OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Revision of Romanian sauropod dinosaurs reveals high titanosaur diversity and body-size disparity on the latest Cretaceous Haţeg Island, with implications for titanosaurian biogeography	21
Individual, ontogenetic, and phylogenetic variation in the dentition of hadrosaurids (Iguanodontia: Ornithischia)	20
New material of the Early Devonian sarcopterygian Styloichthys changae illuminates the origin of cosmine	19
A new genus of metriorhynchid crocodylomorph from the Lower Cretaceous of Germany	15
Re-description of the sexually dimorphic peltopleuriform fishWushaichthys exquisitus(Middle Triassic, China): taxonomic implications and phylogenetic relationships	14
A new entelodont (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the late Eocene of China and its phylogenetic implications	14
A skeletally immature specimen provides new information on the cranial osteology and intraspecific variation of Soturnia caliodon (Procolophonidae: Leptopleuroninae), Up	12
Unravelling the identity of the platanistoid Notocetus vanbenedeni Moreno, 1892 (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the early Miocene of Patagonia (Argentina)	12
Redescription of the Late Oligocene heterodont odontocete Eosqualodon langewieschei from the historic Doberg of Bünde, Germany	12
New material of Dolichochampsa minima (Archosauria: Crocodylia) from the Cretaceous–Palaeogene El Molino Formation of Bolivia sheds light on the early evolution of Gavia	12
A new aetiocetid (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Aetiocetidae) from the late Oligocene of Mexico	12
An earliest Paleocene squirrelfish (Teleostei: Beryciformes: Holocentroidea) and its bearing on the timescale of holocentroid evolution	11
Untangling the tree or unravelling the consensus? Recent developments in the quest to resolve the broad-scale relationships within Dinosauria	11
TheTapirusfrom Camp dels Ninots (NE Iberia): implications for morphology, morphometry and phylogeny of Neogene Tapiridae	11
Phylogenetic relationships of Unenlagiidae among Paraves (Dinosauria)	10
Extended Lissamphibia: a tale of character non-independence, analytical parameters and islands of trees	10
Editorial	9
The most complete extinct species of Testudo (Testudines, Testudinidae) defined by several well-preserved skeletons from the late Miocene of Romania	8
Comptonatus chasei , a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, southern England	8
Objective identification of Lepidocyclina (Foraminifera) species from the Eocene of Cuba based on growth-invariant morphometric characters	8
Ontogenetic changes in the postcranial skeleton ofMussaurus patagonicus(Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) and their impact on the phylogenetic relationships of early sauropodomorphs	7
A new species of Plohophorus Ameghino (Cingulata, Glyptodontidae) from the latest Pliocene–earliest Pleistocene of the Pampean Region (Argentina): the last survivor of a	7
A new freshwater gobioid from the Lower Miocene of Turkey in a significantly amended total evidence phylogenetic framework	7
Phylogenetic analysis of the gastropod genus Calliotropis Seguenza, 1902 (Vetigastropoda: Calliotropidae), including fossil and living species	7
A neotype and reassessment of phylogenetic relationships of the fossil lizard C alanguban alamoi from the Crato Formation (Early Cretaceous, Brazil)	7

A new proterochampsid (Archosauriformes: Proterochampsia) from the Late Triassic of southern Brazil and the emergence of archosaurian hind limb traits	6
A new stem geomyoid helps elucidate the palaeoecology and evolutionary history of geomorph rodents	6
New material of Miotragocerus (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from northern China and its systematic implications	6
Towards a unifying systematic scheme of fossil and living billfishes (Teleostei, Istiophoridae)	6
Phylogenetic implications of the systematic reassessment of Xenacanthiformes and ‘Ctenacanthiformes’ (Chondrichthyes) neurocrania from the Carboniferous–Permian Autun Basin (France)	6
The phylogeny of Macraucheniidae (Mammalia, Panperissodactyla, Litopterna) at the genus level	6
Redescription, taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships ofBoavusMarsh, 1871 (Serpentes: Booidea) from the early–middle Eocene of the USA	6
The anatomy and taxonomy of the North African Early Miocene crocodylian ‘ Tomistoma ’ dowsoni and the phylogenetic relationships of gavial	5
Editorial	5
Comment on ‘Objective identification of Lepidocyclina (Foraminifera) species from the Eocene of Cuba based on growth-invariant morphometric characters’	5
First Byzantinia from Afro-Arabia and the evolutionary history of extinct cricetodontine rodents investigated through Bayesian phylogenetic inference	5
A new tanystropheid (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the Middle Triassic of SW China and the biogeographical origin of Tanystropheidae	5
Species of Inversiulidae Vigneaux, 1949 (Bryozoa: Cheilostomatida) in the early Miocene of Patagonia (Argentina), with a phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographical analysis of the family	5
New rodents shed light on the age and ecology of late Miocene ape locality of Tapar (Gujarat, India)	5
Double-armoured herrings (Clupeomorpha: Ellimmichthyiformes) from the Lower Cretaceous of Pietraroja (Southern Italy)	5
A new species of Charnia from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland reveals novel insights on the taxonomy, palaeobiology and palaeoecology of the Charnida (Rangeomorpha)	5
A nearly complete skeleton of a new eusphenodontian from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, Wyoming, USA, provides insight into the evolution and diversity of Rhynchocephalia (Reptilia: Lepidosaur	5
