OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Back to the Womb: A Perinatal Perspective on Mammalian Hibernation	182
Front Matter	20
Differential Changes in Circulating Steroid Hormones in Hibernating Brown Bears: Preliminary Conclusions and Caveats	20
Heritability and Parental Effects in Telomere Length in a Color Polymorphic Long-Lived Bird	16
Adaptation to Urban Heat Islands Enhances Thermal Performance Following Development under Chronic Thermal Stress but Not Benign Conditions in the Terrestrial Isopod Oniscus asellus	13
Could Chronic Hypothermia in a Human Affect the Clock System?	13
Variation in Melanin Content of Lizard Livers: Hybrids Turning to the Dark Side	13
The Rate of Cooling during Torpor Entry Drives Torpor Patterns in a Small Marsupial	13
Announcement: Physiological and Biochemical Zoology Is Changing Its Name to Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology	12
Allometric Scaling of Anaerobic Capacity Estimated from a Unique Field-Based Data Set of Fish Swimming	12
IGF-1 Levels Increase during an Immune but Not an Oxidative Challenge in an Avian Model, the Japanese Quail	11
Environmental Drivers of Growth and Oxidative Status during Early Life in a Long-Lived Antarctic Seabird, the Adélie Penguin	11
A Summer Heat Wave Reduced Activity, Heart Rate, and Autumn Body Mass in a Cold-Adapted Ungulate	10
Temperature Effects on DNA Damage during Hibernation	10
Front Cover	9
Front Cover	7
Physiological Ecology of Winter Hibernation by the High-Altitude Frog Nanorana parkeri	7
Quantification of Urinary Sex Steroids in the Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus)	7
Acute-Phase Immune Response Involves Fever, Sickness Behavior, and an Elevated Metabolic Rate in the Subterranean RodentCtenomys talarum	7
Body Mass and Tail Girth Predict Hibernation Expression in Captive Dwarf Lemurs	7
Understanding Patterns of Life History Trait Covariation in an Untapped Resource, the Lab Mouse	7
Front Matter	7
Front and Back Matter	6
Chronic Thermal Acclimation Effects on Critical Thermal Maxima (CT_max) and Oxidative Stress Differences in White Epaxial Muscle between Surface and Cave Morphotypes of the Mexican Cavefish	6
Repeatability of Voluntary Thermal Maximum and Covariance with Water Loss Reveal Potential for Adaptation to Changing Climates	6

A Mesocosm Experiment in Ecological Physiology: The Modulation of Energy Budget in a Hibernating Marsupial under Chronic Caloric Restriction	6
Cascading Effects of Conspecific Aggression on Oxidative Status and Telomere Length in Zebra Finches	6
Front Cover	6