OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Integrative Organismal Biology is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Anthropogenic Impacts on Coral-Algal Interactions of the Subtropical Lagoonal Reef, Norfolk Island	17
Shaped by Their Environment: Variation in Blue Whale Morphology across Three Productive Coastal Ecosystems	16
Climbing and Clinging of Urban Lizards are Differentially Affected by Morphology, Temperature, and Substrate	15
Prey Cue Preferences Among Northern Cottonmouths (Agkistrodon piscivorus) Acclimated to Different Year-Long Diets: Genetics or Experienced-Based Plasticity?	11
The Human Neck is Part of the Musculoskeletal Core: Cervical Muscles Help Stabilize the Pelvis During Running and Jumping	10
Fast and Furious: Energetic Tradeoffs and Scaling of High-Speed Foraging in Rorqual Whales	10
Sharks Violate Rensch's Rule for Sexual Size Dimorphism	10
Flight and Dietary Antioxidants Influence Antioxidant Expression and Activity in a Migratory Bird	10
Pretty Cool Beetles: Can Manipulation of Visible and Near-Infrared Sunlight Prevent Overheating?	9
Morphological Diversity of Turtle Hyoid Apparatus is Linked to Feeding Behavior	9
Vibroacoustic Response of the Tympanic Membrane to Hyoid-Borne Sound Generated during Echolocation in Bats	8
Buffered Lugol's Iodine Preserves DNA Fragment Lengths	8
Long-Axis Rotation of Jaws of Bamboo Sharks (Chiloscyllium plagiosum) During Suction Feeding	7
Volumetric versus Element-scaling Mass Estimation and Its Application to Permo-Triassic Tetrapods	7
Does the Pachytene Checkpoint, a Feature of Meiosis, Filter Out Mistakes in Double-Strand DNA Break Repair and as a side-Effect Strongly Promote Adaptive Speciation?	7
Vertebral Trabecular Bone Mechanical Properties Vary Among Functional Groups of Cetaceans	7
Geometric Morphometrics Reveal Shape Differences in the Toes of Urban Lizards	7
Beyond Janzen's Hypothesis: How Amphibians That Climb Tropical Mountains Respond to Climate Variation	6
A Roadmap to Reconstructing Muscle Architecture from CT Data	6
GoodFibes: An R Package for The Detection of Muscle Fibers from diceCT Scans	6
SegmentGeometry: A Tool for Measuring Second Moment of Area in 3D Slicer	6
Winter Is Coming: Integrative Analysis of Cold Acclimation in a Freeze Tolerant Frog	6
Characteristics of The Bleached Microbiome of The Generalist CoralPocillopora damicornisfrom Two Distinct Reef Habitats	6
Language Barriers in Organismal Biology: What Can Journals Do Better?	6
A Brief Introductory Guide to Nanoindentation for Comparative and Evolutionary Biologists, with a Case Study of Bone Material Property Diversity across Artiodactyl Skulls	6

An Open-Source Photogrammetry Workflow for Reconstructing 3D Models	6
Regional tongue deformations during chewing and drinking in the pig	5
Reconstructing Articular Cartilage in the Australopithecus afarensis Hip Joint and the Need for Modeling Six Degrees of Freedom	5
How to Survive a (Juvenile) Piranha Attack: An Integrative Approach to Evaluating Predator Performance	5
Potential for Anthropogenic Fin Damage to Affect Individual Responses to Prey in Bluegill Sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus): A New Hypothesis for Kinematic Studies	5
Does the Glucocorticoid Stress Response Make Toads More Toxic? An Experimental Study on the Regulation of Bufadienolide Toxin Synthesis	5
Geometric Morphometric Assessment of Toe Shape in Forest and Urban Lizards Following Hurricane Disturbances	4
The Evolution of Feeding Mechanics in the Danioninae, or Why Giant Danios Don't Suck Like Zebrafish	4
Fluctuating and Stable High Temperatures Differentially Affect Reproductive Endocrinology of Female Pupfish	4
Four-bar Geometry is Shared among Ecologically DivergentFish Species	4
Syngnathoid Evolutionary History and the Conundrum of Fossil Misplacement	4
Comparison of Aminoglycoside Antibiotics and Cobalt Chloride for Ablation of the Lateral Line System in Giant Danios	4
Proteomic and Transcriptomic Analyses in the Slipper SnailCrepidulafornicataUncover Shell Matrix Genes Expressed During Adult and Larval Biomineralization	4
Mantis Shrimp Locomotion: Coordination and Variation of Hybrid Metachronal Swimming	4