OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ethology 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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Is Paw Preference in Rats Influenced by Environmental Novelty?	14
Multi‐night territorial behavior, chorus attendance, and mating success in red‐eyed treefrogs	13
Grouped and Vibrating: The Influence of Group Size, Triggering Stimuli, and Leg Loss in Bobbing in an Arachnid	12
Deer Vigilance and Movement Behavior Are Affected by Edge Density and Connectivity	11
Animal Ethics in Behavioral Studies—Advocating a Differentiated View	11
Cheek‐to‐cheek: Communal nesting in an ephemeral pool‐breeding frog	11
Cooperative and Solitary Mobbing to Defend Offspring in Wild Gray Mouse Lemurs, Microcebus murinus	11
Anti‐Snake Behavior and Snake Discrimination in Vervet Monkeys	9
The Effects of Trial Number and Individual Differences in Exploration on Fish Performance in an Object Location Recognition Task	9
Reflections on Konrad Lorenz	9
Sneaky copulations by subordinate males suggest direct fitness benefits from male–male associations in spotted bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus)	9
Does Microplastic Ingestion Affect Cognition and Brain Gene Expression in Zebrafish, Danio rerio ?	9
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Behaviour in a novel environment provides clues to the success of an invasive species	7
Host size selection and progeny sex determination in Hymenoepimecis bicolor (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae)	7
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Do Green Lynx Spiders (Peucetia viridans) Change Color in Response to Their Backgrounds?	6
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Third‐Party Affiliation in Domestic Dogs During and After a Human Conflict	6
Abdominal Spines on an Amazonian Spiny Spider (Micrathena schreibersi): A Defense Against Mud‐Dauber Wasps (Sceliphron spp.) Attack?	6

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How great tits respond to urgency‐based information in allopatric Southern house wren mobbing calls	6
How important is temperature for strike success of ectotherms? Thermal effects on predator–prey interactions of free‐ranging pit vipers (Gloydius blomhoffii)	5
Cognitive and sensory capacity each contribute to the canine spatial bias	5
Effects of Coffee on Drosophila melanogaster: Concentration‐Dependent Enhancement and Sleep Deprivation Recovery	5
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A vocalization in male Japanese bush warblers in response to both predators and conspecific females	5
Testing a behavioral model for the maintenance of androdioecy as a result of sexual conflict in the clam shrimpEulimnadia dahli	5
Retaining memory after hibernation: Performance varies independently of activity levels in wild grey mouse lemurs	5
Learning and innovation in urban yellow mongooses (Cynictis penicillata)	5
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No Appeasement Through Vibrations: Male Vibratory Pre‐Copulatory Courtship in the Cursorial Spider Pisaura mirabilis Does Not Affect Female Predatory Res	5
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Plastic Behavioral Responses to Ambient Relative Humidity Influence Aggregation in a Large Gregarious Insect	5
Policing is more effective against eggs of non‐natal versus natal workers at early colony stages in a bumblebee	5
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Invasive brown widow spiders disperse aerially under a broad range of environmental conditions	5
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Obituary: Professor Wolfgang Wickler (November 18, 1931– January 12, 2024)	4
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Strategic Deployment of Secondary Defences in the Springbok Mantis (Miomantis Caffra)	4
Male mate preference against tail‐elongated females in the barn swallow	4
Correction to Decision Time Modulates Social Foraging Success in Wild Common Ravens Corvus corax	4
Non‐lunge feeding behaviour of humpback whales associated with fishing boats in Norway	4
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The perks of being in good conditions: How does female parasitism affect male mate choice in an orb‐web spider?	4
A “feel‐free” format for ETHOLOGY	4
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Evaluation of sensory modalities involved in finding food and foraging behaviour in light/dark conditions in tadpoles of the invasive species Lithobates catesbeianus	4
Parasite‐mediated sexual selection in a damselfly	4
Defensive Behaviour in Intertidal Crabs	4
Evasive Maneuvers of Mosquitoes Reveal Variability in Escape Success and Echolocation Plasticity of Myotis riparius (Vespertilionidae)	4
Sperm Strategies: Partner's Mating Status as a Driver of Last Male Success in Ladybirds	4
The effect of phenotypic heterogeneity on behaviours linked to invasive success	4
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Effects of human disturbance on risk‐taking behavior in painted turtles	4
Behavioral response to chemical cues from injured conspecifics in the livebearing fish, Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora	4
Use of Social Information About Novel Food by Juvenile Solitary Forktongue Goby, Chaenogobius annularis	4
