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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Allometry of molar size and cranial length in relation to the body weight of mammalian insectivores	21
Remember to Chew your Food: New Paradigms for the Evolution of Mastication	18
Morphometric Analysis of the Mandible of Primitive Sabertoothed Felids from the late Miocene of Spain	17
The effects of ordered multistate morphological characters on phylogenetic analyses of eutherian mammals	17
Endocranial cast anatomy of the Early Miocene glyptodont Propalaehoplophorus australis (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) and its evolutionary implications	15
Chaetophractus villosus (Desmarest, 1804) (Xenarthra: Euphractinae) in Uruguay (Upper Pleistocene): Taxon age, biogeography, and paleoclimatic implications	14
Plohophorini glyptodonts (Xenarthra, Cingulata) from the late Neogene of northwestern Argentina. Insight into their diversity, evolutionary history, and paleobiogeography	14
New Material of Schizotheriine Chalicothere (Perissodactyla, Chalicotheriidae) from the Xianshuihe Formation (Early Miocene) of Lanzhou Basin, Northwest China	14
Stuck between rivers: a new species of Ctenomys from northern Argentine Patagonia	13
On the Unnecessary and Misleading Taxon “Cetartiodactyla”	13
Down a Rabbit Hole: Burrowing Behaviour and Larger Home Ranges are Related to Larger Brains in Leporids	12
The Cranial Morphospace of Extant Marsupials	12
Correction to: The Mitochondrial Genetic Diversity of the Olive Field Mouse Abrothrix olivacea (Cricetidae; Abrotrichini) is Latitudinally Structured Across Its Geographic Distribution	12
Hidden in plain sight: Didelphis albiventris (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) might not be a single species	11
New insights into the upper and lower deciduous dentition of Pyrotherium from the late Oligocene of South America	11
Climbing Adaptations of an Enigmatic Early Arctoid Carnivoran: the Functional Anatomy of the Forelimb of Amphicynodon leptorhynchus From the Lower Oligocene of the Quercy Phosphorites (France)	10
How Can Phenotypic Evolution be Characterized Over Time and Through Environmental Changes?	9
Limb osteology of Miocene tragulids from Napak (Uganda) and inferences on palaeoecology in comparison to other extinct and extant relatives	9
Endocranial Morphology of a Middle Miocene South American Dugongid and the Neurosensorial Evolution of Sirenians	9
The Narial Anatomy of Extinct and Extant Sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora): Osteological Anomalies in the Extant Two-Toed Sloth Choloepus	9
The Quaternary lions of Ukraine and a trend of decreasing size in Panthera spelaea	8
On the Eating Habits of Sloths: Finite Element Analysis and Niche Specialization	8
New interpretation of dentition in Early Cretaceous docodontan Sibirotherium based on micro-computed tomography	8
New Quaternary mammals support regional endemism in western Hispaniola	8
Earliest Vallesian suid remains from Creu de Conill 20 (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula)	7

Reconstructing the distribution of Chacoan biota from current and past evidence: the case of the southern three-banded armadillo Tolypeutes matacus (Desmarest, 1804)	7
Taxonomy and evolutionary history of peradectids (Metatheria): New data from the early Eocene of France	7
The brain of fur seals, seals, and walrus (Pinnipedia): A comparative anatomical and phylogenetic study of cranial endocasts of semiaquatic mammals	7
A new spiral-horned antelope, Gazellospira tsaparangensis sp. nov., from Pliocene Zanda Basin in Himalaya Mountain	7
Phylogeography of the Endangered Franciscana Dolphin: Timing and Geological Setting of the Evolution of Populations	7
New reports, updates, and additional comments about Neobrachytherium ullumense Soria, 2001 (Litopterna, Proterotheriidae) in the Late Miocene of Uruguay and Argentina	7
Correction: New materials of Lophiomeryx (Artiodactyla: Lophiomerycidae) from the Oligocene of Nei Mongol, China	7
New evidence for the unique coexistence of two subfamilies of clawed perissodactyls (Mammalia, Chalicotheriidae) in the Upper Miocene of Romania and the Eastern Mediterranean	7
New suid remains from the early Vallesian (Late Miocene) site of Can Missert (Vallès-Penedès Basin)	7
Suction causes novel tooth wear in marine mammals, with implications for feeding evolution in baleen whales	6
How anatomical and morphological differences among sympatric Amazonian river dolphins reflect adaptations to species ecology	6
