OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Systematic Palaeontology is 3. 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
New material of the Early Devonian sarcopterygian Styloichthys changae illuminates the origin of cosmine	42
A new genus of metriorhynchid crocodylomorph from the Lower Cretaceous of Germany	36
Individual, ontogenetic, and phylogenetic variation in the dentition of hadrosaurids (Iguanodontia: Ornithischia)	25
Revision of Romanian sauropod dinosaurs reveals high titanosaur diversity and body-size disparity on the latest Cretaceous Haţeg Island, with implications for titanosaurian biogeography	23
A new aeduellid from the Permian Franchesse Lagerstätte (Bourbon-l’Archambault Basin, Allier, France) highlights the evolution of Palaeozoic actinopterygians	19
New material of Dolichochampsa minima (Archosauria: Crocodylia) from the Cretaceous–Palaeogene El Molino Formation of Bolivia sheds light on the early ev	18
A new entelodont (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the late Eocene of China and its phylogenetic implications	18
A new genus of Lagomerycine(/-id) (Ruminantia, Artiodactyla) from the Lower Miocene of the Linxia Basin, North China	18
A skeletally immature specimen provides new information on the cranial osteology and intraspecific variation of Soturnia caliodon (Procolophonidae: Leptopleuroninae), Up	15
Unravelling the identity of the platanistoid Notocetus vanbenedeni Moreno, 1892 (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the early Miocene of Patagonia (Argentina)	15
A post-hatchling rhynchosaur from the Brazilian Triassic and the ontogenetic development of key characters within Hyperodapedontinae	15
Earliest gobioid fishes were coral-reef associated dwarfs: New evidence from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy	14
A new aetiocetid (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Aetiocetidae) from the late Oligocene of Mexico	14
Redescription of the Late Oligocene heterodont odontocete Eosqualodon langewieschei from the historic Doberg of Bünde, Germany	13
TheTapirusfrom Camp dels Ninots (NE Iberia): implications for morphology, morphometry and phylogeny of Neogene Tapiridae	13
Comptonatus chasei , a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, southern England	12
Editorial	12
Phylogenetic relationships of Unenlagiidae among Paraves (Dinosauria)	12
An earliest Paleocene squirrelfish (Teleostei: Beryciformes: Holocentroidea) and its bearing on the timescale of holocentroid evolution	11
Lucy’s peril: A Pliocene crocodile from the Hadar Formation, north-eastern Ethiopia	11
Extended Lissamphibia: a tale of character non-independence, analytical parameters and islands of trees	11
Untangling the tree or unravelling the consensus? Recent developments in the quest to resolve the broad-scale relationships within Dinosauria	11
A new freshwater gobioid from the Lower Miocene of Turkey in a significantly amended total evidence phylogenetic framework	10
A neotype and reassessment of phylogenetic relationships of the fossil lizard C alanguban alamoi from the Crato Formation (Early Cretaceous, Brazil)	10
A new species of Plohophorus Ameghino (Cingulata, Glyptodontidae) from the latest Pliocene–earliest Pleistocene of the Pampean Region (Argentina): the last survivor of a	10

Objective identification of Lepidocyclina (Foraminifera) species from the Eocene of Cuba based on growth-invariant morphometric characters	10
A new species of Elkanemys (Pleurodira: Pelomedusoides) from the Portezuelo Formation (Turonian–Coniacian) of Patagonia, Argentina	9
Phylogenetic analysis of the gastropod genus Calliotropis Seguenza, 1902 (Vetigastropoda: Calliotropidae), including fossil and living species	9
A new stem geomyoid helps elucidate the palaeoecology and evolutionary history of geomorph rodents	9
Towards a unifying systematic scheme of fossil and living billfishes (Teleostei, Istiophoridae)	8
New material of Miotragocerus (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from northern China and its systematic implications	8
The phylogeny of Macraucheniidae (Mammalia, Panperissodactyla, Litopterna) at the genus level	7
Species of Inversiulidae Vigneaux, 1949 (Bryozoa: Cheilostomatida) in the early Miocene of Patagonia (Argentina), with a phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographical analysis of the family	7
Getting to the root of it: perspectives on the phylogenetic origins of modern reptiles	7
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	7
A new proterochampsid (Archosauriformes: Proterochampsia) from the Late Triassic of southern Brazil and the emergence of archosaurian hind limb traits	7
A new tanystropheid (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the Middle Triassic of SW China and the biogeographical origin of Tanystropheidae	6
New rodents shed light on the age and ecology of late Miocene ape locality of Tapar (Gujarat, India)	6
Helmetia expansa Walcott, 1918 revisited – new insights into the internal anatomy, moulting and phylogeny of Conciliterga	6
Double-armoured herrings (Clupeomorpha: Ellimmichthyiformes) from the Lower Cretaceous of Pietraroja (Southern Italy)	6
First fossil evidence for a new frog from the Early Cretaceous of the Jiuquan Basin, Gansu Province, north-western China	6
Labyrinth morphology of Eunotosaurus africanus in the context of semicircular canal shape variation across amniotes	6
A comprehensive evolutionary history of Peradectidae (Mammalia: Metatheria) revealed by a new dental morphology-based phylogenetic framework, with insights from late early Eocene French specimens	6
Trajectory smoothness – an important criterion in ichnotaxonomy and its implications for identifying tracemakers	6
First Byzantinia from Afro-Arabia and the evolutionary history of extinct cricetodontine rodents investigated through Bayesian phylogenetic inference	6
Comment on ‘Objective identification of Lepidocyclina (Foraminifera) species from the Eocene of Cuba based on growth-invariant morphometric characters’	6
