OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Mammalian Evolution is 2. 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
Endocranial cast anatomy of the Early Miocene glyptodont Propalaehoplophorus australis (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) and its evolutionary implications	26
New insights into the upper and lower deciduous dentition of Pyrotherium from the late Oligocene of South America	25
New Quaternary mammals support regional endemism in western Hispaniola	21
Stuck between rivers: a new species of Ctenomys from northern Argentine Patagonia	18
New reports, updates, and additional comments about Neobrachytherium ullumense Soria, 2001 (Litopterna, Proterotheriidae) in the Late Miocene of Uruguay and Argentina	18
On the Eating Habits of Sloths: Finite Element Analysis and Niche Specialization	17
Phylogenetic relationships of Marmosops Matschie, 1916 in the Atlantic Forest and topography effects on the diversity of M. paulensis Tate, 1931 (Didelphidae: Thylamyini)	14
New interpretation of dentition in Early Cretaceous docodontan Sibirotherium based on micro-computed tomography	14
Morphological and Functional Divergence of the Lower Jaw Between Native and Invasive Red Foxes	11
New insights into the postcranial anatomy of Exaeretodon riograndensis (Eucynodontia: Traversodontidae): phylogenetic implications, body mass, and lifestyle	11
Cranial geometric morphometrics of jumping mice (Genera: Eozapus, Napaeozapus, and Zapus; Zapodinae, Rodentia): Implications for subspecies conservation	11
Temporal lobe evolution in extant and extinct Cercopithecoidea	10
Ecomorphology of toothed whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti) as revealed by 3D skull geometry	10
Trophic differentiation between the endemic Cypriot mouse and the house mouse: a study coupling stable isotopes and morphometrics	10
Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Miocene of Damiao, Nei Mongol, China	10
Total Dental Occlusal Area as a Feeding Constraint Feature in Extant Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus), and Implications for the Evolution of Molluscivory in Odobenidae	9
From Embryo to Adult: The Complete Development and Unusual Replacement of the Dentition of the Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii)	9
Research trajectory, works, and legacy of Salvador Moyà-Solà as a vertebrate paleobiologist	9
Investigating the land-to-sea transition in carnivorans from the evolution of sacrum morphology in pinnipeds	9
Untangling the ecological signal in the dental morphology in the bat superfamily Noctilionoidea	9
Morphological variation of limb bones in three families of Neotropical bats from Argentina: exploring the influences of allometry, ecology, and phylogeny	9
Gliding between continents: a review of the North American record of the giant flying squirrel Miopetaurista (Rodentia, Sciuridae) with the description of new material from the Gray Fossil Site (Tenne	8
Measuring Molarization: Change Through Time in Premolar Function in An Extinct Stem Primate Lineage	8
Divergence, diagnosability, and description of a new subspecies of franciscana dolphin Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais & d’Orbigny, 1844)	8
The ancestral morphology of lumbar vertebrae and its diversification in early Cenozoic mammals	8

Correction: The brain of fur seals, seals, and walrus (Pinnipedia): A comparative anatomical and phylogenetic study of cranial endocasts of semiaquatic mammals	8
Vestigial structures and variation in the evolution of the marsupial mammal dental development—a study of the woolly opossum Caluromys philander	8
An easy-to-apply method to reconstruct proportions and sizes of masticatory muscles in extinct herbivorous mammals	7
First record of Posnanskytherium (Notoungulata, Toxodontidae) in the late Neogene of eastern Puna, Argentina	7
Phylogeography of the Endangered Franciscana Dolphin: Timing and Geological Setting of the Evolution of Populations	7
Trauma-induced alterations in the exoskeleton of glyptodonts (Cingulata, Xenarthra) associated with fighting behavior	7
Maybe So, Maybe Not: Canis lepophagus at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, Idaho, USA	7
A new genus and two new species of malleodectid (Marsupialia, Malleodectidae) from the Middle and Late Miocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland.	7
Integrating paleopathology and paleoecology to unravel the lifestyle of the Pleistocene sloth Nothrotherium maquinense	7
Chaetophractus villosus (Desmarest, 1804) (Xenarthra: Euphractinae) in Uruguay (Upper Pleistocene): Taxon age, biogeography, and paleoclimatic implications	6
The Quaternary lions of Ukraine and a trend of decreasing size in Panthera spelaea	6
