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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Female sex pheromone emission is affected by body condition, but not immune system function, in the orb‐web spider Argiope bruennichi	29
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Behavioral Syndromes Across Time and Space in a Long‐Lived Turtle	14
Siblings matter: Family heterogeneity improves associative learning later in life	13
No evidence for general intelligence in a fish	13
Animal Ethics in Behavioral Studies—Advocating a Differentiated View	13
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Infection influences vibratory signal components in a wolf spider	12
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Black‐headed gulls synchronize vigilance with their nearest neighbor irrespective of the neighbor's relative position	10
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Group chorusing as an intragroup signal in the greater ani, a communally breeding bird	10
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Ethology now publishes Registered Reports	9
Through a glass darkly? Divergent reactions of eight Lake Tanganyika cichlid species towards their mirror image in their natural environment	9
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Reflections on Konrad Lorenz	9
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Male‐specific nocturnal song functions similarly to day song in a diurnal bird species	8
Cheek‐to‐cheek: Communal nesting in an ephemeral pool‐breeding frog	8
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Effects of short‐ and long‐term enrichment on brain and behavior in Trinidadian guppies	7
Expanding the concept of social behavior to interspecific interactions	7
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Great white pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) fail to use tools flexibly in problem‐solving tasks	7
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Fully flexible analysis of behavioural sequences based on parametric survival models with frailties—A tutorial	6
Level of local human disturbance and feeding state determines escape behaviour in Eurasian Oystercatchers	6
Diving behavior in a Neotropical spider (Trechalea extensa) as a potential antipredator tactic	6
Hidden black and yellow thigh color acts as an aposematic signal in the Eastern Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor)	6
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Juvenile hormone and temperature effects in the postzygotic parental investment of male waterbug Abedus ovatus (Belostomatidae)	6
Sneaky copulations by subordinate males suggest direct fitness benefits from male–male associations in spotted bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus)	6
On closer inspection: Reviewing the debate on whether fish cooperate to inspect predators	6
Males of a Neotropical spider adjust prey‐gift construction but not mate search in response to sperm competition	6
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Body size and predator cues structure variation in defensive displays of Neotropical calico snakes (Oxyrhopus spp.)	6
How context influences primates' decisions about reciprocity	6
Loss of complex female song but not duetting in the ancestors of Carolina wrens	6
Does the type of task affect prey discrimination learning in avian predators?	5
Parasitism of Neoconocephalus katydids by the parasitoid fly, Ormia lineifrons	5
Free‐ranging male northern map turtles use public information when interacting with potential mates	5
Multi‐night territorial behavior, chorus attendance, and mating success in red‐eyed treefrogs	5
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Should I stay or should I fly: Aerial dispersal in a funnel‐web wolf spider from the grasslands of southern South America	5
A little on the nose: A mosquito targets the nostrils of tree frogs for a blood meal	5
Stable individual differences in the frequency of chin‐marking behavior across development in the domestic rabbit	5
Tool use and tooling in ravens (Corvus corax): A review and novel observations	5
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The Evolution of Social Behaviour	5
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Adult poison dart frogs avoid potential heterospecific competitors using their sense of smell	4
Grouped and Vibrating: The Influence of Group Size, Triggering Stimuli, and Leg Loss in Bobbing in an Arachnid	4
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Effects of group behavior in the predatory raid on damselfish nests by the false cleanerfishAspidontus taeniatus	4
Are scientific journals delaying doctoral theses?	4
Anti‐Snake Behavior and Snake Discrimination in Vervet Monkeys	4
Females Guarded by Sneaker Males Experience Higher Predation in the Two‐Spotted Spider Mite	4
Social dominance does not increase oxidative stress in a female dominance hierarchy of an African cichlid fish	4
Cooperative and Solitary Mobbing to Defend Offspring in Wild Gray Mouse Lemurs, Microcebus murinus	4
A comparison of low‐cost behavioral observation software applications for handheld computers and recommendations for use	4
Risk‐Taking in Bluebirds After Exposure to a Nest Predator Relates to Parental Roles and Shows Little Cooperation Between Partners	4
Flies getting filthy: The precopulatory mating behaviours of three mud‐dwelling species of Australian Lispe (Diptera: Muscidae)	4
Cognitive and sensory capacity each contribute to the canine spatial bias	3
From individuals to populations: How homo‐ and heterospecific interactions influence habitat selection in a sit‐and‐wait predator	3
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RETRACTION: Non‐conceptive sexual behavior in spiders: A form of play associated with body condition, personality type, and male intrasexual selection	3
The wolf spider Pardosa milvina varies silk deposition in response to self and same‐sex conspecific silk	3

Pattern, function and constraint of infant handling in wild Japanese macaques	3
Learning and innovation in urban yellow mongooses (Cynictis penicillata)	3
Do Green Lynx Spiders (Peucetia viridans) Change Color in Response to Their Backgrounds?	3
Helping those who help others: The roles of indirect reciprocity and relatedness	3
The females' response to male attractiveness: Mate choice, larvae production and differential brain protein expression	3
Context‐sensitive dance–vocal displays affect song patterns and partner responses in a socially monogamous songbird	3
Chronic acetamiprid exposure moderately affects the foraging behaviour of buff‐tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)	3
On Publication Ethics—Journals, Please Get Rid of Wording Restrictions That Include Citations	3
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Male Barbary macaques choose loyal coalition partners which may increase their coalition network betweenness	3
The strange occurrence of male cannibalism on adult females in snakes	3
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Shaped by you: The effect of social partner on cortisol and behavior during adolescence in a female rodent	3
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The frequency and position of stable associations offset their transitivity in a diversity of vertebrate social networks	3
Recognizing interspecific dominance signals? Blue tits adjust nest defence based on great tit's black bib size	3
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Long‐Term Behavioural Syndrome in Subadult Indian Social Spiders But Not Over the Short‐Term or in Juveniles	3
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Uncoupled Evolutionary Patterns in Spectral and Temporal Components of Acoustic Signals in Anurans Associated With Streams	2
Callosobruchus larval competition and its consequences for male and female adults	2
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Behaviour in a novel environment provides clues to the success of an invasive species	2
Personality may modulate learning and memory differences in two taxa of the African striped mouse genus Rhabdomys	2
Response to heterospecific calls in non‐passerine species: can two Rallidae species recognise each other based on their vocalisations?	2
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Female Western Australian magpies discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar human voices	2
Aversive reactions of two invertebrate predators to European red–black insects	2
Successful predatory‐avoidance behaviour to lion auditory cues during soft‐release from captivity in cheetah	2
Contrasting sex roles in two species with stable biparental care	2
Predicting breeding systems to guide conservation strategies: A kiwi example	2
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Response of the emerald‐spotted wood‐dove to the song of conspecific males and sympatric congeners	2
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Tap dancing frogs: Posterior toe tapping and feeding in Dendrobates tinctorius	2
Unraveling female mate choice in Schizocosa mccooki: The interplay of male mass and vibratory courtship	2
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A proposal to enhance data quality and FAIRness	2
Norway rats help social partners in need in response to ultrasonic begging signals	2
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Using remote seminars to teach animal behavior	2
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Temporal non‐independence of foraging dive and surface duration sequences in the European shag Gulosus aristotelis	2
Steps into a Small World: First glimpses on everyday moment‐to‐moment decision making in an ecologically meaningful multi‐choice system for assessing animal preferences	2
Male and female age affects the reproductive potential of two tephritid flies	2
Social buffering of behavioural stress response in two fish species, Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and koi carp (Cyprinus carpio)	2
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Constructing composite scores for contemporaneous behaviors: A comparison of four approaches	2
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