A new species of Charnia from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland reveals novel insights on the taxonomy, palaeobiology and palaeoecology of the Charnida (Rang	6
The anatomy and taxonomy of the North African Early Miocene crocodylian ‘ Tomistoma ’ dowsoni and the phylogenetic relationships of gavial	6
Osteology, taxonomy and phylogenetic affinities of a new pseudosuchian archosaur from the Middle Triassic of southern Brazil	6
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	5
Appendicular osteology of Skorpiovenator bustingorryi (Theropoda, Abelisauridae) with comments on phylogenetic features of abelisaurids	5
New albanerpetontid species (Lissamphibia) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal	5
Galesphyrus capensis from the Permian of South Africa and the origin of Neodiapsida	5
New dinosaur remains increase theropod diversity in the Cañadón Asfalto Formation (Lower Jurassic), Chubut Province, Argentina	5
Silurian phyllocarid crustaceans (Phyllocarida, Archaeostraca) from South China	5
X-ray microtomography of the late Carboniferous whip scorpions (Arachnida, Thelyphonida) Geralinura britannica and Proschizomus petrunkevitchi	5
New early Maastrichtian ‘duck-billed’ dinosaur from Hațeg Basin (Densuș-Ciula Formation, Romania) documents an endemic clade of non-hadrosaurid hadrosauroids in the south-eastern Late Cretaceous Europ	5
Phylogeny of the Ordovician and Silurian members of the order Atrypida	5
The first fossil true cricket (Grylloidea, †Baissogryllidae) from the Middle Jurassic of north-western China and its systematic implications	5
Two new genera of killifish (Cyprinodontiformes) from the Middle Miocene of the Bugojno Basin, Bosnia and Herzegovina: insights into the lost diversity of Valenciidae	5
A decade after Deuteropoda – insights into the systematics, evolution and dynamics of Cambrian euarthropods	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
Why extant, why not extinct? A new extinct Latonia species (Anura: Discoglossidae) from the Early Pleistocene of the Apennine Peninsula provides clues on	4
Occurrence of Styxosaurus (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) in the Cenomanian: implications for relationships of elasmosaurids of the Western Interior Seaway	4
The origins of major sessile cirripede groups; a revision of Cretaceous Brachylepadomorpha and Verrucomorpha	4
Echoes from the Miocene: tracing the anatomy and phylogeny of Prosqualodon australis (Cetacea: Odontoceti)	4
Orea leptia : discovery of a new genus and species with the slenderest metatarsal among ruminants (Giraffidae, Mammalia)	4
Gujaratia indica, the oldest artiodactyl (Mammalia) from South Asia: new dental material and phylogenetic relationships	4
Redescription of Pteronisculus gunnari (Nielsen, 1942) from a juvenile specimen from the Early Triassic of East Greenland, with implications for the onto	4
New stem lepidosaurs from Vellberg, Germany: implications for palaeoecology in the early diversification of Lepidosauromorpha	4
Skeletal morphology and phylogenetic relationships of the Late Cretaceous freshwater ray Myledaphus bipartitus (Chondrichthyes; Batomorphii)	4
A new borioteiioid lizard with large caniniform tooth from the Upper Cretaceous of South China	4
A new tiny eutherian from the Late Cretaceous of Alaska	4
Phylogenetic affinities and evolution of the Early Cambrian hexangulaconulariids	4
New odonatans (Odonata: Gomphaeschnidae; Synlestidae) from the Paleocene Paskapoo Formation: systematic and biogeographical implications	4

Redescription of a Middle Devonian placoderm from Manitoba and comments on the polyphyly of Eastmanosteus (Arthrodira: Eubrachythoraci)	4
A new pipid from the Cretaceous of Africa (In Becetèn, Niger) and early evolution of the Pipidae	3
Phylogeny of the longest existing gastropod clade (Pleurotomariida) reconstructed with Bayesian and parsimony methods and its implications on gastropod shell characters	3
A new titanosauriform with European affinities in the Early Cretaceous of Brazil: insights on Somphospondyli phylogeny, histology and biogeography	3
A new platanistoid (Odontoceti: Squalodelphinidae) from the Early Miocene of Japan	3
A new polyglyphanodontian lizard with a complete lower temporal bar from the Upper Cretaceous of southern China	3
A new titanosaurian sauropod, Gandititan cavocaudatus gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China	3
New endemic Dasypodidae (Xenarthra, Cingulata) from the Late Miocene of Ecuador and the importance of the tropics in the cladogenesis of armadillos	3
New data on the skull of Protorosaurus speneri (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) and their phylogenetic significance	3
Silicified cupulate seed-bearing structures from the Early Cretaceous of eastern Inner Mongolia, China: rethinking the corystosperm concept	3
Taxonomic review, ontogeny and phylogeny of the aeduellids from the upper Carboniferous Decazeville Basin (Aveyron, France)	3
A new sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Pebbly Arkose Formation (Upper Triassic: Norian) of Kariba, Zimbabwe	3
A reappraisal of the morphology and systematics of Exutaspis megista , a brachythoracid arthrodire from the Early Devonian of Yunnan, China	3
Vectipelta barretti , a new ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, UK	3
The phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the armoured dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Thyreophora)	3
Tentacular nature of the ‘column’ of the Cambrian diploblastic Xianguangia sinica	3
A new late Permian archosauromorph reptile from Germany enhances our understanding of the early diversity of the clade	3
A new fossil from the Late Miocene of Piedmont (north-western Italy) sheds light on the evolution of the Cetotheriidae (Mammalia: Cetacea: Mysticeti)	3
Xinjiangchelyid turtles from the Middle Jurassic of the Berezovsk coal mine (Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia): systematics, skeletal morphology, variation, relationships and palaeobiogeographic implicat	3