OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Systemic Biology is 30. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Geogenomic Predictors of Genetree Heterogeneity Explain Phylogeographic and Introgression History: A Case Study in an Amazonian Bird (Thamnophilus aethiops)	146
Comparing Partition and Mixture Models with Akaike Information Criteria	75
Assessing the Adequacy of Morphological Models Using Posterior Predictive Simulations	67
Understanding Species Boundaries that Arise from Complex Histories: Gene Flow Across the Speciation Continuum in the Spotted Whiptail Lizards	56
Impact of Phylogenetic Tree Completeness and Mis-specification of Sampling Fractions on Trait Dependent Diversification Models	52
Unearthing Modes of Climatic Adaptation in Underground Storage Organs Across Liliales	49
Phylogenetic Accuracy Under Non-stationary and Non-homogeneous Conditions: A Simulation Study	48
A Covarion Model for Phylogenetic Estimation Using Discrete Morphological Data Sets	46
Biased Estimates of Phylogenetic Branch Lengths Resulting from the Discretised Gamma Model of Site Rate Heterogeneity	45
An Empirical Bayes approach for the study of phenotypic evolution from high-dimensional data	44
The Explosive Radiation of the Neotropical Tillandsia Subgenus Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) Has Been Accompan	42
Identifying Climatic Drivers of Hybridization with a New Ancestral Niche Reconstruction Method	42
Summary Tests of Introgression Are Highly Sensitive to Rate Variation Across Lineages	41
Phylogenomic Insights into the Evolution and Origin of Nematoda	41
Phylogenetic Estimation of Branch-Specific Shifts in the Tempo of Origination	41
Dietary specialization drives adaptation, convergence, and integration across the cranial and appendicular skeleton in Waterfowl (Anseriformes)	41
How to Validate a Bayesian Evolutionary Model	40
Gene Transfer-Based Phylogenetics: Analytical Expressions and Additivity via Birth–Death Theory	39
Are Modern Cryptic Species Detectable in the Fossil Record? A Case Study on Agamid Lizards	37
Stochastic Character Mapping of Continuous Traits on Phylogenies	36
Integrating Genomics and Biogeography to Unravel the Origin of a Mountain Biota: The Case of a Reptile Endemicity Hotspot in Arabia	36
Evolutionary Timelines Help Explain the Evolution of Parental Care Strategies	35
Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis on Multi-Core Compute Architectures: Implementation and Evaluation of `BEAGLE` in `RevBayes` With `MPI`	35
River Drainage Reorganization and Reticulate Evolution in the Two-Lined Salamander (Eurycea bislineata) Species Complex	34
Diffeomorphic Independent Contrasts for Ancestral Reconstruction of Shapes	34

The Rediscovery of a Relict Unlocks the First Global Phylogeny of Whip Spiders (Amblypygi)	33
Seventy-Five Years of Systematic Biology: Looking Back, Moving Forward	33
A Novel Phylogenomics Pipeline Reveals Extensive Topological Conflict in the Evolution of the Angiosperm Order Cucurbitales	31
The Impact of Incomplete Taxon Sampling on Inference of Gene Flow by Bayesian and Summary Methods Using Genomic Sequence Data	31
Common Ancestry, Contemporary Phylogenetics, and Process Ontology	31
Estimating Global Biodiversity: The Role of Cryptic Insect Species	30
A Phylogenomic Backbone for Acoelomorpha Inferred From Transcriptomic Data	30
Evolutionary Tempo, Supertaxa, and Living Fossils	30
Phylogenomics of Neogastropoda: The Backbone Hidden in the Bush	30