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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
An exploration of the relationship between recruitment communication and foraging in stingless bees	12
It is time to mate: population-level plasticity of wild boar reproductive timing and synchrony in a changing environment	12
Isochronous singing in 3 crested gibbon species (Nomascus spp.)	11
Competition of insect decomposers over large vertebrate carrion:Necrodesbeetles (Silphidae) vs. blow flies (Calliphoridae)	10
The effectiveness of eyespots and masquerade in protecting artificial prey across ontogenetic and seasonal shifts	9
Hormonal modulation of reproduction and fertility signaling in polistine wasps	9
High-throughput sequencing reveals dietary segregation in Malaysian babblers	9
Environmental temperature during early life affects the personality of mosquitofish in adulthood	8
Invasive ant learning is not affected by seven potential neuroactive chemicals	8
Leg or antenna injury inCataglyphisants impairs survival but does not hinder searching for food	8
Metabarcoding of fecal DNA reveals the broad and flexible diet of a globally endangered bird	8
Nesting innovations allow population growth in an invasive population of rose-ringed parakeets	8
Spatiotemporal variation in the adult sex ratio, male aggregation, and movement of two tropical cloud forest dung beetles	7
Responses of incubating females to female cuckoo calls in 2 hole-nesting bird species	7
Tandem running by foraging Pachycondyla striata workers in field conditions vary in response to food type, food distance, and environmental conditions	7
Evidence for acoustic discrimination in lemurs: A playback study on wild indrisIndri indri	7
Two lineages of bivalve transmissible neoplasia affect the blue musselMytilus trossulusGould in the subarctic Sea of Okhotsk	7
Sex-specific seasonal variations of wild boar distance traveled and home range size	7
Visual communication in social play of a hierarchical carnivore species: the case of wild spotted hyenas	7
Diet and feeding behavior of a group of high-altitude rhesus macaques: high adaptation to food shortages and seasonal fluctuations	6
Classical olfactory conditioning promotes long-term memory and improves odor-cued flight orientation in the South American native bumblebee Bombus pauloensis	6
Playing together, laughing together: rapid facial mimicry and social sensitivity in lowland gorillas	6
DNA metabarcoding the diet of Podarcis lizards endemic to the Balearic Islands	6
Same place, different time, head up: Multiple antipredator responses to a recolonizing apex predator	6
Evolution of parthenogenetic reproduction in Caucasian rock lizards: A review	6

Cuticular hydrocarbon profiles differ between ant body parts: implications for communication and our understanding of CHC diffusion	6
Sex-dependent increase of movement activity in the freshwater isopodAsellus aquaticusfollowing adaptation to a predator-free cave habitat	6
Evolution of personality and locomotory performance traits during a late Pleistocene island colonization in a tree frog	5
Development of an eDNA metabarcoding tool for surveying the world’s largest amphibian	5
Hierarchical auditory perception for species discrimination and individual recognition in the music frog	5
Cranial differences in three-toed jerboas (Dipodinae, Dipodidae, Rodentia) according to recent taxonomic revisions	5
Inter-glacial isolation caused divergence of cold-adapted species: the case of the snow partridge	5
Sharing roosts but not ectoparasites: high host-specificity in bat flies and wing mites of Miniopterus schreibersii and Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Mammalia: Chiroptera)	5
Varroa destructor mite infestations in capped brood cells of honeybee workers affect emergence development and adult foraging ability	5
Snake-like calls in breeding tits	5
Coping with drought? Effects of extended drought conditions on soil invertebrate prey and diet selection by a fossorial amphisbaenian reptile	5
A practical approach with drones, smartphones, and tracking tags for potential real-time animal tracking	5
Most soil and litter arthropods are unidentifiable based on current DNA barcode reference libraries	5
Nestling sex ratio is unaffected by individual and population traits in the griffon vulture	5
Don’t stop me now, I’m having such a good time! Czechoslovakian wolfdogs renovate the motivation to play with a bow	4
How we look: European wild mouflon and feral domestic sheep hybrids	4
Climatic niche breadths of the Atlantic Forest snakes do not increase with increasing latitude	4
Eye contact and sociability data suggests that Australian dingoes were never domesticated	4
Egg rejection based on egg size recognition as a specific strategy against parasitic cuckoos	4
High association strengths are linked to phenotypic similarity, including plumage color and patterns, of participants in mixed-species bird flocks of southwestern China	4
Phylogeny of drepanosiphine aphids sensu lato (Hemiptera, Aphidoidea) inferred from molecular and morphological data	4
Endocuticle is involved in caste differentiation of the lower termite	4
Interspecific differences in plasma carotenoid profiles in nestlings of three sympatric vulture species	4
Geographical variation in nest defense among cinereous tit populations in China	4
Parent–offspring and inter-offspring responses to conspecific versus heterospecific distress calls in 2 sympatric birds	4
Low diversity, little genetic structure but no inbreeding in a high-density island endemic pit-viperGloydius shedaoensis	3
Phenotypic plasticity in the monoclonal marbled crayfish is associated with very low genetic diversity but pronounced epigenetic diversity	3
Differences in predator-avoidance behavior between two invasive gobies and their native competitors	3
Reproductive biology of harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones): a review of a rapidly evolving research field	3
Lower marine productivity increases agonistic interactions between sea lions and fur seals in Northern Pacific Patagonia	3
Evolution, divergence, and convergence in the mandibles of opossums (Didelphidae, Didelphimorphia)	3
Social networks of reintroduced Przewalski’s horses in the Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area (Mongolia)	3
Historical connectivity and environmental filtering jointly determine the freshwater fish assemblages on Taiwan and Hainan Islands of China	3
Natural parasites in conjunction with behavioral and color traits explain male agonistic behaviors in a lizard	3
Feeding mediated web-building plasticity in a cobweb spider	3
Oral disease is linked to low nestling condition and brood size in a raptor species living in a highly modified environment	3
Dopamine D2 receptors in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex modulate social hierarchy in male mice	3
Juvenile survival curves in a solitary ground squirrel with a prolonged hibernation: effects of individual characteristics, environment, and maternal investment	3
Exploring behavioral traits over different contexts in four species of Australian funnel-web spiders	3
Using a behavior random permutation model to identify displacement grooming in ungulates	3
The potential function of post-fledging dispersal behavior in first breeding territory selection for males of a migratory bird	3
Historical mitochondrial genome introgression confounds species delimitation: evidence from phylogenetic inference in theOdorrana grahamispecies complex	3
Dead trees as an indicator in tourism risk monitoring at primate ecotourism sites	3
Do predators prefer toxic animals? A case of chemical discrimination by an Asian snake that sequesters firefly toxins	3
Double-brooding and annual breeding success of great tits in urban and forest habitats	3
Allomaternal care and ‘adoption’ in an edge-of-range population of Taihangshan macaques in Northern China	3
Selective extinction and habitat nestedness are the main drivers of lizard nestedness in the Zhoushan Archipelago	3
The Silk roads: phylogeography of Central Asian dice snakes (Serpentes: Natricidae) shaped by rivers in deserts and mountain valleys	3
Acoustic signal dominance in the multimodal communication of a nocturnal mammal	3