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 2022-04-01 to 2026-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A reappraisal of the vegetation from the dinosaur-bearing Bahariya Formation (lower Cenomanian; Cretaceous), Egypt	27
Cranium of Sipalocyon externus (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) with remarks on the paleoneurology of hathliacynids and insights into the Early Miocene sparassodonts of Patagonia, Argentina	20
An almost complete cranium of Asoriculus gibberodon (Petényi, 1864) (Mammalia, Soricidae) from the early Pliocene of the Jradzor site, Armenia	19
A new suction feeder and miniature teleosteomorph, Marcopoloichthys mirigioliensis, from the lower Besano Formation (late Anisian) of Monte San Giorgio	15
New data on the marine Upper Triassic palaeobiota from the Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte in Austria	13
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	12
Late Miocene Tapiridae from Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula): taxonomic and paleoenvironmental implications	12
New predatory beetle larvae from about 100 million years ago and possible niche differentiation effects in the Kachin amber forest	11
Pachycormid fish fed on octobrachian cephalopods: new evidence from the ‘Schistes bitumineux’ (early Toarcian) of southern Luxembourg	11
Massospondylus embryos and hatchling provide new insights into early sauropodomorph ontogeny	11
Upper Jurassic dinosaur tracks from the Majala Formation in the Huatacondo area (Tarapacá Basin, Chile): reappraisal of known localities and new tracksite discoveries	10
Integrated palynology and sedimentology of the Mississippian of the Tisdafine Basin (Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco)	10
Correction: Impact of increasing morphological information by micro-CT scanning on the phylogenetic placement of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in amber	9
PG-18: turtles reach adult shell shapes at about 65% maximum carapace length	9
Xenarthrans of the collection of Santiago Roth from the Pampean Region of Argentina (Pleistocene), in Zurich, Switzerland	9
Triassic palynology of the Swiss Belchentunnel: a restudy of the Scheuring samples	8
Middle Miocene (Badenian) fishes from the north-west of the Fore-Carpathian Basin	8
A new anguine lizard (Squamata, Anguidae, Anguinae) from the Late Miocene (Vallesian) of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula)	8
A redescription of Brouffia orientalis Carroll & Baird, 1972 from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic and the status and affinities of protorothyridid amniotes	8
Special issue: Proceedings of the Symposium on Turtle Evolution, June 26-28, 2024, Fribourg, Switzerland	7
Whorl records: book review of Raimund Albersdörfer and Kristin Erdmann (2024), Ammonite masterpieces	7
Cranial and mandibular anatomy of Plastomenus thomasii and a new time-tree of trionychid evolution	7
Damaged glyptodontid skulls from Late Pleistocene sites of northwestern Venezuela: evidence of hunting by humans?	7
Flying turtles in the earliest trees of life: scientific transparency in the phylogenetic works of Ernst Haeckel	7
Relationships of growth increments of internal shells and age through entire life cycles in three cultured neritic cephalopods (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) with re-evaluation as application for age determi	7

The suid assemblage from the Vallesian locality of Can Llobateres 1 (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula) revisited	7
A new species of the genus Caturus (Caturidae, Amiiformes) from the Upper Jurassic of the Solnhofen Archipelago (Germany)	6
Jörn Geister: just some words for a life	6
Carnivoran fossils from the Pampean region (Argentina): Santiago Roth collections in Switzerland	6
A new ichnotaxonomic name for burrows in vertebrate coprolites from the Miocene Chesapeake Group of Maryland, U.S.A	6
The Mayer-Eymar collection of Cenozoic mollusks	5
Taxonomic reassessment of “Podocnemis” argentinensis (Testudines, Pleurodira) from the Maíz Gordo Formation (late Paleocene) with a description of new specimens from the western flank of Sierra del Ma	5
The oldest Gondwanan record of the extinct durophagous hybodontiform chondrichthyan, Strophodus from the Bajocian of Morocco	5
First evidence of Proganochelys quenstedtii (Testudinata) from the Plateosaurus bonebeds (Norian, Late Triassic) of Frick, Canton Aargau, Switzerland	5
Cephalopod palaeobiology: evolution and life history of the most intelligent invertebrates	5
New information on the dentition of Chaohusaurus zhangjiawanensis (Reptilia, Ichthyosauriformes) from the Early Triassic of Yuan’an, Hubei Province, China	5
A new pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of southwestern China and its phylogenetic and biogeographic implications	5
The history of short-tailed whip scorpions: changes in body size and flagellum shape in Schizomida	4
Evolution of the rostral vasculature in turtles	4
