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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The color of combat: how subtleties of resource value alter the effects of fighting ability in hermit crab contests	23
Review of the ecological aspects of sympatric species Octopus americanus and Octopus insularis (Cephalopod	23
The Silk roads: phylogeography of Central Asian dice snakes (Serpentes: Natricidae) shaped by rivers in deserts and mountain valleys	21
Phenotypic plasticity in an extended phenotype: the cobweb spider Campanicola campanulata alters web architecture in response to variation in prey availa	19
Precocious maturation and semi-multivoltine lifecycle in a subtropical grass lizard, Takydromus toyamai	18
First record of twin fetuses in a stranded Cuvier’s beaked whale or goose-beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)	18
Multivariate analyses of skull morphology inform the taxonomy and evolution of geomyoid rodents	13
Hermann’s tortoise in Calabria: filling key knowledge gaps in a Western Mediterranean evolutionary hotspot	13
Torpor expression and patterns in 3 sympatric rodents from Inner Mongolia	12
Altitude and ground brightness explain interpopulation variation in dorsal coloration in a lizard	12
Fine-scale habitat selection in a grassland mosaic: electivity-based vegetation-community preferences of the endangered Hungarian meadow viper ( Vipera ursinii rakosiensis	12
Cladocroce caelum (Porifera) has a specialized growth region and a transcriptional regionalization across its body axis	12
Alien lesser bandicoot rats have established wild populations in China	11
Lesser kestrels of the same colony do not overwinter together	11
Genomic analysis of Tibetan ground tits identifies molecular adaptations associated with cooperative breeding	11
Identity and year are more important than social interactions as predictors of gut microbiota in a facultatively social rodent	10
Antipredator decisions of male Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata) depend on social cues from females	10
SimCLR-enhanced MammalHairNet: advancing species identification through hair scale classification	10
Fine-scale habitat heterogeneity affects embryonic development but not female reproduction in a lizard from desert steppes	10
Transgenerationally inherited incisor aberration mediated by stress in two isolated populations of Microtus hartingi vole	10
Impact of dam-induced hydrological fluctuations on the behavior of the endangered scaly-sided Merganser ( Mergus squamatus ): implications for river regu	10
Oral parasites alter male advertisement signals and female mate choice in the Green Treefrog ( Dryophytes cinereus )	10
Adjusting to urban stress: How Eurasian tree sparrows modulate multiple physiological and nutritional markers across sexes	9
Behavioral repeatability in dung beetles is not limited to subsocial and sexual horn dimorphic species: the case of Geotrupes mutator (Coleoptera, Geotrupidae)	9
Size specific boldness associated with differences in resource requirements and habitat use: a cross-sectional study in hermit crabs	9

Body size and condition, not allochrony, affect temporal reproductive patterns in a prolonged breeding anuran	9
Long-term effect of inbreeding in the yellow steppe lemming, Eolagurus luteus, captive colony	9
Evolution of parthenogenetic reproduction in Caucasian rock lizards: A review	9
Acoustic complexity of pup isolation calls in Mongolian hamsters: 3-frequency phenomena and chaos	9
Personality is associated with the hunting strategy in a specialized ant-eating spider	9
Yawning in sync: implications for social cohesion in horses	9
Artificial light at night alters foraging behavior of freshwater amphipods depending on the light spectrum and the presence of predation cues	9
Vocal characteristics of distress and reproductive vocalizations in North American wapiti	8
Witness for resolution: post-conflict quadratic affiliation in semi-free ranging pigs	8
Social play in African savannah elephants may inform selection against aggression	8
Thermal Stability in Hypoxia Tolerance Irrespective of Innate Tolerance Capacity: Associations with Oxygen Demand and Supply Balance in Four Freshwater Fishes	8
Bigger or long-winged male common crossbills exhibit redder carotenoid-based plumage coloration	8
Dispersal patterns of Reeves’s pheasant based on genetic and behavioral evidence	8
Influence of life-history traits on mitochondrial DNA substitution rates exceeds that of metabolic rates in teleost fishes	8
Intrapopulation variability in coloration is associated with reproductive season in the crayfish Faxonius virilis	7
Screening of morphology-related genes based on predator-induced transcriptome sequencing and the functional analysis of Dagcut gene in Daphnia galeata	7
Species recognition and the divergences in the chemical and ultrasonic signals between two coexisting Rattus species	7
The vocalization of the red junglefowl is a signal of body size and individual health	7
A multi-index approach to assessing foraging mode: a case study using chameleons	7
Taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional nestedness of mammal assemblages in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China	7
The more eye-like, the more intimidating—visual illusion gives new evidence for the anti-predation mechanism of eyespots	7
How female treefrogs weigh unimodal and multimodal sexual displays in the absence and presence of noise	7
Sex and social group altered the gut microbiome and fecal metabolome in the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise ( Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis	7
