OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2021	10
Temporary division of roles in group hunting for fish eggs by a coral reef fish	9
Behavioural interactions between a threatened native killifish and the alien invasive Eastern mosquitofish	9
Observations of flipper rubbing in mother–calf pairs of captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) suggest a body-surface care function	9
Costs of size increase prior to oceanic migration inferred from predation-caused wounds in an anadromous fish	9
Does a roosting flock of migratory birds also echelon in high winds?	8
Collective movements during visits to water bodies in wild Asian elephants	7
Day-after impact of simulated rival encounter in the common cuckoo	7
Social parasitism behavior between two species of edible wasps in China	7
Number matters: effect of the number of models on mate-choice copying in female guppies	6
Risk-taking behavior in birds foraging along interurban roads	5
Correction: Cooperative den maintenance between male Japanese badgers that are delayed dispersers and their mothers	5
Social play and affiliation as possible coping strategies in a group of Maremmana beef cattle	5
Stone handling in geladas (Theropithecus gelada): implications for spontaneous drawing-like activity as a playful behavior	4
Season does not influence the response of great tits (Parus major) to allopatric mobbing calls	4
Association between visual cues and time of day in an ant	4
In between the web and the ground: sexual encounters in the South American wolf spider Aglaoctenus oblongus	4
Polyandry works as bet-hedging in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, even after eliminating females in poor condition that cannot accept remating	4
Sweet mama: affiliative interactions are related to the reproductive success of dominant female Alpine marmots (Marmota marmota)	4
Risk-taking behavior of birds in urban environment: assessment using flight initiation distance in Tokyo, Japan	4
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2022	4
Variation of vibratory performance during courtship of a cursorial spider	4
Responses to artificial selection of dispersal activity in the circadian rhythm of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	3
Differences in mating tactics performed by males of two local populations of the Japanese scorpionfly Panorpa japonica	3
Diet color affects female preference for mate color in the guppy Poecilia reticulata	3

Fight outcome influences male mating success in Drosophila prolongata	3
Reduced fitness in losers of leg-biting male combat compared to uncontested males in Zophobas atratus	3
Snake herders: novel anti-predator behavior by black-tailed prairie dogs in response to prairie rattlesnakes	3
Paternal care in the redhead goby, Elacatinus puncticulatus	3
The origination events of gametic sexual reproduction and anisogamy	3
Host preference of a symbiotic flatworm and its response to conspecific and host mucus	3
Onset of estivation in western sand lance Ammodytes japonicus is not solely triggered by elevating water temperature	3
Relationships of wingtip shape, song-flight and mating success in male black-headed buntings Emberiza melanocephala	3
Mating behavior in the Japanese badger Meles anakuma	2
Vole hunting: novel predatory and carnivorous behavior by California ground squirrels	2
Learned associations are retained over extended periods and memory performance is influenced by social rank and age in chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus)	2
Sneaking around: is a dammed environment capable of influencing echolocation behavioral patterns of river dolphins?	2
Beyond noise playback: the effect of an audible and visible sound source on bird flushing behavior	2
Squirting ink may play a role in the copulation of the pygmy squid	2
Do body size and habitat shape call frequencies of Brazilian hylids (Amphibia: Anura)?	2
Correction: Fish yawn: the state-change hypothesis in juvenile white-spotted char Salvelinus leucomaenis	2
Correction to: Encounter with heavier females changes courtship and fighting efforts of male field crickets Gryllus bimaculatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)	2
Correction: Diet color affects female preference for mate color in the guppy Poecilia reticulata	2
Observation of tandem running behavior in dealates of Asian dampwood termite, Hodotermopsis sjostedti	2
Agonistic behavior and feeding competition in the largest piranha species, Pygocentrus piraya, in a zoo	2
Large-scale spatial pattern of bird responses to a potential predator suggests that predator-specific mobbing is a plastic trait	2
A message from new editor-in-chief	2