OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Zoology 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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	21
Precocious maturation and semi-multivoltine lifecycle in a subtropical grass lizard, Takydromus toyamai	17
First record of twin fetuses in a stranded Cuvier’s beaked whale or goose-beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)	15
The Silk roads: phylogeography of Central Asian dice snakes (Serpentes: Natricidae) shaped by rivers in deserts and mountain valleys	13
Torpor expression and patterns in 3 sympatric rodents from Inner Mongolia	12
Cladocroce caelum (Porifera) has a specialized growth region and a transcriptional regionalization across its body axis	12
Altitude and ground brightness explain interpopulation variation in dorsal coloration in a lizard	12
Review of the ecological aspects of sympatric species Octopus americanus and Octopus insularis (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) in the Western Atlantic	12
Multivariate analyses of skull morphology inform the taxonomy and evolution of geomyoid rodents	12
Nesting innovations allow population growth in an invasive population of rose-ringed parakeets	11
Genomic analysis of Tibetan ground tits identifies molecular adaptations associated with cooperative breeding	11
Allomaternal care and ‘adoption’ in an edge-of-range population of Taihangshan macaques in Northern China	11
Alien lesser bandicoot rats have established wild populations in China	10
Delayed juvenile behavioral development and prolonged dependence are adaptations to desert life in the grey falcon	10
Adjusting to urban stress: How Eurasian tree sparrows modulate multiple physiological and nutritional markers across sexes	9
Local mate competition model alone cannot predict the offspring sex ratio in large and dense populations of a haplodiploid arthropod	9
Antipredator decisions of male Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata) depend on social cues from females	9
Body size and condition, not allochrony, affect temporal reproductive patterns in a prolonged breeding anuran	9
Acoustic complexity of pup isolation calls in Mongolian hamsters: 3-frequency phenomena and chaos	9
Impact of dam-induced hydrological fluctuations on the behavior of the endangered scaly-sided Merganser (Mergus squamatus): implications for river regulation strategies and conservation	9
Lesser kestrels of the same colony do not overwinter together	9
Long-term effect of inbreeding in the yellow steppe lemming, Eolagurus luteus, captive colony	9
Two lineages of bivalve transmissible neoplasia affect the blue musselMytilus trossulusGould in the subarctic Sea of Okhotsk	9
Fine-scale habitat heterogeneity affects embryonic development but not female reproduction in a lizard from desert steppes	9
Development of an eDNA metabarcoding tool for surveying the world’s largest amphibian	8

Oral disease is linked to low nestling condition and brood size in a raptor species living in a highly modified environment	8
Double-brooding and annual breeding success of great tits in urban and forest habitats	8
Yawning in sync: implications for social cohesion in horses	8
Positional behavior and canopy use of black snub-nosed monkeys Rhinopithecus strykeri in the Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan, China	8
Evolution of parthenogenetic reproduction in Caucasian rock lizards: A review	8
Vocal characteristics of distress and reproductive vocalizations in North American wapiti	7
Size specific boldness associated with differences in resource requirements and habitat use: a cross-sectional study in hermit crabs	7
Dispersal patterns of Reeves’s pheasant based on genetic and behavioral evidence	7
Screening of morphology-related genes based on predator-induced transcriptome sequencing and the functional analysis of Dagcut gene in Daphnia galeata	7
Social play in African savannah elephants may inform selection against aggression	7
Artificial light at night alters foraging behavior of freshwater amphipods depending on the light spectrum and the presence of predation cues	7
Witness for resolution: post-conflict quadratic affiliation in semi-free ranging pigs	7
Influence of life-history traits on mitochondrial DNA substitution rates exceeds that of metabolic rates in teleost fishes	7
Species recognition and the divergences in the chemical and ultrasonic signals between two coexisting Rattus species	7
Behavioral repeatability in dung beetles is not limited to subsocial and sexual horn dimorphic species: the case of Geotrupes mutator (Coleoptera, Geotrupidae)	7
Bigger or long-winged male common crossbills exhibit redder carotenoid-based plumage coloration	7
