OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Mammalian Evolution is 5. 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
Endocranial cast anatomy of the Early Miocene glyptodont Propalaehoplophorus australis (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) and its evolutionary implications	32
New interpretation of dentition in Early Cretaceous docodontan Sibirotherium based on micro-computed tomography	22
New insights into the upper and lower deciduous dentition of Pyrotherium from the late Oligocene of South America	20
Stuck between rivers: a new species of Ctenomys from northern Argentine Patagonia	19
New reports, updates, and additional comments about Neobrachytherium ullumense Soria, 2001 (Litopterna, Proterotheriidae) in the Late Miocene of Uruguay and Argentina	17
New Quaternary mammals support regional endemism in western Hispaniola	16
Evolution and drivers of long-distance vocal communication in mammals	15
Cranial geometric morphometrics of jumping mice (Genera: Eozapus, Napaeozapus, and Zapus; Zapodinae, Rodentia): Implications for subspecies conservation	14
Phylogenetic relationships of Marmosops Matschie, 1916 in the Atlantic Forest and topography effects on the diversity of M. paulensis Tate, 1931 (Didelphidae: Thylamyini)	13
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
More than just appendages: systematic, paleobiogeographic and paleoenvironmental implications of the extinct Sicilian hippopotamus postcrania	12
Morpho-functional analysis of the pelvis and hindlimb of Cyonasua (Carnivora, Procyonidae)	11
Feeding the ‘fire beasts’: mesowear angles in bilophodont South American herbivores	11
Temporal lobe evolution in extant and extinct Cercopithecoidea	11
Investigating the land-to-sea transition in carnivorans from the evolution of sacrum morphology in pinnipeds	10
Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Miocene of Damiao, Nei Mongol, China	10
The presence of an atavistic caniniform alveolus in Nothrotherium maquinense (Xenarthra, Folivora, Nothrotheriidae)	10
The last of Europe: systematics and palaeoecology of the ictitheres (Hyaenidae) from Venta del Moro (Spain)	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	9
Trophic differentiation between the endemic Cypriot mouse and the house mouse: a study coupling stable isotopes and morphometrics	9
Postcranial evolution of the insular lineage of Nesiotites Bate, 1944 (Lipotyphla: Nectogalini) from Asoriculus to extinction	9
Morphological variation of limb bones in three families of Neotropical bats from Argentina: exploring the influences of allometry, ecology, and phylogeny	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

A new species of Paludocyon (Carnivora: Amphicyonidae) from the early Middle Miocene of els Casots (Vallès-Penedès Basin, Barcelona, Spain)	8
Research trajectory, works, and legacy of Salvador Moyà-Solà as a vertebrate paleobiologist	8
The ancestral morphology of lumbar vertebrae and its diversification in early Cenozoic mammals	8
Integrating paleopathology and paleoecology to unravel the lifestyle of the Pleistocene sloth Nothrotherium maquinense	7
First record of Posnanskytherium (Notoungulata, Toxodontidae) in the late Neogene of eastern Puna, Argentina	7
Chaetophractus villosus (Desmarest, 1804) (Xenarthra: Euphractinae) in Uruguay (Upper Pleistocene): Taxon age, biogeography, and paleoclimatic implications	7
Divergence, diagnosability, and description of a new subspecies of franciscana dolphin Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais & d’Orbigny, 1844)	7
An easy-to-apply method to reconstruct proportions and sizes of masticatory muscles in extinct herbivorous mammals	7
Measuring Molarization: Change Through Time in Premolar Function in An Extinct Stem Primate Lineage	7
The origin and evolutionary history of Lagomorpha (Mammalia) in China	7
Trauma-induced alterations in the exoskeleton of glyptodonts (Cingulata, Xenarthra) associated with fighting behavior	7
Dentary–squamosal jaw articulation in a late surviving tritylodontid synapsid from the Early Cretaceous of Western Siberia, Russia	7
Earliest Vallesian suid remains from Creu de Conill 20 (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula)	7
The Quaternary lions of Ukraine and a trend of decreasing size in Panthera spelaea	6
Tungiasis and cutaneous pathologies in the exoskeleton of glyptodonts: new evidence and insights	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
Correction to: A complete skull of a stem mammal from the Late Triassic of Brazil illuminates the early evolution of prozostrodontian cynodonts	6
Muscular anatomy of the hindlimb of the tiger (Panthera tigris)	6
Suction causes novel tooth wear in marine mammals, with implications for feeding evolution in baleen whales	6
Oryctodelphys nom. nov., a new name for Streptorhynchus Carneiro et al., 2025 (Mammalia, Metatheria, Derorhynchidae)	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
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.	6
Paleohistology and life history of Procervulus and Eotragus (Ruminantia, Artiodactyla) from the Middle Miocene site of els Casots (NE Iberian Peninsula)	5
Pelvic sexual dimorphism and its association with cranial morphology in Neotropical spiny rats (Rodentia, Echimyidae)	5
A dwarf Megantereon from the Sangiran complex of Java (Indonesia; late Early Pleistocene) and its biogeographic implications	5
Looking under stones: A new Ctenomys species from the rocky foothills of the Sierras Grandes of central Argentina	5
Dental and mandibular morphology of Peligrotherium tropicalis (Mammalia, Meridiolestida) from the Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina	5
Head myology of wild cavies (Caviidae, Caviomorpha) and functional implications of hystricomorphous and hystricognathous configurations	5
The slow revolution of biological nomenclature	5
Comparative craniometric analysis between two species of South American canids and domestic dogs	5
Craniodental anatomy of the hornless rhinocerotid Chilotherium schlosseri (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Late Miocene of Samos Island, Greece	5
Temperature changes affected mammal dispersal during the Great American Biotic Interchange	5
A new early Miocene bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Panama confirms middle Cenozoic chiropteran dispersal between the Americas	5