OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Zoology is 3. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Hormonal modulation of reproduction and fertility signaling in polistine wasps	9
High-throughput sequencing reveals dietary segregation in Malaysian babblers	8
Competition of insect decomposers over large vertebrate carrion:Necrodesbeetles (Silphidae) vs. blow flies (Calliphoridae)	8
Effects of landscape heterogeneity and breeding habitat diversity on rice frog abundance and body condition in agricultural landscapes of Yangtze River Delta, China	8
It is time to mate: population-level plasticity of wild boar reproductive timing and synchrony in a changing environment	8
Contrasting size-dependent life history strategies of an insular lizard	7
Tandem running by foraging Pachycondyla striata workers in field conditions vary in response to food type, food distance, and environmental conditions	7
Isochronous singing in 3 crested gibbon species (Nomascus spp.)	7
An exploration of the relationship between recruitment communication and foraging in stingless bees	7
A comparison of animal color measurements using a commercially available digital color sensor and photograph analysis	7
Evidence for acoustic discrimination in lemurs: A playback study on wild indrisIndri indri	6
Leg or antenna injury inCataglyphisants impairs survival but does not hinder searching for food	6
Classical olfactory conditioning promotes long-term memory and improves odor-cued flight orientation in the South American native bumblebee Bombus pauloensis	6
Urban invaders are not bold risk-takers: a study of 3 invasive lizards in Southern California	6
From mainland to islands: colonization history in the tree frog Kurixalus (Anura: Rhacophoridae)	6
Spatiotemporal variation in the adult sex ratio, male aggregation, and movement of two tropical cloud forest dung beetles	6
Responses of incubating females to female cuckoo calls in 2 hole-nesting bird species	6
Nesting innovations allow population growth in an invasive population of rose-ringed parakeets	6
Varroa destructor mite infestations in capped brood cells of honeybee workers affect emergence development and adult foraging ability	5
Genetic boundary and gene flow between 2 parapatric subspecies of brown rats	5
A practical approach with drones, smartphones, and tracking tags for potential real-time animal tracking	5
Two lineages of bivalve transmissible neoplasia affect the blue musselMytilus trossulusGould in the subarctic Sea of Okhotsk	5
Snake-like calls in breeding tits	5
Specific responses of cuckoo hosts to different alarm signals according to breeding stage: a test of the offspring value hypothesis	5
Playing together, laughing together: rapid facial mimicry and social sensitivity in lowland gorillas	5

Infant attraction: why social bridging matters for female leadership in Tibetan macaques	5
Environmental temperature during early life affects the personality of mosquitofish in adulthood	5
Coping with drought? Effects of extended drought conditions on soil invertebrate prey and diet selection by a fossorial amphisbaenian reptile	4
Sex-specific seasonal variations of wild boar distance traveled and home range size	4
DNA metabarcoding the diet of Podarcis lizards endemic to the Balearic Islands	4
Invasive ant learning is not affected by seven potential neuroactive chemicals	4
Phylogeny of drepanosiphine aphids sensu lato (Hemiptera, Aphidoidea) inferred from molecular and morphological data	4
Evolution of personality and locomotory performance traits during a late Pleistocene island colonization in a tree frog	4
Development of an eDNA metabarcoding tool for surveying the world’s largest amphibian	4
Hierarchical auditory perception for species discrimination and individual recognition in the music frog	4
Eye contact and sociability data suggests that Australian dingoes were never domesticated	4
Inter-glacial isolation caused divergence of cold-adapted species: the case of the snow partridge	4
Egg rejection based on egg size recognition as a specific strategy against parasitic cuckoos	4
Visual communication in social play of a hierarchical carnivore species: the case of wild spotted hyenas	4
Cuticular hydrocarbon profiles differ between ant body parts: implications for communication and our understanding of CHC diffusion	4
The effectiveness of eyespots and masquerade in protecting artificial prey across ontogenetic and seasonal shifts	4
Sharing roosts but not ectoparasites: high host-specificity in bat flies and wing mites of Miniopterus schreibersii and Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Mammalia: Chiroptera)	3
Evolution of parthenogenetic reproduction in Caucasian rock lizards: A review	3
Facial expression recognition in golden snub-nosed monkeys	3
Cranial differences in three-toed jerboas (Dipodinae, Dipodidae, Rodentia) according to recent taxonomic revisions	3
The potential function of post-fledging dispersal behavior in first breeding territory selection for males of a migratory bird	3
Endocuticle is involved in caste differentiation of the lower termite	3
Declining metabolic scaling parallels an ontogenetic change from elongate to deep-bodied shapes in juvenile Brown trout	3
Interspecific differences in plasma carotenoid profiles in nestlings of three sympatric vulture species	3
Climatic niche breadths of the Atlantic Forest snakes do not increase with increasing latitude	3
Acoustic signal dominance in the multimodal communication of a nocturnal mammal	3
Historical connectivity and environmental filtering jointly determine the freshwater fish assemblages on Taiwan and Hainan Islands of China	3
Metabarcoding of fecal DNA reveals the broad and flexible diet of a globally endangered bird	3
Diet and feeding behavior of a group of high-altitude rhesus macaques: high adaptation to food shortages and seasonal fluctuations	3
Geographical variation in nest defense among cinereous tit populations in China	3
Same place, different time, head up: Multiple antipredator responses to a recolonizing apex predator	3
Sex-dependent increase of movement activity in the freshwater isopod Asellus aquaticus following adaptation to a predator-free cave habitat	3
Low diversity, little genetic structure but no inbreeding in a high-density island endemic pit-viperGloydius shedaoensis	3