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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Ankylosaurian body armor function and evolution with insights from osteohistology and morphometrics of new specimens from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica	38
PAB volume 49 issue 4 Cover	27
PAB volume 50 issue 1 Cover	26
Understanding the appearance of heterospory and derived plant reproductive strategies in the Devonian	20
Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States	18
Aligning paleobiological research with conservation priorities using elasmobranchs as a model	17
The category-modifier system: a hierarchical classification scheme for vertebrate tooth marks	17
From fossils to phylogenies: exploring the integration of paleontological data into Bayesian phylogenetic inference	16
PAB volume 49 issue 3 Cover	15
Punctuated equilibria and a general theory of biology	15
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction – CORRIGENDUM	15
Fossil Lagerstätten and the enigma of anactualistic fossil preservation	15
Marine biological responses to abrupt climate change in deep time	14
History of Native American land and natural resource policy in the United States: impacts on the field of paleontology	14
Paleobiogeographic insights gained from ecological niche models: progress and continued challenges	13
Spatial heterogeneity in benthic foraminiferal assemblages tracks regional impacts of paleoenvironmental change across Cretaceous OAE2	13
Global Phanerozoic biodiversity—can variation be explained by spatial sampling intensity?	13
The evolution of hearing and brain size in Eocene whales	12
A new approach for investigating spatial relationships of ichnofossils: a case study of Ediacaran–Cambrian animal traces	11
Rise and diversification of chondrichthyans in the Paleozoic	11
Growth rate affects blood flow rate to the tibia of the dinosaur Maiasaura	10
Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite), South Australia	9
PAB volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	9
Is 3D, a more accurate quantitative method than 2D, crucial for analyzing disparity patterns in extinct marine arthropods (Trilobita)?	9
Paleodiet of Lamini camelids (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the Pleistocene of southern Brazil: insights from stable isotope analysis (δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O)	9

Influence of phylogeny on the estimation of diet from dental morphology in the Carnivora	9
Growth allometry and dental topography in Upper Triassic conodonts support trophic differentiation and molar-like element function	9
Reflections on punctuated equilibria	9
Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans	8
Functional aspects of the headshield processes in ostracoderms	8
Larval brooding correlated with high early origination rates in cheilostome Bryozoa	8
A new biomechanical approach to cranial suture function: the role of contact elements in linear and nonlinear models	8
The chondrichthyan fossil record of the Florida Platform (Eocene–Pleistocene)	8
Geometric morphometrics as a tool for evaluating Eublastoidea morphological variation	8
Drilling predation on Early Jurassic bivalves and behavioral patterns of the presumed gastropod predator—evidence from Pliensbachian soft-bottom deposits of northern Germany	8
The taphonomic clock in fish otoliths	8
The extended common cause: causal links between punctuated evolution and sedimentary processes – ERRATUM	7
Developmental plasticity in deep time: a window to population ecological inference	7
Biotic and abiotic factors and the phylogenetic structure of extinction in the evolution of Tethysuchia	7
Latitudinal influences on bryozoan calcification through the Paleozoic	6
Developmental change during a speciation event: evidence from planktic foraminifera	6
Hydrodynamic trade-offs in potential swimming efficiency of planispiral ammonoids	6
The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things	6
Applying the Prigogine view of dissipative systems to the major transitions in evolution	6
PAB volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	5
PAB volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	5
Early eukaryote diversity: a review and a reinterpretation	5
Diversification trajectories and paleobiogeography of Neogene chondrichthyans from Europe	5
Ontogenetic mechanisms of size change: implications for the Lilliput effect and beyond	5
Endocranial morphology of three early-diverging ceratopsians and implications for the behavior and the evolution of the endocast in ceratopsians	5
On calibrating the completometer for the mammalian fossil record	5
The sponge pump as a morphological character in the fossil record	5
Our past creates our present: a brief overview of racism and colonialism in Western paleontology	5