OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Zoology is 3. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
It is time to mate: population-level plasticity of wild boar reproductive timing and synchrony in a changing environment	10
Isochronous singing in 3 crested gibbon species (Nomascus spp.)	9
Competition of insect decomposers over large vertebrate carrion:Necrodesbeetles (Silphidae) vs. blow flies (Calliphoridae)	9
Hormonal modulation of reproduction and fertility signaling in polistine wasps	9
High-throughput sequencing reveals dietary segregation in Malaysian babblers	8
Effects of landscape heterogeneity and breeding habitat diversity on rice frog abundance and body condition in agricultural landscapes of Yangtze River Delta, China	8
An exploration of the relationship between recruitment communication and foraging in stingless bees	8
Tandem running by foraging Pachycondyla striata workers in field conditions vary in response to food type, food distance, and environmental conditions	7
Responses of incubating females to female cuckoo calls in 2 hole-nesting bird species	7
A practical approach with drones, smartphones, and tracking tags for potential real-time animal tracking	6
From mainland to islands: colonization history in the tree frog Kurixalus (Anura: Rhacophoridae)	6
Environmental temperature during early life affects the personality of mosquitofish in adulthood	6
Spatiotemporal variation in the adult sex ratio, male aggregation, and movement of two tropical cloud forest dung beetles	6
Nesting innovations allow population growth in an invasive population of rose-ringed parakeets	6
Evidence for acoustic discrimination in lemurs: A playback study on wild indrisIndri indri	6
Leg or antenna injury inCataglyphisants impairs survival but does not hinder searching for food	6
Classical olfactory conditioning promotes long-term memory and improves odor-cued flight orientation in the South American native bumblebee Bombus pauloensis	6
Visual communication in social play of a hierarchical carnivore species: the case of wild spotted hyenas	5
Diet and feeding behavior of a group of high-altitude rhesus macaques: high adaptation to food shortages and seasonal fluctuations	5
Cuticular hydrocarbon profiles differ between ant body parts: implications for communication and our understanding of CHC diffusion	5
Genetic boundary and gene flow between 2 parapatric subspecies of brown rats	5
Specific responses of cuckoo hosts to different alarm signals according to breeding stage: a test of the offspring value hypothesis	5
Varroa destructor mite infestations in capped brood cells of honeybee workers affect emergence development and adult foraging ability	5
Two lineages of bivalve transmissible neoplasia affect the blue musselMytilus trossulusGould in the subarctic Sea of Okhotsk	5
Snake-like calls in breeding tits	5

Playing together, laughing together: rapid facial mimicry and social sensitivity in lowland gorillas	5
Development of an eDNA metabarcoding tool for surveying the world’s largest amphibian	5
Infant attraction: why social bridging matters for female leadership in Tibetan macaques	5
Cranial differences in three-toed jerboas (Dipodinae, Dipodidae, Rodentia) according to recent taxonomic revisions	5
Coping with drought? Effects of extended drought conditions on soil invertebrate prey and diet selection by a fossorial amphisbaenian reptile	5
Evolution of personality and locomotory performance traits during a late Pleistocene island colonization in a tree frog	4
Sex-specific seasonal variations of wild boar distance traveled and home range size	4
DNA metabarcoding the diet of Podarcis lizards endemic to the Balearic Islands	4
Same place, different time, head up: Multiple antipredator responses to a recolonizing apex predator	4
Eye contact and sociability data suggests that Australian dingoes were never domesticated	4
Inter-glacial isolation caused divergence of cold-adapted species: the case of the snow partridge	4
Metabarcoding of fecal DNA reveals the broad and flexible diet of a globally endangered bird	4
High association strengths are linked to phenotypic similarity, including plumage color and patterns, of participants in mixed-species bird flocks of southwestern China	4
Hierarchical auditory perception for species discrimination and individual recognition in the music frog	4
The effectiveness of eyespots and masquerade in protecting artificial prey across ontogenetic and seasonal shifts	4
Climatic niche breadths of the Atlantic Forest snakes do not increase with increasing latitude	4
Endocuticle is involved in caste differentiation of the lower termite	4
Egg rejection based on egg size recognition as a specific strategy against parasitic cuckoos	4
Geographical variation in nest defense among cinereous tit populations in China	4
Invasive ant learning is not affected by seven potential neuroactive chemicals	4
Phylogeny of drepanosiphine aphids sensu lato (Hemiptera, Aphidoidea) inferred from molecular and morphological data	4
Low diversity, little genetic structure but no inbreeding in a high-density island endemic pit-viperGloydius shedaoensis	3
Declining metabolic scaling parallels an ontogenetic change from elongate to deep-bodied shapes in juvenile Brown trout	3
Facial expression recognition in golden snub-nosed monkeys	3
The potential function of post-fledging dispersal behavior in first breeding territory selection for males of a migratory bird	3
Acoustic signal dominance in the multimodal communication of a nocturnal mammal	3
Sharing roosts but not ectoparasites: high host-specificity in bat flies and wing mites of Miniopterus schreibersii and Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Mammalia: Chiroptera)	3
Interspecific differences in plasma carotenoid profiles in nestlings of three sympatric vulture species	3
Is the propensity to emit alarm calls associated with health status?	3
Nestling sex ratio is unaffected by individual and population traits in the griffon vulture	3
Historical mitochondrial genome introgression confounds species delimitation: evidence from phylogenetic inference in theOdorrana grahamispecies complex	3
Oral disease is linked to low nestling condition and brood size in a raptor species living in a highly modified environment	3
Evolution of parthenogenetic reproduction in Caucasian rock lizards: A review	3
Historical connectivity and environmental filtering jointly determine the freshwater fish assemblages on Taiwan and Hainan Islands of China	3
Sex-dependent increase of movement activity in the freshwater isopod Asellus aquaticus following adaptation to a predator-free cave habitat	3