The more eye-like, the more intimidating—visual illusion gives new evidence for the anti-predation mechanism of eyespots	7
Elevational patterns of sexual size dimorphism in a Mediterranean lizard	7
Don’t stop me now, I’m having such a good time! Czechoslovakian wolfdogs renovate the motivation to play with a bow	6
The vocalization of the red junglefowl is a signal of body size and individual health	6
Low diversity, little genetic structure but no inbreeding in a high-density island endemic pit-viperGloydius shedaoensis	6
How female treefrogs weigh unimodal and multimodal sexual displays in the absence and presence of noise	6
Sex-specific life-history strategies among immature jumping spiders: Differences in body parameters and behavior	6
Plateau pikas near roads are bold and silent when facing a potential predator	6
Inter-glacial isolation caused divergence of cold-adapted species: the case of the snow partridge	6
The potential function of post-fledging dispersal behavior in first breeding territory selection for males of a migratory bird	5
Sexually differentiated decision-making involves faster recruitment in the early stages for the Tibetan antelopes Pantholops hodgsonii	5
The mating system of Himalayan marmots as inferred by microsatellite markers	5
Cranial differences in three-toed jerboas (Dipodinae, Dipodidae, Rodentia) according to recent taxonomic revisions	5
Fortune may favor the flexible: environment-dependent behavioral shifts in invasive coquí frogs	5
Historical connectivity and environmental filtering jointly determine the freshwater fish assemblages on Taiwan and Hainan Islands of China	5
Intrapopulation variability in coloration is associated with reproductive season in the crayfish Faxonius virilis	5
The influence of dolphin group coordination on cooperative foraging with humans	5
Taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional nestedness of mammal assemblages in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China	5
Eurasian otters prefer to prey on religious released non-native fish on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	5
Altitudinal variation in thermal vulnerability of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau lizards under climate warming	5
Evolution, divergence, and convergence in the mandibles of opossums (Didelphidae, Didelphimorphia)	5
The birth hour of mammals: insights from intra-specific variation in wild blue monkeys	5
Collective decision-making and spatial patterns in orientation of an endemic ungulate on the Tibetan Plateau	4
Call variation and calling site preference of three sympatric Boulenophrys frogs	4
Exploring behavioral traits over different contexts in four species of Australian funnel-web spiders	4
Nonspecific constitutive immunity is negatively associated with basal metabolic rate at early phase of territorial competition in males of great tit	4
The role of primate-specific genes in the phenotypic evolution of lorises	4
Multidimensional analyses of reptile assemblages: insights from phylogenetic, functional, and taxonomic diversity	4
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	4
Smarter in the city? Lizards from urban and semi-natural habitats do not differ in a cognitive task in two syntopic species	4
Cariprazine modulates affective and social behaviors through ventral striatal islands of Calleja neurons	4
Odor cues rather than personality affect tadpole deposition in a neotropical poison frog	4
Phenotypic and genetic differentiation between two chromosomal taxa of the gastropod Nucella lapillus at Galician rocky shores (NW Spain)	4
Integrating habitat and population dynamics to uncover dispersal-driven persistence in a reintroduced Crested Ibis metapopulation	4

Most soil and litter arthropods are unidentifiable based on current DNA barcode reference libraries	4
A thelytokous predatory mite is more cannibalistic towards distant kin	4
Prioritizing landscapes for mitigating the impacts of onshore wind farms on multidimensional waterbird diversity in the Yellow Sea	4
Citizen science reporting indicates geographic and phenotypic drivers of road use and mortality in a threatened rattlesnake	4
Fading on the beach: pigmentation plasticity adjusts coloration to substrate type in coastal Western spadefoot toads	4
The Yarkand hare epidermal growth factor receptor improves the survival and antioxidant capacity of HeLa cells under stress	4
Low heritability of social phenotypes in a nonpasserine waterbird	4
Exploring the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on predator inspection activity in Trinidadian guppies	4
How to explore a new environment: exploratory tactics of the black rat (Rattus rattus)	4