OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 32. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Do mutualistic interactions last longer than antagonistic interactions?	107
King- and queen-specific degradation of uric acid contributes to reproduction in termites	87
Bee flowers drive macroevolutionary diversification in long-horned bees	77
Crocodile perception of distress in hominid baby cries	76
Uncovering the Holocene roots of contemporary disease-scapes: bringing archaeology into One Health	65
Modelling the emergence of synchrony from decentralized rhythmic interactions in animal communication	64
Human adults prefer to cooperate even when it is costly	62
A dawn and dusk chorus will emerge if males sing in the absence of their mate	61
Auditory mechanics in the grig ( Cyphoderris monstrosa ): tympanal travelling waves and frequency discrimination as a precursor to inner ear tonotopy	59
Occupancy winners in tropical protected forests: a pantropical analysis	58
Human-driven breakdown of predator–prey interactions in the northern Adriatic Sea	54
Seed size variation impacts local adaptation and life-history strategies in a perennial grass	53
Which peer reviewers voluntarily reveal their identity to authors? Insights into the consequences of open-identities peer review	50
Feather chemicals contain information about the major histocompatibility complex in a highly scented seabird	49
Labour's pain: strenuous subsistence work, mechanical wear-and-tear and musculoskeletal pain in a non-industrialized population	49
Social restructuring during harsh environmental conditions promotes cooperative behaviour in a songbird	48
Swimming through sand: using accelerometers to observe the cryptic, pre-emergence life-stage of sea turtle hatchlings	47
Sampling biases obscure the early diversification of the largest living vertebrate group	47
In search of the genetic variants of human sex ratio at birth: was Fisher wrong about sex ratio evolution?	42
Correction to: ‘Age determination in echinoderms: first evidence of annual growth rings in holothuroids’ 2022 by Sun et al.	39
Ants act as olfactory bio-detectors of tumours in patient-derived xenograft mice	37
Mosquito ageing modulates the development, virulence and transmission potential of pathogens	36
The psychology of relative state, desperation and violence: a commentary on de Courson et al. (2023)	36
Multiscale analysis of the randomization limits of the chromosomal gene organization between Lepidoptera and Diptera	36
Kin selection of time travel: the social evolutionary causes and consequences of dormancy	35

Wild raccoons demonstrate flexibility and individuality in innovative problem-solving	35
Ecological determinants of rabies virus dynamics in vampire bats and spillover to livestock	34
The gaze of a social monkey is perceptible to conspecifics and predators but not prey	34
Genotype-by-environment interactions influence the composition of the Drosophila seminal proteome	34
Phenology in the deep sea: seasonal and tidal feeding rhythms in a keystone octocoral	33
Seeds of language-like generativity in bird call combinations	32
Shifts in predator behaviour following climate induced disturbance on coral reefs	32
The ontogeny of asymmetry in echolocating whales	32