OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Differential Changes in Circulating Steroid Hormones in Hibernating Brown Bears: Preliminary Conclusions and Caveats	142
Back to the Womb: A Perinatal Perspective on Mammalian Hibernation	19
Front Matter	15
Variation in Melanin Content of Lizard Livers: Hybrids Turning to the Dark Side	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	13
Heritability and Parental Effects in Telomere Length in a Color Polymorphic Long-Lived Bird	12
The Rate of Cooling during Torpor Entry Drives Torpor Patterns in a Small Marsupial	12
Could Chronic Hypothermia in a Human Affect the Clock System?	11
Upper Thermal Tolerance Indicated by CT_max Fails to Predict Migration Strategy and Timing, Growth, and Predation Vulnerability in Juvenile Brown Trout (Salmo trutta)	11
Allometric Scaling of Anaerobic Capacity Estimated from a Unique Field-Based Data Set of Fish Swimming	10
Announcement: Physiological and Biochemical Zoology Is Changing Its Name to Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology	9
Front Cover	9
Front Matter	9
Acute-Phase Immune Response Involves Fever, Sickness Behavior, and an Elevated Metabolic Rate in the Subterranean RodentCtenomys talarum	9
IGF-1 Levels Increase during an Immune but Not an Oxidative Challenge in an Avian Model, the Japanese Quail	8
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 Cover	7
Environmental Drivers of Growth and Oxidative Status during Early Life in a Long-Lived Antarctic Seabird, the Adélie Penguin	7
Body Mass and Tail Girth Predict Hibernation Expression in Captive Dwarf Lemurs	7
Physiological Ecology of Winter Hibernation by the High-Altitude Frog Nanorana parkeri	7
Cascading Effects of Conspecific Aggression on Oxidative Status and Telomere Length in Zebra Finches	7
Repeatability of Voluntary Thermal Maximum and Covariance with Water Loss Reveal Potential for Adaptation to Changing Climates	6
Front and Back Matter	6
A Mesocosm Experiment in Ecological Physiology: The Modulation of Energy Budget in a Hibernating Marsupial under Chronic Caloric Restriction	6

Understanding Patterns of Life History Trait Covariation in an Untapped Resource, the Lab Mouse	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
Front Cover	6
Quantification of Urinary Sex Steroids in the Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus)	6
Osmoregulatory Performance among Prickly Sculpin (Cottus asper) Living in Contrasting Osmotic Habitats	5
For the Love of Snakes: Discovering Snakes in Wild Places Review	5
Front Cover	5
Body Temperature Patterns and Energy Balance Hormones in Free-Living Thirteen-Lined Ground Squirrels (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus) from Different Latitudes	5
Small Alpine Marsupials Regulate Evaporative Water Loss, Suggesting a Thermoregulatory Role Rather than a Water Conservation Role	4
Measuring Metabolic Rates: A Manual for Scientists(2nd edition). By J. R. B. Lighton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.	4
No Evidence for Constitutive Innate Immune Senescence in a Longitudinal Study of a Wild Bird	4
Front Cover	4
Infection Causes Trade-Offs between Development and Growth in Larval Amphibians	4
Corticosterone Alters Body Weight, but Not Metabolites, during Chronic Stress	4
Universality of Torpor Expression in Bats	4
House Sparrows Vary Seasonally in Their Ability to Transmit West Nile Virus	4
Environmental Stress and the Morphology of Daphnia pulex	4