OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Paleobiology is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Fossil Lagerstätten and the enigma of anactualistic fossil preservation	33
PAB volume 49 issue 4 Cover	30
Taking the temperature of punctuated equilibrium on its semicentennial	23
Ankylosaurian body armor function and evolution with insights from osteohistology and morphometrics of new specimens from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica	18
PAB volume 50 issue 1 Cover	18
Exploring rates of change and modes of evolution in blastozoan echinoderms	15
Aligning paleobiological research with conservation priorities using elasmobranchs as a model	15
An implementation of the Brownian motion model for Bayesian phylogenetic inference using continuous traits with missing states	15
Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States	15
From fossils to phylogenies: exploring the integration of paleontological data into Bayesian phylogenetic inference	14
The category-modifier system: a hierarchical classification scheme for vertebrate tooth marks	14
Addressing the “open world”: detecting and segmenting pollen on palynological slides with deep learning	13
History of Native American land and natural resource policy in the United States: impacts on the field of paleontology	12
Marine biological responses to abrupt climate change in deep time	12
AI and paleontology: effects of vertebrate fossil sample size on machine learning image classification	11
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction – CORRIGENDUM	11
PAB volume 49 issue 3 Cover	11
Punctuated equilibria and a general theory of biology	11
Spatial heterogeneity in benthic foraminiferal assemblages tracks regional impacts of paleoenvironmental change across Cretaceous OAE2	10
Exploring the influence of cameral deposits on the stability, orientation, and maneuverability of orthocone cephalopods	10
“Super-progenitor” species and the distribution of sampled descendants	10
Rise and diversification of chondrichthyans in the Paleozoic	10
Growth rate affects blood flow rate to the tibia of the dinosaur Maiasaura	9
Ecological and paleontological implications of trematode-induced morphospace inflation and pallial sinus reduction in bivalve hosts	9
Global Phanerozoic biodiversity—can variation be explained by spatial sampling intensity?	9

Drilling predation on Early Jurassic bivalves and behavioral patterns of the presumed gastropod predator—evidence from Pliensbachian soft-bottom deposits of northern Germany	8
Reflections on punctuated equilibria	8
A new approach for investigating spatial relationships of ichnofossils: a case study of Ediacaran–Cambrian animal traces	8
Paleobiogeographic insights gained from ecological niche models: progress and continued challenges	8
Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzi	8
Growth allometry and dental topography in Upper Triassic conodonts support trophic differentiation and molar-like element function	8
Bayesian inference of phylogenetic trees is not misled by correlated discrete morphological characters	8
Functional aspects of the headshield processes in ostracoderms	8
Is 3D, a more accurate quantitative method than 2D, crucial for analyzing disparity patterns in extinct marine arthropods (Trilobita)?	8
The evolution of hearing and brain size in Eocene whales	8
Developmental plasticity in deep time: a window to population ecological inference	7
Geometric morphometrics as a tool for evaluating Eublastoidea morphological variation	7
Larval brooding correlated with high early origination rates in cheilostome Bryozoa	7
The extended common cause: causal links between punctuated evolution and sedimentary processes – ERRATUM	7
The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things	7
Biotic and abiotic factors and the phylogenetic structure of extinction in the evolution of Tethysuchia	7
PAB volume 51 issue 3 Cover	7
Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans	7
A new biomechanical approach to cranial suture function: the role of contact elements in linear and nonlinear models	7
Drivers of fossil sampling heterogeneity: lessons from planktonic foraminifera	6
Distinguishing punctuated and continuous-time models of character evolution for discrete characters and the implications for macroevolutionary theory	6
Latitudinal influences on bryozoan calcification through the Paleozoic	6
PAB volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	6
Trait networks reveal turnover in Caribbean corals and changes in community resilience through the Cenozoic	6
Hydrodynamic trade-offs in potential swimming efficiency of planispiral ammonoids	6
PAB volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	6
Diversification trajectories and paleobiogeography of Neogene chondrichthyans from Europe	6