OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Swiss Journal of Palaeontology is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
A study on benthic molluscs and stable isotopes from Kutch, western India reveals early Eocene hyperthermals and pronounced transgression during ETM2 and H2 events	80
The Mayer-Eymar collection of Cenozoic mollusks	22
The swimming trace Undichna from the latest Devonian Hangenberg Sandstone equivalent of Morocco	20
New data on the marine Upper Triassic palaeobiota from the Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte in Austria	17
Carnivoran fossils from the Pampean region (Argentina): Santiago Roth collections in Switzerland	16
A new pachypleurosaur from the Early Ladinian Prosanto Formation in the Eastern Alps of Switzerland	13
Comparative bone histology of two thalattosaurians (Diapsida: Thalattosauria): Askeptosaurus italicus from the Alpine Triassic (Middle Triassic) and a Thalattosauroidea indet. from the Carnian of Oreg	10
Cranium of Sipalocyon externus (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) with remarks on the paleoneurology of hathliacynids and insights into the Early Miocene sparassodonts of Patagonia, Argentina	9
A redescription of Trachelosaurus fischeri from the Buntsandstein (Middle Triassic) of Bernburg, Germany: the first European Dinocephalosaurus-like marine reptile and its systematic implications for l	9
Evolutionary development of the cephalopod arm armature: a review	8
‘Arm brains’ (axial nerves) of Jurassic coleoids and the evolution of coleoid neuroanatomy	8
A Pliocene–Pleistocene continental biota from Venezuela	8
Late Miocene Tapiridae from Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula): taxonomic and paleoenvironmental implications	8
Pachycormid fish fed on octobrachian cephalopods: new evidence from the ‘Schistes bitumineux’ (early Toarcian) of southern Luxembourg	7
First evidence of Proganochelys quenstedtii (Testudinata) from the Plateosaurus bonebeds (Norian, Late Triassic) of Frick, Canton Aargau, Switzerland	7
Impact of increasing morphological information by micro-CT scanning on the phylogenetic placement of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in amber	7
A nomenclature for fossil and living turtles using phylogenetically defined clade names	6
The early fossil record of Caturoidea (Halecomorphi: Amiiformes): biogeographic implications	6
A new suction feeder and miniature teleosteomorph, Marcopoloichthys mirigioliensis, from the lower Besano Formation (late Anisian) of Monte San Giorgio	6
Observations on mating in Mediterranean Sepiola and Sepietta species and review of mating behaviour in Sepiolinae (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae)	6
Natural assemblages of the earliest Triassic conodont Hindeodus parvus from the Shangsi section, Sichuan province, Southwest China	6
Integrated palynology and sedimentology of the Mississippian of the Tisdafine Basin (Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco)	5
The geography of body size in cuttlefishes (Cephalopoda, Sepiidae)	5
More than 100 years of a mistake: on the anatomy of the atlas of the enigmatic Macrauchenia patachonica	5
Santiago Roth and his scientific legacy: a reappraisal of the Swiss collections	5

On Roth’s “human fossil” from Baradero, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina: morphological and genetic analysis	5
The effects of clays on bacterial community composition during arthropod decay	4
The cranial and postcranial morphology of Hutchemys rememdium and its impact on the phylogenetic relationships of Plastomenidae (Testudinata, Trionychidae)	4
Testing dental microwear as a proxy for characterising trophic ecology in fossil elasmobranchs (chondrichthyans)	4
Revision of the Middle Triassic coelacanth Ticinepomis Rieppel 1980 (Actinistia, Latimeriidae) with paleobiological and paleoecological considerations	4
Pleistocene South American native ungulates (Notoungulata and Litopterna) of the historical Roth collections in Switzerland, from the Pampean Region of Argentina	4
New information on the dentition of Chaohusaurus zhangjiawanensis (Reptilia, Ichthyosauriformes) from the Early Triassic of Yuan’an, Hubei Province, China	4
A stem delphinidan from the Caribbean region of Venezuela	4
Fossil fish assemblage of the Laguna Formation, Philippines: unveiling the uniqueness of Pleistocene freshwater ecosystems in Southeast Asia	4
The first Cyclida from the Triassic of Italy	4
New diverse amphibian and reptile assemblages from the late Neogene of northern Greece provide novel insights into the emergence of extant herpetofaunas of the southern Balkans	4
Early Pliocene otolith assemblages from the outer-shelf environment reveal the establishment of mesopelagic fish fauna over 3 million years ago in southwestern Taiwan	4
Historical bias in palaeontological collections: Stylophora (Echinodermata) as a case study	4
Analysis of septal spacing and septal crowding in Devonian and Carboniferous ammonoids	4
Scleractinian corals from the Lower Cretaceous of the Alpstein area (Anthozoa; Vitznau Marl; lower Valanginian) and a preliminary comparison with contemporaneous coral assemblages	3
Cephalopod palaeobiology: evolution and life history of the most intelligent invertebrates	3
