OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications is 45. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Potent antiviral effect of silver nanoparticles on SARS-CoV-2	326
Mutations on RBD of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant result in stronger binding to human ACE2 receptor	177
Recognition of the SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain by neutralizing antibodies	170
Evolution patterns of SARS-CoV-2: Snapshot on its genome variants	125
RNA-dependent RNA polymerase: Structure, mechanism, and drug discovery for COVID-19	110
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein interactions with amyloidogenic proteins: Potential clues to neurodegeneration	109
Lost in deletion: The enigmatic ORF8 protein of SARS-CoV-2	106
Andrographolide and its fluorescent derivative inhibit the main proteases of 2019-nCoV and SARS-CoV through covalent linkage	96
High-resolution structure and biophysical characterization of the nucleocapsid phosphoprotein dimerization domain from the Covid-19 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2	96
T cell immunity to SARS-CoV-2 following natural infection and vaccination	87
Host-directed editing of the SARS-CoV-2 genome	84
Humoral immune responses and neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2; implications in pathogenesis and protective immunity	84
The D614G mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein: Implications for viral infectivity, disease severity and vaccine design	83
The expression of SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 and CD147, and protease TMPRSS2 in human and mouse brain cells and mouse brain tissues	83
Functional importance of the D614G mutation in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein	79
EGCG, a green tea polyphenol, inhibits human coronavirus replication in vitro	78
Sorafenib induces mitochondrial dysfunction and exhibits synergistic effect with cysteine depletion by promoting HCC cells ferroptosis	77
Laboratory testing for the diagnosis of COVID-19	76
Identification of antiviral antihistamines for COVID-19 repurposing	76
History of the COVID-19 pandemic: Origin, explosion, worldwide spreading	73
miR-324-3p reverses cisplatin resistance by inducing GPX4-mediated ferroptosis in lung adenocarcinoma cell line A549	71
Mutation-induced changes in the receptor-binding interface of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant B.1.617.2 and implications for immune evasion	69
SIRT1-autophagy axis inhibits excess iron-induced ferroptosis of foam cells and subsequently increases IL-1Β and IL-18	67
The Nucleocapsid protein triggers the main humoral immune response in COVID-19 patients	67
Cathepsin B is a mediator of organelle-specific initiation of ferroptosis	65

Comprehensive analysis of COVID-19 during pregnancy	64
Oleanolic acid inhibits cervical cancer Hela cell proliferation through modulation of the ACSL4 ferroptosis signaling pathway	62
Machine learning methods accurately predict host specificity of coronaviruses based on spike sequences alone	62
KDM4A-mediated histone demethylation of SLC7A11 inhibits cell ferroptosis in osteosarcoma	62
Overexpression of SARS-CoV-2 protein ORF6 dislocates RAE1 and NUP98 from the nuclear pore complex	58
PPARG-mediated ferroptosis in dendritic cells limits antitumor immunity	57
Inhibition of GPX4 or mTOR overcomes resistance to Lapatinib via promoting ferroptosis in NSCLC cells	52
Evolutionary and structural analysis elucidates mutations on SARS-CoV2 spike protein with altered human ACE2 binding affinity	51
Vitamin C induces ferroptosis in anaplastic thyroid cancer cells by ferritinophagy activation	50
SIRT6 silencing overcomes resistance to sorafenib by promoting ferroptosis in gastric cancer	50
CDK1 inhibitor controls G2/M phase transition and reverses DNA damage sensitivity	50
T-cell dysregulation in COVID-19	48
Tanshinone IIA protects human coronary artery endothelial cells from ferroptosis by activating the NRF2 pathway	48
Remdesivir: From Ebola to COVID-19	47
GW4064 enhances the chemosensitivity of colorectal cancer to oxaliplatin by inducing pyroptosis	47
Biodiversity loss and COVID-19 pandemic: The role of bats in the origin and the spreading of the disease	46
A nidovirus perspective on SARS-CoV-2	45
Life, death, and self: Fundamental questions of primitive cognition viewed through the lens of body plasticity and synthetic organisms	45
Scanning the RBD-ACE2 molecular interactions in Omicron variant	45
Leveraging coronavirus binding to gangliosides for innovative vaccine and therapeutic strategies against COVID-19	45