OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Biology Letters is 10. 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
Plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common Antarctic collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus	62
Disparities in the analysis of morphological disparity	59
Nocturnal pollinators strongly contribute to pollen transport of wild flowers in an agricultural landscape	50
Salinity tolerance and geographical origin predict global alien amphipod invasions	45
A paraphyletic ‘Silesauridae' as an alternative hypothesis for the initial radiation of ornithischian dinosaurs	41
A review of clothing microbiology: the history of clothing and the role of microbes in textiles	37
Honeybee microbiome is stabilized in the presence of propolis	35
Extreme and variable torpor among high-elevation Andean hummingbird species	34
Examining the mechanisms underlying the acquisition of animal tool behaviour	26
Bark water vapour conductance is associated with drought performance in tropical trees	26
Inference in road ecology research: what we know versus what we think we know	23
Sucking or lapping: facultative feeding mechanisms in honeybees (Apis mellifera)	23
Blocking mu-opioid receptors inhibits social bonding in rituals	23
The long-range echo scene of the sperm whale biosonar	22
Teenage dogs? Evidence for adolescent-phase conflict behaviour and an association between attachment to humans and pubertal timing in the domestic dog	21
Breeders are less active foragers than non-breeders in wild Damaraland mole-rats	21
The nuclear envelope: LINCing tissue mechanics to genome regulation in cardiac and skeletal muscle	21
The endangered Spitsbergen bowhead whales' secrets revealed after hundreds of years in hiding	20
Pythons in the Eocene of Europe reveal a much older divergence of the group in sympatry with boas	19
Expression levels of the tetratricopeptide repeat protein gene ttc39b covary with carotenoid-based skin colour in cichlid fish	19
Group-level patterns emerge from individual speed as revealed by an extremely social robotic fish	19
Endocrine regulation of egg rejection in an avian brood parasite host	19
Is there a role for sarcolipin in avian facultative thermogenesis in extreme cold?	18
Octopamine increases individual and collective foraging in a neotropical stingless bee	18
Evidence for oscillating circadian clock genes in the copepodCalanus finmarchicusduring the summer solstice in the high Arctic	18

No, you go first: phenotype and social context affect house sparrow neophobia	18
Acoustic allometry and vocal learning in mammals	18
Chimpanzee lip-smacks confirm primate continuity for speech-rhythm evolution	18
Temperature and predator cues interactively affect ontogenetic metabolic scaling of aquatic amphipods	18
Born to be young? Prenatal thyroid hormones increase early-life telomere length in wild collared flycatchers	17
How socio-ecological factors influence the differentiation of social relationships: an integrated conceptual framework	17
Multivariate phenotypic divergence along an urbanization gradient	17
Zygomorphic flowers have fewer potential pollinator species	17
The ecological consequences of a pandemic	17
Breastfeeding dynamically changes endogenous oxytocin levels and emotion recognition in mothers	17
Fish from urban rivers and with high pollutant levels have shorter telomeres	17
Lateralization correlates with individual differences in inhibitory control in zebrafish	17
Science-based approach to using growth rate to assess coral performance and restoration outcomes	16
Just kidding: the evolutionary roots of playful teasing	16
It's in the loop: shared sub-surface foot kinematics in birds and other dinosaurs shed light on a new dimension of fossil track diversity	16
Importance of the hippocampus for the learning of route fidelity in homing pigeons	15
Evidence supporting the microbiota–gut–brain axis in a songbird	14
Chytrid fungi shape bacterial communities on model particulate organic matter	14
Globally invasive populations of the clonal raider ant are derived from Bangladesh	14
Male coercion and female injury in a sexually cannibalistic mantis	14
Do avian species survive better on islands?	14
Fingers zipped up or baby mittens? Two main tetrapod strategies to return to the sea	13
Dispersal and migration have contrasting effects on butterfly flight morphology and reproduction	13
Evolution of moult-migration is directly linked to aridity of the breeding grounds in North American passerines	13
Divergence in parturition timing and vegetation onset in a large herbivore—differences along a latitudinal gradient	13
Experimental parasite community perturbation reveals associations between Sin Nombre virus and gastrointestinal nematodes in a rodent reservoir host	13
An extreme cold event leads to community-wide convergence in lower temperature tolerance in a lizard community	13
Energetic mechanisms for coping with changes in resource availability	13
Leaf hydraulic safety margin and safety–efficiency trade-off across angiosperm woody species	13
Morphological and phylogeographic evidence for budding speciation: an example in hominins	13
Hypoxia inducible factor-1 α knockout does not impair acute thermal tolerance or heat hardening in zebrafish	13
Consistency in the strength of laterality in male, but not female, guppies across different behavioural contexts	12
Coastal sharks supply the global shark fin trade	12
Oligocene divergence of frogmouth birds (Podargidae) across Wallace's Line	12
Gene swamping alters evolution during range expansions in the protist Tetrahymena thermophila	12
Wait and snap: eastern snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina) prey on migratory fish at road-stream crossing culverts	12
Why are the fastest runners of intermediate size? Contrasting scaling of mechanical demands and muscle supply of work and power	12
Predictability of food supply modulates nocturnal hypothermia in a small passerine	12
Heliconiini butterflies can learn time-dependent reward associations	12
Artificial mass loading disrupts stable social order in pigeon dominance hierarchies	12
Telomere attrition with age in a wild amphibian population	12
The probability of fusions joining sex chromosomes and autosomes	12
Naturally occurring fluorescence protects the eutardigrade Paramacrobiotus sp. from ultraviolet radiation	11
Group living facilitates the evolution of duets in barbets	11
Landscape-level toxicant exposure mediates infection impacts on wildlife populations	11
Kangaroos display gazing and gaze alternations during an unsolvable problem task	11
An exploration of Menzerath's law in wild mountain gorilla vocal sequences	11
Prey speed influences the speed and structure of the raptorial strike of a ‘sit-and-wait’ predator	11
Seasonal patterns of Pseudogymnoascus destructans germination indicate host–pathogen coevolution	10
Who goes there? Social surveillance as a response to intergroup conflict in a primitive termite	10

A new somasteroid from the Fezouata Lagerstätte in Morocco and the Early Ordovician origin of Asterozoa	10
What you see is where you go: visibility influences movement decisions of a forest bird navigating a three-dimensional-structured matrix	10
Identification of a queen pheromone mediating the rearing of adult sexuals in the pharaoh ant Monomorium pharaonis	10
The power of odour cues in shaping fine-scale search patterns of foraging mammalian herbivores	10