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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The best of both worlds: cicada males change costly signals to achieve mates while females choose a mate based on both calling and courtship songs	18
Multivariate analyses of skull morphology inform the taxonomy and evolution of geomyoid rodents	15
Torpor expression and patterns in 3 sympatric rodents from Inner Mongolia	12
Altitude and ground brightness explain interpopulation variation in dorsal coloration in a lizard	12
The Silk roads: phylogeography of Central Asian dice snakes (Serpentes: Natricidae) shaped by rivers in deserts and mountain valleys	12
Precocious maturation and semi-multivoltine lifecycle in a subtropical grass lizard, Takydromus toyamai	11
Nesting innovations allow population growth in an invasive population of rose-ringed parakeets	11
Cladocroce caelum (Porifera) has a specialized growth region and a transcriptional regionalization across its body axis	11
First record of twin fetuses in a stranded Cuvier’s beaked whale or goose-beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)	11
Allomaternal care and ‘adoption’ in an edge-of-range population of Taihangshan macaques in Northern China	10
Antipredator decisions of male Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata) depend on social cues from females	10
Delayed juvenile behavioral development and prolonged dependence are adaptations to desert life in the grey falcon	9
Body size and condition, not allochrony, affect temporal reproductive patterns in a prolonged breeding anuran	9
Lesser kestrels of the same colony do not overwinter together	9
Genomic analysis of Tibetan ground tits identifies molecular adaptations associated with cooperative breeding	9
Two lineages of bivalve transmissible neoplasia affect the blue musselMytilus trossulusGould in the subarctic Sea of Okhotsk	9
Alien lesser bandicoot rats have established wild populations in China	9
Local mate competition model alone cannot predict the offspring sex ratio in large and dense populations of a haplodiploid arthropod	9
Long-term effect of inbreeding in the yellow steppe lemming, Eolagurus luteus, captive colony	9
Double-brooding and annual breeding success of great tits in urban and forest habitats	8
Editors note	8
Adjusting to urban stress: How Eurasian tree sparrows modulate multiple physiological and nutritional markers across sexes	8
Acoustic complexity of pup isolation calls in Mongolian hamsters: 3-frequency phenomena and chaos	8
Behavioral repeatability in dung beetles is not limited to subsocial and sexual horn dimorphic species: the case of Geotrupes mutator (Coleoptera, Geotrupidae)	7
Positional behavior and canopy use of black snub-nosed monkeys Rhinopithecus strykeri in the Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan, China	7

Development of an eDNA metabarcoding tool for surveying the world’s largest amphibian	7
Evolution of parthenogenetic reproduction in Caucasian rock lizards: A review	7
Yawning in sync: implications for social cohesion in horses	7
Artificial light at night alters foraging behavior of freshwater amphipods depending on the light spectrum and the presence of predation cues	7
Size specific boldness associated with differences in resource requirements and habitat use: a cross-sectional study in hermit crabs	7
Oral disease is linked to low nestling condition and brood size in a raptor species living in a highly modified environment	7
Bigger or long-winged male common crossbills exhibit redder carotenoid-based plumage coloration	6
Social play in African savannah elephants may inform selection against aggression	6
Influence of life-history traits on mitochondrial DNA substitution rates exceeds that of metabolic rates in teleost fishes	6
Witness for resolution: post-conflict quadratic affiliation in semi-free ranging pigs	6
Inter-glacial isolation caused divergence of cold-adapted species: the case of the snow partridge	6
Dispersal patterns of Reeves’s pheasant based on genetic and behavioral evidence	6
The more eye-like, the more intimidating—visual illusion gives new evidence for the anti-predation mechanism of eyespots	6
Vocal characteristics of distress and reproductive vocalizations in North American wapiti	6
Screening of morphology-related genes based on predator-induced transcriptome sequencing and the functional analysis of Dagcut gene in Daphnia galeata	5
Low diversity, little genetic structure but no inbreeding in a high-density island endemic pit-viperGloydius shedaoensis	5
Plateau pikas near roads are bold and silent when facing a potential predator	5
Historical connectivity and environmental filtering jointly determine the freshwater fish assemblages on Taiwan and Hainan Islands of China	5
Eurasian otters prefer to prey on religious released non-native fish on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	5
Species recognition and the divergences in the chemical and ultrasonic signals between two coexisting Rattus species	5
