OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Palaeontologia Electronica is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Ovummuridae (calcareous microfossils) from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Shropshire, UK	14
Wear-dependent molar morphology in hypsodont rodents: The case of the spalacine Pliospalax	11
A new giraffid Bramiscus micros nov. gen. nov. sp. (Ruminantia, Giraffidae) from the Miocene of northern Pakistan	10
Unveiling the histology and anatomy of the lungfish Chaoceratodus portezuelensis (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi) from the Portezuelo and Cerro Lisandro formations (Upper Cretaceous) of Argentine Patagonia	10
Twenty-five well-justified fossil calibrations for primate divergences	8
First butterfly (Papilionoidea) from Baltic amber by a characteristic egg pinpoints an Eocene minimal age of admirals (Nymphalidae: Limenitidinae) — a distinct step in the rise of the Papilionoidea	8
New skeleton and associated skull of Homunculus patagonicus Ameghino, 1891 (Primates, Platyrrhini), from the Miocene of Patagonia (Argentina)	7
Cells and soft tissues in fossil bone: A review of preservation mechanisms, with corrections of misconceptions	6
Morphological insights into the lobster genus Uncina Quenstedt, 1851 based on new material from the Ya Ha Tinda Konservat-Lagerstätte, Canada (Early Jurassic)	5
Shell anatomy and intraspecific variability of the Spanish Lutetian podocnemidid turtle Neochelys zamorensis	5
Outline analysis as a new method for investigating development in fossil crabs	5
Subfossil cyclostome bryozoans from Daidokutsu submarine cave, Okinawa, Japan	5
A new member of a large and archaic balaenid from the Late Miocene of Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan partly fills a gap of right whale evolution	5
Pygocephalomorphan crustaceans further emphasise the similarities between the Carboniferous Piesberg quarry in Germany and the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte in North America	4
The first late middle Pleistocene Stegodon (Proboscidea, Stegodontidae) evidence found in Peninsular Malaysia	4
Diptera of the Middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation II	4
What do we know about Neogene bony fishes from Chile? Diversity and biogeographic implications	4
A taxonomic revision of the Cenomanian bothremydid turtle Algorachelus parva from Israel and morphological variation within its genus	4
Late Pleistocene and Holocene pikas (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) from Europe and the validity of Ochotona spelaea: New insights based on mtDNA analysis	3
Body mass divergence in sympatric deer species of Pleistocene Crete (Greece)	3
Reassessment of the possible size, form, weight, cruising speed, and growth parameters of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae), and new evolutionary insights into i	3
First fossil snake from McFaddin Beach, Texas, USA	3
Taxonomic revision of the extinct clawed lobster genus Oncopareia Bosquet, 1854 (Decapoda, Astacidea, Nephropidae)	3
Dental ecomorphology and macroevolutionary patterns of North American Late Cretaceous metatherians	3
A new genus and species of fossil pseudoscorpion (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) from the Eocene amber of Western India	3

Reconstructing Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi: Arthrodira): A new look for an iconic Devonian predator	3
Stable isotope (ẟ13C, ẟ18O) paleoecology of the late Early Miocene mammalian fauna from Buluk, Kenya	3
Evaluating the impact of a barnacle parasite (Loxothylacus texanus) on the preservation of blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus) with experimental taphonomy	3
Simulating our ability to accurately detect abrupt changes in assemblage-based paleoenvironmental proxies	3
Designing scientifically-grounded paleoart for augmented reality at La Brea Tar Pits	3
An intriguing new species of dabbling duck (Aves: Anseriformes) from the middle Miocene of Austria	3
Cranial anatomy of Indohyus indirae (Raoellidae), an artiodactyl from the Eocene of India, and its implications for raoellid biology	2
Fossil snakes of the Penny Creek Local Fauna from Webster County, Nebraska, USA, and the first record of snakes from the Early Clarendonian (12.5-12 Ma) of North America	2
Late Triassic small and medium-sized vertebrates from the Fleming Fjord Group of the Jameson Land Basin, central East Greenland	2
Oura megale n. gen. n. sp., a large early Cambrian deuteropod with a delta-shaped tailpiece	2
The morphological diversity and distribution of the genus Menispermites (Magnoliopsida) in the Cretaceous of Northern Asia	2
New look at Concavicaris woodfordi (Euarthropoda: Pancrustacea?) using micro-computed tomography	2
Identifying tooth position of isolated teeth of sparassodonts (Mammalia: Metatheria) using geometric morphometrics	2
A new diplodocine sauropod from the Morrison Formation, Wyoming, USA	2
Leaf trait data of two Miocene floras from eastern China and its palaeoclimate implications	2
Lopingian (Late Permian) trilobites from the North Caucasus, Russia, with an overview of their distribution worldwide	2
A fossil locality predictive model using weighted suitability analysis for the Early Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA	2
First record of an Eomysticetidae from the Late Oligocene at the Pilon locality, San Gregorio Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico	2
Comparison of Miocene to early Pleistocene-aged Castor californicus (Rodentia: Castoridae) to extant beavers and implications for the evolution of Castor in North America	2
The first record of Lower Cretaceous otoliths from the Kimigahama Formation (Barremian) of the Choshi Group, Chiba Prefecture, Japan	2
Bayesian inference reveals a complex evolutionary history of belemnites	2
Fossil calibrations for molecular analyses and divergence time estimation for true crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura)	2
The Middle Devonian acanthodian Orcadacanthus n. gen. from the Orcadian Basin of Scotland	2
A new goniopholidid crocodylomorph from the Late Jurassic of Portugal	2
Late Oligocene decapod crustaceans from the Trbovlje Formation of Slovenia, with a description of two new species of hymenosomatid crabs	2
A diverse Campanian biota from the Bozeș Formation (Petrești, Romania): Insights into the paleontology and paleoecology of a transitional sequence	2
Diversity and fossil record of larvae of three groups of lacewings with unusual ecology and functional morphology: Ithonidae, Coniopterygidae and Sisyridae	2