OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Swiss Journal of Palaeontology is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Inostrancevia africana, the first diagnosable gorgonopsian (Therapsida, Synapsida) from the Metangula graben (Mozambique): new anatomical observations and biostratigraphic implications	27
A new tubalepid fish (Antiarcha, Placodermi) from the Middle Devonian of Huize, Yunnan, China	20
The Mayer-Eymar collection of Cenozoic mollusks	19
A study on benthic molluscs and stable isotopes from Kutch, western India reveals early Eocene hyperthermals and pronounced transgression during ETM2 and H2 events	17
Dental remains of ‘Parachleuastochoerus’ valentini (Suidae: Tetraconodontinae) from the early Late Miocene of Sant Quirze (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula): taxonomic and phylogenetic impli	13
Late Miocene Tapiridae from Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula): taxonomic and paleoenvironmental implications	12
Impact of increasing morphological information by micro-CT scanning on the phylogenetic placement of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in amber	11
A new suction feeder and miniature teleosteomorph, Marcopoloichthys mirigioliensis, from the lower Besano Formation (late Anisian) of Monte San Giorgio	11
Evolutionary development of the cephalopod arm armature: a review	10
‘Arm brains’ (axial nerves) of Jurassic coleoids and the evolution of coleoid neuroanatomy	9
New data on the marine Upper Triassic palaeobiota from the Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte in Austria	8
A new pachypleurosaur from the Early Ladinian Prosanto Formation in the Eastern Alps of Switzerland	8
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	7
Pachycormid fish fed on octobrachian cephalopods: new evidence from the ‘Schistes bitumineux’ (early Toarcian) of southern Luxembourg	7
Natural assemblages of the earliest Triassic conodont Hindeodus parvus from the Shangsi section, Sichuan province, Southwest China	7
The swimming trace Undichna from the latest Devonian Hangenberg Sandstone equivalent of Morocco	7
Carnivoran fossils from the Pampean region (Argentina): Santiago Roth collections in Switzerland	7
Cranium of Sipalocyon externus (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) with remarks on the paleoneurology of hathliacynids and insights into the Early Miocene sparassodonts of Patagonia, Argentina	7
A Pliocene–Pleistocene continental biota from Venezuela	6
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	6
Historical bias in palaeontological collections: Stylophora (Echinodermata) as a case study	6
Santiago Roth and his scientific legacy: a reappraisal of the Swiss collections	6
More than 100 years of a mistake: on the anatomy of the atlas of the enigmatic Macrauchenia patachonica	6
First evidence of Proganochelys quenstedtii (Testudinata) from the Plateosaurus bonebeds (Norian, Late Triassic) of Frick, Canton Aargau, Switzerland	6
Fossil fish assemblage of the Laguna Formation, Philippines: unveiling the uniqueness of Pleistocene freshwater ecosystems in Southeast Asia	6

The cranial and postcranial morphology of Hutchemys rememdium and its impact on the phylogenetic relationships of Plastomenidae (Testudinata, Trionychidae)	6
Analysis of septal spacing and septal crowding in Devonian and Carboniferous ammonoids	5
Integrated palynology and sedimentology of the Mississippian of the Tisdafine Basin (Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco)	5
The effects of clays on bacterial community composition during arthropod decay	5
Early Pliocene otolith assemblages from the outer-shelf environment reveal the establishment of mesopelagic fish fauna over 3 million years ago in southwestern Taiwan	5
Correction: Impact of increasing morphological information by micro-CT scanning on the phylogenetic placement of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in amber	4
The early fossil record of Caturoidea (Halecomorphi: Amiiformes): biogeographic implications	4
Revision of the Middle Triassic coelacanth Ticinepomis Rieppel 1980 (Actinistia, Latimeriidae) with paleobiological and paleoecological considerations	4
Callovian corals from the Swiss Jura	4
Middle Triassic Nautilida from the Besano Formation of Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland	4
The first Cyclida from the Triassic of Italy	4
Observations on mating in Mediterranean Sepiola and Sepietta species and review of mating behaviour in Sepiolinae (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae)	4
The geography of body size in cuttlefishes (Cephalopoda, Sepiidae)	4
Pleistocene South American native ungulates (Notoungulata and Litopterna) of the historical Roth collections in Switzerland, from the Pampean Region of Argentina	4
The first record of a shortnose chimaera-like egg capsule from the Mesozoic (Late Jurassic, Switzerland)	4
Lethal injuries on the scaphitid ammonoid Hoploscaphites nicolletii (Morton, 1842) in the Upper Cretaceous Fox Hills Formation, South Dakota, USA	4
Testing dental microwear as a proxy for characterising trophic ecology in fossil elasmobranchs (chondrichthyans)	4
On Roth’s “human fossil” from Baradero, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina: morphological and genetic analysis	4
New information on the dentition of Chaohusaurus zhangjiawanensis (Reptilia, Ichthyosauriformes) from the Early Triassic of Yuan’an, Hubei Province, China	4
First discovery of nautilids from the Albian–Cenomanian succession of the Koppeh Dagh Basin, NE Iran	4
Complex dental wear analysis reveals dietary shift in Triassic placodonts (Sauropsida, Sauropterygia)	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
The oldest Gondwanan record of the extinct durophagous hybodontiform chondrichthyan, Strophodus from the Bajocian of Morocco	3
Cephalopod palaeobiology: evolution and life history of the most intelligent invertebrates	3
Simoniteuthis, a new vampyromorph coleoid with prey in its arms from the Early Jurassic of Luxembourg	3
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	3
Morphological disparity in extant and extinct sepiid phragmocones: morphological adaptions for phragmocone strength compared to those related to cameral liquid emptying hypotheses	3
Special Issue: 100 years of scientific excavations at UNESCO World Heritage Site Monte San Giorgio and global research on Triassic marine Lagerstätten	3
Xenarthrans of the collection of Santiago Roth from the Pampean Region of Argentina (Pleistocene), in Zurich, Switzerland	3
Fish otoliths from the middle Miocene Pebas Formation of the Peruvian Amazon	3
Ontogenetic variation in the cranium of Mixosaurus cornalianus, with implications for the evolution of ichthyosaurian cranial development	3
Triassic palynology of the Swiss Belchentunnel: a restudy of the Scheuring samples	2
Correction: A new suction feeder and miniature teleosteomorph, Marcopoloichthys mirigioliensis, from the lower Besano Formation (late Anisian) of Monte San Giorgio	2
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	2
A new pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of southwestern China and its phylogenetic and biogeographic implications	2
A new giant nautilid species from the Middle Jurassic of Luxembourg and Southwest Germany	2
Scleractinian corals from the Lower Cretaceous of the Alpstein area (Anthozoa; Vitznau Marl; lower Valanginian) and a preliminary comparison with contemporaneous coral assemblages	2
Morphology, taxonomy and trophic interactions of rostrum-less coleoids from the Late Triassic Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte (Lower Austria)	2
Phylogenetics and systematics of the subfamilies Cheirurinae and Deiphoninae (Trilobita)	2
Multiple Orbitoides d’Orbigny lineages in the Maastrichtian? Data from the Central Sakarya Basin (Turkey) and Arabian Platform successions (Southeastern Turkey and Oman)	2
From fossil trader to paleontologist: on Swiss-born naturalist Santiago Roth and his scientific contributions	2
Crinoid encrustation of holocystitid diploporitan echinoderms: strongly asymmetrical Silurian dendritic attachment structures with palaeobiological implications	2
Kasimovian (late Pennsylvanian) cornute rugose corals from Egypt: taxonomy, facies and palaeogeography of a cool-water fauna from northern Gondwana	2