OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Evolutionary Biology 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction: Interrogating Random and Systematic Measurement Error in Morphometric Data	33
Comparative Quantitative Genetics of the Pelvis in Four-Species of Rodents and the Conservation of Genetic Covariance and Correlation Structure	15
Morphological and Genetic Divergence in a Gill Monogenean Parasitizing Distant Cichlid Lineages of Lake Tanganyika: Cichlidogyrus nshomboi (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) from Representatives of Boulenger	14
Climatic Niche Divergence and Conservatism Promote Speciation in Snake-Eyed Skinks (Sauria: Scincidae): New Insight into the Evolution and Diversification of Ablepharus Species	13
Shape and Size Variation in Elapid Snake Fangs and the Effects of Phylogeny and Diet	12
New Avenues for Old Travellers: Phenotypic Evolutionary Trends Meet Morphodynamics, and Both Enter the Global Change Biology Era	12
The Predictable Complexity of Evolutionary Allometry	11
Procrustes Shape Cannot be Analyzed, Interpreted or Visualized one Landmark at a Time	10
Correction to: The Role of Vicariance and Paleoclimatic Shifts in the Diversification of Uranoscodon superciliosus (Squamata, Tropiduridae) of the Amazonian Floodplains	9
Integration, Modularity, and Homoplasy in the Forelimbs of Apes	8
The Tyrant Lizard King, Queen and Emperor: Multiple Lines of Morphological and Stratigraphic Evidence Support Subtle Evolution and Probable Speciation Within the North American Genus Tyrannosaurus	8
Urban Life Affects Differentiation and Phenotypic Variation but not Asymmetry in a Fully Terrestrial Salamander	8
Connectivity Patterns of the Hindlimb Musculoskeletal System in Living and Fossil Diving Birds	7
Genes that are Used Together are More Likely to be Fused Together in Evolution by Mutational Mechanisms: A Bioinformatic Test of the Used-Fused Hypothesis	7
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of the Human-Gut Microbiota Symbiosis in a Changing Nutritional Environment	7
Ecomorphology of the Locomotor Apparatus in the Genus Cyrtodactylus (Gekkota, Squamata)	6
Parallel Evolution of Skull Form in Three Rodent Genera Inhabiting Steep Elevational Gradients of Ethiopian Highlands	6
Decoupled Patterns of Diversity and Disparity Characterize an Ecologically Specialized Lineage of Neotropical Cricetids	6
Interrogating Random and Systematic Measurement Error in Morphometric Data	5
Meta-analysis of Behavioural Research in Lizards Reveals that Viviparity Contributes Better to Animal Personality than Secretory Glands	5
Colonization of a Novel Host Plant Reduces Phenotypic Variation	4
The Dynamic Ontogenetic Shape Patterns of Adaptive Divergence and Sexual Dimorphism	4
Key Adaptive Trait Promotes Contrasting Modes of Diversification in a Bivalve Clade	4
Can Patterns of Static Allometry be Inferred from Regimes of Sexual Selection in the Japanese Beetle?	4
What if… Sponges Originated 890 Million Years Ago? On the Emergence of Some Precursors of Animal Sentience	4

Contemporary Body Size Variation of Neotropical Rodents: Environmental and Genetic Effects	4
Mutational Selection: Fragile Sites, Replicative Stress, and Genome Evolution	4
Mosaic Evolution of Grasping and Genital Traits in Two Sympatric Scorpion Species with Reproductive Interference	4
Geometric Morphometry of the Breast-Shoulder Apparatus of Greater Antillean Anolis Lizards: In Situ Investigation of a Composite Skeletal Assemblage and Its Relationship to Ecomorphological Categoriza	4
Model-Based Analyses Suggest Pleistocene Refugia over Ancient Divergence as Main Diversification Driver for a Neotropical Open-Habitat Treefrog	4
Reworking Geometric Morphometrics into a Methodology of Transformation Grids	3
Annual Temperatures and Dynamics of Food Availability are Associated with the Pelagic-Benthic Diversification in a Sympatric Pair of Salmonid Fish	3
Anatomical Correlates of Cursoriality are Compromised by Body Size and Propensity to Burrow in a Group of Small Mammals (Lagomorpha)	3
Vipers on the Scene: Assessing the Relationship Between Speciation and Climatic Niche Evolution in Venomous Snakes (Reptilia: Viperidae)	3
Ancestral State Reconstruction of Phenotypic Characters	3
Correction: Effects of Procrustes Superimposition and Semilandmark Sliding on Modularity and Integration: An Investigation Using Simulations of Biological Data	3
Multiple Paths to a Larger Mouth: Morphological Divergence in Two Island Populations of Australian Tiger Snakes (Notechis scutatus)	3
Assessing the Levels of Functional Adaptation: Finite Element Analysis Reveals Species, Hybrid, and Sexual Variation in the Biomechanics of African Cichlid Mandibles	3
Consistent Prevalence of Spondyloarthropathy Over 2300 Years: Ancient Egyptians and the Synchronic Baboon Catacomb	3
Surface Representation and Morphometric Analysis Based on Discrete Cosine Transform	3
The Evolution of Brain Size in Ectothermic Tetrapods: Large Brain Mass Trades-Off with Lifespan in Reptiles	3
Diving into Diversity: The Complex Evolutionary History and Species Richness of the ‘sawfin barbs’ from Lake Edward and Adjacent Systems	3
How Aestivation Evolved in Turtles: A Macroevolutionary and Morphological Approach	3
Cranial Anatomical Integration and Disparity Among Bones Discriminate Between Primates and Non-primate Mammals	3
Quadratic Trends: A Morphometric Tool Both Old and New	3
Insufficient Evidence for Multiple Species of Tyrannosaurus in the Latest Cretaceous of North America: A Comment on “The Tyrant Lizard King, Queen and Emperor: Multiple Lines of Morphological and Stra	2
Island Tiger Snakes (Notechis scutatus) Gain a ‘Head Start’ in Life: How Both Phenotypic Plasticity and Evolution Underlie Skull Shape Differences	2
Effects of Environmental Variation in Structuring Population Genetic Variation in the False-Water Cobras (Xenodontinae: Hydrodynastes)	2
The Evolution of Body Size in Terrestrial Tetrapods	2
Body Plan Identity: A Mechanistic Model	2
Lack of Female Preference for Nuptial Gifts May Have Led to Loss of the Male Sexual Trait	2
Patterns of Performance Variation Between Animal Hybrids and their Parents: A Meta-analysis	2
Holomorphology, Space, and Time to Shed Light on the Evolution and Distributional Pattern of the Endemic Flowering Plants of Brazil	2
Antler Allometry, the Irish Elk and Gould Revisited	2
Is the Shape of Turtle Claws Driven by Locomotor Modes?	2
Effects of Procrustes Superimposition and Semilandmark Sliding on Modularity and Integration: An Investigation Using Simulations of Biological Data	2
Evolutionary History of food Withdraw Movements in Primates: Food Withdraw is Mediated by Nonvisual Strategies in 22 Species of Strepsirrhines	2
Exceptional Genetic Differentiation at a Micro-geographic Scale in Apistogramma agassizii (Steindachner, 1875) from the Peruvian Amazon: Sympatric Speciation?	2
Evolution of Reproductive Efficiency in Caenorhabditis elegans Under Obligatory Outcrossing	2
ES-sim-GLM, a Multiple Regression Trait-Dependent Diversification Approach	2