Dentary–squamosal jaw articulation in a late surviving tritylodontid synapsid from the Early Cretaceous of Western Siberia, Russia	6
Suction causes novel tooth wear in marine mammals, with implications for feeding evolution in baleen whales	6
Earliest Vallesian suid remains from Creu de Conill 20 (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula)	6
Temperature changes affected mammal dispersal during the Great American Biotic Interchange	5
Oryctodelphys nom. nov., a new name for Streptorhynchus Carneiro et al., 2025 (Mammalia, Metatheria, Derorhynchidae)	5
Tungiasis and cutaneous pathologies in the exoskeleton of glyptodonts: new evidence and insights	5
Dental and mandibular morphology of Peligrotherium tropicalis (Mammalia, Meridiolestida) from the Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina	5
Pelvic sexual dimorphism and its association with cranial morphology in Neotropical spiny rats (Rodentia, Echimyidae)	5
Comparison of Hindlimb Muscle Architecture Properties in Small-Bodied, Generalist Mammals Suggests Similarity in Soft Tissue Anatomy	5
The minimum free energy of G-quadruplex-forming sequences of the MSX1 intron is associated with relative molar and premolar size in eutherians	5
Muscular anatomy of the hindlimb of the tiger (Panthera tigris)	5
Serendipity and adaptation in New World marsupial evolution	5
Ecomorphology of the Early Pleistocene Badger Meles dimitrius from Greece	5
Deinotherium levius and Tetralophodon longirostris (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene hominid locality Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany), and their biostratigraphic significance for the ter	5
Correction to: A complete skull of a stem mammal from the Late Triassic of Brazil illuminates the early evolution of prozostrodontian cynodonts	5
Craniodental anatomy of the hornless rhinocerotid Chilotherium schlosseri (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Late Miocene of Samos Island, Greece	5
A dwarf Megantereon from the Sangiran complex of Java (Indonesia; late Early Pleistocene) and its biogeographic implications	4
Head myology of wild cavies (Caviidae, Caviomorpha) and functional implications of hystricomorphous and hystricognathous configurations	4
A Diverse Metailurine Guild from the Latest Miocene Xingjiawan Fauna, Yongdeng, Northwestern China, and Generic Differentiation of Metailurine Felids	4
A new early Miocene bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Panama confirms middle Cenozoic chiropteran dispersal between the Americas	4
Investigating the reliability of metapodials as taxonomic Indicators for Beringian horses	4
A new multituberculate from the latest Cretaceous of central China and its implications for multituberculate tooth homologies and occlusion	4
Anatomical, Ontogenetic, and Genomic Homologies Guide Reconstructions of the Teeth-to-Baleen Transition in Mysticete Whales	4
The slow revolution of biological nomenclature	4
Validity Analysis of the Morphological Identification of Three Highly Morphologically Similar Species Belonging to the Genus Niviventer (Rodentia: Muridae)	4
Tetraconodontines and suines (Artiodactyla: Suidae) from the earliest Vallesian site of Castell de Barberà (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula)	4
The inner ear of caviomorph rodents: Phylogenetic implications and application to extinct West Indian taxa	4
Deciduous dentition, tooth replacement, and mandibular growth in the Late Jurassic docodontan Haldanodon exspectatus (Mammaliaformes)	4
Looking under stones: A new Ctenomys species from the rocky foothills of the Sierras Grandes of central Argentina	4
Comparative craniometric analysis between two species of South American canids and domestic dogs	4
Memories of the blows: severe soft-tissue injuries in caudal vertebrae of Panochthus Burmeister (Xenarthra, Glyptodontidae)	4
Comparison of the Homology Between Muskrat Scented Gland and Mouse Preputial Gland	4
The skull base in Cingulata (Xenarthra, Mammalia): early ossification, homologies, and comparisons across mammals	4
Occurrence of the ground sloth Nothrotheriops (Xenarthra, Folivora) in the Late Pleistocene of Uruguay: new information on its dietary and habitat preferences based on stable isotope analysis	4
A reassessment of Nemolestes (Mammalia, Metatheria): Systematics and evolutionary implications for Sparassodonta	3
The brain of fur seals, seals, and walrus (Pinnipedia): A comparative anatomical and phylogenetic study of cranial endocasts of semiaquatic mammals	3
Population structure and phylogeography of the large hairy armadillo, Chaetophractus villosus (Cingulata: Chlamyphoridae), in Argentine Patagonia	3
Sizing up swords: Correlated evolution of antlers and tusks in ruminants	3
