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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Digest: Sexual selection may shape species’ range limits	88
The effects of selfing on multi-step adaptation	69
Genomic discordance throws a wrench in the parallel speciation hypothesis for scincid lizards	61
Phenotypic evolution of SARS-CoV-2: a statistical inference approach	45
Correction to: Allometric scaling of somatic mutation and epimutation rates in trees	44
Untangling the colonization history of the Australo-Pacific reed warblers, one of the world’s great island radiations	40
Philosophical foundations of microevolution	33
Evolvability maps an adaptable research paradigm	32
Historical effects during experimental evolution of multicellularity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	31
Phenotypic rate and state are decoupled in response to river-to-lake transitions in cichlid fishes	31
Unpacking the lifelong secrets of little penguins: individual quality, energy allocation, and stochasticity in defining fitness	31
Post K-Pg rise in ant and termite prevalence underlies convergent dietary specialization in mammals	31
Using genome scans to identify genes used repeatedly for adaptation	31
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	30
Predators drive selection for adaptive plasticity in prey defense behavior	28
Immunity-driven evolution of virulence and diversity in respiratory diseases	28
Sex wars: a female genital spine forces male damselflies to shorten copulation duration	26
The efficacy of selection may increase or decrease with selfing depending upon the recombination environment	26
Diversity patterns and speciation processes in a two‐island system with continuous migration	25
Elevational divergence in pigmentation plasticity is associated with selection and pigment biochemistry	25
Why are animals conspicuously colored? Evolution of sexual versus warning signals in land vertebrates	24
Predictors of individual performance and evolutionary potential of life‐history traits in a hematophagous ectoparasite	24
Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems	24
Laplace's demon in biology: Models of evolutionary prediction	24