Cranial geometric morphometrics of jumping mice (Genera: Eozapus, Napaeozapus, and Zapus; Zapodinae, Rodentia): Implications for subspecies conservation	6
Rare carnivorous mammals from a diverse fossil assemblage from the Middle Siwaliks of Haritalyangar area, Himachal Pradesh, North India	6
An island apart: Cranial endocast variation and sensory function in Tenrecomorpha	6
An exceptionally well-preserved fossil rodent of the South American subterranean clade Ctenomys (Rodentia, Ctenomyidae). Phylogeny and adaptive profile	6
The hindlimb of Amphicynodon leptorhynchus from the lower Oligocene of the Quercy Phosphorites (France): Highlight of new climbing adaptations of this early arctoid	6
The easternmost occurrence of the Late Miocene schizotheriine chalicothere Ancylotherium pentelicum at the classical locality of Maragheh (Iran)	5
The cranium and dentition of Khirtharia (Artiodactyla, Raoellidae): new data on a stem taxon to Cetacea	5
Morphological and Functional Divergence of the Lower Jaw Between Native and Invasive Red Foxes	5
The Mitochondrial Genetic Diversity of the Olive Field Mouse Abrothrix olivacea (Cricetidae; Abrotrichini) is Latitudinally Structured Across Its Geographic Distribution	5
Tooth Size Variation in Assemblages of Tremacyllus (Hegetotheriidae, Notoungulata): Insights into Geographical Gradients, Systematics, and Sexual Dimorphism	5
Extensive Interspecific Gene Flow Shaped Complex Evolutionary History and Underestimated Species Diversity in Rapidly Radiated Dolphins	5
Three areas of cranial evolution in the white-bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis): An initial report on asymmetry, ontogeny and modularity	5
Mammalian Petrosals from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation (Utah, USA) Reveal Non-canonical Evolution of Middle and Inner Ear Characters	5
Geometric morphometrics as a tool to identify Dasypodini osteoderms: Implications for the oldest records of Dasypus	5
Correction to: A New Species of Ctenomys (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) from Patagonia Related to C. sociabilis	5
Late Miocene Hipparion (Equidae, Perissodactyla) fossils from Fugu, northern Shaanxi, China, and their stratigraphic significance	5
The minimum free energy of G-quadruplex-forming sequences of the MSX1 intron is associated with relative molar and premolar size in eutherians	4
Systematics and biogeography of the Atlantic Forest endemic genus Juliomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae): A test of diversification hypothesis using mitochondrial data	4
Evolution Towards Fossoriality and Morphological Convergence in the Skull of Spalacidae and Bathyergidae (Rodentia)	4
Phylogenetic relationships of Marmosops Matschie, 1916 in the Atlantic Forest and topography effects on the diversity of M. paulensis Tate, 1931 (Didelphidae: Thylamyini)	4
A complete skull of a stem mammal from the Late Triassic of Brazil illuminates the early evolution of prozostrodontian cynodonts	4
Comparative Endocranial Anatomy, Encephalization, and Phylogeny of Notoungulata (Placentalia, Mammalia)	4
Deinotherium levius and Tetralophodon longirostris (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene hominid locality Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany), and their biostratigraphic significance for the ter	4
Sign-oriented Dirichlet Normal Energy: Aligning Dental Topography and Dental Function in the R-package molaR	4
Mating System, Breeding Success, and Pup Mortality of a Habitat Specialist Rodent: A Field and Molecular-based Approach	4
New Specimens of Reigitherium bunodontum from the Late Cretaceous La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina and Meridiolestidan Diversity in South America	4
Way to big cats: Directional selection in body size evolution in living felids	4
The Early Eocene Climatic Optimum at the Lower Section of the Lumbrera Formation (Ypresian, Salta Province, Northwestern Argentina): Origin and Early Diversification of the Cingulata	4
Muscular anatomy of the hindlimb of the tiger (Panthera tigris)	4
New insights into the postcranial anatomy of Exaeretodon riograndensis (Eucynodontia: Traversodontidae): phylogenetic implications, body mass, and lifestyle	4
From Embryo to Adult: The Complete Development and Unusual Replacement of the Dentition of the Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii)	3
The Endocranial Cast of Indohyus (Artiodactyla, Raoellidae): The Origin of the Cetacean Brain	3
