OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 48. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Drivers of parasite β-diversity among anuran hosts depend on scale, realm and parasite group	139
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery	133
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook	130
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diversity	98
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs	91
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion	88
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model	83
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals	76
A researcher's guide to the comparative assessment of vocal production learning	75
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system	75
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies	73
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness	72
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )	70
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition	70
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review	69
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective	69
Gossip and competitive altruism support cooperation in a Public Good game	66
Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’	64
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis	62
The costs and benefits of dispersal in small populations	62
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?	62
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies	61
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure	61
Cross-frequency coupling explains the preference for simple ratios in rhythmic behaviour and the relative stability across non-synchronous patterns	60
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective	60

Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead	59
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language	58
Evolution of the cardiac dyad	58
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture	56
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology	56
In situ-produced¹⁰Be and²⁶Al indirect dating of Elarmékora Earlier Stone Age artefacts: first attempt in a savannah forest mosaic in the middle Ogooué valley, Gabon	56
Comments from the departing Editor	55
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands	54
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children	54
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes	53
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species	52
The role of soils in the regulation of hazards and extreme events	51
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species	51
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison	51
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene	51
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions	51
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica	50
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change	50
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems	49
Systematic review of global historical marine ecology reveals geographical and taxonomic research gaps and biases	49
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact	49
Energy homeostasis from Lavoisier to control theory	48
The Anthropocene condition: evolving through social–ecological transformations	48