OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and B is 3. 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
Editorial Expression of Concern: Hans-Joachim Pflüger: scientist, citizen, cosmopolitan	38
Waterfall low-frequency vibrations and infrasound: implications for avian migration and hazard detection	34
The 2024 covers of the Journal of Comparative Physiology A	32
Proteomic characterization of spontaneously regrowing spinal cord following injury in the teleost fish Apteronotus leptorhynchus, a regeneration-competent vertebrate	31
Cover images of the Journal of Comparative Physiology A and the stories behind them	26
Multielectrode recordings of cockroach antennal lobe neurons in response to temporal dynamics of odor concentrations	26
Centennial issue	21
The relative sizes of nuclei in the oculomotor complex vary by order and behaviour in birds	21
Model organisms and systems in neuroethology: one hundred years of history and a look into the future	19
Navigation and dance communication in honeybees: a cognitive perspective	19
An auditory-responsive interneuron descending from the cricket brain: a new element in the auditory pathway	18
Antlion larvae localize long distant preys by a mechanism based on time difference	18
Contact chemoreception, magnetic maps, thermoregulation by a superorganism, and, thanks to Einstein, an all-time record: the Editors’ and Readers’ Choice Awards 2023	17
Fluoride alters feeding in lab-bred pond snails but not in wild snails or their progeny	15
Learning the native pond odor as one of the mechanisms of olfactory orientation in juvenile smooth newt Lissotriton vulgaris	14
Why is it so difficult to study magnetic compass orientation in murine rodents?	13
The archerfish predictive C-start	13
Birth temperature followed by a visual critical period determines cooperative group membership	13
Flow development and leading edge vorticity in bristled insect wings	12
Ruth Beutler: the woman behind Karl von Frisch	12
A four-oscillator model of seasonally adapted morning and evening activities in Drosophila melanogaster	12
Visual learning in tethered bees modifies flight orientation and is impaired by epinastine	11
Effects of serta and sertb knockout on aggression in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	11
Getting a glimpse into the sensory worlds of animals: the Editors’ and Readers’ Choice Awards 2024	11
Song system neuroanatomy, and immediate early gene expression in a finch species with extensive male and female song	11

Fluoride alters feeding and memory in Lymnaea stagnalis	10
The importance of time of day for magnetic body alignment in songbirds	10
The Presidential Symposium at the International Congress of Neuroethology 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal	10
Investigating the impact of weak geomagnetic fluctuations on pigeon races	10
Effects of prenatal testosterone on cumulative markers of oxidative damage to organs of young adult zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)	9
Essential and nonessential fatty acid composition and use in overwintering monarch butterflies	9
Neuroethology of sound localization in anurans	9
Same same, but different: exploring the enigmatic role of the pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) in invertebrate physiology	8
The circadian and photoperiodic clock of the pea aphid	8
Echo feedback mediates noise-induced vocal modifications in flying bats	8
Neural mechanism of circadian clock-based photoperiodism in insects and snails	8
The relative landmark shift during free movement on a treadmill may enhance visual learning for ant foragers	8
Scanning behaviour in ants: an interplay between random-rate processes and oscillators	8
The potential underlying mechanisms during learning flights	8
Impact of central complex lesions on innate and learnt visual navigation in ants	8
Lineages to circuits: the developmental and evolutionary architecture of information channels into the central complex	8
Erwin Bünning and Wolfgang Engelmann: establishing the involvement of the circadian clock in photoperiodism	8
Hans-Joachim Pflüger: scientist, citizen, cosmopolitan	8
Avian migration clocks in a changing world	8
Coleoptera claws and trichome interlocking	8
Perceptually salient differences in a species recognition cue do not promote auditory streaming in eastern grey treefrogs (Hyla versicolor)	8
