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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Modelling exo-biospheres for biosignature predictions	177
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals	131
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition	118
Pregnancy at high altitude: evolutionary and historical perspectives	115
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness	112
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions	94
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language	91
Mitonuclear dynamics in unisexual vertebrates	88
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook	85
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species	77
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture	72
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children	70
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology	69
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective	67
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica	64
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes	64
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diver	64
The urgent search for predictive biomarkers in the emerging era of universal congenital cytomegalovirus screening	64
Comments from the departing Editor	63
Evolution of the cardiac dyad	63
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands	61
Distinct Anthropocene biosphere recorded by the rise of green algae and chrysophytes in varved sediments of Crawford Lake (Ontario, Canada)	61
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies	60
Honey-hunting with honeyguides in northern Ghana: cultural continuity amid change	58
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )	58

The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery	55
Pragmatic comprehension and inferential ability: interplay with executive functions and Theory of Mind	54
The development of a silage-based biorefinery to deliver the maximum nutritional benefit for human consumption from UK grasslands	54
Tracking the spatial and longitudinal dynamics of mixed infections of urogenital and intestinal schistosomiasis, inclusive of Schistosoma mattheei , in t	54
Preface	54
The relation between children’s shyness and their contingent dialogical actions when reacting to a social robot’s instructions	53
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion	52
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison	52
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review	52
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure	51
Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities	51
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies	50
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact	49
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system	49
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?	49
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems	48
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change	46
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective	44
Of popsicles and crackers: when spatio-temporal memory is not integrated into children’s decision-making	44
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model	44
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene	44
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead	44