OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Paleobiology is 5. 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
PAB volume 50 issue 1 Cover	34
Latitudinal influences on bryozoan calcification through the Paleozoic	23
Fossil Lagerstätten and the enigma of anactualistic fossil preservation	22
The category-modifier system: a hierarchical classification scheme for vertebrate tooth marks	20
Morphological evolution in a time of phenomics	20
Relative oversampling of carbonate rocks in the North American marine fossil record	16
Understanding the appearance of heterospory and derived plant reproductive strategies in the Devonian	16
PAB volume 49 issue 4 Cover	16
Interpretation of fossil embryos requires reasonable assessment of developmental age	15
Ankylosaurian body armor function and evolution with insights from osteohistology and morphometrics of new specimens from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica	15
Permian–Triassic phylogenetic and morphologic evolution of rhynchonellide brachiopods	14
Is the hyoid a constraint on innovation? A study in convergence driving feeding in fish-shaped marine tetrapods	14
Applying the Prigogine view of dissipative systems to the major transitions in evolution	13
Geographic and temporal morphological stasis in the latest Cretaceous ammonoidDiscoscaphites irisfrom the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains	13
Hydrodynamic trade-offs in potential swimming efficiency of planispiral ammonoids	12
Developmental change during a speciation event: evidence from planktic foraminifera	12
Aligning paleobiological research with conservation priorities using elasmobranchs as a model	11
Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxonomic diversity during the end-Permian mass extinction – ADDENDUM	10
Linking host plants to damage types in the fossil record of insect herbivory – CORRIGENDUM	10
Spatial standardization of taxon occurrence data—a call to action	10
The Phanerozoic aftermath of the Cambrian information revolution: sensory and cognitive complexity in marine faunas	9
Why the long teeth? Morphometric analysis suggests different selective pressures on functional occlusal traits in Plio-Pleistocene African suids	9
Intraspecific facial bite marks in tyrannosaurids provide insight into sexual maturity and evolution of bird-like intersexual display	9
The paleobiologic implications of modern nonmarine ecological gradients	9
PAB volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	8

Marine biological responses to abrupt climate change in deep time	8
PAB volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	7
History of Native American land and natural resource policy in the United States: impacts on the field of paleontology	7
The impact of apicobasal ridges on dental load-bearing capacity in aquatic-feeding predatory amniotes	7
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction – CORRIGENDUM	7
Diversification trajectories and paleobiogeography of Neogene chondrichthyans from Europe	7
Different mammals, same structure: co-occurrence structure across the Plio-Pleistocene transition	7
The Fractional MacroEvolution Model: a simple quantitative scaling macroevolution model	6
The structure of the nonmarine fossil record: predictions from a coupled stratigraphic–paleoecological model of a coastal basin	6
PAB volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	6
Did shell-crushing predators drive the evolution of ammonoid septal shape?	6
Repairing the scaffolding: women authors in Paleobiology	6
PAB volume 49 issue 3 Cover	6
A biased fossil record can preserve reliable phylogenetic signal	5
A quantitative assessment of ontogeny and molting in a Cambrian radiodont and the evolution of arthropod development	5
Small but mighty: how overlooked small species maintain community structure through middle Eocene climate change	5
A test of Bergmann's rule in the Early Triassic: latitude, body size, and sampling in Lystrosaurus	5
On calibrating the completometer for the mammalian fossil record	5
The Fezouata Shale Formation biota is typical for the high latitudes of the Early Ordovician—a quantitative approach	5