OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biology Letters is 15. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The sex with the reduced sex chromosome dies earlier: a comparison across the tree of life	71
The effects of anthropogenic noise on animals: a meta-analysis	57
Plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common Antarctic collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus	52
Disparities in the analysis of morphological disparity	46
Nocturnal pollinators strongly contribute to pollen transport of wild flowers in an agricultural landscape	37
A paraphyletic ‘Silesauridae' as an alternative hypothesis for the initial radiation of ornithischian dinosaurs	35
Always a price to pay: hibernation at low temperatures comes with a trade-off between energy savings and telomere damage	35
Otolith chemistry indicates recent worsened Baltic cod condition is linked to hypoxia exposure	35
Salinity tolerance and geographical origin predict global alien amphipod invasions	35
Escaping the evolutionary trap? Sex chromosome turnover in basilisks and related lizards (Corytophanidae: Squamata)	34
Structural colours reflect individual quality: a meta-analysis	34
Plastic but repeatable: rapid adjustments of mitochondrial function and density during reproduction in a wild bird species	33
The hidden army: corallivorous crown-of-thorns seastars can spend years as herbivorous juveniles	32
Does urbanization favour exotic bee species? Implications for the conservation of native bees in cities	32
Honeybee microbiome is stabilized in the presence of propolis	32
Microplastics disrupt hermit crab shell selection	32
Extreme and variable torpor among high-elevation Andean hummingbird species	29
Temporal and spatial limitations in global surveillance for bat filoviruses and henipaviruses	29
Whole-genome analysis across 10 songbird families within Sylvioidea reveals a novel autosome–sex chromosome fusion	29
A review of clothing microbiology: the history of clothing and the role of microbes in textiles	27
Complete loss of the MHC II pathway in an anglerfish, Lophius piscatorius	27
Cuttlefish show flexible and future-dependent foraging cognition	26
Parasite-induced plasticity in host social behaviour depends on sex and susceptibility	26
How well do revegetation plantings capture genetic diversity?	24
Predator type influences the frequency of functional responses to prey in marine habitats	24

Early warning signals of malaria resurgence in Kericho, Kenya	23
The dynamics underlying avian extinction trajectories forecast a wave of extinctions	23
Egg incubation temperature does not influence adult heat tolerance in the lizard Anolis sagrei	23
Predation risks of signalling and searching: bats prefer moving katydids	23
Climate warming and trophic mismatches in terrestrial ecosystems: the green–brown imbalance hypothesis	22
Examining the mechanisms underlying the acquisition of animal tool behaviour	22
Field-realistic antidepressant exposure disrupts group foraging dynamics in mosquitofish	21
Do penguins’ vocal sequences conform to linguistic laws?	21
Blocking mu-opioid receptors inhibits social bonding in rituals	21
Breeders are less active foragers than non-breeders in wild Damaraland mole-rats	20
A poor substitute for the real thing: captive-reared monarch butterflies are weaker, paler and have less elongated wings than wild migrants	20
Host heterogeneity mitigates virulence evolution	20
Reactivity, fate and functional roles of dissolved organic matter in anoxic inland waters	20
Canine sense of quantity: evidence for numerical ratio-dependent activation in parietotemporal cortex	19
Partitioning colony size variation into growth and partial mortality	19
Urbanization without isolation: the absence of genetic structure among cities and forests in the tiny acorn ant Temnothorax nylanderi	19
Endocrine regulation of egg rejection in an avian brood parasite host	19
Cardiac metabolomic profile of the naked mole-rat—glycogen to the rescue	18
Temporal isolation between sympatric host plants cascades across multiple trophic levels of host-associated insects	18
The endangered Spitsbergen bowhead whales' secrets revealed after hundreds of years in hiding	18
Unhatched eggs represent the invisible fraction in two wild bird populations	18
Bark water vapour conductance is associated with drought performance in tropical trees	18
Assessing the affective component of pain, and the efficacy of pain control, using conditioned place aversion in calves	18
The nuclear envelope: LINCing tissue mechanics to genome regulation in cardiac and skeletal muscle	18
Unconditional care from close maternal kin in the face of parasites	18
Genetic evidence of widespread variation in ethanol metabolism among mammals: revisiting the ‘myth' of natural intoxication	18
Sucking or lapping: facultative feeding mechanisms in honeybees (Apis mellifera)	18
Rapid induction of the heat hardening response in an Arctic insect	18
Genetic convergence of industrial melanism in three geometrid moths	17
Small within the largest: brain size and anatomy of the extinct Neoepiblema acreensis , a giant rodent from the Neotropics	17
Temperature and predator cues interactively affect ontogenetic metabolic scaling of aquatic amphipods	17
Teenage dogs? Evidence for adolescent-phase conflict behaviour and an association between attachment to humans and pubertal timing in the domestic dog	17
The longer the better: evidence that narwhal tusks are sexually selected	17
Acoustic allometry and vocal learning in mammals	17
Expression levels of the tetratricopeptide repeat protein gene ttc39b covary with carotenoid-based skin colour in cichlid fish	17
Inference in road ecology research: what we know versus what we think we know	16
Complex factors shape phenotypic variation in deep-sea limpets	16
Pythons in the Eocene of Europe reveal a much older divergence of the group in sympatry with boas	16
A review of research in primate sanctuaries	16
Fracture mechanics, enamel thickness and the evolution of molar form in hominins	16
Octopamine increases individual and collective foraging in a neotropical stingless bee	16
Vocal production learning in the pale spear-nosed bat, Phyllostomus discolor	16
Collective decision-making appears more egalitarian in populations where group fission costs are higher	16
The past, present and future of cleaner fish cognitive performance as a function of CO ₂ levels	15
Age of first infection across a range of parasite taxa in a wild mammalian population	15
Complete genomes of two extinct New Zealand passerines show responses to climate fluctuations but no evidence for genomic erosion prior to extinction	15
Chimpanzee lip-smacks confirm primate continuity for speech-rhythm evolution	15
Evidence for individual discrimination and numerical assessment in collective antipredator behaviour in wild jackdaws ( Corvus monedula )	15
No, you go first: phenotype and social context affect house sparrow neophobia	15
Experimental translocations to low predation lead to non-parallel increases in relative brain size	15

How socio-ecological factors influence the differentiation of social relationships: an integrated conceptual framework