Changes in Male Behavior in Response to Female Chemical Stimulus in an Understudied Arthropod Model	4
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Callosobruchus larval competition and its consequences for male and female adults	3
Constructing composite scores for contemporaneous behaviors: A comparison of four approaches	3
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Pair‐Coordinated Calling: Eurasian Magpies Respond Differently to Simulated Intruder Pairs That Overlap or Alternate Their Calls	3
Female great tits (Parus major) reproduce earlier when paired with a male they prefer	3
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Just Hang On: Australian Gall Midges Suspend Themselves on Spider Silk Without Becoming Entangled	3
Females Guarded by Sneaker Males Experience Higher Predation in the Two‐Spotted Spider Mite	3
Stable individual differences in the frequency of chin‐marking behavior across development in the domestic rabbit	3

Contrasting sex roles in two species with stable biparental care	3
Reversible Plasticity in the Communication System of the Cricket Gryllus rubens	3
Sibling cannibalism in the false widow spider is dependent on spiderling density and the reliable availability of fresh prey	3
Among‐individual behavioral responses to predation risk are invariant within two species of freshwater snails	3
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Sublethal effects of kleptoparasitism on experimental social spider colonies	3
Diving behavior in a Neotropical spider (Trechalea extensa) as a potential antipredator tactic	3
Male–Male Competition Affects Color Phenotype Expression and Color‐Dependent Oxidative Stress Levels in a Polymorphic Cichlid Fish	3
Male Barbary macaques choose loyal coalition partners which may increase their coalition network betweenness	3
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Reciprocity versus pseudo‐reciprocity: A false dichotomy	3
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Reciprocal altruism in Norway rats	3
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Thanks to repetition, dustbathing detection can be automated combining accelerometry and wavelet analysis	2
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Grooming reciprocation in Himalayan tahr and the cognitive constraint hypothesis	2
Walk or swim: The substrate for movement affects female treefrog mate choice behaviors but has little effect on their preferences	2
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Movement in 3D: Novel Opportunities for Understanding Animal Behaviour and Space Use	2
Tadpole plasticity shapes the potential benefits of egg feeding to poison frog parents	2
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Correction to “Video evidence of mountings by female‐plumaged birds of paradise (Aves: Paradisaeidae) in the wild: Is there evidence of alternative mating tactics?”	2
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Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud‐forest hummingbird guild	2
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Aggression, but Not Familiar Recognition, Occurs During Cohabitation in Females of a Hermit Crab	2
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Adaptive Significance of Long Mating With Repeated Intromissions in Zygogramma bicolorata	2
Non‐Lethally Produced Chemical Risk Cues Elicit Antipredator Responses in a Common Canadian Minnow	2
Do reproductive characteristics of the species explain differences in the investment in weapon size present in males?	2
Correction to Successful Predatory‐Avoidance Behaviour to Lion Auditory Cues During Soft‐Release From Captivity in Cheetah	2
Of hormones (well, not really!), behavior, and observer bias	2
No Effect of Note Order on the Response of Coal Tits to Conspecific, Heterospecific and Artificial Mobbing Calls	2
Aggression‐based social learning in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)	2
Heterospecific interference modulates the reproductive traits of a ladybird beetle	2
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Video evidence of mountings by female‐plumaged birds of paradise (Aves: Paradisaeidae) in the wild: Is there evidence of alternative mating tactics?	2
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EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Precopulatory Sexual Cannibalism Causes Increase Egg Case Production, Hatching Success, and Female Attractiveness to Males	2
Interactive effects of increased nestbox temperature and vitamin E on nestling growth are attenuated by plasticity in female incubation effort	2
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Condition‐Dependent Responses to Risk in a Small Mammal	2
Artificial selections for death‐feigning behavior in beetles show correlated responses in amplitude of circadian rhythms, but the period of the rhythm does not	2
Effects of a past contest on the future winning probability in a hyper‐aggressive fruit fly	2
EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Temperature Mediates Shifts in Individual Aggressiveness, Activity Level, and Social Behavior in a Spider	2
Complexity in Chick‐a‐Dee Calls of Mountain Chickadees (Poecile gambeli): Call Variation Associated With Flock Size and Flight	2
Graded‐risk sensitivity in northern European mixed‐species flocks of tit and nuthatch species	2