OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Behavioural Processes is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Aroma-dillo or Area-dillo? An examination of armadillos’ sensory modality bias	53
Daily running trials increase sprint speed in endangered lizards (Gallotia simonyi)	41
Acute caffeine enhances sign-tracking in male Sprague-Dawley rats	28
1-Back reinforcement matching and mismatching by pigeons: Implicit or explicit learning?	28
Irrational behavior in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris): A violation of independence from irrelevant alternatives	27
Chronic high-dose testosterone impairs economic decision making, but has no effect on memory in male rats	21
Modeling resurgence with an evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics	19
Learning about reward identities and time	19
Behavioural changes of native freshwater prawn in the presence of a predator fish	18
A Pavlovian, conditioned-reinforcement approach to reducing impulsive choice	17
Light, camera, action: Behavioral responses of the yellow scorpion Tityus serrulatus to different lights	17
Unpredictable mealtimes rather than social jetlag affects acquisition and retention of hippocampal dependent memory	16
Behavioral responses to predator and heterospecific alarm calls are habitat-specific in Eurasian tree sparrows	15
Not just for males: Flehmen as a tool for detection of reproductive status and individual recognition across sexes in four African equid species	15
ABA, AAB and ABC renewal with Pavlovian Conditioning of Tentacle Lowering procedure in the snail Cornu aspersum	15
Three methods of behavioural testing to measure anxiety – A review	14
Prepulse inhibition deficits in inbred and outbred rats and between-strain differences in startle habituation do not depend on startle reactivity levels	14
Social isolation interaction with the feeding regime differentially affects survival and results in a hump-shaped pattern in movement activity	14
Pigeon leadership hierarchies are not dependent on environmental contexts or individual phenotypes	13
Time, uncertainty, and suboptimal choice	13
Influence of web traits, height, and daily periods of exposition on prey captured by orb-weaver spiders	13
Activity vs exploration: Locomotion in a known and unknown environment differs in Atlantic cod juveniles (Gadus morhua)	13
A test of the role of stimulus-response and stimulus-outcome associations in the effects of intermittent-access training	13
An investigation of population variation in maze exploration and its predictors in wild Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata)	12
Social dynamics and behavior of zoo-housed red-footed tortoises at different housing densities	12

Evaluation of temperament traits and its association with visual lateralisation in oval squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana)	11
Climatic factors impacting thermoregulatory behaviours of coastal and inland rattlesnakes	11
An evaluation of hedonic responses in taste-potentiated odor aversion using the analysis of licking microstructure and orofacial reactivity	11
Responses to environmental enrichment are associated with personality characteristics in chestnut-bellied seed finches (Sporophila angolensis)	11
Does predation environment affect repeated responses to predation cues in the fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora?	10
SQAB 2021: Translational research using computation approaches	10
Effects of individual or common resources availability in choosing individual or shared contingencies	10
Environmental conditions shape learning in larval zebrafish	10
May unpredictable events affect monkey welfare under human care?	10
Non-invasive, real-time stress measurement: Vocalization compared with thermal imaging in kittens of the domestic cat in response to social separation	9
Extrinsic traits consistently drive microhabitat decisions of an arboreal snake, independently of sex and personality	9
Environmental enrichment accelerates the acquisition of schedule-induced drinking in rats	9
Female Java sparrows prefer high exploratory males without assortative mating	9
Housing-dependent variation in goal-tracking behavior predicts use of a spatial strategy in a dual-solution Morris water maze task	9
Training primates to forage in virtual 3D environments	9
Effects of inter-trial interval on sign-tracking and conditioned reinforcer efficacy in female rats	9
Choice reaction time in pigeons fails to increase as predicted by Hick’s law	9
No evidence of the choice overload effect in a computerized paradigm with rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella)	9
Individual differences in degree of discounting: Do different procedures and measures assess the same construct?	9
Interference of same/different learning by a spatial discrimination	9
