OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Biology Letters 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Unravelling a diversity of cellular structures and aggregation dynamics during the early development of Myxococcus xanthus	21
Patterns of sexual dimorphism in the armoured tardigrades	16
Genetic and evolutionary divergence of harbour seals ( Phoca vitulina ) in Iliamna Lake, Alaska	13
Physical constraints, not sociality, shape primate vocal repertoire size	10
Chicks produce consonant, sometimes jazzy, sounds	10
Optimally warm roost temperatures during lactation do not improve body condition in a long-lived bat	9
Song but not colour divergence constrains hybridization in birds	9
Orsay virus infection increases Caenorhabditis elegans resistance to heat-shock	9
Distribution and developmental timing of zebrafish liver innervation	9
Polarized light detection in bumblebees varies with light intensity and is mediated by both the ocelli and compound eyes	9
Sonic restoration: acoustic stimulation enhances plant growth-promoting fungi activity	9
Evolutionary distinctiveness and parasite specificity determine infection of non-native fish	8
Differential pollinator importance contributes to flower colour variation along an elevational gradient	8
Fisheries-induced life-history changes recover in experimentally harvested fish populations	8
A burrowing annelid from the early Cambrian	8
Reproduction results in parallel changes of oxidative stress and immunocompetence in a wild long-living mammal—edible dormouse Glis glis	8
Pulsed artificial light at night alters moth flight behaviour	7
Dogs with a vocabulary of object labels retain them for at least 2 years	7
Activity of forkhead box P2-positive neurons is associated with tadpole begging behaviour	7
A demographic assessment of the Lansing Effect in duckweed ( Lemna turionifera Landolt)	7
Molecular correlates of swarming behaviour in Aedes aegypti males	6
Breed function and behaviour correlate with endocranial volume in domestic dogs	6
No evidence for an up-regulation of female immune function in response to elevated risk of sexual conflict	6
Bat consumption by holostean fishes in the Eocene Lake Messel: insights into the trophic adaptability of extinct gars and bowfins	6
Visual signal dynamicity shapes detectability in the wild: an experiment with a mate-searching butterfly	5

Neural mechanisms of mutualistic fish cleaning behaviour: a study in the wild	5
Hidden rivals: the negative impacts of dolphinfish on seabird foraging behaviour	5
A brief review of non-avian dinosaur biogeography: state-of-the-art and prospectus	5
Host genetic diversity and body condition influence parasite resistance and clearance in a wild marine mammal population	5
Do risk-prone behaviours compromise reproduction and increase vulnerability of fish aggregations exposed to fishing?	5
A persistent subtropical dip in the diversity at deep-sea cold-seeps	5
Predation affects the evolution of sex-specific longevity	4
Vampire bats rapidly fuel running with essential or non-essential amino acids from a blood meal	4
Exploring fluctuating asymmetry in two recovering populations of the Eurasian otter	4
Light exposure induces compensatory shelter tube construction in termites	4
Similar flight performance but sex-specific mitochondrial responses in free-flying pigeons	4
Evidence for inbreeding depression in captive Damaraland mole-rats	4
The functions of leg muscles, structures and mechanisms in running	4
Range-wide salamander densities reveal a key component of terrestrial vertebrate biomass in eastern North American forests	4
An ulvophycean marine green alga produces large parthenogenetic isogametes as predicted by the gamete dynamics model for the evolution of anisogamy	4
Remote islands as natural laboratories: human–food association increases attraction to humans and novelty exploration in a seabird	3
Constant companions: wild zebra finch pairs display extreme spatial cohesion	3
The macroecology of Mesozoic dinosaurs	3
Density-dependent dispersal reduces conflict over the sex ratio	3
Acorn ant exhibits age-dependent induced defence in response to parasitic raids	3
Tactile bill-tip organs in seabirds suggest conservation of a deep avian symplesiomorphy	3
Ionizing radiation has negligible effects on the age, telomere length and corticosterone levels of Chornobyl tree frogs	3