OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The best of both worlds: cicada males change costly signals to achieve mates while females choose a mate based on both calling and courtship songs	20
The Silk roads: phylogeography of Central Asian dice snakes (Serpentes: Natricidae) shaped by rivers in deserts and mountain valleys	18
Torpor expression and patterns in 3 sympatric rodents from Inner Mongolia	16
Review of the ecological aspects of sympatric species Octopus americanus and Octopus insularis (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) in the Western Atlantic	16
The color of combat: how subtleties of resource value alter the effects of fighting ability in hermit crab contests	16
Phenotypic plasticity in an extended phenotype: the cobweb spider Campanicola campanulata alters web architecture in response to variation in prey availa	13
First record of twin fetuses in a stranded Cuvier’s beaked whale or goose-beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)	13
Precocious maturation and semi-multivoltine lifecycle in a subtropical grass lizard, Takydromus toyamai	13
Multivariate analyses of skull morphology inform the taxonomy and evolution of geomyoid rodents	12
Cladocroce caelum (Porifera) has a specialized growth region and a transcriptional regionalization across its body axis	11
Altitude and ground brightness explain interpopulation variation in dorsal coloration in a lizard	11
Antipredator decisions of male Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata) depend on social cues from females	10
Impact of dam-induced hydrological fluctuations on the behavior of the endangered scaly-sided Merganser (Mergus squamatus): implications for river regulation strategies and conservation	10
Genomic analysis of Tibetan ground tits identifies molecular adaptations associated with cooperative breeding	10
Fine-scale habitat heterogeneity affects embryonic development but not female reproduction in a lizard from desert steppes	10
Delayed juvenile behavioral development and prolonged dependence are adaptations to desert life in the grey falcon	9
SimCLR-enhanced MammalHairNet: advancing species identification through hair scale classification	9
Long-term effect of inbreeding in the yellow steppe lemming, Eolagurus luteus, captive colony	9
Alien lesser bandicoot rats have established wild populations in China	9
Body size and condition, not allochrony, affect temporal reproductive patterns in a prolonged breeding anuran	9
Local mate competition model alone cannot predict the offspring sex ratio in large and dense populations of a haplodiploid arthropod	9
Allomaternal care and ‘adoption’ in an edge-of-range population of Taihangshan macaques in Northern China	9
Lesser kestrels of the same colony do not overwinter together	9
Two lineages of bivalve transmissible neoplasia affect the blue musselMytilus trossulusGould in the subarctic Sea of Okhotsk	9
Acoustic complexity of pup isolation calls in Mongolian hamsters: 3-frequency phenomena and chaos	8

Size specific boldness associated with differences in resource requirements and habitat use: a cross-sectional study in hermit crabs	8
Yawning in sync: implications for social cohesion in horses	8
Behavioral repeatability in dung beetles is not limited to subsocial and sexual horn dimorphic species: the case of Geotrupes mutator (Coleoptera, Geotrupidae)	8
Adjusting to urban stress: How Eurasian tree sparrows modulate multiple physiological and nutritional markers across sexes	8
Oral disease is linked to low nestling condition and brood size in a raptor species living in a highly modified environment	8
Evolution of parthenogenetic reproduction in Caucasian rock lizards: A review	8
Artificial light at night alters foraging behavior of freshwater amphipods depending on the light spectrum and the presence of predation cues	8
Social play in African savannah elephants may inform selection against aggression	8
Witness for resolution: post-conflict quadratic affiliation in semi-free ranging pigs	8
Vocal characteristics of distress and reproductive vocalizations in North American wapiti	7
Influence of life-history traits on mitochondrial DNA substitution rates exceeds that of metabolic rates in teleost fishes	7
Elevational patterns of sexual size dimorphism in a Mediterranean lizard	7
Dispersal patterns of Reeves’s pheasant based on genetic and behavioral evidence	7
Species recognition and the divergences in the chemical and ultrasonic signals between two coexisting Rattus species	7
The more eye-like, the more intimidating—visual illusion gives new evidence for the anti-predation mechanism of eyespots	7
Bigger or long-winged male common crossbills exhibit redder carotenoid-based plumage coloration	7
Plateau pikas near roads are bold and silent when facing a potential predator	7
Sex and Social Group altered the Gut Microbiome and Fecal Metabolome in the Critically Endangered Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis)	6
A multi-index approach to assessing foraging mode: a case study using chameleons	6
The potential function of post-fledging dispersal behavior in first breeding territory selection for males of a migratory bird	6
Sex-specific life-history strategies among immature jumping spiders: Differences in body parameters and behavior	6
The vocalization of the red junglefowl is a signal of body size and individual health	6
Screening of morphology-related genes based on predator-induced transcriptome sequencing and the functional analysis of Dagcut gene in Daphnia galeata	6
The mating system of Himalayan marmots as inferred by microsatellite markers	6
