OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Frontiers in Zoology is 8. 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
Establishing RNAi for basic research and pest control and identification of the most efficient target genes for pest control: a brief guide	34
Mitochondria as a target and central hub of energy division during cold stress in insects	30
Biogeography of Italy revisited: genetic lineages confirm major phylogeographic patterns and a pre-Pleistocene origin of its biota	27
Influences of submerged plant collapse on diet composition, breadth, and overlap among four crane species at Poyang Lake, China	25
Ontogeny of the elemental composition and the biomechanics of radular teeth in the chiton Lepidochitona cinerea	19
Differential effects of larval and adult nutrition on female survival, fecundity, and size of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti	19
Feasting, not fasting: winter diets of cave hibernating bats in the United States	19
Habitat influences skeletal morphology and density in the snailfishes (family Liparidae)	19
Using natural history to guide supervised machine learning for cryptic species delimitation with genetic data	16
Heat production in a feeding matrix formed on carrion by communally breeding beetles	16
First characterization of toxic alkaloids and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the cryptic dendrobatid Silverstoneia punctiventris	16
Amphibian breeding phenology influences offspring size and response to a common wetland contaminant	15
Metabolic responses of plasma to extreme environments in overwintering Tibetan frogs Nanorana parkeri: a metabolome integrated analysis	14
Differential time allocation of foraging workers in the subterranean termite	14
Mitochondrial alternative oxidase contributes to successful tardigrade anhydrobiosis	13
Improved histological fixation of gelatinous marine invertebrates	13
Combining the responses of habitat suitability and connectivity to climate change for an East Asian endemic frog	13
Multiple phenotypic traits as triggers of host attacks towards ant symbionts: body size, morphological gestalt, and chemical mimicry accuracy	12
Plasma oxidative stress in reproduction of two eusocial African mole-rat species, the naked mole-rat and the Damaraland mole-rat	12
Cellular proliferation dynamics during regeneration in Syllis malaquini (Syllidae, Annelida)	11
Mixed-species groups in bats: non-random roost associations and roost selection in neotropical understory bats	11
Love bites: male frogs (Plectrohyla, Hylidae) use teeth scratching to deliver sodefrin precursor-like factors to females during amplexus	11
Pollinating fig wasps’ simple solutions to complex sex ratio problems: a review	11
Population variation alters aggression-associated oxytocin and vasopressin expressions in brains of Brandt’s voles in field conditions	10
Tissue dissociation for single-cell and single-nuclei RNA sequencing for low amounts of input material	10

Measuring body condition of lizards: a comparison between non-invasive dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, chemical fat extraction and calculated indices	10
Ontogenetic plasticity in cranial morphology is associated with a change in the food processing behavior in Alpine newts	10
Population genomics reveal rapid genetic differentiation in a recently invasive population of Rattus norvegicus	9
Superior continuous quantity discrimination in a freshwater turtle	9
Development of the caudal-fin skeleton reveals multiple convergent fusions within Atherinomorpha	9
Movement and storage of nematocysts across development in the nudibranch Berghia stephanieae (Valdés, 2005)	9
Natural variation in yolk fatty acids, but not androgens, predicts offspring fitness in a wild bird	8
Cranial morphology of captive mammals: a meta-analysis	8
Interspecific attraction between ground-nesting songbirds and ants: the role of nest-site selection	8
When SEM becomes a deceptive tool of analysis: the unexpected discovery of epidermal glands with stalked ducts on the ultimate legs of geophilomorph centipedes	8
Sexual dimorphism in ritualized agonistic behaviour, fighting ability and contest costs of Sus scrofa	8
Gut microbiota composition and metabolomic profiles of wild and captive Chinese monals (Lophophorus lhuysii)	8
Insights into the structure and morphogenesis of the giant basal spicule of the glass sponge Monorhaphis chuni	8
Evolution and development of the bird chondrocranium	8
A small neighborhood well-organized: seasonal and daily activity patterns of the community of large and mid-sized mammals around waterholes in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia	8
Life history traits and reproductive ecology of North American chorus frogs of the genus Pseudacris (Hylidae)	8
Eggs to long-legs: embryonic staging of the harvestman Phalangium opilio (Opiliones), an emerging model arachnid	8