Using Ultraconserved Elements to Unravel Lagomorph Phylogenetic Relationships	3

Late Miocene Hipparion (Equidae, Perissodactyla) fossils from Fugu, northern Shaanxi, China, and their stratigraphic significance	3
Sign-oriented Dirichlet Normal Energy: Aligning Dental Topography and Dental Function in the R-package molaR	3
Limb osteology of Miocene tragulids from Napak (Uganda) and inferences on palaeoecology in comparison to other extinct and extant relatives	3
Quaternary Eurasian badgers: Intraspecific variability and species validity	3
The hindlimb of Amphicynodon leptorhynchus from the lower Oligocene of the Quercy Phosphorites (France): Highlight of new climbing adaptations of this early arctoid	3
The effects of ordered multistate morphological characters on phylogenetic analyses of eutherian mammals	3
A complete skull of a stem mammal from the Late Triassic of Brazil illuminates the early evolution of prozostrodontian cynodonts	3
Patterns of molar development and loss of the hypoconulid in treeshrews (Scandentia)	3
Tursiops truncatus nuuanu, a new subspecies of the common bottlenose dolphin from the eastern tropical Pacific	2
Description of the Type Specimen of the Extinct Tenerife Giant Rat (Canariomys bravoi)	2
The “Diahot Tooth” is a Miocene rhinocerotid fossil brought by humans to New Caledonia	2
The brain endocast of the Canary Islands giant rats (Canariomys, Muridae, Rodentia): paleobiological and evolutionary implications	2
Geometric morphometrics as a tool to identify Dasypodini osteoderms: Implications for the oldest records of Dasypus	2
Bayesian network analysis reveals the assembly drivers and emergent stability of Eurasian Pleistocene large mammal communities	2
The cranium and dentition of Khirtharia (Artiodactyla, Raoellidae): new data on a stem taxon to Cetacea	2
Craniometric variation and taxonomic boundaries in the Madras Treeshrew (Scandentia, Tupaiidae: Anathana ellioti [Waterhouse, 1850]) from India	2
Characterizing patterns of selection pressure on mammalian antiviral immune response	2
Correction: Metabolic skinflint or spendthrift? Insights into ground sloth integument and thermophysiology revealed by biophysical modeling and clumped isotope paleothermometry	2
New data from South American hotspots uncover a greater diversity in Gracilinanus (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) mouse opossums	2
Proportional variation and scaling in the hindlimbs of hopping mammals, including convergent evolution in argyrolagids and jerboas	2
An evolutionary ecomorphological perspective on the assembly of a neotropical bat metacommunity	2
Iterative Habitat Transitions are Associated with Morphological Convergence of the Backbone in Delphinoids	2
New evidence for the unique coexistence of two subfamilies of clawed perissodactyls (Mammalia, Chalicotheriidae) in the Upper Miocene of Romania and the Eastern Mediterranean	2
Growing apart: comparative cranial ontogeny in the myrmecophagous aardwolf (Proteles cristata) and the bone-cracking spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta)	2
Down a Rabbit Hole: Burrowing Behaviour and Larger Home Ranges are Related to Larger Brains in Leporids	2
Correction to: The vocal apparatus: An understudied tool to reconstruct the evolutionary history of echolocation in bats?	2
An exceptionally well-preserved fossil rodent of the South American subterranean clade Ctenomys (Rodentia, Ctenomyidae). Phylogeny and adaptive profile	2
Phylogeographic relationships, structure, and genetic diversity of the Mexican endemic volcano Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys chrysopsis (Rodentia, Cricetidae)	2
The cribriform plate of Hypnomys Bate, 1918 (Rodentia: Gliridae)	2
Anatomy and phylogeny of a new small macraucheniid (Mammalia: Litopterna) from the Bahía Inglesa Formation (late Miocene), Atacama Region, Northern Chile	2
Systematics and biogeography of the Atlantic Forest endemic genus Juliomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae): A test of diversification hypothesis using mitochondrial data	2
Cranial integration and modularity in chamois: The effects of subspecies and sex	2
Correction to: The Mitochondrial Genetic Diversity of the Olive Field Mouse Abrothrix olivacea (Cricetidae; Abrotrichini) is Latitudinally Structured Across Its Geographic Distribution	2
A New Glyptodont (Xenarthra: Cingulata) from the Late Miocene of Argentina: New Clues About the Oldest Extra-Patagonian Radiation in Southern South America	2
Not all size measures are created equal: different body size proxies are not equivalent fitness predictors in the bat Carollia perspicillata	2
Approaches to studying endocranial morphology in Euarchontoglires: Assessing sources of error for a novel and biologically informative set of landmarks	2