OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Acta Tropica is 27. 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
One year update on the COVID-19 pandemic: Where are we now?	130
Upregulated-gene expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines (TNF-α, IL-1β and IL-6) via TLRs following NF-κB and MAPKs in bovine mastitis	56
Contemporary autochthonous human Chagas disease in the USA	52
Confidence in managing human monkeypox cases in Asia: A cross-sectional survey among general practitioners in Indonesia	52
Climate change and zoonoses: A review of the current status, knowledge gaps, and future trends	52
One year of African swine fever outbreak in China	51
An approach to natural insect repellent formulations: from basic research to technological development	50
Current status of human liver fluke infections in the Greater Mekong Subregion	43
Onchocerciasis (river blindness) – more than a century of research and control	39
Evolutionary ecology, taxonomy, and systematics of avian malaria and related parasites	39
Into the woods: Changes in mosquito community composition and presence of key vectors at increasing distances from the urban edge in urban forest parks in Manaus, Brazil	38
Antiparasitic activity of piplartine (piperlongumine) in a mouse model of schistosomiasis	37
Low specificity of point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen (POC CCA) diagnostic test in a non-endemic area for schistosomiasis mansoni in Brazil	37
Aedes-borne disease outbreaks in West Africa: A call for enhanced surveillance	34
Comparison of commercial and in-house real-time PCR platforms for 15 parasites and microsporidia in human stool samples without a gold standard	33
Tackling zoonoses in a crowded world: Lessons to be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic	33
Molecular detection of Rickettsia spp., Borrelia spp., Bartonella spp. and Yersinia pestis in ectoparasites of endemic and domestic animals in southwest Madagascar	31
Keds, the enigmatic flies and their role as vectors of pathogens	31
Characterization of the first autochthonous dengue outbreak in Spain (August–September 2018)	31
Toxoplasmosis in Human and Animals Around the World. Diagnosis and Perspectives in the One Health Approach	31
On detection thresholds–a review on diagnostic approaches in the infectious disease laboratory and the interpretation of their results	31
Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in cattle in China from 2010 to 2019: A systematic review and meta-analysis	30
Essential oils and their chemical constituents against Aedes aegypti L. (Diptera: Culicidae) larvae	29
Beyond the barrier: Female Genital Schistosomiasis as a potential risk factor for HIV-1 acquisition	29
Dog rabies control in West and Central Africa: A review	28

Trends in Naegleria fowleri global research: A bibliometric analysis study	27
New insights on the epidemiology of Coxiella burnetii in pet dogs and cats from New South Wales, Australia	27
Use of procalcitonin, neopterin, haptoglobin, serum amyloid A and proinflammatory cytokines in diagnosis and prognosis of bovine respiratory disease in feedlot calves under field conditions	27
Identification of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) from Mexico State, Mexico using morphology and COI DNA barcoding	27