OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Systematic Palaeontology is 6. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Synopsis of the fossil flat wasps Epyrinae (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with description of three new genera and 10 new species	25
A new species ofCaipirasuchus(Notosuchia, Sphagesauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil and the evolutionary history of Sphagesauria	21
A new hadrosauriform dinosaur from the Wessex Formation, Wealden Group (Early Cretaceous), of the Isle of Wight, southern England	20
A new PleistoceneCtenomysand divergence dating of the hyperdiverse South American rodent family Ctenomyidae	19
Northern Eurasian rhinocerotines (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) by the Pliocene–Pleistocene transition: phylogeny and historical biogeography	18
A new Late Cretaceous leaf mine Leucopteropsa spiralae gen. et sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Lyonetiidae) represents the first confirmed fossil evidence of the Cemiostominae	17
The fossil record and phylogeny of South American horned frogs (Anura, Ceratophryidae)	15
The rhynchosaur record, including a new stenaulorhynchine taxon, from the Chañares Formation (upper Ladinian–?lowermost Carnian levels) of La Rioja Province, north-western Argentina	15
Re-appearance of hypercarnivore ichthyosaurs in the Cretaceous with differentiated dentition: revision of ‘Platypterygius’ sachicarum (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria, Ophthalmosauridae) from Co	13
A re-assessment of the osteology and phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic, large-headed reptileSphodrosaurus pennsylvanicus(Late Triassic, Pennsylvania, USA) indicates archosauriform aff	12
Evidence on vegetative and inflorescence morphology of Chloranthaceae (Angiospermae) from the Early Cretaceous (middle–late Albian) of Spain	11
A re-examination of the anatomy and systematics of the tomistomine crocodylians from the Miocene of Italy and Malta	11
The diversity of Triassic South American sphenodontians: a new basal form, clevosaurs, and a revision of rhynchocephalian phylogeny	11
Appendicular osteology of Skorpiovenator bustingorryi (Theropoda, Abelisauridae) with comments on phylogenetic features of abelisaurids	11
A new reptile from the lower Permian of Brazil (Karutia fortunata gen. et sp. nov.) and the interrelationships of Parareptilia	10
A new small-bodied ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of North Patagonia (Río Negro Province, Argentina)	10
A new hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Late Cretaceous of northern Patagonia and the radiation of South American hadrosaurids	10
A new cyprinid from the Oligocene of Qaidam Basin, north-eastern Tibetan plateau, and its implications	9
Two new Early Cretaceous ornithuromorph birds provide insights into the taxonomy and divergence of Yanornithidae (Aves: Ornithothoraces)	9
A remarkably complete skeleton from the London Clay provides insights into the morphology and diversity of early Eocene zygodactyl near-passerine birds	9
Taxonomic and phylogenetic reassessment of a large-bodied dinosaur from the earliest dinosaur-bearing beds (Carnian, Upper Triassic) from southern Brazil	8
Assessing conflict between early neornithischian tree topologies	8
Tetrapodophis amplectusis not a snake: re-assessment of the osteology, phylogeny and functional morphology of an Early Cretaceous dolichosaurid lizard	8
The Ordovician diversification of sea urchins: systematics of the Bothriocidaroida (Echinodermata: Echinoidea)	8
Redescription of the skull ofHezhengia bohlini(Artiodactyla, Mammalia) and a reassessment of the systematics of the Chinese late Miocene ‘ovibovines’	8

Ammitocyon kainosgen. et sp. nov., a chimerical amphicyonid (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the late Miocene carnivore traps of Cerro de los Batallones (Madrid, Spain)	8
Unravelling the identity of the platanistoid Notocetus vanbenedeni Moreno, 1892 (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the early Miocene of Patagonia (Argentina)	8
Xinjiangchelyid turtles from the Middle Jurassic of the Berezovsk coal mine (Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia): systematics, skeletal morphology, variation, relationships and palaeobiogeographic implicat	7
The most complete extinct species of Testudo (Testudines, Testudinidae) defined by several well-preserved skeletons from the late Miocene of Romania	7
A new proterochampsid (Archosauriformes: Proterochampsia) from the Late Triassic of southern Brazil and the emergence of archosaurian hind limb traits	7
Ontogenetic changes in the postcranial skeleton ofMussaurus patagonicus(Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) and their impact on the phylogenetic relationships of early sauropodomorphs	7
The phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the armoured dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Thyreophora)	7
A new †Pachycormiformes (Actinopterygii) from the Upper Jurassic of Gondwana sheds light on the evolutionary history of the group	7
A nearly complete skeleton of a new eusphenodontian from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, Wyoming, USA, provides insight into the evolution and diversity of Rhynchocephalia (Reptilia: Lepidosaur	7
New data on early Oligocene dormice (Rodentia, Gliridae) from southern Europe: phylogeny and diversification of the family	7
First record of Meizonyx salvadorensis (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Pilosa) from the late Pleistocene of Mexico and its evolutionary implications	7
A new ‘rauisuchian’ archosaur from the Middle Triassic Omingonde Formation (Karoo Supergroup) of Namibia	7
The oldest eugaleaspiform (Galeaspida) from the Silurian Fentou Formation (Telychian, Llandovery) of Wuhan, South China	6
Re-assessment of the Late Jurassic eusauropod Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum Russell and Zheng, 1993, and the evolution of exceptionally long necks in mamenchisaurids	6
Phylogeny and evolutionary history of polychelidan lobsters	6
New pollen genera and species from the Oligocene of northern Spain and a systematic, biostratigraphic and biogeographic re-evaluation of coeval taxa	6
Catapleura Cope, 1870 is Euclastes Cope, 1867 (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae): synonymy revealed by a new specimen from New Jersey	6
Iguanian lizards from the Split Rock Formation, Wyoming: exploring the modernization of the North American lizard fauna	6
Re-description of the sexually dimorphic peltopleuriform fishWushaichthys exquisitus(Middle Triassic, China): taxonomic implications and phylogenetic relationships	6
Comparative cladistics: identifying the sources for differing phylogenetic results between competing morphology-based datasets	6