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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Comments from the departing Editor	126
A researcher's guide to the comparative assessment of vocal production learning	121
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness	120
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs	94
Cross-frequency coupling explains the preference for simple ratios in rhythmic behaviour and the relative stability across non-synchronous patterns	86
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology	85
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies	78
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children	74
Gossip and competitive altruism support cooperation in a Public Good game	73
Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’	70
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery	69
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective	69
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook	67
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene	65
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes	64
Evolution of the cardiac dyad	63
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica	63
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language	62
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture	62
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model	61
Drivers of parasite β-diversity among anuran hosts depend on scale, realm and parasite group	61
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species	60
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions	59
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion	59
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison	58

Peripersonal space: why so last-second?	58
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )	58
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition	58
The costs and benefits of dispersal in small populations	58
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact	57
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species	57
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review	56
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system	55
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals	55
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies	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	54
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective	54
A 180 Myr-old female-specific genome region in sturgeon reveals the oldest known vertebrate sex determining system with undifferentiated sex chromosomes	53
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands	51
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change	51
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems	51
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure	51
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diversity	50
The role of soils in the regulation of hazards and extreme events	49
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead	49
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis	49
Human cooperation and evolutionary transitions in individuality	48
Energy homeostasis from Lavoisier to control theory	48