual selection: a systematic map of meta‐analyses with bibliometric analysis	26
In silico studies of plant primary cell walls – structure and mechanics	25
Animal linguistics: a primer	25
Understanding the joint evolution of dispersal and host specialisation using phytophagous arthropods as a model group	25
The singing question: re‐conceptualizing birdsong	25
Towards understanding the extensive diversity of protein N‐glycan structures in eukaryotes	25
The importance of omega‐3 polyunsaturated fatty acids as high‐quality food in freshwater ecosystems with implications of global change	25
The evolution of perennially enlarged breasts in women: a critical review and a novel hypothesis	25