Contextualising courtship: Exploring male body odour effects on vocal modulation	9
Examining resurgence and repetition with the evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics	8
Covariation among behavioral traits and hatching time in zebrafish	8
A preliminary evaluation of habituation and dishabituation of operant responding in mice	8
Effects of probabilistic win-paired-cues on loss trials on risky choice in rats	8
Editorial Board	8
Topographical aspects of brief-stimulus presentations: A re-examination of the problem of conditioned reinforcement	8
Fins of Fury or Fainéant: Fluoxetine impacts the aggressive behavior of fighting fish (Betta splendens)	8
Characteristics influencing local enhancement in free-living striped mice	8
Consummatory successive positive contrast with aversive solutions in infant rats: Replication and generalization to a higher concentration of a bitter solution	8
Experimental analysis of choice behavior in Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)	8
Effects of domestication on neophobia: A comparison between the domesticated Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica) and its wild ancestor, the white-rumped munia (Lonchura striata)	7
Trained dogs do not give up: Effects of advanced training on the persistence of domestic dogs	7
Ontogeny of pup isolation-induced ultrasonic calls in a highly social rodent, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	7
Trap versus net: Behavioural sampling bias caused by capture method in three-spined sticklebacks	7
Resurgence increases with repetition	7
Generalizability of time-based interventions: Effects of choice procedure and smaller-sooner delay	7
Extra-experimental scarcity impacts hypothetical operant demand: A natural SARS-CoV-2 eperiment	7
Applying an eye tracking technique to gibbons: First study using scanpath measurements for visual stimuli	7
Motivational state-dependent renewal and reinstatement of operant responding under food and water deprivation states	7
Altruism, reciprocity, and probability: Examining relations through a discounting framework	7
Some properties of habituation of siphon withdrawal in the slimy clam (Ruditapes decussatus)	7
Effects of external cues and group mate body size on the collective behavior of shoaling crucian carp	7
Stag beetle Cyclommatus mniszechi employs both mutual- and self-assessment strategies in male-male combat	7
Alcohol exposure and environmental enrichment effects on contextual fear conditioning in zebrafish	7
Editorial Board	7
Nearest neighbour distance does not affect escape behaviour in urban hooded crows	7
Persistent fine-tuning of egg rejection based on parasitic timing in a cuckoo host even after relaxation of parasitism pressure	7
Ejaculation latency determines susceptibility to stress in the male rat	7
Comparison of ultrasonic isolation calls of pure-breeding and interspecies hybrid Phodopus dwarf hamster pups	7

Preliminary evidence for timing abnormalities in the CNTNAP2 knockout rat	7
Domestication and social environment modulate fear responses in young chickens	7
Autoshaped impulsivity: Some explorations with a neural network model	7
Editorial Board	7
Chicks make stochastic decisions based on gain rates of different time constants	7
Instructional control in choice tasks: The relation between type of schedule and relative expected values	7
Removing the opportunity to respond induces resurgence	6
Coup in the coop: Rank changes in chicken dominance hierarchies over maturation	6
Never smile at a crocodile: Gaping behaviour in the Nile crocodile at Ndumo Game Reserve, South Africa	6
Observation of female-male mounting in the carrion crow	6
Matching is acquired faster than mismatching by pigeons when salient stimuli are presented manually	6
Abbreviated fixed-interval interventions promote self-control in rats	6
Anxiety in Brazilian dogs: Typical behaviors, anxiety-inducing situations, and sociodemographic factors	6
Choices about whether to wait: Changes in delay discounting without changes in time perception	6
Effects of housing density on anxiety-like behavior of zebrafish in the plus maze with ramp	6
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Sex-based differences, diurnal and seasonal trends in thermoregulatory behaviour of nesting Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala)	6
Female aggression towards same-sex rivals depends on context in a tropical songbird	6
Reproductive consequences of material use in avian nest construction	6
Attention bias and novel object test in rams (Ovis aries) under intensive farming	6
Analixity: An open source, low-cost analysis system for the elevated plus maze test, based on computer vision techniques	5
Resurgence of target behavior after negative punishment of alternative behavior	5
Reducing impulsive choice: VIII. Effects of delay-exposure training in female rats	5
Primacy and recency effects in hierarchical renewal in rats	5
