OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and B 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 2021-04-01 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
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
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

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
Circadian entrainment to red-light Zeitgebers and action spectrum for entrainment in the jewel wasp Nasonia vitripennis	7
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
Investigation of central pattern generators in the spinal cord of chicken embryos	6
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
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