OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 49. 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
Insights into the early evolution of modern avian physiology from fossilized soft tissues from the Mesozoic	114
"A mathematical theory of evolution": phylogenetic models dating back 100 years	113
Measuring the state of aquatic environments using eDNA—upscaling spatial resolution of biotic indices	111
Variation in nest-building behaviour in birds: a multi-species approach	104
Thinking about possibilities: mechanisms, ontogeny, functions and phylogeny	103
Iterative evolution of supergene-based social polymorphism in ants	89
A model for colour preference behaviour of spring migrant aphids	87
Reproductive inequality among males in the genusPan	86
Early life adversity has sex-dependent effects on survival across the lifespan in rhesus macaques	86
A positive consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic: how the counterfactual experience of school closures is accelerating a multisectoral response to the treatment of neglected tropical diseases	81
Preface to 'Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems'	79
Comments from the departing Editor	71
The web of conflict-related interactions in Colombia: exploring causal linkages between ecological and social variables by the qualitative loop analysis	70
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition	68
The complexity of human cooperation under indirect reciprocity	66
Unravelling the functional and phylogenetic dimensions of novel ecosystem assemblages	65
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact	65
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )	64
Clustered warming tolerances and the nonlinear risks of biodiversity loss on a warming planet	64
How should we bend the curve of biodiversity loss to build a just and sustainable future?	63
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery	63
Rewilding psychology	61
Early to mid-Holocene human activity exerted gradual influences on Amazonian forest vegetation	60
Sex differences in cooperative coalitions: a mammalian perspective	59
The role of binocular vision in the control and development of visually guided upper limb movements	59

Do you hear what I see? How do early blind individuals experience object motion?	58
The extended analogy of extraembryonic development in insects and amniotes	58
Crystal structures of ‘ALternative Isoinformational ENgineered’ DNA in B-form	57
Conditions that favour cumulative cultural evolution	56
Cultural specialization as a double-edged sword: division into specialized guilds might promote cultural complexity at the cost of higher susceptibility to cultural loss	56
Ageing in a collective: the impact of ageing individuals on social network structure	55
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes	54
Walking humans and running mice: perception and neural encoding of optic flow during self-motion	54
Understanding the factors regulating host–microbiome interactions using Caenorhabditis elegans	53
Transient mutation bias increases the predictability of evolution on an empirical genotype–phenotype landscape	53
Patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cell properties implicate Ca ²⁺ -homeostasis in clinical arrhythmia associated with combined heterozygous RY	53
How does genetic architecture affect eco-evolutionary dynamics? A theoretical perspective	52
Multi-dimensional sensorimotor grounding of concrete and abstract categories	52
A songbird adjusts its heart rate and body temperature in response to season and fluctuating daily conditions	52
Empirical evidence for epigenetic inheritance driving evolutionary adaptation	52
Rethinking the role of language in embodied cognition	51
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model	51
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system	51
Evolution of master sex determiners: TGF-β signalling pathways at regulatory crossroads	51
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language	50
Success probability of high-affinity DNA aptamer generation by genetic alphabet expansion	50
Cross-frequency coupling explains the preference for simple ratios in rhythmic behaviour and the relative stability across non-synchronous patterns	50
Amphibian infection tolerance to chytridiomycosis	50
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?	49
Skill building in freediving as an example of embodied culture	49