OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Animal Ecology is 23. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
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Variation in local population size predicts social network structure in wild songbirds	53
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Pregnancy reduces concurrent pup care behaviour in meerkats, generating differences between dominant and subordinate females	45
Evolution of ontogenetic niches promotes species coexistence in a surprising way	41
Reproductive senescence and mating tactic interact and conflict to drive reproductive success in a passerine	40
Diurnal pastoralism does not reduce juvenile recruitment nor elevate allostatic load in spotted hyenas	39
Global patterns in bumble bee pollen collection show phylogenetic conservation of diet	37
The genetic basis and adult reproductive consequences of developmental thermal plasticity	34
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Variation in body size drives spatial and temporal variation in lobster–urchin interaction strength	29
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Variation in diversity–function relationships can be explained by species interactions	29
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Male song stability shows cross‐year repeatability but does not affect reproductive success in a wild passerine bird	27
Behavioural adjustments in the social associations of a precocial shorebird mediate the costs and benefits of grouping decisions	26
Why are ‘suboptimal’ temperatures preferred in a tropical intertidal ectotherm?	25
Within‐host and external environments differentially shape β‐diversity across parasite life stages	24
Age‐dependent timing and routes demonstrate developmental plasticity in a long‐distance migratory bird	24
Expanding network ecology in freshwater ecosystems	24
Predicting primate–parasite associations using exponential random graph models	24
Population connectivity patterns of genetic diversity, immune responses and exposure to infectious pneumonia in a metapopulation of desert bighorn sheep	24
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Negative effects of forest gaps on dung removal in a full‐factorial experiment	23
Thermoregulatory costs of the innate immune response are modulated by winter food availability in a small passerine	23

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Cover Picture and Issue Information	23
A novel trophic cascade between cougars and feral donkeys shapes desert wetlands	23