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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Cranial differences in three-toed jerboas (Dipodinae, Dipodidae, Rodentia) according to recent taxonomic revisions	12
Sex-dependent increase of movement activity in the freshwater isopodAsellus aquaticusfollowing adaptation to a predator-free cave habitat	12
Historical connectivity and environmental filtering jointly determine the freshwater fish assemblages on Taiwan and Hainan Islands of China	12
Acoustic signal dominance in the multimodal communication of a nocturnal mammal	11
Disentangling the relative contributions of variables determining the divergence of hoarding strategies of rodents	10
Anuran communities increase aggregations of conspecific calls in response to aircraft noise	9
The potential function of post-fledging dispersal behavior in first breeding territory selection for males of a migratory bird	9
Infanticide in golden snub-nosed monkeys with multilevel society	9
Mate choice is affected by parasite infestation rate of the choosing individual as well as of potential mating partners	8
Fortune may favor the flexible: Environment-dependent behavioral shifts in invasive coquí frogs	8
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	8
Intrapopulation variability in coloration is associated with reproductive season in the crayfish Faxonius virilis	8
Coping with drought? The hidden microhabitat selection and underground movements of amphisbaenians under summer drought conditions	7
Torpor expression and patterns in 3 sympatric rodents from Inner Mongolia	7
The mating system of Himalayan marmots as inferred by microsatellite markers	7
Lack of response to conspecific juvenile vocalizations in two avian brood parasites	7
Multivariate analyses of skull morphology inform the taxonomy and evolution of geomyoid rodents	7
Altitude and ground brightness explain interpopulation variation in dorsal coloration in a lizard	7
Nestling sex ratio is unaffected by individual and population traits in the griffon vulture	6
Sex recognition does not modulate aggression toward nest intruders in a paper wasp	6
Social networks of reintroduced Przewalski’s horses in the Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area (Mongolia)	6
Parent–offspring and inter-offspring responses to conspecific versus heterospecific distress calls in 2 sympatric birds	6
Same place, different time, head up: Multiple antipredator responses to a recolonizing apex predator	6
The effectiveness of eyespots and masquerade in protecting artificial prey across ontogenetic and seasonal shifts	6
Competition of insect decomposers over large vertebrate carrion:Necrodesbeetles (Silphidae) vs. blow flies (Calliphoridae)	6

The Silk roads: phylogeography of Central Asian dice snakes (Serpentes: Natricidae) shaped by rivers in deserts and mountain valleys	5
Seasonal resource selection of an arboreal habitat specialist in a human-dominated landscape: A case study using red panda	5
Evolution, divergence, and convergence in the mandibles of opossums (Didelphidae, Didelphimorphia)	5
Sex-specific life-history strategies among immature jumping spiders: Differences in body parameters and behavior	5
Using a behavior random permutation model to identify displacement grooming in ungulates	5
Correction to: Spatiotemporal behavior of predators and prey in an arid environment of Central Asia	5
Eurasian otters prefer to prey on religious released non-native fish on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	5
The fecal shield is a double-edged sword for larvae of a leaf beetle	5
Phylogeny of drepanosiphine aphids sensu lato (Hemiptera, Aphidoidea) inferred from molecular and morphological data	5
Invasive ant learning is not affected by seven potential neuroactive chemicals	5
Effects of the availability of floral resources and neighboring plants on nectar robbery in a specialized pollination system	5
Precocious maturation and semi-multivoltine lifecycle in a subtropical grass lizard, Takydromus toyamai	4
Network analysis reveals context-dependent structural complexity of social calls in serrate-legged small treefrogs	4
Structural characteristics of the epidermis in marine and freshwater finless porpoises adapted to distinct osmotic environments	4
Climatic niche breadths of the Atlantic Forest snakes do not increase with increasing latitude	4
Altitudinal variation in thermal vulnerability of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau lizards under climate warming	4
A new critical site for spectral tuning of red/green-sensitive visual pigment identified in a murid rodent	4
Sexually differentiated decision-making involves faster recruitment in the early stages for the Tibetan antelopes Pantholops hodgsonii	4
First record of twin fetuses in a stranded Cuvier’s beaked whale or goose-beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)	4
Selective extinction and habitat nestedness are the main drivers of lizard nestedness in the Zhoushan Archipelago	4
Eye contact and sociability data suggests that Australian dingoes were never domesticated	4
Niche differentiation among facultative filter feeders: Insights from invasive Ponto-Caspian mysids	4
Exploring behavioral traits over different contexts in four species of Australian funnel-web spiders	3
Antipredator decisions of male Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata) depend on social cues from females	3
Elusive workers are more likely to differentiate into replacement reproductives than aggressive workers in a lower termite	3
Inheritance of social dominance is associated with global sperm DNA methylation in inbred male mice	3
Urbanization drives adaptive evolution in a Neotropical bird	3
Temporal stability and directional change in a color cline of a marine snail from NW Spain	3
A thelytokous predatory mite is more cannibalistic towards distant kin	3
Males armed with big weapons win fights at limited cost in ant-mimicking jumping spiders	3
Erratum to: Competition of insect decomposers over large vertebrate carrion: Necrodes beetles (Silphidae) vs. blow flies (Calliphoridae)	3
Metabolic and microbial changes in light-vented bulbul during recent northward range expansion	3
Behavioral flexibility and novel environments: integrating current perspectives for future directions	3
Evolutionary Adaptations in the Limb Morphology of Tropidurid Lizards in Response to Sandy Environments	3
Phylogeography of the desert scorpion illuminates a route out of Central Asia	3
Lower marine productivity increases agonistic interactions between sea lions and fur seals in Northern Pacific Patagonia	3
Utilizing thermal imaging drones to investigate sleeping site selection in an arboreal primate	3
Collective decision-making and spatial patterns in orientation of an endemic ungulate on the Tibetan Plateau	3
Nesting innovations allow population growth in an invasive population of rose-ringed parakeets	3
Is the speed of adjusting to environmental change condition dependent? An experiment with house mice (Mus musculus)	3
Social buffer or avoidance depends on the similarity of stress between queen ants	3
Tracking toads from dusk till dawn: linking inter- and intra-individual variation in movement behavior	3
Taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional nestedness of mammal assemblages in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China	3
Unexpected complex horizontal gene transfer in teleost fish	3
Each coin has 2 sides: a positive role of alien Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Grey, 1843) snails in reducing the infection of native lymnaeids with trematodes	3
What are the contributions of maternal and paternal traits to fecundity and offspring development? A case study in an amphibian species, the spined toadBufo spinosus	3
Claw coloration in the fiddler crab Leptuca uruguayensis has no correlation with male quality	3
The birth hour of mammals: insights from intra-specific variation in wild blue monkeys	3