Ips typographus vision system: a comprehensive study	7
A versatile recording device for the analysis of continuous daily external activity in colonies of highly eusocial bees	7
Note similarities affect syntactic stability in zebra finches	7
Visual control of refuge recognition in the whip spider Phrynus marginemaculatus	7
Population parameters of Drosophila larval cooperative foraging	7
Path integration and optic flow in flying insects: a review of current evidence	7
DPOAEs and tympanal membrane vibrations reveal adaptations of the sexually dimorphic ear of the concave-eared torrent frog, Odorrana tormota	7
Views from ‘crabworld’: the spatial distribution of light in a tropical mudflat	7
Circadian entrainment to red-light Zeitgebers and action spectrum for entrainment in the jewel wasp Nasonia vitripennis	7
Characterization of pre-diapause phase in the northern Drosophila species D. ezoana	6
Unraveling the neural basis of spatial orientation in arthropods	6
Lesions of abdominal connectives reveal a conserved organization of the calling song central pattern generator (CPG) network in different cricket species	6
Correction to: Oscillatory discharges in the auditory midbrain of the big brown bat contribute to coding of echo delay	6
Morphology and receptive field organization of a temporal processing region in Apteronotus albifrons	6
Flat on its back: the impact of substrate on righting methods of the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys	6
Investigation of central pattern generators in the spinal cord of chicken embryos	6
Parallel motion vision pathways in the brain of a tropical bee	5
Correction to: Einstein, von Frisch and the honeybee: a historical letter comes to light	5
Electrophysiology and the magnetic sense: a guide to best practice	5
Anxiety induces long-term memory forgetting in the crayfish	5
Stimulator compensation and generation of Gaussian noise stimuli with defined amplitude spectra for studying input–output relations of sensory systems	5
Polarization vision in terrestrial hermit crabs	5
Inflight head stabilization associated with wingbeat cycle and sonar emissions in the lingual echolocating Egyptian fruit bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus	5
Physiological properties of the visual system in the Green Weaver ant, Oecophylla smaragdina	5
What do oysters smell? Electrophysiological evidence that the bivalve osphradium is a chemosensory organ in the oyster, Magallana gigas	5
The role of learning-walk related multisensory experience in rewiring visual circuits in the desert ant brain	5
Avian navigation: the geomagnetic field provides compass cues but not a bicoordinate “map” plus a brief discussion of the alternative infrasound direction-finding hypothesis	5
Correction to: Intragenus F1-hybrids of African weakly electric fish (Mormyridae: Campylomormyrus tamandua ♂ × C. compressirostris ♀) are fertile	5
Drosophila ezoana uses morning and evening oscillators to adjust its rhythmic activity to different daylengths but only the morning oscillator to measure night length for photoperiodic responses	5

Butterfly blues and greens caused by subtractive colour mixing of carotenoids and bile pigments	5
Are frog calls relatively difficult to locate by mammalian predators?	5
Ear morphology in two root-rat species (genus Tachyoryctes) differing in the degree of fossoriality	4
Movement during the acquisition of a visual landmark may be necessary for rapid learning in ants	4
Ant foragers might present variation and universal property in their movements	4
From mechanoecology to sensory physiology to olfactory navigation: the Editors’ and Readers’ Choice Awards 2025	4
Effect of visual lateralization on the spatial position of individuals within a school of oval squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana)	4
Correction to: Neuroethology of auditory systems: contributions in memory of Albert S. Feng	4
Monoamine neurochemistry, behavior, and microhabitat contribute to male coquí frog modes: silent, territorial, and paternal	4
Flupyradifurone, imidacloprid and clothianidin disrupt the auditory processing in the locust CNS	4
Polarized iridescence of the tropical carpenter bee, Xylocopa latipes	4
Behavioral responses of free-flying Drosophila melanogaster to shiny, reflecting surfaces	4
