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 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
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
Cranium of Sipalocyon externus (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) with remarks on the paleoneurology of hathliacynids and insights into the Early Miocene sparassodonts of Patagonia, Argentina	9
Late Miocene Tapiridae from Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula): taxonomic and paleoenvironmental implications	8
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
Impact of increasing morphological information by micro-CT scanning on the phylogenetic placement of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in amber	7
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
Natural assemblages of the earliest Triassic conodont Hindeodus parvus from the Shangsi section, Sichuan province, Southwest China	6
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
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
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
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