Neuroanatomy of Kayentachelys aprix and Eileanchelys waldmani provide insights into the early evolution of the turtle brain	4
Macromesodon Blake, 1905 and Apomesodon Poyato-Ariza & Wenz, 2002 (Actinopterygii, Pycnodontiformes) from the Jurassic and lowermost Cretaceous of England, France, and Germany	4
A report on palaeontological excavations and sampling in mudrocks: some guidelines	4
Testudinid turtle remains from the Late Miocene palaeo-island of Gargano, Italy, and an overview of Mediterranean insular tortoises	4
Pampean megamammals in Europe: the fossil collections from Santiago Roth	4
Cranial and endocranial comparative anatomy of the Pleistocene glyptodonts from the Santiago Roth Collection	4
On the occurrence of the ammonite genus Blaschkeiceras Zeiss, 2001, from the Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) of the Jaisalmer Basin, western India	4
A new graptolite (Pterobranchia) from the early Cambrian Xiaoshiba Lagerstätte of China	4
Phylogenetics and systematics of the subfamilies Cheirurinae and Deiphoninae (Trilobita)	4
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	4
A unique snake assemblage from the Early Miocene locality of Wintershof-West, Germany, with comments on the transitional period in the evolution of European snake fauna	4
Geology and stratigraphy of the Neogene section along the Oued Beth between Dar bel Hamri and El Kansera (Rharb Basin, northwestern Morocco) and its otolith-based fish fauna: a faunal inventory for th	4
Virtual endocasts of the Paleogene Ctenodactyloidea and brain evolution in ctenodactyloid rodents	4
Coral fauna across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary at Zagros and Sistan Suture zones and Yazd Block of Iran	3
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	3
Otoliths in situ in Pinichthys shirvanensis Bannikov, 2021 (Stromateidae) from the Tarkhanian (Langhian, Middle Miocene) of the northern Caucasus (Russia)	3
Nearctic Pleistocene ungulates from the Pampean region (Argentina) in the historical collections of Santiago Roth in Switzerland: an overview	3
Revision of the genus Protadelomys, a middle Eocene theridomyoid rodent: evolutionary and biochronological implications	3
Application of blender modeling techniques in the restoration of 3D morphology of fossil insects reconstructed via micro-computed tomography	3
The first documented co-occurrence of conodonts and graptolites in Silurian (Telychian) black shales of the Prague Synform, Czech Republic, and its stratigraphical and palaeoecological significance	3
Impact of increasing morphological information by micro-CT scanning on the phylogenetic placement of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in amber	3
New Odonatan oviposition ichnotaxa from the Lower Jurassic of Iran	3
The research history of the Middle Triassic fishes of Monte San Giorgio: getting out of the shadow of aquatic reptiles	3
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	3
Ammonite biostratigraphy on the platform–slope transition between the Vercors Urgonian platform and the Vocontian Trough (S–E France)	3
An exceptional window into the Triassic-Jurassic boundary on the margins of the Ardenno-Rhenish Massif: stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Irrel section (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)	3
New or poorly known Neocomitidae (Ammonitina, Ammonoida) from the lower Hauterivian sedimentary series of the Jura platform and the Vocontian trough (France and Switzerland)	3
Fossil ruminants from the Pliocene site of Jradzor, Armenia	3
The miniature fish Habroichthys orientalis (Su, 1959) (Peltopleuriformes) from the Ladinian Xingyi Fauna (China): new data on ontogeny, sexual dimorphism, and CT-scanned otoliths	2
Historical bias in palaeontological collections: Stylophora (Echinodermata) as a case study	2
Morphology, taxonomy and trophic interactions of rostrum-less coleoids from the Late Triassic Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte (Lower Austria)	2
Bernhard Peyer and his discoveries of Triassic vertebrates in Switzerland	2
First neuroanatomical study of the Paleocene bothremydid turtle Taphrosphys (Pleurodira), based on a skull of the Moroccan Taphrosphys ippolitoi, and implications for the marine lifestyle in Taphrosph	2
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	2
Santiago Roth and his scientific legacy: a reappraisal of the Swiss collections	2
The early fossil record of Caturoidea (Halecomorphi: Amiiformes): biogeographic implications	2

A morphometric approach to the taxonomic dilemma of Zonozoe drabowiensis Barrande, 1872 and Zonoscutum solum Chlupáč, 1999 (Upper Ordovician, Czech Republic)	2
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	2
The first Jurassic coelacanth from Switzerland	2
The Hungarian fossil record of the Pliocene pig Sus arvernensis (Suidae, Mammalia)	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
Revision of the Middle Triassic coelacanth Ticinepomis Rieppel 1980 (Actinistia, Latimeriidae) with paleobiological and paleoecological considerations	2