Threespine stickleback do not use social cues to learn about predation risk	5
Exploring innovative problem-solving in African lions (Panthera leo) and snow leopards (Panthera uncia)	5
Effort-motivated behavior resolves paradoxes in appetitive conditioning	5
Maternal deprivation effect on morphine-induced CPP is related to changes in opioid receptors in selected rat brain regions (hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and nucleus accumbens)	5
Patrolling the area, not ousting intruders, relates to reproductive success for territorial male Leon Springs pupfish, Cyprinodon bovinus	5
Blackouts can serve as a contextual feature and enhance resurgence	5
Stimulus characteristics, learning bias and visual discrimination in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	5
Investigating individual learning behaviour of dogs during a yes/no detection task	5
Overmatching under food uncertainty in foraging pigeons	5
Prevention of self-grooming in rats: Evidence for a rebound effect	5
Non-individualistic ultrasonic and audible isolation calls throughout ontogeny in a rodent, Eolagurus luteus	5
Individual vocal identity may be obscured following colony assembly in captive black-capped chickadees	5
Evaluating effects of context changes on resurgence in humans	5
Effects of water restriction and dirt on grooming behavior in neotropical rodents (Trinomys setosus and T. yonenagae) (Echimyidae)	5
Invasive social wasp learning abilities when foraging in human modified environments	5
Size matters: Antagonistic effects of body size on courtship and digging in a wolf spider with non-traditional sex roles	5
Degrading stimuli by reducing image resolution impairs performance in a rodent continuous performance test	5
Can a traditional partner preference test quantify monogamous behavior in captive coyotes?	5
Domestication effects on aggressiveness: Comparison of biting motivation and bite force between wild and domesticated finches	5
Ecology of acoustic partitioning in insect assemblages	5
Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) discriminate between naturally-ordered and scramble-ordered chick-a-dee calls and individual preference is related to rate of learning	5
Measuring behavioral coping style and stress reactivity experimentally in wild olive baboons	5
Gain-loss asymmetry in delay and effort discounting of different amounts	4
Bringing the past into the present: Control by exteroceptive stimuli and key-peck location in a concurrent-chains procedure	4
Measurement of the exploration–exploitation response of dogs through a concurrent visual discrimination task	4
Editorial Board	4
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Deciding what to do: Observations from a psycho-motor laboratory, including the discovery of pre-crastination	4
Aerial urination in Amazon river dolphins: reassessing its social significance and implications for sensory biology	4
White Leghorn and Red Junglefowl female chicks use distal and local cues similarly, but differ in persistency behaviors, during a spatial orientation task	4
Number-of-responses matching in pigeons (Columba livia): Choice biases following delay and no-sample tests	4
Investigating the role of environmental enrichment initiated in adolescence against the detrimental effects of chronic unpredictable stress in adulthood: Sex-specific differences in behavioral and neu	4
Infant handling increases grooming towards mothers in wild geladas (Theropithecus gelada)	4
Adaptive forgetting of place/object memory for dung in the domestic horse (Equus ferus caballus): Memory for a day	4
Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans	4
The investigation of sexual and interspecies disparities in spatial learning and memory across two rodent species	4
Behavioural response of female Lewis rats toward 31-kHz ultrasonic calls	4
Evidence of AAB, ABA, and ABC renewal procedures for instrumental response in elementary school children	4
Foraging behaviour of Pheidole latinoda: An impetus for employing a heuristic approach to address optimization challenges	4
The effects of olfactory stimulation on the behaviour of captive slender lorises (Loris lydekkerianus)	4
Bottlenose dolphin communication during a role-specialized group foraging task	4
Editorial Board	4
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No evidence for mate copying in Danio rerio	4
Auditory pattern discrimination in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)	4
Oral antibiotics reduce voluntary exercise behavior in athletic mice	4
The temporal copulatory patterns of female rat sexual behavior	4
Foraging decisions of rock lizards may be dependent both on current rival assessment and dear enemy recognition	4
Equivalent learning, but unequal participation: Male bumble bees learn comparably to females, but participate in cognitive assessments at lower rates	4