OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Mammalian Evolution is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Endocranial cast anatomy of the Early Miocene glyptodont Propalaehoplophorus australis (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) and its evolutionary implications	23
New Quaternary mammals support regional endemism in western Hispaniola	21
On the Eating Habits of Sloths: Finite Element Analysis and Niche Specialization	19
Stuck between rivers: a new species of Ctenomys from northern Argentine Patagonia	18
New insights into the upper and lower deciduous dentition of Pyrotherium from the late Oligocene of South America	17
New reports, updates, and additional comments about Neobrachytherium ullumense Soria, 2001 (Litopterna, Proterotheriidae) in the Late Miocene of Uruguay and Argentina	16
New interpretation of dentition in Early Cretaceous docodontan Sibirotherium based on micro-computed tomography	16
Morphological and Functional Divergence of the Lower Jaw Between Native and Invasive Red Foxes	15
Phylogenetic relationships of Marmosops Matschie, 1916 in the Atlantic Forest and topography effects on the diversity of M. paulensis Tate, 1931 (Didelphidae: Thylamyini)	15
New Specimens of Reigitherium bunodontum from the Late Cretaceous La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina and Meridiolestidan Diversity in South America	14
Ecomorphology of toothed whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti) as revealed by 3D skull geometry	13
New insights into the postcranial anatomy of Exaeretodon riograndensis (Eucynodontia: Traversodontidae): phylogenetic implications, body mass, and lifestyle	12
Trophic differentiation between the endemic Cypriot mouse and the house mouse: a study coupling stable isotopes and morphometrics	12
Cranial geometric morphometrics of jumping mice (Genera: Eozapus, Napaeozapus, and Zapus; Zapodinae, Rodentia): Implications for subspecies conservation	12
A New Mammal Skull from the Late Cretaceous of Romania and Phylogenetic Affinities of Kogaionid Multituberculates	12
Investigating the land-to-sea transition in carnivorans from the evolution of sacrum morphology in pinnipeds	11
From Embryo to Adult: The Complete Development and Unusual Replacement of the Dentition of the Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii)	11
Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Miocene of Damiao, Nei Mongol, China	10
Temporal lobe evolution in extant and extinct Cercopithecoidea	10
Morphological variation of limb bones in three families of Neotropical bats from Argentina: exploring the influences of allometry, ecology, and phylogeny	9
Research trajectory, works, and legacy of Salvador Moyà-Solà as a vertebrate paleobiologist	9
Total Dental Occlusal Area as a Feeding Constraint Feature in Extant Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus), and Implications for the Evolution of Molluscivory in Odobenidae	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
Untangling the ecological signal in the dental morphology in the bat superfamily Noctilionoidea	8
Skeletal Variation and Taxonomic Boundaries in the Pen-tailed Treeshrew (Scandentia: Ptilocercidae; Ptilocercus lowii Gray, 1848)	8

First Apatemyid Mammal from Central Asia	8
Megantereon adroveri from the Early Pleistocene of Taurida Cave, Crimea, and the European Lineage of Dirk-toothed Cats	8
Earliest Vallesian suid remains from Creu de Conill 20 (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula)	7
The ancestral morphology of lumbar vertebrae and its diversification in early Cenozoic mammals	7
Maybe So, Maybe Not: Canis lepophagus at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, Idaho, USA	7
Integrating paleopathology and paleoecology to unravel the lifestyle of the Pleistocene sloth Nothrotherium maquinense	7
Measuring Molarization: Change Through Time in Premolar Function in An Extinct Stem Primate Lineage	7
Phylogeography of the Endangered Franciscana Dolphin: Timing and Geological Setting of the Evolution of Populations	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
Correction: The brain of fur seals, seals, and walrus (Pinnipedia): A comparative anatomical and phylogenetic study of cranial endocasts of semiaquatic mammals	7
Divergence, diagnosability, and description of a new subspecies of franciscana dolphin Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais & d’Orbigny, 1844)	7
