OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 33. 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
Retraction: ‘Parasite prevalence and the worldwide distribution of cognitive ability’ (2010), by Eppig, Fincher and Thornhill	90
Phylogenomics supports a single origin of terrestriality in isopods	78
Swimming through sand: using accelerometers to observe the cryptic, pre-emergence life-stage of sea turtle hatchlings	61
Increased functional diversity warns of ecological transition in the Arctic	59
Characterization of a sperm motility signalling pathway in a gonochoric coral suggests conservation across cnidarian sexual systems	57
Olfactory learning in Pieris brassicae butterflies is dependent on the intensity of a plant-derived oviposition cue	56
Phenology in the deep sea: seasonal and tidal feeding rhythms in a keystone octocoral	55
Accounting for extinction dynamics unifies the geological and biological histories of Indo-Australian Archipelago	54
Sexual selection may support phenotypic plasticity in male coloration of an African cichlid fish	54
External and internal driving forces of community and functional group stability in the forest mammal community	53
Area, isolation and climate explain the diversity of mammals on islands worldwide	51
Uncertainty about old information results in differential predator memory in tadpoles	51
Do air-breathing fish suffer branchial oxygen loss in hypoxic water?	48
Men are less religious in more gender-equal countries	48
Cool-edge populations of the kelp Ecklonia radiata under global ocean change scenarios: strong sensitivity to ocean warming but little effect of ocean acidification	45
Human-driven breakdown of predator–prey interactions in the northern Adriatic Sea	44
Adaptive human behaviour modulates the impact of immune life history and vaccination on long-term epidemic dynamics	43
Biomechanical drivers of the evolution of butterflies and moths with a coilable proboscis	42
Fine-tuning the evolutionary stability of recombinant herpesviral transmissible vaccines	42
In search of the genetic variants of human sex ratio at birth: was Fisher wrong about sex ratio evolution?	42
Weak overcomes strong in sensory integration: shading warps the disparity field	40
Non-vertical cultural transmission, assortment and the evolution of cooperation	39
Cognitive performance is linked to survival in free-living African striped mice	39
Experimental evolution can enhance benefits of rhizobia to novel legume hosts	38
Cellular and environmental dynamics influence species-specific extents of organelle gene retention	38

Complexity and diversity of motion amplification and control strategies in motile carnivorous plant traps	37
The dilution effect behind the scenes: testing the underlying assumptions of its mechanisms through quantifying the long-term dynamics and effects of a pathogen in multiple host species	37
Juvenile ecology drives adult morphology in two insect orders	35
Additive and interactive effects of anthropogenic stressors on an insect herbivore	34
Win-Stay-Lose-Shift as a self-confirming equilibrium in the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma	34
Life-history speed, population disappearances and noise-induced ratchet effects	34
Direct and indirect effects of male genital elaboration in female seed beetles	33
The timings of host diapause and epidemic progression mediate host genetic diversity and future epidemic size in Daphnia– parasite populations	33