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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Endocranial cast anatomy of the Early Miocene glyptodont Propalaehoplophorus australis (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) and its evolutionary implications	22
New Quaternary mammals support regional endemism in western Hispaniola	19
New interpretation of dentition in Early Cretaceous docodontan Sibirotherium based on micro-computed tomography	18
New insights into the upper and lower deciduous dentition of Pyrotherium from the late Oligocene of South America	17
Stuck between rivers: a new species of Ctenomys from northern Argentine Patagonia	16
On the Eating Habits of Sloths: Finite Element Analysis and Niche Specialization	16
New reports, updates, and additional comments about Neobrachytherium ullumense Soria, 2001 (Litopterna, Proterotheriidae) in the Late Miocene of Uruguay and Argentina	15
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 insights into the postcranial anatomy of Exaeretodon riograndensis (Eucynodontia: Traversodontidae): phylogenetic implications, body mass, and lifestyle	13
New Specimens of Reigitherium bunodontum from the Late Cretaceous La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina and Meridiolestidan Diversity in South America	13
Cranial geometric morphometrics of jumping mice (Genera: Eozapus, Napaeozapus, and Zapus; Zapodinae, Rodentia): Implications for subspecies conservation	13
Morphological and Functional Divergence of the Lower Jaw Between Native and Invasive Red Foxes	13
Ecomorphology of toothed whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti) as revealed by 3D skull geometry	12
A New Mammal Skull from the Late Cretaceous of Romania and Phylogenetic Affinities of Kogaionid Multituberculates	11
From Embryo to Adult: The Complete Development and Unusual Replacement of the Dentition of the Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii)	11
Investigating the land-to-sea transition in carnivorans from the evolution of sacrum morphology in pinnipeds	11
Temporal lobe evolution in extant and extinct Cercopithecoidea	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
Morphological variation of limb bones in three families of Neotropical bats from Argentina: exploring the influences of allometry, ecology, and phylogeny	8
First Apatemyid Mammal from Central Asia	8
Skeletal Variation and Taxonomic Boundaries in the Pen-tailed Treeshrew (Scandentia: Ptilocercidae; Ptilocercus lowii Gray, 1848)	8
Total Dental Occlusal Area as a Feeding Constraint Feature in Extant Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus), and Implications for the Evolution of Molluscivory in Odobenidae	8
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	7

Ontogenetic and Intraspecific Variation in the Skull Morphology of the Late Miocene Bovid Hezhengia bohlini	7
Integrating paleopathology and paleoecology to unravel the lifestyle of the Pleistocene sloth Nothrotherium maquinense	7
Integrative Approach Uncovers New Patterns of Ecomorphological Convergence in Slow Arboreal Xenarthrans	7
Megantereon adroveri from the Early Pleistocene of Taurida Cave, Crimea, and the European Lineage of Dirk-toothed Cats	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
Vestigial structures and variation in the evolution of the marsupial mammal dental development—a study of the woolly opossum Caluromys philander	7
Maybe So, Maybe Not: Canis lepophagus at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, Idaho, USA	7
Trauma-induced alterations in the exoskeleton of glyptodonts (Cingulata, Xenarthra) associated with fighting behavior	7
Earliest Vallesian suid remains from Creu de Conill 20 (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula)	6
First record of Posnanskytherium (Notoungulata, Toxodontidae) in the late Neogene of eastern Puna, Argentina	6
Suction causes novel tooth wear in marine mammals, with implications for feeding evolution in baleen whales	6
The Quaternary lions of Ukraine and a trend of decreasing size in Panthera spelaea	6
Measuring Molarization: Change Through Time in Premolar Function in An Extinct Stem Primate Lineage	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
Phylogeography of the Endangered Franciscana Dolphin: Timing and Geological Setting of the Evolution of Populations	6
The ancestral morphology of lumbar vertebrae and its diversification in early Cenozoic mammals	6
Deinotherium levius and Tetralophodon longirostris (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene hominid locality Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany), and their biostratigraphic significance for the ter	5
Muscular anatomy of the hindlimb of the tiger (Panthera tigris)	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
Correction to: A New Species of Ctenomys (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) from Patagonia Related to C. sociabilis	5
Comparison of Hindlimb Muscle Architecture Properties in Small-Bodied, Generalist Mammals Suggests Similarity in Soft Tissue Anatomy	5
Chaetophractus villosus (Desmarest, 1804) (Xenarthra: Euphractinae) in Uruguay (Upper Pleistocene): Taxon age, biogeography, and paleoclimatic implications	5
Tooth Size Variation in Assemblages of Tremacyllus (Hegetotheriidae, Notoungulata): Insights into Geographical Gradients, Systematics, and Sexual Dimorphism	5
Correction to: A complete skull of a stem mammal from the Late Triassic of Brazil illuminates the early evolution of prozostrodontian cynodonts	5
Oryctodelphys nom. nov., a new name for Streptorhynchus Carneiro et al., 2025 (Mammalia, Metatheria, Derorhynchidae)	4
Anatomical, Ontogenetic, and Genomic Homologies Guide Reconstructions of the Teeth-to-Baleen Transition in Mysticete Whales	4
Looking under stones: A new Ctenomys species from the rocky foothills of the Sierras Grandes of central Argentina	4
Ecomorphology of the Early Pleistocene Badger Meles dimitrius from Greece	4
The slow revolution of biological nomenclature	4
Investigating the reliability of metapodials as taxonomic Indicators for Beringian horses	4
A new early Miocene bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Panama confirms middle Cenozoic chiropteran dispersal between the Americas	4
Dental and mandibular morphology of Peligrotherium tropicalis (Mammalia, Meridiolestida) from the Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina	4
High Allelic Diversity of Dog Leukocyte Antigen Class II in East Asian Dogs: Identification of New Alleles and Haplotypes	4
Head myology of wild cavies (Caviidae, Caviomorpha) and functional implications of hystricomorphous and hystricognathous configurations	4
Validity Analysis of the Morphological Identification of Three Highly Morphologically Similar Species Belonging to the Genus Niviventer (Rodentia: Muridae)	4
A Diverse Metailurine Guild from the Latest Miocene Xingjiawan Fauna, Yongdeng, Northwestern China, and Generic Differentiation of Metailurine Felids	4
The skull base in Cingulata (Xenarthra, Mammalia): early ossification, homologies, and comparisons across mammals	4
Temperature changes affected mammal dispersal during the Great American Biotic Interchange	4
Serendipity and adaptation in New World marsupial evolution	4
Pelvic sexual dimorphism and its association with cranial morphology in Neotropical spiny rats (Rodentia, Echimyidae)	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
Deciduous dentition, tooth replacement, and mandibular growth in the Late Jurassic docodontan Haldanodon exspectatus (Mammaliaformes)	4