OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biology Letters is 9. 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
A review of clothing microbiology: the history of clothing and the role of microbes in textiles	45
Expression levels of the tetratricopeptide repeat protein gene ttc39b covary with carotenoid-based skin colour in cichlid fish	24
Pythons in the Eocene of Europe reveal a much older divergence of the group in sympatry with boas	20
Evidence supporting the microbiota–gut–brain axis in a songbird	19
Fish from urban rivers and with high pollutant levels have shorter telomeres	19
Born to be young? Prenatal thyroid hormones increase early-life telomere length in wild collared flycatchers	18
The ecological consequences of a pandemic	17
The probability of fusions joining sex chromosomes and autosomes	16
Male coercion and female injury in a sexually cannibalistic mantis	14
Do avian species survive better on islands?	14
A new somasteroid from the Fezouata Lagerstätte in Morocco and the Early Ordovician origin of Asterozoa	14
Energetic mechanisms for coping with changes in resource availability	14
Kangaroos display gazing and gaze alternations during an unsolvable problem task	14
Leaf hydraulic safety margin and safety–efficiency trade-off across angiosperm woody species	13
Morphological and phylogeographic evidence for budding speciation: an example in hominins	13
Experimental parasite community perturbation reveals associations between Sin Nombre virus and gastrointestinal nematodes in a rodent reservoir host	13
Landscape-level toxicant exposure mediates infection impacts on wildlife populations	12
What you see is where you go: visibility influences movement decisions of a forest bird navigating a three-dimensional-structured matrix	11
Contrasting effects of Miocene and Anthropocene levels of atmospheric CO₂on silicon accumulation in a model grass	10
Coastal regions of the northern Antarctic Peninsula are key for gentoo populations	10
Three-dimensional dental topography and feeding ecology in the extinct cave bear	10
Condition-dependent responses of fish to motorboats	10
Biased transformation erases traditions sustained by conformist transmission	9
Acute bottlenecks to the survival of juvenile Pygoscelis penguins occur immediately after fledging	9
Shrinking before our isles: the rapid expression of insular dwarfism in two invasive populations of guttural toad ( Sclerophrys gutturalis )	9

Anti-predator behaviour depends on male weapon size	9
A new non-mammalian eucynodont from the Chinle Formation (Triassic: Norian), and implications for the early Mesozoic equatorial cynodont record	9