Systematic significance of wing morphology in extinct Prophalangopsidae (Insecta, Ensifera) revealed by geometric morphometrics and description of two new species	5
Helmetia expansa Walcott, 1918 revisited – new insights into the internal anatomy, moulting and phylogeny of Conciliterga	5
A re-assessment of the osteology and phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic, large-headed reptileSphodrosaurus pennsylvanicus(Late Triassic, Pennsylvania, USA) indicates archosauriform aff	4
Phylogeny of the Ordovician and Silurian members of the order Atrypida	4
Two new genera of killifish (Cyprinodontiformes) from the Middle Miocene of the Bugojno Basin, Bosnia and Herzegovina: insights into the lost diversity of Valenciidae	4
A new radiodont from the lower Cambrian (Series 2 Stage 3) Chengjiang Lagerstätte, South China informs the evolution of feeding structures in radiodonts	4
The fossil record of sabre-tooth characins (Teleostei: Characiformes: Cynodontinae), their phylogenetic relationships and palaeobiogeographical implications	4
First fossil evidence for a new frog from the Early Cretaceous of the Jiuquan Basin, Gansu Province, north-western China	4
New dinosaur remains increase theropod diversity in the Cañadón Asfalto Formation (Lower Jurassic), Chubut Province, Argentina	4
Redescription of a Middle Devonian placoderm from Manitoba and comments on the polyphyly of Eastmanosteus (Arthrodira: Eubrachythoraci)	4
Echoes from the Miocene: tracing the anatomy and phylogeny of Prosqualodon australis (Cetacea: Odontoceti)	4
X-ray microtomography of the late Carboniferous whip scorpions (Arachnida, Thelyphonida) Geralinura britannica and Proschizomus petrunkevitchi	4
Silurian phyllocarid crustaceans (Phyllocarida, Archaeostraca) from South China	4
Appendicular osteology of Skorpiovenator bustingorryi (Theropoda, Abelisauridae) with comments on phylogenetic features of abelisaurids	4
Cornualbus primus gen. et sp. nov.: a new procolophonid (Reptilia: Parareptilia) from Upper Triassic of South America, first tetrapod from the Passo das Tropas Member of the Santa M	4
Gujaratia indica, the oldest artiodactyl (Mammalia) from South Asia: new dental material and phylogenetic relationships	4
A new borioteiioid lizard with large caniniform tooth from the Upper Cretaceous of South China	4
Occurrence of Styxosaurus (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) in the Cenomanian: implications for relationships of elasmosaurids of the Western Interior Seaway	3
A new titanosaurian sauropod, Gandititan cavocaudatus gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China	3
New Oligocene Pseudocrenilabrinae cichlid fishes (Teleostei, Cichlidae) from freshwater deposits of Libya	3
Phylogenetic affinities and evolution of the Early Cambrian hexangulaconulariids	3
Taxonomy, phylogeny and stratigraphical ranges of middle Permian pareiasaurs from the Karoo Basin of South Africa	3
New odonatans (Odonata: Gomphaeschnidae; Synlestidae) from the Paleocene Paskapoo Formation: systematic and biogeographical implications	3
A new pipid from the Cretaceous of Africa (In Becetèn, Niger) and early evolution of the Pipidae	3
Redescription of Pteronisculus gunnari (Nielsen, 1942) from a juvenile specimen from the Early Triassic of East Greenland, with implications for the ontogeny of early ac	3
A new tiny eutherian from the Late Cretaceous of Alaska	3
The origins of major sessile cirripede groups; a revision of Cretaceous Brachylepadomorpha and Verrucomorpha	3
A new †Pachycormiformes (Actinopterygii) from the Upper Jurassic of Gondwana sheds light on the evolutionary history of the group	3
Xinjiangchelyid turtles from the Middle Jurassic of the Berezovsk coal mine (Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia): systematics, skeletal morphology, variation, relationships and palaeobiogeographic implicat	3
Orea leptia : discovery of a new genus and species with the slenderest metatarsal among ruminants (Giraffidae, Mammalia)	3
A new platanistoid (Odontoceti: Squalodelphinidae) from the Early Miocene of Japan	2
The phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the armoured dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Thyreophora)	2
Silicified cupulate seed-bearing structures from the Early Cretaceous of eastern Inner Mongolia, China: rethinking the corystosperm concept	2

The Miocene deep-water echinoids Toxopatagus italicus and Neoholaster albensis gen. and sp. nov., implications for holasteroid phylogeny a	2
A new hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Late Cretaceous of northern Patagonia and the radiation of South American hadrosaurids	2
A reappraisal of the morphology and systematics of Exutaspis megista , a brachythoracid arthrodire from the Early Devonian of Yunnan, China	2
New data on the skull of Protorosaurus speneri (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) and their phylogenetic significance	2
Careful amendment of morphological data sets improves phylogenetic frameworks: re-evaluating placement of the fossil Amiskwia sagittiformis	2
Phylogenetic analysis of Ceratophryidae (Anura: Hyloidea) including extant and extinct species	2
Phylogeny of the longest existing gastropod clade (Pleurotomariida) reconstructed with Bayesian and parsimony methods and its implications on gastropod shell characters	2
Vectipelta barretti , a new ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, UK	2
A new polyglyphanodontian lizard with a complete lower temporal bar from the Upper Cretaceous of southern China	2
Redescription of Pseudhesperosuchus jachaleri (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha) from the Los Colorados Formation (Norian), Argentina	2
Tentacular nature of the ‘column’ of the Cambrian diploblastic Xianguangia sinica	2