How female treefrogs weigh unimodal and multimodal sexual displays in the absence and presence of noise	6
Don’t stop me now, I’m having such a good time! Czechoslovakian wolfdogs renovate the motivation to play with a bow	6
Sexually differentiated decision-making involves faster recruitment in the early stages for the Tibetan antelopes Pantholops hodgsonii	6
Taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional nestedness of mammal assemblages in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China	6
Prioritizing landscapes for mitigating the impacts of onshore wind farms on multidimensional waterbird diversity in the Yellow Sea	5
Fortune may favor the flexible: environment-dependent behavioral shifts in invasive coquí frogs	5
Altitudinal variation in thermal vulnerability of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau lizards under climate warming	5
Eurasian otters prefer to prey on religious released non-native fish on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	5
Cariprazine modulates affective and social behaviors through ventral striatal islands of Calleja neurons	5
Collective decision-making and spatial patterns in orientation of an endemic ungulate on the Tibetan Plateau	5
Odor cues rather than personality affect tadpole deposition in a neotropical poison frog	5
Citizen science reporting indicates geographic and phenotypic drivers of road use and mortality in a threatened rattlesnake	5
Genome-wide copy number variation drives adaptive evolution in Macaca mulatta populations	5
Cranial differences in three-toed jerboas (Dipodinae, Dipodidae, Rodentia) according to recent taxonomic revisions	5
Evolution, divergence, and convergence in the mandibles of opossums (Didelphidae, Didelphimorphia)	5
Call variation and calling site preference of three sympatric Boulenophrys frogs	5
The Yarkand hare epidermal growth factor receptor improves the survival and antioxidant capacity of HeLa cells under stress	5
A thelytokous predatory mite is more cannibalistic towards distant kin	5
Smarter in the city? Lizards from urban and semi-natural habitats do not differ in a cognitive task in two syntopic species	5
Intrapopulation variability in coloration is associated with reproductive season in the crayfish Faxonius virilis	5
Historical connectivity and environmental filtering jointly determine the freshwater fish assemblages on Taiwan and Hainan Islands of China	5
The influence of dolphin group coordination on cooperative foraging with humans	5
Exploring behavioral traits over different contexts in four species of Australian funnel-web spiders	5
Nonspecific constitutive immunity is negatively associated with basal metabolic rate at early phase of territorial competition in males of great tit	5
Fading on the beach: pigmentation plasticity adjusts coloration to substrate type in coastal Western spadefoot toads	5
Most soil and litter arthropods are unidentifiable based on current DNA barcode reference libraries	4

Differential transport of a guild of mutualistic root aphids by the ant Lasius flavus	4
Prenatal exposure to predator odor alters placental glucocorticoid metabolism and affects fetal growth in Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii)	4
The pronotum shape of scelimenine grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) likely represents an exaptation for heterogeneous niche colonization	4
Time and place affect the acoustic structure of frog advertisement calls	4
Correction to: Niche differentiation among facultative filter feeders: Insights from invasive Ponto-Caspian mysids	4
How to explore a new environment: exploratory tactics of the black rat (Rattus rattus)	4
The roles of different gene expression regulators in acoustic variation in the intermediate horseshoe bat revealed by long-read and short-read RNA sequencing data	4
Responses of a resident group to an outsider in the blue-breasted quail: a paradigm for studying social resettlement of dispersers	4
Multidimensional analyses of reptile assemblages: insights from phylogenetic, functional, and taxonomic diversity	4
Diet and feeding behavior of a group of high-altitude rhesus macaques: high adaptation to food shortages and seasonal fluctuations	4
Dietary drivers of gut microbiota diversity and function in wildlife of Wolong Nature Reserve: a metagenomic study	4
The influence of the post-autotomy regeneration of a sexual trait and mating tactics in a fiddler crab	4
Interspecific differences and ecological correlations between scale number and skin structure in freshwater fishes	4
Behavioral and endocrine responses to noninteractive live and video conspecifics in males of the Siamese fighting fish	4
Low heritability of social phenotypes in a nonpasserine waterbird	4
Phenotypic and genetic differentiation between two chromosomal taxa of the gastropod Nucella lapillus at Galician rocky shores (NW Spain)	4
Exploring the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on predator inspection activity in Trinidadian guppies	4
The role of primate-specific genes in the phenotypic evolution of lorises	4
The effects of prey lipid on female mating and reproduction of a wolf spider	4
Metabarcoding of fecal DNA reveals the broad and flexible diet of a globally endangered bird	4
Behavior and survival of parasitic Shiny Cowbird ( Molothrus bonariensis ) fledglings	4
Dispersal syndrome and landscape fragmentation in the salt-marsh specialist spider Erigone longipalpis	4
Seasonal life stage changes contribute to gut bacterial community profiles of high-altitude birds	4
Integrating habitat and population dynamics to uncover dispersal-driven persistence in a reintroduced Crested Ibis metapopulation	4