Royal Society Open Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Royal Society Open Science is 7. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Are testosterone pulses a physiological mechanism for expanding activity beyond territories?220
Analysis of the spatio-temporal dynamics of a Rho-GEF-H1-myosin activator-inhibitor reaction-diffusion system193
Boredom is the root of all evil—or is it? A psychometric network approach to individual differences in behavioural responses to boredom133
Oxidation of l -leucine amino acid initiated by hydroxyl radical: are transition metal ions an enhancement factor?126
Climatic forcing and individual heterogeneity in a resident mountain bird: legacy data reveal effects on reproductive strategies118
A mammalian messenger RNA sex determination method from humpback whale ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) blubber biopsies103
Excess labile carbon promotes diazotroph abundance in heat-stressed octocorals101
Optimal sampling of spatial patterns improves deep learning-based early warning signals of critical transitions100
Judgement bias may be explained by shifts in stimulus response curves95
Understanding the role of mask-wearing during COVID-19 on the island of Ireland94
Ecology of fear: predator avoidance reduces seed dispersal in an ant75
Elastic jump propagation across a blood vessel junction75
Insights into the production and evolution of lantibiotics from a computational analysis of peptides associated with the lanthipeptide cyclase domain70
Predicting the effect of landscape structure on epidemic invasion using an analytical estimate for infection rate69
Effect of microphysics scheme and data assimilation on hydrometeor and radiative flux simulations in the Arctic69
Skull evolution and lineage diversification in endemic Malagasy carnivorans62
Novel, nanomagnetic and recoverable copper(0)-catalyst in one-pot access to 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles and 5-substituted 1 H -tetrazoles in water61
Matching dynamically varying forces with multi-motor-unit muscle models: a simulation study55
Meta-learning provides a robust framework to discern taxonomic carnivore agency from the analysis of tooth marks on bone: reassessing the role of felids as predators of Homo hab55
A challenge of warmer temperate winters: long-term exposure to rain in cold temperatures drives higher thermogenic investment in a captive songbird54
Developmental trajectories in laryngeal anatomy of California mice ( Peromyscus californicus )52
Social encounters produce different autonomic response between dominants and subordinates in crows51
Quantitative characterization of melanin-based feather colour using reflectance spectrophotometry51
Wide-gamut structural colours on oakblue butterflies by naturally tuned photonic nanoarchitectures46
Shell dissolution rates differ fourfold between mussel species45
Information consumption and firm size45
A Bayesian copula framework to infer ontogenetic relationships and predict associated parameters in human growth and development45
Non-natural amino acids into LfcinB-derived peptides: effect in their (i) proteolytic degradation and (ii) cytotoxic activity against cancer cells45
Exclusive aggression against intruders in cockroach mating pairs following mutual wing-eating44
Three-dimensional bioprinted platforms for disease management: cancer and chronic wounds44
Scented messages from silent intruders: experimental insights into otter territoriality40
Neuromolecular mechanisms related to reflex behaviour in Aplysia are affected by ocean acidification40
Energy gap and aromatic molecular rings40
Computational capability of ecological dynamics39
Evidence for aorta and other blood vessels in fossil yunnanozoans from the Cambrian period39
Bias and identifiability in the bounded confidence model38
Is biomedical research self-correcting? Modelling insights on the persistence of spurious science38
‘Quantum supremacy’ revisited: low-complexity, deterministic solutions of the original Deutsch–Jozsa problem in classical physical systems38
Risk-taking neonates do not pay a survival cost in a free-ranging large mammal, the fallow deer (Dama dama)37
Reverse game: from Nash equilibrium to network structure, number and probability of occurrence37
Morphological change in an isolated population of red squirrels ( Sciurus vulgaris ) in Britain36
A new Pleistocene peafowl from Taiwan reveals the extinction of a large galliform bird in East Asia36
PestReKNet-X: integrating explainable artificial intelligence to enhance pest disease detection and combat crop senescence36
Numerical investigation for hazardous gas cloud form and dissipation behaviour of hydrogen-blended natural gas in a confined space36
A new sponge from the Marjum Formation of Utah documents the Cambrian origin of the hexactinellid body plan35
The temperate coral Astrangia poculata maintains acid–base homeostasis through heat stress34
Spatial distribution pattern of mustelids in the eastern edge of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau34
Beyond perfect synchrony: shared interpersonal rhythmic timing enhances self-other merging judgements34
