OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biology Letters is 17. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common Antarctic collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus	60
Disparities in the analysis of morphological disparity	58
Nocturnal pollinators strongly contribute to pollen transport of wild flowers in an agricultural landscape	48
Salinity tolerance and geographical origin predict global alien amphipod invasions	43
Structural colours reflect individual quality: a meta-analysis	41
A paraphyletic ‘Silesauridae' as an alternative hypothesis for the initial radiation of ornithischian dinosaurs	40
The hidden army: corallivorous crown-of-thorns seastars can spend years as herbivorous juveniles	38
Microplastics disrupt hermit crab shell selection	38
Honeybee microbiome is stabilized in the presence of propolis	35
A review of clothing microbiology: the history of clothing and the role of microbes in textiles	35
Whole-genome analysis across 10 songbird families within Sylvioidea reveals a novel autosome–sex chromosome fusion	33
Extreme and variable torpor among high-elevation Andean hummingbird species	33
Examining the mechanisms underlying the acquisition of animal tool behaviour	26
Predation risks of signalling and searching: bats prefer moving katydids	25
Bark water vapour conductance is associated with drought performance in tropical trees	24
A poor substitute for the real thing: captive-reared monarch butterflies are weaker, paler and have less elongated wings than wild migrants	24
Sucking or lapping: facultative feeding mechanisms in honeybees (Apis mellifera)	23
Blocking mu-opioid receptors inhibits social bonding in rituals	22
Inference in road ecology research: what we know versus what we think we know	22
Breeders are less active foragers than non-breeders in wild Damaraland mole-rats	21
Genetic evidence of widespread variation in ethanol metabolism among mammals: revisiting the ‘myth' of natural intoxication	21
Teenage dogs? Evidence for adolescent-phase conflict behaviour and an association between attachment to humans and pubertal timing in the domestic dog	21
The nuclear envelope: LINCing tissue mechanics to genome regulation in cardiac and skeletal muscle	20
Endocrine regulation of egg rejection in an avian brood parasite host	19
Expression levels of the tetratricopeptide repeat protein gene ttc39b covary with carotenoid-based skin colour in cichlid fish	19

The endangered Spitsbergen bowhead whales' secrets revealed after hundreds of years in hiding	19
A review of research in primate sanctuaries	19
The long-range echo scene of the sperm whale biosonar	19
No, you go first: phenotype and social context affect house sparrow neophobia	18
Temperature and predator cues interactively affect ontogenetic metabolic scaling of aquatic amphipods	18
Group-level patterns emerge from individual speed as revealed by an extremely social robotic fish	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
Pythons in the Eocene of Europe reveal a much older divergence of the group in sympatry with boas	18
Acoustic allometry and vocal learning in mammals	18
Multivariate phenotypic divergence along an urbanization gradient	17
Vocal production learning in the pale spear-nosed bat, Phyllostomus discolor	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
Chimpanzee lip-smacks confirm primate continuity for speech-rhythm evolution	17
Examining the link between relaxed predation and bird coloration on islands	17
How socio-ecological factors influence the differentiation of social relationships: an integrated conceptual framework	17
Born to be young? Prenatal thyroid hormones increase early-life telomere length in wild collared flycatchers	17
Zygomorphic flowers have fewer potential pollinator species	17
The ecological consequences of a pandemic	17