Sexually differentiated decision-making involves faster recruitment in the early stages for the Tibetan antelopes Pantholops hodgsonii	7
Altitudinal variation in thermal vulnerability of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau lizards under climate warming	7
Elevational patterns of sexual size dimorphism in a Mediterranean lizard	7
Plateau pikas near roads are bold and silent when facing a potential predator	7
Dietary tryptophan modifies the effects of developmental predator stress on lifespan in male Drosophila melanogaster	7
Cranial differences in three-toed jerboas (Dipodinae, Dipodidae, Rodentia) according to recent taxonomic revisions	6
The influence of dolphin group coordination on cooperative foraging with humans	6
Fading on the beach: pigmentation plasticity adjusts coloration to substrate type in coastal Western spadefoot toads	6
Call variation and calling site preference of three sympatric Boulenophrys frogs	6
The mating system of Himalayan marmots as inferred by microsatellite markers	6
Fortune may favor the flexible: environment-dependent behavioral shifts in invasive coquí frogs	6
Evolution, divergence, and convergence in the mandibles of opossums (Didelphidae, Didelphimorphia)	6
Collective decision-making and spatial patterns in orientation of an endemic ungulate on the Tibetan Plateau	6
Eurasian otters prefer to prey on religious released non-native fish on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	6
Sex-specific life-history strategies among immature jumping spiders: Differences in body parameters and behavior	6
Genome-wide copy number variation drives adaptive evolution in Macaca mulatta populations	6
Prioritizing landscapes for mitigating the impacts of onshore wind farms on multidimensional waterbird diversity in the Yellow Sea	6
Cariprazine modulates affective and social behaviors through ventral striatal islands of Calleja neurons	5
Odor cues rather than personality affect tadpole deposition in a neotropical poison frog	5
The role of primate-specific genes in the phenotypic evolution of lorises	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
Nonspecific constitutive immunity is negatively associated with basal metabolic rate at early phase of territorial competition in males of great tit	5
Exploring behavioral traits over different contexts in four species of Australian funnel-web spiders	5
Integrating habitat and population dynamics to uncover dispersal-driven persistence in a reintroduced Crested Ibis metapopulation	5
The Yarkand hare epidermal growth factor receptor improves the survival and antioxidant capacity of HeLa cells under stress	5
Citizen science reporting indicates geographic and phenotypic drivers of road use and mortality in a threatened rattlesnake	5

Low heritability of social phenotypes in a nonpasserine waterbird	5
Exploring the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on predator inspection activity in Trinidadian guppies	5
Genome-wide patterns of differentiation and gene flow in the Oligoryzomys flavescens (Waterhouse, 1837) complex (Rodentia, Cricetidae): preliminary evide	5
How to explore a new environment: exploratory tactics of the black rat (Rattus rattus)	4
Diet and feeding behavior of a group of high-altitude rhesus macaques: high adaptation to food shortages and seasonal fluctuations	4
Seasonal life stage changes contribute to gut bacterial community profiles of high-altitude birds	4
Behavior and survival of parasitic Shiny Cowbird ( Molothrus bonariensis ) fledglings	4
How incubation temperature affects hatchling performance in reptiles: an integrative insight based on plasticity in metabolic enzyme	4
Correction to: Seasonal dietary shifts in an invasive snail Pomacea canaliculata revealed by 18S rRNA metabarcoding	4
Sex-specific seasonal variations of wild boar distance traveled and home range size	4
Time and place affect the acoustic structure of frog advertisement calls	4
Differential transport of a guild of mutualistic root aphids by the ant Lasius flavus	4
Behavioral and endocrine responses to noninteractive live and video conspecifics in males of the Siamese fighting fish	4
Most soil and litter arthropods are unidentifiable based on current DNA barcode reference libraries	4
Multidimensional analyses of reptile assemblages: insights from phylogenetic, functional, and taxonomic diversity	4
Correction to: Niche differentiation among facultative filter feeders: Insights from invasive Ponto-Caspian mysids	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
The combined role of visual and olfactory cues in foraging by Cataglyphis ants in laboratory mazes	4
Prenatal exposure to predator odor alters placental glucocorticoid metabolism and affects fetal growth in Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii)	4
Global venomous snake redistribution and snakebite risk under climate change	4
Interspecific differences and ecological correlations between scale number and skin structure in freshwater fishes	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
Phenotypic and genetic differentiation between two chromosomal taxa of the gastropod Nucella lapillus at Galician rocky shores (NW Spain)	4
Ecological and life history factors shape the complexity of bird nests	4
Effects of captive-breeding conditions on metabolic and performance traits in an endangered, endemic cyprinidontiform fish	4
Metabarcoding of fecal DNA reveals the broad and flexible diet of a globally endangered bird	4
Rapid speciation of Chinese hypogean fishes driven by paleogeoclimatic and morphological adaptations	4
The pronotum shape of scelimenine grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) likely represents an exaptation for heterogeneous niche colonization	4