OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Swiss Journal of Palaeontology is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A nomenclature for fossil and living turtles using phylogenetically defined clade names	65
A redescription of the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) turtle Uluops uluops and a new phylogenetic hypothesis of Paracryptodira	19
Failed prey or peculiar necrolysis? Isolated ammonite soft body from the Late Jurassic of Eichstätt (Germany) with complete digestive tract and male reproductive organs	18
Distraction sinking and fossilized coleoid predatory behaviour from the German Early Jurassic	17
Taxonomic revision of the snakes of the genera Palaeopython and Paleryx (Serpentes, Constrictores) from the Paleogene of Europe	16
A Pliocene–Pleistocene continental biota from Venezuela	11
From fossil trader to paleontologist: on Swiss-born naturalist Santiago Roth and his scientific contributions	8
Jaws of a large belemnite and an ammonite from the Aalenian (Middle Jurassic) of Switzerland	8
Fossilized leftover falls as sources of palaeoecological data: a ‘pabulite’ comprising a crustacean, a belemnite and a vertebrate from the Early Jurassic Posidonia Shale	8
Damaged glyptodontid skulls from Late Pleistocene sites of northwestern Venezuela: evidence of hunting by humans?	8
A Unitary Association-based conodont biozonation of the Smithian–Spathian boundary (Early Triassic) and associated biotic crisis from South China	7
Evolutionary development of the cephalopod arm armature: a review	7
Fish otoliths from the early Miocene of Chile: a window into the evolution of marine bony fishes in the Southeast Pacific	7
First record of non-mineralized cephalopod jaws and arm hooks from the latest Cretaceous of Eurytania, Greece	7
Xenarthrans of the collection of Santiago Roth from the Pampean Region of Argentina (Pleistocene), in Zurich, Switzerland	7
Preservation of nautilid soft parts inside and outside the conch interpreted as central nervous system, eyes, and renal concrements from the Lebanese Cenomanian	6
Pampean megamammals in Europe: the fossil collections from Santiago Roth	6
Description of a fossil camelid from the Pleistocene of Argentina, and a cladistic analysis of the Camelinae	6
A historical vertebrate collection from the Middle Miocene of the Peruvian Amazon	5
Cranial and endocranial comparative anatomy of the Pleistocene glyptodonts from the Santiago Roth Collection	5
Novel insights into early life stages of finned octopods (Octopoda: Cirrata)	5
New insights into the taxonomy and evolution of Jurassic planktonic foraminifera	5
Report on ammonoid soft tissue remains revealed by computed tomography	5
A new pachypleurosaur from the Early Ladinian Prosanto Formation in the Eastern Alps of Switzerland	5
Caviomorph rodents from the Pampean region (Argentina) in the historical Santiago Roth Collection in Switzerland	4

An assemblage of giant aquatic snakes (Serpentes, Palaeophiidae) from the Eocene of Togo	4
The geography of body size in cuttlefishes (Cephalopoda, Sepiidae)	4
Nearctic Pleistocene ungulates from the Pampean region (Argentina) in the historical collections of Santiago Roth in Switzerland: an overview	4
A large Middle Devonian eubrachythoracid ‘placoderm’ (Arthrodira) jaw from northern Gondwana	4
Analysis of septal spacing and septal crowding in Devonian and Carboniferous ammonoids	4
A large osteoderm-bearing rib from the Upper Triassic Kössen Formation (Norian/Rhaetian) of eastern Switzerland	4
On Roth’s “human fossil” from Baradero, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina: morphological and genetic analysis	4
Carnivoran fossils from the Pampean region (Argentina): Santiago Roth collections in Switzerland	4