AI Thinking: a framework for rethinking artificial intelligence in practice33
Preparation of lutein through biotransformation in a microemulsion medium33
Environmental correlates of temporal variation in the prey species of Australian fur seals inferred from scat analysis32
Stereotypical bias amplification and reversal in an experimental model of human interaction with generative artificial intelligence32
Target occlusion and the confusion effect32
Programmable shape transformations of electro-mechanical metamaterial muscles31
Preparation of magnetic activated carbon fibers@Fe3O4 by electrostatic self-assembly method and adsorption properties for methylene blue31
A metric of knowledge as information compression reflects reproducibility predictions for biomedical experiments31
Balancing centralized learning and distributed self-organization: a hybrid model for embodied morphogenesis30
Towards an inclusive Open Science: examining EDI and public participation in policy documents across Europe and the Americas30
Molecular dynamics simulation of the interaction between palmitic acid and high pressure CO 230
Investigating the impact of environmental feedback on the optional prisoner’s dilemma for insights into cyclic dominance and evolution of cooperation30
Fission–fusion dynamics in sheep: the influence of resource distribution and temporal activity patterns30
Detection of antimicrobial-resistant Enterobacterales in insectivorous bats from Chile29
A nearly complete skull of the sauropod dinosaurDiamantinasaurus matildaefrom the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Australia and implications for the early evolution of titanosaurs29
Polyethylene-grafted poly(hexamethylene guanidine) modified ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene monofilaments and their antimicrobial properties29
Use of the notochordal canal as a reliable proxy for prenatal stage, a case study in Ichthyosauria28
Mechanical energy fluctuation in lower limbs during walking in participants with and without total hip replacement28
Arterial wave dynamics preservation upon orthostatic stress: a modelling perspective28
Turns around periodic spatial boundaries facilitate increasing event segmentation over time27
Tusks, testosterone and personality in male Asian elephants ( Elephas maximus )26
Desert lizards modulate nutritional responses to match seasonal biological needs26
Ecosystem-engineered infections: beaver-modified wetlands are associated with conflicting drivers of amphibian pathogen prevalence26
A parasitic or mutualistic conundrum: can symbiotic protists increase thermal tolerance in a semi-aquatic insect?26
Animalistic slurs increase harm by changing perceptions of social desirability26
Optimization and economic feasibility of vegetable oil wastewater treatment using Plantago major seed nano-green coagulant26
Carbonized UiO-66 with Ni nanoparticles for PFAD deoxygenation to green diesel hydrocarbons: characterization, optimization and deactivation analysis26
In fission yeast, 65 non-essential mitochondrial proteins related to respiration and stress become essential in low-glucose conditions26
Re-thinking human interactions with the oceans25
Big bang, low bar—risk assessment in the public arena25
Morality in the flesh: on the link between bodily self-consciousness, moral identity and (dis)honest behaviour25
Physiological arousal explains infant gaze following in various social contexts25
Modelling and predicting online vaccination views using bow-tie decomposition25
No evidence that a transmissible cancer has shifted from emergence to endemism in Tasmanian devils25
The illusion of personal health decisions for infectious disease management: disease spread in social contact networks25
Identifying functional and regional differences in chimpanzee stone tool technology25
Transmission dynamics of symbiotic protist communities in the termite gut: association with host adult eclosion and dispersal25
Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of shape variation in the albatross compound bill25
On the identification of hypoxic regions in subject-specific cerebral vasculature by combined CFD/MRI25
Assembly theory: formalizing assembly spaces, discovering patterns and bounds24
Identity fusion with proximal but not distal social groups rises after mastering a coordinated marching routine24
Ethical considerations related to drone use for environment and health research: a scoping review24
Comparative study of two common methods for the determination of total mercury in soil24
A comparison of tool-use flexibility between captive chimpanzees and bonobos24
Is musical ability related to second-language acquisition? A meta-analysis24
Expression of concern: ‘Regional patterns of excess mortality in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic: a state-level analysis’ Kuhbandner and Reitzner23
Host ecotype and rearing environment are the main drivers of threespine stickleback gut microbiota diversity in a naturalistic experiment23
Automatic titration detection method of organic matter content based on machine vision23
Application of a new composite genetic marker semen-specific methylation-microhaplotype in the analysis of semen–vaginal fluid mixtures23
