OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Morphological evolution and the behavioral organization of agricultural division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes	29
Nocturnal and diurnal predator and prey interactions with crab spider color polymorphs	29
Functional diversification of contact calls contribute to the cohesion of a multi-level society	25
Impact of blood parasites on the behaviour of two congeneric wall lizards (genus Podarcis)	25
Quantitative cognition in carpenter ants	23
Motivation matters: lighter littermates of the domestic cat compete more successfully for meat at weaning	22
Maternal stress effects on infant development in wild Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi)	22
Water clarity affects collective behavior in two cyprinid fishes	19
Social modulation of spatial dynamics in treefrog choruses	17
Familiarity effects on fish behaviour are disrupted in shoals that contain also unfamiliar individuals	17
Thermal energetics of male courtship song in a lek-breeding bat	17
Anxiety-like behavior and tectal gene expression in a foraging/predator avoidance tradeoff task using adult African clawed frogs Xenopus laevis	17
Time allocation to balance group living trade-offs in Ethiopian wolves	15
Should I stay or should I go now: dispersal decisions and reproductive success in male white-faced capuchins (Cebus imitator)	15
Female-limited X chromosome evolution reveals that lifespan is mainly modulated by interlocus rather than intralocus sexual conflict	15
Behavioural response to predation risks depends on experimental change in dehydration state in a lizard	14
Versatile and inexpensive device for capturing high-quality behavioral videos under diverse field conditions	13
The evolution of ant worker polymorphism correlates with multiple social traits	13
Ectoparasites exposure affects early growth and mouth colour in nestlings of a cavity-nesting raptor	13
Drivers and consequences of female reproductive competition in an egalitarian, sexually monomorphic primate	13
Evidence of sociality and group foraging in Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)	12
Population specific annual cycles and migration strategies in a leap-frog migrant	12
White plumage color as an honest indicator: feather macrostructure links reflectance with reproductive effort and success	12
Who to help? Helping decisions in a cooperatively breeding bird with redirected care	12
Cooperation by ant queens during colony-founding perpetuates alternative forms of social organization	12

Correction to: Daily foraging activity of an imperiled ground squirrel: effects of hibernation, thermal environment, body condition, and conspecific density	12
Impact of predator model presentation paradigms on titi monkey alarm sequences	11
Behavioral repertoire of Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins that interact with artisanal fishers	11
Evolutionary implications of size-selective mortality on the ontogenetic development of shoal cohesion: a neurochemical approach using a zebrafish, Danio rerio, harvest selection experiment	11
Background contrast affects detection and recognition of courting wolf spiders by intended and unintended receivers	11
From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations	11
Syntactic rules predict song type matching in a songbird	11
Behavioral responses of two African mesopredators to human and non-human apex predators	11
Reproduction of a field cricket under high-intensity artificial light at night and a simulated heat wave	10
Bumblebee cognitive abilities are robust to changes in colony size	10
Floral and insect traits predict predation risk and neophobia impacts on flower-visiting insects’ behavior	10
Sex difference in homing: males but not females return home despite offspring mortality in Ikakogi tayrona, a glassfrog with prolonged maternal care	10
Social information used to elicit cache protection differs between pinyon jays and Clark’s nutcrackers	10
The impact of high temperatures on bird responses to alarm calls	10
The availability of male mates affects the social mating strategies of a predominantly socially monogamous passerine	10
Brighter is better: bill fluorescence increases social attraction in a colonial seabird and reveals a potential link with foraging	10
Decoupled auditory perception from acoustic signal divergence hinders species recognition in territorial poison frogs	10
Female gray treefrogs maintain mate choice decisions under predation threat, but adjust movements to reduce conspicuousness during mate approach	10
The gullible genius: fast learners fall for fake news	10
Weak evidence for a relationship between group size and flight initiation distance in response to underwater human presence in an exploited fish species	10
Communication behavior of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia): understanding marking-behavior patterns to optimize camera-trapping studies	10
Correction to: Offspring’s early-life performance varies with father’s sperm quality in a genetically monogamous seabird	10
Spatial vigilance architecture of Indian flying fox colonies in rural parts of Barak Valley, Northeast India	10
Termite eusociality and contrasting selective pressure on social and innate immunity	9
Females know best: dispersal polymorphism maintained by sex-specific foraging	9
