OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Biology Letters 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Unravelling a diversity of cellular structures and aggregation dynamics during the early development of Myxococcus xanthus	4
Genetic and evolutionary divergence of harbour seals ( Phoca vitulina ) in Iliamna Lake, Alaska	4
Orsay virus infection increases Caenorhabditis elegans resistance to heat-shock	4
Patterns of sexual dimorphism in the armoured tardigrades	4
Chicks produce consonant, sometimes jazzy, sounds	4
Sonic restoration: acoustic stimulation enhances plant growth-promoting fungi activity	3
Optimally warm roost temperatures during lactation do not improve body condition in a long-lived bat	3
A burrowing annelid from the early Cambrian	3
Polarized light detection in bumblebees varies with light intensity and is mediated by both the ocelli and compound eyes	3
A brief review of non-avian dinosaur biogeography: state-of-the-art and prospectus	2
Reproduction results in parallel changes of oxidative stress and immunocompetence in a wild long-living mammal—edible dormouse Glis glis	2
A demographic assessment of the Lansing Effect in duckweed ( Lemna turionifera Landolt)	2
Pulsed artificial light at night alters moth flight behaviour	2
Host genetic diversity and body condition influence parasite resistance and clearance in a wild marine mammal population	2
No evidence for an up-regulation of female immune function in response to elevated risk of sexual conflict	2
Fisheries-induced life-history changes recover in experimentally harvested fish populations	2
Bat consumption by holostean fishes in the Eocene Lake Messel: insights into the trophic adaptability of extinct gars and bowfins	2
Breed function and behaviour correlate with endocranial volume in domestic dogs	2
Neural mechanisms of mutualistic fish cleaning behaviour: a study in the wild	2
Distribution and developmental timing of zebrafish liver innervation	2
Activity of forkhead box P2-positive neurons is associated with tadpole begging behaviour	2
Dogs with a vocabulary of object labels retain them for at least 2 years	2
Molecular correlates of swarming behaviour in Aedes aegypti males	2
Exploring fluctuating asymmetry in two recovering populations of the Eurasian otter	1
The functions of leg muscles, structures and mechanisms in running	1

Vampire bats rapidly fuel running with essential or non-essential amino acids from a blood meal	1
Constant companions: wild zebra finch pairs display extreme spatial cohesion	1
Ionizing radiation has negligible effects on the age, telomere length and corticosterone levels of Chornobyl tree frogs	1
Hidden rivals: the negative impacts of dolphinfish on seabird foraging behaviour	1
Range-wide salamander densities reveal a key component of terrestrial vertebrate biomass in eastern North American forests	1
An ulvophycean marine green alga produces large parthenogenetic isogametes as predicted by the gamete dynamics model for the evolution of anisogamy	1
Tactile bill-tip organs in seabirds suggest conservation of a deep avian symplesiomorphy	1
Density-dependent dispersal reduces conflict over the sex ratio	1
Do risk-prone behaviours compromise reproduction and increase vulnerability of fish aggregations exposed to fishing?	1
Predation affects the evolution of sex-specific longevity	1
Evidence for inbreeding depression in captive Damaraland mole-rats	1
Remote islands as natural laboratories: human–food association increases attraction to humans and novelty exploration in a seabird	1