Correction to: ‘Fission–fusion dynamics in sheep: the influence of resource distribution and temporal activity patterns’ (2023) by Della Libera et al.23
Theoretical calculations of formation and reactivity of o -quinomethide derivatives of resorcin[4]arene with reference to empirical data23
Age, but not hand preference, is related to personality traits in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)23
Early arc crust formation preserved in the Grenadines archipelago, southern Lesser Antilles arc23
Pigs, people, and proximity: a 6000-year isotopic record of pig management in Ireland23
Multi-model approach to understand and predict past and future dengue epidemic dynamics22
What could a human right to participate in science be?22
Inkjet-printed SnO x as an effective electron transport layer for planar perovskite solar cells and the effect of Cu doping22
The skeletal completeness of the Palaeozoic chondrichthyan fossil record22
Evaluating the forecasting performance of ensemble sub-epidemic frameworks and other time series models for the 2022–2023 mpox epidemic22
Closing cones create conical lamellae in secondary osteonal bone22
A genetic algorithm optimization framework for the characterization of hyper-viscoelastic materials: application to human articular cartilage22
Fine-scale spatiotemporal predator–prey interactions in an Antarctic fur seal colony22
Replicating the ‘seductive allure of neuroscience explanations’ effect in a classroom experiment and an online study22
Eggshell composition and surface properties of avian brood-parasitic species compared with non-parasitic species22
Exploring open science practices in behavioural public policy research22
First evidence for fin whale migration into the Pacific from Antarctic feeding grounds at Elephant Island22
Searching for potential acetylcholinesterase inhibitors: a combined approach of multi-step similarity search, machine learning and molecular dynamics simulations22
Domestication affects sex-biased gene expression evolution in the duck21
The role of truth relativist and realist views in bullshit receptivity, conspiracy ideation and the distribution of science misinformation21
Influence of climate and soil nutrients on the evolutionary abandonment of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis21
A FAIR narrative on open science: when, who, what and how of computed tomography and the NoCTURN network21
Observations and models of across-wind flight speed of the wandering albatross21
The endangered brain: actively preserving ex-situ animal behaviour and cognition will benefit in-situ cons21
Effects of domestication and captive breeding on reaction to moving objects: implications for avoidance behaviours of masu salmon Oncorhynchus masou21
Pore topology analysis in porous molecular systems21
How the self-concept structures social role learning: insights from computational models21
What you have, not who you know: food-enhanced social capital and changes in social behavioural relationships in a non-human primate21
The dual strategy: resisting and tolerating pathogens in ant colonies21
Broadband and optically tunable terahertz metasurface absorber based on intrinsic silicon21
A model for the permeability of coffee pucks validated using X-ray computed micro-tomography21
Controlling and scripting laboratory hardware with open-source, intuitive interfaces: OpenFlexure Voice Control and OpenFlexure Blockly21
Life history and nesting traits reflect urban tolerance in coastal birds21
Machine learning-assisted designing of organic solar cell hole-transport molecules with promising short-circuit current density20
Optimizing crop rotations via Parrondo’s paradox for sustainable agriculture20
Familiarity with, perceptions of and attitudes toward butterflies of urban park users in megacities across East and Southeast Asia20
Asynchrony rescues statistically optimal group decisions from information cascades through emergent leaders20
Analysing the effects of distance, taxon and biomass on vertebrate detections using bulk-collected carrion fly iDNA20
The ‘Doginburgh Inventory’: from hands to paws in assessing canine motor laterality20
Theory of infectious disease spillover at an ecological boundary: impacts of seasonality and cross-boundary movement20
Modelling communication-enabled traffic interactions20
Enhanced photoelectrochemical performance of quantum dot-sensitized solar cell using Cu 2+ co-doped CdS and CdSe nanoscrystals20
Characteristic features of statistical models and machine learning methods derived from pest and disease monitoring datasets20
The prebiotic emergence of biological evolution20
Atropine-functionalized gold nanoparticles binding to muscarinic receptors after passage across the intestinal epithelium20
Animal emotions and consciousness: a preliminary assessment of researchers’ perceptions and biases and prospects for future progress20
Majestic tigers: personality structure in the great Amur cat20
Neuroanatomical correlates of system-justifying ideologies: a pre-registered voxel-based morphometry study on right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation20
A social learning primacy trend in mate-copying: an experiment in Drosophila melanogaster20
