OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Swiss Journal of Palaeontology is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A new suction feeder and miniature teleosteomorph, Marcopoloichthys mirigioliensis, from the lower Besano Formation (late Anisian) of Monte San Giorgio	27
New data on the marine Upper Triassic palaeobiota from the Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte in Austria	20
Cranium of Sipalocyon externus (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) with remarks on the paleoneurology of hathliacynids and insights into the Early Miocene sparassodonts of Patagonia, Argentina	19
Dental remains of ‘Parachleuastochoerus’ valentini (Suidae: Tetraconodontinae) from the early Late Miocene of Sant Quirze (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula): taxonomic and phylogenetic impli	12
Pachycormid fish fed on octobrachian cephalopods: new evidence from the ‘Schistes bitumineux’ (early Toarcian) of southern Luxembourg	12
Late Miocene Tapiridae from Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula): taxonomic and paleoenvironmental implications	11
An almost complete cranium of Asoriculus gibberodon (Petényi, 1864) (Mammalia, Soricidae) from the early Pliocene of the Jradzor site, Armenia	9
Integrated palynology and sedimentology of the Mississippian of the Tisdafine Basin (Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco)	8
Triassic palynology of the Swiss Belchentunnel: a restudy of the Scheuring samples	8
Correction: Impact of increasing morphological information by micro-CT scanning on the phylogenetic placement of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in amber	8
Xenarthrans of the collection of Santiago Roth from the Pampean Region of Argentina (Pleistocene), in Zurich, Switzerland	7
The impact of the Pliensbachian–Toarcian crisis on belemnite assemblages and size distribution	7
Relationships of growth increments of internal shells and age through entire life cycles in three cultured neritic cephalopods (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) with re-evaluation as application for age determi	7
A redescription of Brouffia orientalis Carroll & Baird, 1972 from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic and the status and affinities of protorothyridid amniotes	7
Damaged glyptodontid skulls from Late Pleistocene sites of northwestern Venezuela: evidence of hunting by humans?	7
Novel insights into early life stages of finned octopods (Octopoda: Cirrata)	7
Cranial and mandibular anatomy of Plastomenus thomasii and a new time-tree of trionychid evolution	7
A new ichnotaxonomic name for burrows in vertebrate coprolites from the Miocene Chesapeake Group of Maryland, U.S.A	7
Flying turtles in the earliest trees of life: scientific transparency in the phylogenetic works of Ernst Haeckel	6
First evidence of Proganochelys quenstedtii (Testudinata) from the Plateosaurus bonebeds (Norian, Late Triassic) of Frick, Canton Aargau, Switzerland	6
New information on the dentition of Chaohusaurus zhangjiawanensis (Reptilia, Ichthyosauriformes) from the Early Triassic of Yuan’an, Hubei Province, China	6
The Mayer-Eymar collection of Cenozoic mollusks	6
Phylogenetics and systematics of the subfamilies Cheirurinae and Deiphoninae (Trilobita)	6
Carnivoran fossils from the Pampean region (Argentina): Santiago Roth collections in Switzerland	6
Cephalopod palaeobiology: evolution and life history of the most intelligent invertebrates	6

A new pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of southwestern China and its phylogenetic and biogeographic implications	5
The oldest Gondwanan record of the extinct durophagous hybodontiform chondrichthyan, Strophodus from the Bajocian of Morocco	5
Scleractinian corals from the Lower Cretaceous of the Alpstein area (Anthozoa; Vitznau Marl; lower Valanginian) and a preliminary comparison with contemporaneous coral assemblages	5
Convergent evolution and convergent loss in the grasping structures of immature earwigs and aphidlion-like larvae as demonstrated by about 100-million-year-old fossils	4
A report on palaeontological excavations and sampling in mudrocks: some guidelines	4
Preservation of nautilid soft parts inside and outside the conch interpreted as central nervous system, eyes, and renal concrements from the Lebanese Cenomanian	4
Coral fauna across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary at Zagros and Sistan Suture zones and Yazd Block of Iran	4
Comparative bone histology of two thalattosaurians (Diapsida: Thalattosauria): Askeptosaurus italicus from the Alpine Triassic (Middle Triassic) and a Thalattosauroidea indet. from the Carnian of Oreg	4
Nearctic Pleistocene ungulates from the Pampean region (Argentina) in the historical collections of Santiago Roth in Switzerland: an overview	4
Pampean megamammals in Europe: the fossil collections from Santiago Roth	4
New Odonatan oviposition ichnotaxa from the Lower Jurassic of Iran	4
A redescription of the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) turtle Uluops uluops and a new phylogenetic hypothesis of Paracryptodira	4
The research history of the Middle Triassic fishes of Monte San Giorgio: getting out of the shadow of aquatic reptiles	4
Evolutionary development of the cephalopod arm armature: a review	4
The history of short-tailed whip scorpions: changes in body size and flagellum shape in Schizomida	4
New or poorly known Neocomitidae (Ammonitina, Ammonoida) from the lower Hauterivian sedimentary series of the Jura platform and the Vocontian trough (France and Switzerland)	4
Cranial and endocranial comparative anatomy of the Pleistocene glyptodonts from the Santiago Roth Collection	4