Egg-puncturing behaviour by shiny cowbirds increases nest desertion in chalk-browed mockingbirds	9
Reproduction is affected by individual breeding experience but not pair longevity in a socially monogamous bird	9
Range utilization slopes as a measure of central tendency and intergroup overlap in primates	9
Optimal clutch size and male incubation investment in the male-only incubating emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)	9
Correction to: When Older Males Sire More Offspring—Increased Attractiveness or Higher Fertility?	9
Determining sensitive stages of larval development to predation risk in Indosylvirana indica	9
Exorcising the ghost in the computer: ChatGPT, science publishing, and GenAI policy for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology	9
Timing of seasonal events is correlated with social network position in a wild mammal	9
Detecting behavioural lateralisation in Poecilia reticulata is strongly dependent on experimental design	9
Introduction to topical collection “Measuring individual reproductive success in the wild”	9
Colony fitness increases in the honey bee at queen mating frequencies higher than genetic diversity asymptote	8
Intersection between parental investment, transgenerational immunity, and termite sociality in the face of disease: a theoretical approach	8
Male nuptial display colour and vocalisation appear to signal independent information in the whirring tree frog	8
Long-term effects of litter characteristics on reproduction in female cavies (Cavia aperea)	8
The multilevel society of proboscis monkeys with a possible patrilineal basis	8
Allo-suckling occurrence and its effect on lactation and nursing duration in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in Orkney, Scotland	8
Sex-specific migration strategies and underlying physiology contribute to spring arrival protandry in a songbird	8
Lesser spot-nosed monkeys coordinate alarm call production with associated Campbell’s monkeys	8
Measuring fitness and inferring natural selection from long-term field studies: different measures lead to nuanced conclusions	8
Spatiotemporal variation of behavior and repeatability in a long-lived turtle	8
Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	8
Does the development environment cause the pace of life to change in a rainforest lizard?	8
Evidence of intrapopulation differences in rattlesnake defensive behavior across neighboring habitats	8
Transfer of information between a highly social species and heterospecific community members	8
Influence of different weather aspects on breeding performance, food supply and nest-space use in hoopoe offspring	8

No evidence that grooming is exchanged for coalitionary support in the short- or long-term via direct or generalized reciprocity in unrelated rhesus macaques	8
Individual behavioral variability across time and contexts in Dendrobates tinctorius poison frogs	8
Bumblebees display stimulus-specific persistence behaviour after being trained on delayed reinforcement	8
Neophobia in 10 ungulate species—a comparative approach	8
Female remating decisions and mate choice benefits in the beetle Gnatocerus cornutus	8
No evidence that recruitment pheromone modulates olfactory, visual, or spatial learning in the ant Lasius niger	7
Social information-mediated population dynamics in non-grouping prey	7
Is flying riskier for female katydids than for males?	7
Begging is an honest signal of hunger in a communally nesting bird with low genetic relatedness	7
Extended parental care in the mass provisioning silk wasp, Microstigmus rosae	7
Male color polymorphism in populations of reef geckos (Sphaerodactylus notatus) reduces the utility of visual signals in sex recognition	7
Reproductive success of Bornean orangutan males: scattered in time but clustered in space	7
Year-round behavioural time budgets of common woodpigeons inferred from acceleration data using machine learning	7
Effects of seed traits on the cache size of a scatter-hoarding rodent, Leopoldamys edwardsi	7
Social interactions throughout life impair longevity and age-specific mating success in male parasitoids	7
Habitat-dependent variation in consistent behavioural traits does not affect the efficiency of resource acquisition in a thermophilic ant	7
Investigating personality in vipers: individual rattlesnakes exhibit consistent behavioral responses in defensive and exploratory contexts	7
The effects of environmental light on the role of male chemotactile cues in wolf spider mating interactions	6
Wild Australian magpies learn to pull intact, not broken, strings to obtain food	6
Exploratory behaviour divergence between surface populations, cave colonists and a cave population in the water louse, Asellus aquaticus	6
Correction to: Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	6
Do female bluethroats without extra-pair offspring have more MHC-compatible social mates?	6
Infection by a fungal pathogen and mating behavior in Pacific treefrogs: a test of the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis	6
Longitudinal effects of habitat quality, body condition, and parasites on colour patches of a multiornamented lizard	6
Communicating the cost of your altruism makes you cool—competitive altruism and sexual selection in a real-life charity situation	6
A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals	6