Traffic light cycles for a sustainable city19
Investigating the diversity of bioluminescent marine worm Polycirrus (Annelida), with description of three new species from the Western Pacific19
Quantifying the ‘end of history’ through a Bayesian Markov-chain approach19
Social network inheritance and differentiation in wild baboons19
Many facets of cohomology: differential complexes and structure-aware formulation19
Smaller islands, bigger appetites: evolutionary strategies of insular endemic skinks19
Correction to: ‘The prebiotic emergence of biological evolution’ Kocher and Dill19
Both optical and rheological properties contribute to viscosity judgements when comparing real liquids using vision and touch19
Does visual frequency discrimination require attentional amplification?19
Learning in ensembles of proteinoid microspheres19
Personalized prediction system for early prediction of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease using explainable AI18
The comparison of neural mechanisms underlying prospective versus retrospective thinking of sustainable behaviours18
A multiscale stochastic cellular automata model for dispersion of mountain pine beetles18
A rating-only approach to perceptual discrimination18
Interspecific and intraspecific variation in grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididea) molar form: implications for dietary ecology18
Empirically testing a relationship between cooperation and the prime numbers18
Challenges and opportunities in leveraging an existing systematic evidence database for mitigating hazards to the global food system18
The emergence of a new pilgrimage as an assurance game18
Freedom through understanding: instructed knowledge shapes voluntary action choices18
Temporal dynamics of motion compression: a lagged extrapolation account18
Gender stereotypes regarding power and niceness in Japanese children18
An STP-HSI index method for urban built-up area extraction based on multi-source remote sensing data18
Study on wettability of water stemming for blasting dust adjusted by surfactants and inorganic salts18
The effectiveness of marine protected areas on the spatio-temporal patterns of reef fish in the Southwest Atlantic18
Lasius flavus ants protect root aphid eggs from predators and pathogens during winter hibernation18
On-device machine learning for secure, generalizable and real-time medical data processing: on the emergence of μ -trainers18
Rapamycin supplementation of Drosophila melanogaster larvae results in less viable adults with smaller cells18
Changes in wing resonance in dried preserved crickets18
A phenotypic drug discovery approach by latent interaction in deep learning18
Prior beliefs and the interpretation of scientific results18
Climate change is associated with asynchrony in arrival between two sympatric cuckoos and both host arrival and prey emergence18
Energy-based analysis of biochemical oscillators using bond graphs and linear control theory18
Adult neurogenesis does not explain the extensive post-eclosion growth of Heliconius mushroom bodies17
Soil as a transdisciplinary research catalyst: from bioprospecting to biorespecting17
Co-designing a wiki-based community knowledge management system for personal science17
Sound reception and hearing capabilities in the Little Penguin ( Eudyptula minor ): first predicted in-air and underwater audiograms17
Harnessing meta-analyses’ insights in ecology and evolution research17
How many specimens make a sufficient training set for automated three-dimensional feature extraction?17
Coupling an agent-based model and an ensemble Kalman filter for real-time crowd modelling17
Liquid–liquid phase reaction between crystal violet and sodium hydroxide: kinetic study and precipitate analysis17
Elucidation of reactive oxygen species scavenging pathways of norbergenin utilizing DFT approaches17
How circular is a directed network? A flow decomposition approach17
Alternative COVID-19 mitigation measures in school classrooms: analysis using an agent-based model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission17
Developmental feedbacks and the emergence of individuality17
The geometry of life: testing the scaling of whole-organism surface area and volume using sharks17
Sustained shift in the morphology of organic-walled microfossils over the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition17
Physics-grounded optimization via interpretable process mapping17
Are all underimmunized measles clusters equally critical?17
Assessment of help value affects reciprocation in Norway rats17
Coherence theory-based analysis of time–space coupling between internal flow noise and pulsations in axial pump under blockage17
The effect of target scarcity on visual foraging17
Altruistic punishment in action: movement vigour in neuroeconomic choice17
A complex adaptive systems model of labour reciprocity and normative reasoning in swidden agriculture17
Do unbiased people act more rationally?—The case of comparative realism and vaccine intention17
Geographical distribution of two acoustic fin whale ( Balaenoptera physalus ) populations across the Weddell Sea16