Impact of photoperiod and functional clock on male diapause in cryptochrome and pdf mutants in the linden bug Pyrrhocoris apterus	4
Clock-talk: have we forgotten about geographic variation?	4
Tonotopic Ca2+ dynamics and sound processing in auditory interneurons of the bush-cricket Mecopoda elongata	4
How might magnetic secular variation impact avian philopatry?	4
The incomparable fascination of comparative physiology: 40 years with animals in the field and laboratory	4
Photoperiod-driven testicular DNA methylation in gonadotropin and sex steroid receptor promoters in Siberian hamsters	4
A perspective on neuroethology: what the past teaches us about the future of neuroethology	4
Uncovering how animals use combinations of magnetic field properties to navigate: a computational approach	4
Crickets in the spotlight: exploring the impact of light on circadian behavior	4
Comparative psychophysics of Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) and stingless bee (Tetragonula carbonaria) colour purity and intensity perception	4
Threatened chronotopes: can chronobiology help endangered species?	4
An age-related decline in the cholinergic synaptic response may cause the firing pattern in the jaw-closing motor neurons, which resembles the aversive taste response in the feeding behavior of old Ap	4
Song-like activation of syringeal and respiratory muscles during sleep in canaries	4
Chromatic discrimination in fixed saturation levels from tufted capuchin monkeys with different color vision genotypes	4
A flavonoid, quercetin, is capable of enhancing long-term memory formation if encountered at different times in the learning, memory formation, and memory recall continuum	3
The influence of stimulus history on directional coding in the monarch butterfly brain	3
Temporal effects of sugar intake on fly local search and honey bee dance behaviour	3
Magnetic maps in animal navigation	3
As time passes by—an editor’s farewell	3
Ingeborg Beling and the time memory in honeybees: almost one hundred years of research	3
8-OH-DPAT enhances dopamine D2-induced maternal disruption in rats	3
Male seminal fluid allocation according to socio-sexual context in the South American fruit fly	3
Neuroethology of auditory systems: contributions in memory of Albert S. Feng	3
Hearing in helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris): audiogram from 2 Hz to 10 kHz and localization acuity for brief noise bursts	3
One hundred years of excellence: the top one hundred authors of the Journal of Comparative Physiology A	3
Jumping of flea beetles onto inclined platforms	3
Hearing in African pygmy hedgehogs (Atelerix albiventris): audiogram, sound localization, and ear anatomy	3
Insect magnetoreception: a Cry for mechanistic insights	3
Spatial resolution and sensitivity of the eyes of the stingless bee, Tetragonula iridipennis	3
Cochlear tuning and the peripheral representation of harmonic sounds in mammals	3
Size matters: individual variation in auditory sensitivity may influence sexual selection in Pacific treefrogs (Pseudacris regilla)	3
Understanding daily rhythms in weakly electric fish: the role of melatonin on the electric behavior of Brachyhypopomus gauderio	3
Mechanoecology: biomechanical aspects of insect-plant interactions	3
The effects of doxapram and its potential interactions with K2P channels in experimental model preparations	3
Tensile mechanical properties and finite element simulation of the wings of the butterfly Tirumala limniace	3
Parallel evolution of semicircular canal form and sensitivity in subterranean mammals	3
Chemosensory detection of glucosinolates as token stimuli for specialist insects on brassicaceous plants: discovery and impact	3
It’s all about seeing and hearing: the Editors’ and Readers’ Choice Awards 2022	3
Intergenus F1-hybrids of African weakly electric fish (Mormyridae: Gnathonemus petersii ♂ × Campylomormyrus compressirostris ♀) are fertile	3
Environmental sources of radio frequency noise: potential impacts on magnetoreception	3
Optic flow based spatial vision in insects	3
Epigenetics and seasonal timing in animals: a concise review	3
Representation of bulk water flow in the goldfish (Carassius auratus) midbrain	3
Vector-based navigation in desert ants: the significance of path-integration vectors	3
Five-minute exposure to a novel appetitive food substance is sufficient time for a microRNA-dependent long-term memory to form	3