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

Article	Citations
Genetic and evolutionary divergence of harbour seals ( Phoca vitulina ) in Iliamna Lake, Alaska	15
Patterns of sexual dimorphism in the armoured tardigrades	12
Unravelling a diversity of cellular structures and aggregation dynamics during the early development of Myxococcus xanthus	10
Chicks produce consonant, sometimes jazzy, sounds	9
Orsay virus infection increases Caenorhabditis elegans resistance to heat-shock	9
Optimally warm roost temperatures during lactation do not improve body condition in a long-lived bat	8
Distribution and developmental timing of zebrafish liver innervation	8
Polarized light detection in bumblebees varies with light intensity and is mediated by both the ocelli and compound eyes	8
Sonic restoration: acoustic stimulation enhances plant growth-promoting fungi activity	8
A burrowing annelid from the early Cambrian	7
Fisheries-induced life-history changes recover in experimentally harvested fish populations	7
Reproduction results in parallel changes of oxidative stress and immunocompetence in a wild long-living mammal—edible dormouse Glis glis	7
Bat consumption by holostean fishes in the Eocene Lake Messel: insights into the trophic adaptability of extinct gars and bowfins	6
Pulsed artificial light at night alters moth flight behaviour	6
No evidence for an up-regulation of female immune function in response to elevated risk of sexual conflict	6
A demographic assessment of the Lansing Effect in duckweed ( Lemna turionifera Landolt)	6
Dogs with a vocabulary of object labels retain them for at least 2 years	6
Breed function and behaviour correlate with endocranial volume in domestic dogs	6
Activity of forkhead box P2-positive neurons is associated with tadpole begging behaviour	6
Neural mechanisms of mutualistic fish cleaning behaviour: a study in the wild	6
Molecular correlates of swarming behaviour in Aedes aegypti males	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
Range-wide salamander densities reveal a key component of terrestrial vertebrate biomass in eastern North American forests	4
Exploring fluctuating asymmetry in two recovering populations of the Eurasian otter	4

An ulvophycean marine green alga produces large parthenogenetic isogametes as predicted by the gamete dynamics model for the evolution of anisogamy	4
Hidden rivals: the negative impacts of dolphinfish on seabird foraging behaviour	4
The functions of leg muscles, structures and mechanisms in running	4
Vampire bats rapidly fuel running with essential or non-essential amino acids from a blood meal	4
Do risk-prone behaviours compromise reproduction and increase vulnerability of fish aggregations exposed to fishing?	4
Predation affects the evolution of sex-specific longevity	4
Evidence for inbreeding depression in captive Damaraland mole-rats	4
Constant companions: wild zebra finch pairs display extreme spatial cohesion	3
Acorn ant exhibits age-dependent induced defence in response to parasitic raids	3
Density-dependent dispersal reduces conflict over the sex ratio	3
More allogrooming is followed by higher physiological stress in wild female baboons	3
Enhancing African coelacanth monitoring using environmental DNA	3
Remote islands as natural laboratories: human–food association increases attraction to humans and novelty exploration in a seabird	3
Ionizing radiation has negligible effects on the age, telomere length and corticosterone levels of Chornobyl tree frogs	3
The reduction in relative brain size in the domesticated dog is not an evolutionary singularity among the canids	3
Supersize me: hypotheses on torpor-assisted prehibernation fattening in a boreal bat	3
The macroecology of Mesozoic dinosaurs	3
Tactile bill-tip organs in seabirds suggest conservation of a deep avian symplesiomorphy	3
The meaning of mass extinctions and what the fossil record tells us about angiosperm survival at K-Pg: a reply to Hagen (2024)	3
Novel rebreathing adaptation extends dive time in a semi-aquatic lizard	3
Rapid body colouration changes in Oryzias celebensis as a social signal influenced by environmental background	3