The effects of clays on bacterial community composition during arthropod decay	2
Morphological disparity in extant and extinct sepiid phragmocones: morphological adaptions for phragmocone strength compared to those related to cameral liquid emptying hypotheses	2
New ichthyofaunal microfossils from the Late Permian at Chaotian, Sichuan, Southwest China	2
The paleoecology and taphonomy of a Santonian-Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) dinosaur-bearing vertebrate locality from Bulgaria: a window into an underexplored part of the Late Cretaceous European Archi	2
Callovian corals from the Swiss Jura	1
A new pachypleurosaur from the Early Ladinian Prosanto Formation in the Eastern Alps of Switzerland	1
Pleistocene South American native ungulates (Notoungulata and Litopterna) of the historical Roth collections in Switzerland, from the Pampean Region of Argentina	1
Olistoliths as overlooked sources of information: an example from Pliensbachian belemnites and ammonites of Lukoveček (Czechia, Western Carpathians)	1
First subioblattid roachoid (Insecta: Holopandictyoptera) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland)	1
New euselachian teeth from the Ladinian–Carnian interval of Guizhou and Yunnan Provinces, South China	1
Selective preservation of coleoid soft tissues in Lebanese Konservat-Lagerstätten	1
A new stem saurian reptile from the late Permian of South Africa and insights into saurian evolution	1
On Roth’s “human fossil” from Baradero, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina: morphological and genetic analysis	1
Orthoceratoid and coleoid cephalopods from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland with an updated taxonomic framework for Triassic Orthoceratoidea	1
Correction: A new suction feeder and miniature teleosteomorph, Marcopoloichthys mirigioliensis, from the lower Besano Formation (late Anisian) of Monte San Giorgio	1
An exceptionally well-preserved starfish fauna (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) from the Early Miocene of southeastern France	1
A new, Early Cretaceous carettochelyid turtle from South Korea provides insights into softshell evolution and aquatic ecology	1
The Middle Triassic palaeontomofauna of Monte San Giorgio with the description of Merithone laetitiae (†Permithonidae) gen. et sp. nov.	1
From fossil trader to paleontologist: on Swiss-born naturalist Santiago Roth and his scientific contributions	1
Is the relative thickness of ammonoid septa influenced by ocean acidification, phylogenetic relationships and palaeogeographic position?	1
New generic name for a small Triassic ray-finned fish from Perledo (Italy)	1
Rare Middle Triassic coleoids from the Alpine-Carpathian system: new records from Slovakia and their significance	1
A novel marine turtle (Pan-Chelonioidea: Ctenochelyidae) from the Maastrichtian Neylandville Marl Formation of north central Texas, U.S.A	1
The first specimen with skin preserved of Lariosaurus (Eusauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland) allows inferences about its swimming method	1
A new sauropod-dominated tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous in central Ningxia, northwestern China, and the implications on palaeoenvironments	1
Kasimovian (late Pennsylvanian) cornute rugose corals from Egypt: taxonomy, facies and palaeogeography of a cool-water fauna from northern Gondwana	1
Special Issue: 100 years of scientific excavations at UNESCO World Heritage Site Monte San Giorgio and global research on Triassic marine Lagerstätten	1
A new genus and species of Pliohyracidae (Hyracoidea, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Jradzor, Armenia	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
The first record of Hallucigenia-like lobopodians from the lower Jince Formation (Cambrian, Miaolingian) of the Příbram–Jince Basin	1
Delayed skeletal maturity in dwarf, medium and giant Pleistocene insular deer (Candiacervus) indicating a slower life history regardless size shift	1
Correction: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology vol 139, 140, 141, 142, 143	1
Palynological evidence for floristic turnover and rising diversity in the early Burdigalian of south-western Patagonia (Argentina)	1
Craniomandibular osteology of a new massopodan sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic (latest Norian) of Canton Aargau, Switzerland	1
A study on benthic molluscs and stable isotopes from Kutch, western India reveals early Eocene hyperthermals and pronounced transgression during ETM2 and H2 events	1
Caviomorph rodents from the Pampean region (Argentina) in the historical Santiago Roth Collection in Switzerland	1
A new hybodontiform shark (Strophodus Agassiz, 1838) from the Upper Jurassic of Switzerland	1
Lethal injuries on the scaphitid ammonoid Hoploscaphites nicolletii (Morton, 1842) in the Upper Cretaceous Fox Hills Formation, South Dakota, USA	1
A reassessment of the species “Podocnemis” brasiliensis (Pleurodira, Pelomedusoides) from the Late Cretaceous Bauru Group	1