OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 43. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Modelling exo-biospheres for biosignature predictions	173
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison	161
The development of a silage-based biorefinery to deliver the maximum nutritional benefit for human consumption from UK grasslands	117
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies	98
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition	94
Evolution of the cardiac dyad	94
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	86
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene	77
Pregnancy at high altitude: evolutionary and historical perspectives	76
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs	74
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )	72
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies	70
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery	65
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness	63
The urgent search for predictive biomarkers in the emerging era of universal congenital cytomegalovirus screening	61
Comments from the departing Editor	60
Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities	60
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review	59
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure	57
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective	56
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions	56
Honey-hunting with honeyguides in northern Ghana: cultural continuity amid change	56
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?	55
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals	55
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook	54

The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems	53
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion	52
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model	51
Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’	51
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture	50
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children	48
The costs and benefits of dispersal in small populations	48
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system	47
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology	46
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead	46
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands	45
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change	45
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective	44
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis	44
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species	44
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language	44
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact	43
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes	43
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diver	43