Don’t stop me now, I’m having such a good time! Czechoslovakian wolfdogs renovate the motivation to play with a bow	5
The potential function of post-fledging dispersal behavior in first breeding territory selection for males of a migratory bird	5
The mating system of Himalayan marmots as inferred by microsatellite markers	5
Fortune may favor the flexible: Environment-dependent behavioral shifts in invasive coquí frogs	5
The vocalization of the red junglefowl is a signal of body size and individual health	5
How female treefrogs weigh unimodal and multimodal sexual displays in the absence and presence of noise	5
Sex-specific life-history strategies among immature jumping spiders: Differences in body parameters and behavior	5
Cranial differences in three-toed jerboas (Dipodinae, Dipodidae, Rodentia) according to recent taxonomic revisions	5
Taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional nestedness of mammal assemblages in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China	4
Altitudinal variation in thermal vulnerability of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau lizards under climate warming	4
Intrapopulation variability in coloration is associated with reproductive season in the crayfish Faxonius virilis	4
Smarter in the city? Lizards from urban and semi-natural habitats do not differ in a cognitive task in two syntopic species	4
The influence of dolphin group coordination on cooperative foraging with humans	4
Evolution, divergence, and convergence in the mandibles of opossums (Didelphidae, Didelphimorphia)	4
Exploring behavioral traits over different contexts in four species of Australian funnel-web spiders	4
Call variation and calling site preference of three sympatric Boulenophrys frogs	4
Sexually differentiated decision-making involves faster recruitment in the early stages for the Tibetan antelopes Pantholops hodgsonii	4
Fading on the beach: pigmentation plasticity adjusts coloration to substrate type in coastal Western spadefoot toads	4
The birth hour of mammals: insights from intra-specific variation in wild blue monkeys	4
Odor cues rather than personality affect tadpole deposition in a neotropical poison frog	4
How incubation temperature affects hatchling performance in reptiles: an integrative insight based on plasticity in metabolic enzyme	3
Citizen science reporting indicates geographic and phenotypic drivers of road use and mortality in a threatened rattlesnake	3
The effects of prey lipid on female mating and reproduction of a wolf spider	3
The role of primate-specific genes in the phenotypic evolution of lorises	3
A thelytokous predatory mite is more cannibalistic towards distant kin	3
Prioritizing landscapes for mitigating the impacts of onshore wind farms on multidimensional waterbird diversity in the Yellow Sea	3
Responses of a resident group to an outsider in the blue-breasted quail: a paradigm for studying social resettlement of dispersers	3
Differential transport of a guild of mutualistic root aphids by the antLasius flavus	3
Metabarcoding of fecal DNA reveals the broad and flexible diet of a globally endangered bird	3
Behavioral and endocrine responses to noninteractive live and video conspecifics in males of the Siamese fighting fish	3

Dispersal syndrome and landscape fragmentation in the salt-marsh specialist spiderErigone longipalpis	3
Behavior and survival of parasitic Shiny Cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis) fledglings	3
Phenotypic and genetic differentiation between two chromosomal taxa of the gastropod Nucella lapillus at Galician rocky shores (NW Spain)	3
Exploring the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on predator inspection activity in Trinidadian guppies	3
The roles of different gene expression regulators in acoustic variation in the intermediate horseshoe bat revealed by long-read and short-read RNA sequencing data	3
How to explore a new environment: exploratory tactics of the black rat (Rattus rattus)	3
Effects of captive-breeding conditions on metabolic and performance traits in an endangered, endemic cyprinidontiform fish	3
The combined role of visual and olfactory cues in foraging by Cataglyphis ants in laboratory mazes	3
Diet and feeding behavior of a group of high-altitude rhesus macaques: high adaptation to food shortages and seasonal fluctuations	3
Correction to: Niche differentiation among facultative filter feeders: Insights from invasive Ponto-Caspian mysids	3
Most soil and litter arthropods are unidentifiable based on current DNA barcode reference libraries	3
Collective decision-making and spatial patterns in orientation of an endemic ungulate on the Tibetan Plateau	3
Low heritability of social phenotypes in a nonpasserine waterbird	3
Interspecific differences and ecological correlations between scale number and skin structure in freshwater fishes	3
The pronotum shape of scelimenine grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) likely represents an exaptation for heterogeneous niche colonization	3