Do agricultural practices on meadows reduce or increase flight initiation distance in the white stork ciconia ciconia?	6
Social thermoregulation in Mediterranean greater white-toothed shrews (Crocidura russula)	6
Age-dependent drivers of sex-specific disappearance in wild redfronted lemurs: the role of behavior	6
Conflict and the evolution of viviparity in vertebrates	6
Quantification of multi-task predation reveals behavioural regulation and attentional processes in mantids	6
It’s the time of the season: seasonal variation in sexually conflicted size-assortative pairing	6
Description of the behavioural contexts of underwater sound production in juvenile green turtles Chelonia mydas	6
Opportunity is not everything: genetic monogamy and limited brood parasitism in a colonial woodpecker	6
Endurance rivalry among male spotted hyenas: what does it mean to “endure”?	6
High pair fidelity despite sex differences in the duration of parental care in a long-lived migratory bird	6
Functional properties of ant queen pheromones as revealed by behavioral experiments	6
Urban lizards use sleep sites that mirror the structural, thermal, and light properties of natural sites	6
Spider colony extinction does not depend on degree of sociality and maternal size in three Anelosimus species (Araneae, Theridiidae)	6
Food-caching chickadees do not exhibit directional bias when learning a spatial task	6
When Older Males Sire More Offspring—Increased Attractiveness or Higher Fertility?	6
Sensitivity threshold of avian magnetic compass to oscillating magnetic field is species-specific	6
Correction to: Is provisioning rate of parents and helpers infuenced by the simulated presence of novel individuals?	6
How territoriality reduces disease transmission among social insect colonies	6
Large and interactive pipefish females display ornaments for longer with many males around	6
Multiple phenotypic traits predict male mating success in a critically endangered frog	6
Introduction to topical collection “Sexual selection, sexual conflict and aging”	6
Encoding and decoding of the information in the honeybee waggle dance	6
Which acoustic parameters modify the great tit’s response to conspecific combinatorial mobbing calls?	6
Variation in behavioral tempo, not thermal sensitivity, determines the onset of foraging in ant colonies	6
Heat-altered scent marks of males of a fossorial reptile still allow recognition by females but lose information on male quality	6
First evidence of contagious yawning in a wild lemur	5
Social group size influences pathogen transmission in salamanders	5
Sex-dependent recognition and behavior against nest predators and brood parasites by Chestnut-capped Blackbird Chrysomus ruficapillus	5
Annual fitness costs may be balanced by a conservative life history strategy in groups of unrelated ant queens	5
Background risk during development and early life does not affect later activity and risk-taking across genetically distinct lineages of the mangrove rivulus	5
Does mutualism provide additional indirect benefits? Behavioral indicators of chemical communication in a temporally dynamic fish-mussel mutualism	5
Using an agent-based model to inform sampling design for animal social network analysis	5
Sisters doing it for themselves: extensive reproductive plasticity in workers of a primitively eusocial bee	5
Niche partitioning among social clusters of a resident estuarine apex predator	5
Aggression and multi-modal signaling in noise in a common urban songbird	5
Neither paternity loss nor perceived threat of cuckoldry affects male nestling provisioning in grass wrens	5
Performance and efficiency in leaf transport: unveiling the task allocation puzzle in Acromyrmex subterraneus	5
Fecal avoidance and gastrointestinal parasitism in semi-free ranging woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii)	5
Priority of access to food and its influence on social dynamics of an endangered carnivore	5
How does host social behavior drive parasite non-selective evolution from the within-host to the landscape-scale?	5
Fatal attraction: territorial males of a neotropical lizard increase predation risk when females are sexually receptive	5
Polarize, catalyze, and stabilize: how a minority of norm internalizers amplify group selection and punishment	5
Evaluating scleral exposure in human eyes: a review of measurement methods, an exploration of reliability, and implications in behavioral experimental research	5
Tolerant and intolerant macaques differ in the context specificity of their calls and how they ‘comment’ on the interactions of others	5
The evolution of dynamic and flexible courtship displays that reveal individual quality	5
Competitive asymmetries, birthing asynchrony and sibling rivalry in a social lizard	5
No evidence for adaptive sex ratio adjustment in a cooperatively breeding bird with helpful helpers	5
Fear of sex: sexual conflict exposed as avoidance in a parthenogenetic invertebrate	5
Individual flexibility in group foraging behaviour of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi)	5
Bacterial infection influences courtship behavior and mate choice in a wolf spider	5
Common permutation methods in animal social network analysis do not control for non-independence	5
An empirical assessment of the role of independence filters in temporal activity analyses using camera trapping data	5