Revision of the genus Protadelomys, a middle Eocene theridomyoid rodent: evolutionary and biochronological implications	4
Impact of increasing morphological information by micro-CT scanning on the phylogenetic placement of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in amber	4
Geology and stratigraphy of the Neogene section along the Oued Beth between Dar bel Hamri and El Kansera (Rharb Basin, northwestern Morocco) and its otolith-based fish fauna: a faunal inventory for th	4
Morphological disparity in extant and extinct sepiid phragmocones: morphological adaptions for phragmocone strength compared to those related to cameral liquid emptying hypotheses	3
The effects of clays on bacterial community composition during arthropod decay	3
A redescription of Trachelosaurus fischeri from the Buntsandstein (Middle Triassic) of Bernburg, Germany: the first European Dinocephalosaurus-like marine reptile and its systematic implications for l	3
Historical bias in palaeontological collections: Stylophora (Echinodermata) as a case study	3
Morphology, taxonomy and trophic interactions of rostrum-less coleoids from the Late Triassic Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte (Lower Austria)	3
Santiago Roth and his scientific legacy: a reappraisal of the Swiss collections	3
The early fossil record of Caturoidea (Halecomorphi: Amiiformes): biogeographic implications	3
Digital skull anatomy of the Oligocene North American tortoise Stylemys nebrascensis with taxonomic comments on the species and comparisons with extant testudinids of the Gopherus–Manouria clade	3
The swimming trace Undichna from the latest Devonian Hangenberg Sandstone equivalent of Morocco	3
Revision of the Middle Triassic coelacanth Ticinepomis Rieppel 1980 (Actinistia, Latimeriidae) with paleobiological and paleoecological considerations	3
The first Jurassic coelacanth from Switzerland	2
A historical vertebrate collection from the Middle Miocene of the Peruvian Amazon	2
First subioblattid roachoid (Insecta: Holopandictyoptera) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland)	2
The Middle Triassic palaeontomofauna of Monte San Giorgio with the description of Merithone laetitiae (†Permithonidae) gen. et sp. nov.	2
Bernhard Peyer and his discoveries of Triassic vertebrates in Switzerland	2
Rare Middle Triassic coleoids from the Alpine-Carpathian system: new records from Slovakia and their significance	2
Correction: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology vol 139, 140, 141, 142, 143	2
A new stem saurian reptile from the late Permian of South Africa and insights into saurian evolution	2
A rare window into a back-reef fish community from the middle Miocene (late Badenian) Medobory Hills barrier reef in western Ukraine, reconstructed mostly by means of otoliths	2
New insights into the early morphological evolution of sea turtles by re-investigation of Nichollsemys baieri, a three-dimensionally preserved fossil stem chelonioid from the Campanian of Alberta, Can	2
The Hungarian fossil record of the Pliocene pig Sus arvernensis (Suidae, Mammalia)	2
New generic name for a small Triassic ray-finned fish from Perledo (Italy)	2
A new pachypleurosaur from the Early Ladinian Prosanto Formation in the Eastern Alps of Switzerland	1
Fish otoliths from the middle Miocene Pebas Formation of the Peruvian Amazon	1
Kasimovian (late Pennsylvanian) cornute rugose corals from Egypt: taxonomy, facies and palaeogeography of a cool-water fauna from northern Gondwana	1
Orthoceratoid and coleoid cephalopods from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland with an updated taxonomic framework for Triassic Orthoceratoidea	1
Thalattosauria in time and space: a review of thalattosaur spatiotemporal occurrences, presumed evolutionary relationships and current ecological hypotheses	1
First discovery of nautilids from the Albian–Cenomanian succession of the Koppeh Dagh Basin, NE Iran	1
Caviomorph rodents from the Pampean region (Argentina) in the historical Santiago Roth Collection in Switzerland	1
New insights on the shell-crusher shark Ptychodus decurrens Agassiz, 1838 (Elasmobranchii, Ptychodontidae) based on the first known articulated dentition from the Upper Cretaceous of Croatia	1

Is the relative thickness of ammonoid septa influenced by ocean acidification, phylogenetic relationships and palaeogeographic position?	1
From fossil trader to paleontologist: on Swiss-born naturalist Santiago Roth and his scientific contributions	1
Phosphatized adductor muscle remains in a Cenomanian limid bivalve from Villers-sur-Mer (France)	1
Correction: A new suction feeder and miniature teleosteomorph, Marcopoloichthys mirigioliensis, from the lower Besano Formation (late Anisian) of Monte San Giorgio	1
Callovian corals from the Swiss Jura	1
A study on benthic molluscs and stable isotopes from Kutch, western India reveals early Eocene hyperthermals and pronounced transgression during ETM2 and H2 events	1
Pleistocene South American native ungulates (Notoungulata and Litopterna) of the historical Roth collections in Switzerland, from the Pampean Region of Argentina	1
Special Issue: 100 years of scientific excavations at UNESCO World Heritage Site Monte San Giorgio and global research on Triassic marine Lagerstätten	1
An assemblage of giant aquatic snakes (Serpentes, Palaeophiidae) from the Eocene of Togo	1
Anatomy and size of Megateuthis, the largest belemnite	1
Lethal injuries on the scaphitid ammonoid Hoploscaphites nicolletii (Morton, 1842) in the Upper Cretaceous Fox Hills Formation, South Dakota, USA	1
On Roth’s “human fossil” from Baradero, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina: morphological and genetic analysis	1