OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Back to the Womb: A Perinatal Perspective on Mammalian Hibernation	23
Differential Changes in Circulating Steroid Hormones in Hibernating Brown Bears: Preliminary Conclusions and Caveats	18
Front Matter	16
Heritability and Parental Effects in Telomere Length in a Color Polymorphic Long-Lived Bird	15
Variation in Melanin Content of Lizard Livers: Hybrids Turning to the Dark Side	14
The Rate of Cooling during Torpor Entry Drives Torpor Patterns in a Small Marsupial	14
Adaptation to Urban Heat Islands Enhances Thermal Performance Following Development under Chronic Thermal Stress but Not Benign Conditions in the Terrestrial Isopod Oniscus asellus	14
Could Chronic Hypothermia in a Human Affect the Clock System?	13
Announcement: Physiological and Biochemical Zoology Is Changing Its Name to Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology	11
Allometric Scaling of Anaerobic Capacity Estimated from a Unique Field-Based Data Set of Fish Swimming	9
Environmental Drivers of Growth and Oxidative Status during Early Life in a Long-Lived Antarctic Seabird, the Adélie Penguin	9
Front Cover	8
IGF-1 Levels Increase during an Immune but Not an Oxidative Challenge in an Avian Model, the Japanese Quail	8
Physiological Ecology of Winter Hibernation by the High-Altitude Frog Nanorana parkeri	7
Understanding Patterns of Life History Trait Covariation in an Untapped Resource, the Lab Mouse	7
Temperature Effects on DNA Damage during Hibernation	7
A Summer Heat Wave Reduced Activity, Heart Rate, and Autumn Body Mass in a Cold-Adapted Ungulate	7
Front Matter	7
Cascading Effects of Conspecific Aggression on Oxidative Status and Telomere Length in Zebra Finches	6
Osmoregulatory Performance among Prickly Sculpin (Cottus asper) Living in Contrasting Osmotic Habitats	6
Front Cover	6
Chronic Thermal Acclimation Effects on Critical Thermal Maxima (CT_max) and Oxidative Stress Differences in White Epaxial Muscle between Surface and Cave Morphotypes of the Mexican Cavefish	6
For the Love of Snakes: Discovering Snakes in Wild Places Review	6
Body Temperature Patterns and Energy Balance Hormones in Free-Living Thirteen-Lined Ground Squirrels (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus) from Different Latitudes	6
House Sparrows Vary Seasonally in Their Ability to Transmit West Nile Virus	5

Front Cover	5
Small Alpine Marsupials Regulate Evaporative Water Loss, Suggesting a Thermoregulatory Role Rather than a Water Conservation Role	5
Universality of Torpor Expression in Bats	5
Corticosterone Alters Body Weight, but Not Metabolites, during Chronic Stress	4
Altricial Bird Early-Stage Embryos Express the Molecular “Machinery” to Respond to and Modulate Maternal Thyroid Hormone Cues	4
Shifts in the Thermal Dependence of Locomotor Performance across an Altitudinal Gradient in Native Populations of Xenopus laevis	4
Flexible Employment of Torpor in Squirrel Gliders (Petaurus norfolcensis): An Adaptation to Unpredictable Climate?	4
Environmental Stress and the Morphology of Daphnia pulex	4
Building Bridges from Genome to Physiology Using Machine Learning and Drosophila Experimental Evolution	4
Ventilatory Sensitivity to Ambient CO₂ at Different Hibernation Temperatures in Thirteen-Lined Ground Squirrels (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus)	4
Infection Causes Trade-Offs between Development and Growth in Larval Amphibians	4
Front Cover	4
Mitochondrial Enzyme Activities and Body Condition of Naturally Infected Sunfish ( Lepomis gibbosus )	4
Cold and Hungry: Heterothermy Is Associated with Low Leptin Levels in a Bulk Grazer during a Drought	4
Sex-Specific Effects of Blood Serotonin on Reproductive Effort in a Small Passerine	3
Torpor Does Not Influence Spatial Memory in Hibernating Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrels ( Spermophilus [Callospermophilus] lateralis )	3
DNA Methylation and Counterdirectional Pigmentation Change following Immune Challenge in a Small Ectotherm	3
Body Composition and Energy Savings by Hibernation: Lessons from the South American Marsupial Dromiciops gliroides	3
Dive Performance and Aquatic Thermoregulation of the World’s Smallest Mammalian Diver, the American Water Shrew ( Sorex palustris )	3
Commentary on the Biphasic Ontogenetic Metabolic Scaling of the American Eel (Anguilla rostrata)	3
Opportunities Lost? Evolutionary Causes and Ecological Consequences of the Absence of Trehalose Digestion in Birds	3
Variation of Rodents’ Body Temperature across Elevation in Alps	3
Front Cover	3