Trauma-induced alterations in the exoskeleton of glyptodonts (Cingulata, Xenarthra) associated with fighting behavior	7
The Quaternary lions of Ukraine and a trend of decreasing size in Panthera spelaea	7
Chaetophractus villosus (Desmarest, 1804) (Xenarthra: Euphractinae) in Uruguay (Upper Pleistocene): Taxon age, biogeography, and paleoclimatic implications	7
Integrative Approach Uncovers New Patterns of Ecomorphological Convergence in Slow Arboreal Xenarthrans	7
Vestigial structures and variation in the evolution of the marsupial mammal dental development—a study of the woolly opossum Caluromys philander	7
First record of Posnanskytherium (Notoungulata, Toxodontidae) in the late Neogene of eastern Puna, Argentina	7
Suction causes novel tooth wear in marine mammals, with implications for feeding evolution in baleen whales	6
Comparison of Hindlimb Muscle Architecture Properties in Small-Bodied, Generalist Mammals Suggests Similarity in Soft Tissue Anatomy	6
Deinotherium levius and Tetralophodon longirostris (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene hominid locality Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany), and their biostratigraphic significance for the ter	6
Tooth Size Variation in Assemblages of Tremacyllus (Hegetotheriidae, Notoungulata): Insights into Geographical Gradients, Systematics, and Sexual Dimorphism	6
Correction to: A New Species of Ctenomys (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) from Patagonia Related to C. sociabilis	6
Muscular anatomy of the hindlimb of the tiger (Panthera tigris)	6
The minimum free energy of G-quadruplex-forming sequences of the MSX1 intron is associated with relative molar and premolar size in eutherians	6
Oryctodelphys nom. nov., a new name for Streptorhynchus Carneiro et al., 2025 (Mammalia, Metatheria, Derorhynchidae)	5
Correction to: A complete skull of a stem mammal from the Late Triassic of Brazil illuminates the early evolution of prozostrodontian cynodonts	5
Dental and mandibular morphology of Peligrotherium tropicalis (Mammalia, Meridiolestida) from the Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina	5
Anatomical, Ontogenetic, and Genomic Homologies Guide Reconstructions of the Teeth-to-Baleen Transition in Mysticete Whales	4
A new multituberculate from the latest Cretaceous of central China and its implications for multituberculate tooth homologies and occlusion	4
The slow revolution of biological nomenclature	4
Investigating the reliability of metapodials as taxonomic Indicators for Beringian horses	4
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
Pelvic sexual dimorphism and its association with cranial morphology in Neotropical spiny rats (Rodentia, Echimyidae)	4
A Diverse Metailurine Guild from the Latest Miocene Xingjiawan Fauna, Yongdeng, Northwestern China, and Generic Differentiation of Metailurine Felids	4
Memories of the blows: severe soft-tissue injuries in caudal vertebrae of Panochthus Burmeister (Xenarthra, Glyptodontidae)	4
Tetraconodontines and suines (Artiodactyla: Suidae) from the earliest Vallesian site of Castell de Barberà (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula)	4
Deciduous dentition, tooth replacement, and mandibular growth in the Late Jurassic docodontan Haldanodon exspectatus (Mammaliaformes)	4
Validity Analysis of the Morphological Identification of Three Highly Morphologically Similar Species Belonging to the Genus Niviventer (Rodentia: Muridae)	4
Looking under stones: A new Ctenomys species from the rocky foothills of the Sierras Grandes of central Argentina	4
Serendipity and adaptation in New World marsupial evolution	4
Comparative craniometric analysis between two species of South American canids and domestic dogs	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
The inner ear of caviomorph rodents: Phylogenetic implications and application to extinct West Indian taxa	4
The skull base in Cingulata (Xenarthra, Mammalia): early ossification, homologies, and comparisons across mammals	4
Ecomorphology of the Early Pleistocene Badger Meles dimitrius from Greece	4
Temperature changes affected mammal dispersal during the Great American Biotic Interchange	4
A new early Miocene bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Panama confirms middle Cenozoic chiropteran dispersal between the Americas	4