Multiple Orbitoides d’Orbigny lineages in the Maastrichtian? Data from the Central Sakarya Basin (Turkey) and Arabian Platform successions (Southeastern Turkey and Oman)	3
Digital skull anatomy of the Oligocene North American tortoise Stylemys nebrascensis with taxonomic comments on the species and comparisons with extant testudinids of the Gopherus–Manouria clade	3
Triassic palynology of the Swiss Belchentunnel: a restudy of the Scheuring samples	3
First discovery of nautilids from the Albian–Cenomanian succession of the Koppeh Dagh Basin, NE Iran	3
From fossil trader to paleontologist: on Swiss-born naturalist Santiago Roth and his scientific contributions	3
An assemblage of giant aquatic snakes (Serpentes, Palaeophiidae) from the Eocene of Togo	3
Correction: Impact of increasing morphological information by micro-CT scanning on the phylogenetic placement of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in amber	3
Morphological disparity in extant and extinct sepiid phragmocones: morphological adaptions for phragmocone strength compared to those related to cameral liquid emptying hypotheses	3
Complex dental wear analysis reveals dietary shift in Triassic placodonts (Sauropsida, Sauropterygia)	3
Special Issue: 100 years of scientific excavations at UNESCO World Heritage Site Monte San Giorgio and global research on Triassic marine Lagerstätten	3
Callovian corals from the Swiss Jura	3
Xenarthrans of the collection of Santiago Roth from the Pampean Region of Argentina (Pleistocene), in Zurich, Switzerland	2
Correction: A new suction feeder and miniature teleosteomorph, Marcopoloichthys mirigioliensis, from the lower Besano Formation (late Anisian) of Monte San Giorgio	2
Simoniteuthis, a new vampyromorph coleoid with prey in its arms from the Early Jurassic of Luxembourg	2
Ontogenetic variation in the cranium of Mixosaurus cornalianus, with implications for the evolution of ichthyosaurian cranial development	2
The oldest Gondwanan record of the extinct durophagous hybodontiform chondrichthyan, Strophodus from the Bajocian of Morocco	2
Phylogenetics and systematics of the subfamilies Cheirurinae and Deiphoninae (Trilobita)	2
A new pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of southwestern China and its phylogenetic and biogeographic implications	2
Crinoid encrustation of holocystitid diploporitan echinoderms: strongly asymmetrical Silurian dendritic attachment structures with palaeobiological implications	2
Fish otoliths from the middle Miocene Pebas Formation of the Peruvian Amazon	2
A new giant nautilid species from the Middle Jurassic of Luxembourg and Southwest Germany	2
Orthoceratoid and coleoid cephalopods from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland with an updated taxonomic framework for Triassic Orthoceratoidea	1
Variations in preservation of exceptional fossils within concretions	1
Lethal injuries on the scaphitid ammonoid Hoploscaphites nicolletii (Morton, 1842) in the Upper Cretaceous Fox Hills Formation, South Dakota, USA	1
Fossilized leftover falls as sources of palaeoecological data: a ‘pabulite’ comprising a crustacean, a belemnite and a vertebrate from the Early Jurassic Posidonia Shale	1
Kasimovian (late Pennsylvanian) cornute rugose corals from Egypt: taxonomy, facies and palaeogeography of a cool-water fauna from northern Gondwana	1
New insights into the early morphological evolution of sea turtles by re-investigation of Nichollsemys baieri, a three-dimensionally preserved fossil stem chelonioid from the Campanian of Alberta, Can	1
Cranial and endocranial comparative anatomy of the Pleistocene glyptodonts from the Santiago Roth Collection	1
Morphology, taxonomy and trophic interactions of rostrum-less coleoids from the Late Triassic Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte (Lower Austria)	1
New insights on the shell-crusher shark Ptychodus decurrens Agassiz, 1838 (Elasmobranchii, Ptychodontidae) based on the first known articulated dentition from the Upper Cretaceous of Croatia	1
Bernhard Peyer and his discoveries of Triassic vertebrates in Switzerland	1
The first Jurassic coelacanth from Switzerland	1
The history of short-tailed whip scorpions: changes in body size and flagellum shape in Schizomida	1
Convergent evolution and convergent loss in the grasping structures of immature earwigs and aphidlion-like larvae as demonstrated by about 100-million-year-old fossils	1

Middle Triassic Nautilida from the Besano Formation of Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland	1
A redescription of Brouffia orientalis Carroll & Baird, 1972 from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic and the status and affinities of protorothyridid amniotes	1
First record of the enigmatic coleoid genus Longibelus from Sakhalin (Far East Russia): a contribution to our understanding of Cretaceous coleoid habitats in the Pacific Realm	1
Taxonomic revision of the snakes of the genera Palaeopython and Paleryx (Serpentes, Constrictores) from the Paleogene of Europe	1
A rare window into a back-reef fish community from the middle Miocene (late Badenian) Medobory Hills barrier reef in western Ukraine, reconstructed mostly by means of otoliths	1