OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Animal Cognition is 11. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Pet dogs (Canis familiaris) re-engage humans after joint activity	82
Correction to: If horses had toes: demonstrating mirror self recognition at group level in Equus caballus	41
“Cognition in marine mammals: the strength of flexibility in adapting to marine life”	36
Nest sanitation as an effective defence against brood parasitism	33
Life is in motion (through a chick’s eye)	30
Assessment of predation risk through conspecific cues by anuran larvae	29
Does owner handedness influence paw preference in dogs?	25
Grouping rule in tadpole: is quantity more or size assortment more important?	23
Thinking about order: a review of common processing of magnitude and learned orders in animals	23
Cognitive flexibility in a Tanganyikan bower-building cichlid, Aulonocranus dewindti	22
Spot the odd one out: do snake pictures capture macaques’ attention more than other predators?	21
Sex differences in social buffering and social contagion of alarm responses in zebrafish	21
Horses discriminate between human facial and vocal expressions of sadness and joy	21
Injury shortens life expectancy in ants and affects some risk-related decisions of workers	21
On being a Hydra with, and without, a nervous system: what do neurons add?	19
Learning and organization of within-session sequences by pigeons (Columba livia)	19
The PROUST hypothesis: the embodiment of olfactory cognition	19
Lessons learned in animal acoustic cognition through comparisons with humans	18
A comparative study of mirror self-recognition in three corvid species	18
Both age and experience are important for successful problem solving in juvenile fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rats Melomys cervinipes	18
Cognitive control of song production by humpback whales	18
What drives horse success at following human-given cues? An investigation of handler familiarity and living conditions	17
Penguins perceive variations of source- and filter-related vocal parameters of species-specific vocalisations	17
Impact of exploration behavior, aptitude for pellet consumption, and the predation practice on the performance in consecutive live prey foraging tests in a piscivorous species	16
Left or right, that is the question: use of egocentric frame of reference and the right-eye advantage for understanding gestural signs in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)	16

Smart sharks: a review of chondrichthyan cognition	16
Behavioral laterality is correlated with problem-solving performance in a songbird	15
Orientation by environmental geometry and feature cues in the green and black poison frog (Dendrobates auratus)	15
Volumetric and connectivity assessment of the caudate nucleus in California sea lions and coyotes	14
Can rats and ants exchange information between the horizontal and vertical domains?	14
Are you better than me? Social comparisons in carrion crows (Corvus corone)	13
Basal cognition: shifting the center of gravity (again)	13
Plasticity for the kin and conspecific preferences in the frog tadpoles (Rana ornativentris)	13
Emulative learning of a two-step task in free-ranging domestic pigs	13
Cue polarization and representation in mouse home base behaviors	13
Performance on inhibitory tasks does not relate to handedness in several small groups of Callitrichids	13
After 150 years of watching: is there a need for synthetic ethology?	13
African jewel fish (Hemichromis bimaculatus) distinguish individual faces based on their unique iridophore patterns	13
Novel object recognition in Octopus maya	13
Behavioural synchronization and social referencing of dogs and humans: walking in dyad vs in group	12
Visual perception of emotion cues in dogs: a critical review of methodologies	12
Nest box entrance hole size can influence nest site selection and nest defence behaviour in Japanese tits	12
The deterrent effects of individual monoterpene odours on the dietary decisions of African elephants	12
Repeated testing does not confound cognitive performance in the Western Australian magpie (Cracticus tibicen dorsalis)	12
Varieties of visual navigation in insects	12
Tolerant macaque species are less impulsive and reactive	12
Social experience drives the development of holistic face processing in paper wasps	11
Gender differences in animal cognition science	11
Quantity discrimination by kittens of the domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus)	11
Count-based decision-making in mice: numerosity vs. stimulus control	11
Cognition of the manatee: past research and future developments	11
First record of geophagy in Jungle Babbler (Turdoides striata) prior to egg-laying: an instinct for calcium supplement	11