OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 44. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes	148
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diversity	145
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective	104
Modelling exo-biospheres for biosignature predictions	97
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?	82
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery	79
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children	79
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems	79
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion	78
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs	76
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model	71
Pregnancy at high altitude: evolutionary and historical perspectives	67
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure	67
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness	66
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook	65
Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’	64
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies	64
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies	63
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language	61
Evolution of the cardiac dyad	61
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology	59
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene	58
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands	58
Comments from the departing Editor	58
The costs and benefits of dispersal in small populations	57

The development of a silage-based biorefinery to deliver the maximum nutritional benefit for human consumption from UK grasslands	56
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison	54
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )	54
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact	54
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	53
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals	53
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective	53
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species	52
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition	51
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review	51
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system	51
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture	50
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions	50
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica	49
Gossip and competitive altruism support cooperation in a Public Good game	47
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species	45
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change	45
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis	44
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead	44