Sizing up swords: Correlated evolution of antlers and tusks in ruminants	3
Correction: Metabolic skinflint or spendthrift? Insights into ground sloth integument and thermophysiology revealed by biophysical modeling and clumped isotope paleothermometry	3
Investigating the land-to-sea transition in carnivorans from the evolution of sacrum morphology in pinnipeds	3
Approaches to studying endocranial morphology in Euarchontoglires: Assessing sources of error for a novel and biologically informative set of landmarks	3
A New Species of Ctenomys (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) from Patagonia Related to C. sociabilis	3
The Record of Prodeinotherium in the Iberian Peninsula: New Data from the Vallès-Penedès Basin	3
Correction to: A complete skull of a stem mammal from the Late Triassic of Brazil illuminates the early evolution of prozostrodontian cynodonts	3

A New Mammal Skull from the Late Cretaceous of Romania and Phylogenetic Affinities of Kogaionid Multituberculates	3
Comparison of Hindlimb Muscle Architecture Properties in Small-Bodied, Generalist Mammals Suggests Similarity in Soft Tissue Anatomy	3
Ecomorphology of toothed whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti) as revealed by 3D skull geometry	3
Using Ultraconserved Elements to Unravel Lagomorph Phylogenetic Relationships	3
Skeletal Variation and Taxonomic Boundaries in the Pen-tailed Treeshrew (Scandentia: Ptilocercidae; Ptilocercus lowii Gray, 1848)	2
Cranial Anatomy of Csakvaromys bredai (Rodentia, Sciuridae, Xerinae) and Implications for Ground Squirrel Evolution and Systematics	2
Tursiops truncatus nuuanu, a new subspecies of the common bottlenose dolphin from the eastern tropical Pacific	2
The vocal apparatus: An understudied tool to reconstruct the evolutionary history of echolocation in bats?	2
A reassessment of Nemolestes (Mammalia, Metatheria): Systematics and evolutionary implications for Sparassodonta	2
Coexistence of Indarctos and Amphimachairodus (Carnivora) in the Late Early Hemphillian of Florida, North America	2
Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Miocene of Damiao, Nei Mongol, China	2
Oryctodelphys nom. nov., a new name for Streptorhynchus Carneiro et al., 2025 (Mammalia, Metatheria, Derorhynchidae)	2
Phylogeography of the capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, in a large portion of its distribution area in South America	2
Evolution of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies and the Prion Protein Gene (PRNP) in Mammals	2
Patterns of molar development and loss of the hypoconulid in treeshrews (Scandentia)	2
Ulna Curvature in Arboreal and Terrestrial Primates	2
Characterizing patterns of selection pressure on mammalian antiviral immune response	2
New materials of Pliorhinus ringstroemi from the Linxia Basin (Late Miocene, eastern Asia) and their taxonomical and evolutionary implications	2
Quaternary Eurasian badgers: Intraspecific variability and species validity	2
Untangling the ecological signal in the dental morphology in the bat superfamily Noctilionoidea	2
Temporal lobe evolution in extant and extinct Cercopithecoidea	2
Correction to: The vocal apparatus: An understudied tool to reconstruct the evolutionary history of echolocation in bats?	2
Distal Humeral Morphology Indicates Locomotory Divergence in Extinct Giant Kangaroos	2
Looking under stones: A new Ctenomys species from the rocky foothills of the Sierras Grandes of central Argentina	2
Ecomorphology of the Early Pleistocene Badger Meles dimitrius from Greece	2
Trophic differentiation between the endemic Cypriot mouse and the house mouse: a study coupling stable isotopes and morphometrics	2
Morphological variation of limb bones in three families of Neotropical bats from Argentina: exploring the influences of allometry, ecology, and phylogeny	2
An enigmatic giraffid from the latest Miocene of Italy: Taxonomy, affinity, and paleobiogeographic implications	2
Metabolic skinflint or spendthrift? Insights into ground sloth integument and thermophysiology revealed by biophysical modeling and clumped isotope paleothermometry	2
Conservation Genetics of the Critically Endangered Riverine Rabbit, Bunolagus monticularis: Structured Populations and High mtDNA Genetic Diversity	2
Evolutionary rates, disparity, and ecomorphology of the mandible in American marsupials	2
The Oldest Species of Dolichotis (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the Pliocene of Argentina: Redescription and Taxonomic Status of “Orthomyctera” chapalmalense	2