OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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	21
Cranium of Sipalocyon externus (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) with remarks on the paleoneurology of hathliacynids and insights into the Early Miocene sparassodonts of Patagonia, Argentina	20
Late Miocene Tapiridae from Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula): taxonomic and paleoenvironmental implications	17
An almost complete cranium of Asoriculus gibberodon (Petényi, 1864) (Mammalia, Soricidae) from the early Pliocene of the Jradzor site, Armenia	13
A new suction feeder and miniature teleosteomorph, Marcopoloichthys mirigioliensis, from the lower Besano Formation (late Anisian) of Monte San Giorgio	11
Massospondylus embryos and hatchling provide new insights into early sauropodomorph ontogeny	10
New predatory beetle larvae from about 100 million years ago and possible niche differentiation effects in the Kachin amber forest	10
New data on the marine Upper Triassic palaeobiota from the Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte in Austria	9
PG-18: turtles reach adult shell shapes at about 65% maximum carapace length	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	8
Pachycormid fish fed on octobrachian cephalopods: new evidence from the ‘Schistes bitumineux’ (early Toarcian) of southern Luxembourg	8
Integrated palynology and sedimentology of the Mississippian of the Tisdafine Basin (Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco)	8
A reappraisal of the vegetation from the dinosaur-bearing Bahariya Formation (lower Cenomanian; Cretaceous), Egypt	8
Triassic palynology of the Swiss Belchentunnel: a restudy of the Scheuring samples	8
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
Novel insights into early life stages of finned octopods (Octopoda: Cirrata)	7
Whorl records: book review of Raimund Albersdörfer and Kristin Erdmann (2024), Ammonite masterpieces	7
Damaged glyptodontid skulls from Late Pleistocene sites of northwestern Venezuela: evidence of hunting by humans?	7
Cranial and mandibular anatomy of Plastomenus thomasii and a new time-tree of trionychid evolution	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
The impact of the Pliensbachian–Toarcian crisis on belemnite assemblages and size distribution	6
Flying turtles in the earliest trees of life: scientific transparency in the phylogenetic works of Ernst Haeckel	6
A new ichnotaxonomic name for burrows in vertebrate coprolites from the Miocene Chesapeake Group of Maryland, U.S.A	6
The Mayer-Eymar collection of Cenozoic mollusks	6

A new species of the genus Caturus (Caturidae, Amiiformes) from the Upper Jurassic of the Solnhofen Archipelago (Germany)	5
The oldest Gondwanan record of the extinct durophagous hybodontiform chondrichthyan, Strophodus from the Bajocian of Morocco	5
The history of short-tailed whip scorpions: changes in body size and flagellum shape in Schizomida	5
First evidence of Proganochelys quenstedtii (Testudinata) from the Plateosaurus bonebeds (Norian, Late Triassic) of Frick, Canton Aargau, Switzerland	5
New information on the dentition of Chaohusaurus zhangjiawanensis (Reptilia, Ichthyosauriformes) from the Early Triassic of Yuan’an, Hubei Province, China	5
A new pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of southwestern China and its phylogenetic and biogeographic implications	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
Jörn Geister: just some words for a life	5
Cephalopod palaeobiology: evolution and life history of the most intelligent invertebrates	5
Phylogenetics and systematics of the subfamilies Cheirurinae and Deiphoninae (Trilobita)	5
Carnivoran fossils from the Pampean region (Argentina): Santiago Roth collections in Switzerland	5
Pampean megamammals in Europe: the fossil collections from Santiago Roth	4
On the occurrence of the ammonite genus Blaschkeiceras Zeiss, 2001, from the Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) of the Jaisalmer Basin, western India	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
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
Coral fauna across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary at Zagros and Sistan Suture zones and Yazd Block of Iran	4
Cranial and endocranial comparative anatomy of the Pleistocene glyptodonts from the Santiago Roth Collection	4
A report on palaeontological excavations and sampling in mudrocks: some guidelines	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
Impact of increasing morphological information by micro-CT scanning on the phylogenetic placement of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in amber	4
New Odonatan oviposition ichnotaxa from the Lower Jurassic of Iran	4
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
Nearctic Pleistocene ungulates from the Pampean region (Argentina) in the historical collections of Santiago Roth in Switzerland: an overview	4
Revision of the genus Protadelomys, a middle Eocene theridomyoid rodent: evolutionary and biochronological implications	4
An exceptional window into the Triassic-Jurassic boundary on the margins of the Ardenno-Rhenish Massif: stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Irrel section (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)	4