Citation counts and journal impact factors do not capture some indicators of research quality in the behavioural and brain sciences16
A general swimming response in exhausted obligate swimming fish16
Does higher perceived risk of morbidity and mortality decrease risk-taking?16
Osteohistology reveals the smallest adult Jurassic sauropodomorph16
Sperm whale clans and human societies16
Skewed performance distributions as evidence of motor constraint in sports and animal displays16
Computational and spectroscopic ‍characterization of thianthrene16
Learning artificial number symbols with ordinal and magnitude information16
Dynamical methods for target control of biological networks16
takeout gene expression is associated with temporal kin recognition16
The ontogeny of children's social emotions in response to (un)fairness16
Epidemic dynamics under variable compliance with interventions16
Opening science to society: how to progress societal engagement into (open) science policies16
Sprinting with bilateral transtibial running-specific prostheses versus biological limbs – are they comparable? Comments on Beck et al . (2022)16
Synthesis, antimicrobial evaluation, ADMET prediction, molecular docking and dynamics studies of pyridine and thiophene moiety-containing chalcones16
Michotte’s research on perceptual impressions of causality: a registered replication study15
Scaling laws of political regime dynamics: stability of democracies and autocracies in the twentieth century15
N -Arylacetamide derivatives of methyl 1,2-benzothiazine-3-carboxylate as potential drug candidates for urease inhibition15
Growth and development of staghorn fern colonies ( Platycerium bifurcatum , Polypodiaceae)15
A novel spatiotemporal model with advanced feature extraction and unified brain network for depression detection using electroencephalogram signals15
Modelling the emergence of social-bird biological controls to mitigate invasions of the spotted lanternfly and similar invasive pests15
A continuum description of the buckling of a line of spheres in a transverse harmonic confining potential15
Estimating network dimension when the spectrum struggles15
Multiple mechanisms of response suppression to self-induced sensation during pursuit eye movements15
High-intensity helical flow: a double-edged sword in coronary artery haemodynamics15
Prevalence, patterns and predictors of paranormal beliefs in The Netherlands: a several-analysts approach15
Molecular duplexes featuring NH···N, CH···O and CH···π interactions in solid-state self-assembly of triazine-based compounds15
Effect of graphene sheets on the physico-chemical properties of nanocrystallite ceria15
Ecological functions of fungal sesquiterpenes in the food preference and fitness of soil Collembola15
Pronking and bounding allow a fast escape across a grassland populated by scattered obstacles15
Forecasting the future? Differential allocation of maternal hormones under different social contexts in the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus15
Electrodeposition of iron from 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium trifluoromethanesulfonate and reverse microemulsions of Triton X-10015
Structural, optical and biological characterization of a new cobalt-based mixed halide hybrid compound: insights from DFT and vibrational analysis15
Desperation and inequality increase stealing: evidence from experimental microsocieties15
Experience and trust: the benefits of mate familiarity are realized through sex-specific specialization of parental roles in Cassin’s auklet15
The rhythms of transient relationships: allocating time between weekdays and weekends15
Partial dependence of ultrasonically estimated fetal weight on biometric parameters15
Skull and inner ear morphometrics in sheep and goats: species and breed differentiation with bioarchaeological applications14
Dynamic effects of thermal acclimation on chytridiomycosis infection intensity and transmission potential in Xenopus laevis14
Comparative study of cavitands-based nanocapsule as a drug delivery vehicle for an anti-cancer and multiple sclerosis drug—A DFT study14
Experimental assessment of dry water materials for inhibiting explosion under the coal gasification atmosphere14
COVID-19 risk perception and hoax beliefs in the US immediately before and after the announcement of President Trump's diagnosis14
Prediction of individual differences in non-iridescent structural plumage colour from nanostructural periodicity and regularity14
Unveiling the patterns and drivers of scientific and societal interest in Brazilian lepidopterans14
Immune suppression and metabolic reprogramming in Bactrocera dorsalis parasitized by Fopius arisanus14
Insights for applying N,S-doped carbon dots as a fluorescent nanoprobe for estimation of some nitro-calcium channel blockers14
Vertical transmission and seasonal dimorphism of eriophyoid mites (Acariformes, Eriophyoidea) parasitic on the Norway maple: a case study14
Reports of deaths are an exaggeration: all-cause and NAA-test-conditional mortality in Germany during the SARS-CoV-2 era14
Cranial osteology and neuroanatomy of the late Permian reptile Milleropsis pricei and implications for early reptile evolution14
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