OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Evolution is 24. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Laplace's demon in biology: Models of evolutionary prediction	69
Digest: Sexual selection may shape species’ range limits	56
The effects of selfing on multi-step adaptation	53
Paternal condition affects offspring reproduction and life history in a sex-specific manner inDrosophila melanogaster	41
Single-cell transcriptomics supports presence of cryptic species and reveals low levels of population genetic diversity in two testate amoebae morphospecies with large population sizes	38
Philosophical foundations of microevolution	35
Untangling the colonization history of the Australo-Pacific reed warblers, one of the world’s great island radiations	33
Phenotypic rate and state are decoupled in response to river-to-lake transitions in cichlid fishes	32
Sex wars: a female genital spine forces male damselflies to shorten copulation duration	32
Correction to: Allometric scaling of somatic mutation and epimutation rates in trees	31
Immunity-driven evolution of virulence and diversity in respiratory diseases	29
Evolvability maps an adaptable research paradigm	28
Thyroid hormone tinkering elicits integrated phenotypic changes potentially explaining rapid adaptation of color vision in cichlid fish	27
The efficacy of selection may increase or decrease with selfing depending upon the recombination environment	27
Predators drive selection for adaptive plasticity in prey defense behavior	27
Genomic discordance throws a wrench in the parallel speciation hypothesis for scincid lizards	27
A response to estimating hybridization in the wild using community science data: A path forward	26
Two new hybrid populations expand the swordtail hybridization model system	26
Weak coupling among barrier loci and waves of neutral and adaptive introgression across an expanding hybrid zone	25
Predictors of individual performance and evolutionary potential of life‐history traits in a hematophagous ectoparasite	25
Sexual selection towards a protamine expression ratio optimum in two rodent groups?	25
Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems	25
Polyploidy and mutation in Arabidopsis	25
Why are animals conspicuously colored? Evolution of sexual versus warning signals in land vertebrates	24
Diversity patterns and speciation processes in a two‐island system with continuous migration	24

Historical effects during experimental evolution of multicellularity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae