OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Virology is 34. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing the Top 25 Peer Reviewers in 2022 for the Journal of Virology	104
Tethered release of the pseudorabies virus deubiquitinase from the capsid promotes enzymatic activity	81
Editorial Board	76
Elucidating the molecular properties and anti-mycobacterial activity of cysteine peptidase domain of D29 mycobacteriophage endolysin	68
Anellovirus constraint from 2 to 6 months postpartum followed by betatorquevirus and gammatorquevirus dominance in serum and milk	65
Heterologous prime-boost immunization induces protection against dengue virus infection in cynomolgus macaques	62
Reverse Genetic Assessment of the Roles Played by the Spike Protein and ORF3 in Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus Pathogenicity	59
PRMT5 Facilitates Infectious Bursal Disease Virus Replication through Arginine Methylation of VP1	58
Changes in the chikungunya virus E1 glycoprotein domain II and hinge influence E2 conformation, infectivity, and virus-receptor interactions	57
From phenotype to receptor: validating physiological clustering of Escherichia coli phages through comprehensive receptor analysis	55
Molecular Determinants of Mouse Adaptation of Rat Hepacivirus	55
p38MAPK- and GSK3-Mediated Phosphorylation of Snakehead Vesiculovirus Phosphoprotein at Threonine 160 Facilitates Viral Replication	53
DLG1 promotes the antiviral innate immune response by inhibiting p62-mediated autophagic degradation of IKKε	52
Multiple-Site SUMOylation of FMDV 3C Protease and Its Negative Role in Viral Replication	52
Virology under the Microscope—a Call for Rational Discourse	48
Dairy cattle herds mount a characteristic antibody response to highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses	48
Lactate-lactylation-HSPA6 axis promotes PRRSV replication by impairing IFN-β production	44
DEAD-box helicase gcDDX56 disrupts IRF3 nuclear import complex and promotes nuclear IRF3 degradation for enhancing GCRV replication	43
Correction for Goonawardane et al., “Identification of Host Factors Differentially Induced by Clinically Diverse Strains of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus”	43
The Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) G Protein Enhances the Immune Responses to the RSV F Protein in an Enveloped Virus-Like Particle Vaccine Candidate	42
VILMIR is a trans -acting long noncoding RNA that enhances the host interferon response in human epithelial cells	42
Correction for Sharp et al., “Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection of Chimpanzees”	42
Erratum for Barbosa Bomfim et al., “CGRP inhibits SARS-CoV-2 infection of bronchial epithelial cells, and its pulmonary levels correlate with viral clearance in critical COVID-19 patients”	42
Deciphering the adsorption machinery of Deep-Blue and Vp4, two myophages targeting members of the Bacillus cereus group	41
Repression of Memo1, a Novel Target of Human Papillomavirus Type 16 E7, Increases Cell Proliferation in Cervical Cancer Cells	41

V3 tip determinants of susceptibility to inhibition by CD4-mimetic compounds in natural clade A human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) envelope glycoproteins	38
KSHV genome harbors both constitutive and lytically induced enhancers	37
Rapid production of recombinant rotaviruses by overexpression of NSP2 and NSP5 genes with modified nucleotide sequences	36
FeLIX is a restriction factor for mammalian retrovirus infection	36
MmuPV1 E7 promotes phenotypes associated with “high-risk” HPV infection in mouse keratinocytes	36
Deletion of the gene for the African swine fever virus BCL-2 family member A179L increases virus uptake and apoptosis but decreases virus spread in macrophages and reduces virulence in pigs	35
CD4-mimetics sensitize HIV-infected cells to ADCC mediated by plasma from persons with early-stage HIV-1 infection	35
A Zinc Finger Motif in the P1 N Terminus, Highly Conserved in a Subset of Potyviruses, Is Associated with the Host Range and Fitness of Telosma Mosaic Virus	35
HIV-induced RSAD2/Viperin supports sustained infection of monocyte-derived macrophages	35
Reanalysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data does not support herpes simplex virus 1 latency in non-neuronal ganglionic cells in mice	34
Mitochondrial injury and complement dysregulation are drivers of pathological inflammation in viral myocarditis	34
Enforced Dimerization of CD45 by the Adenovirus E3/49K Protein Inhibits T Cell Receptor Signaling	34
Variable and conserved features of copy-back viral genome populations generated de novo during Sendai virus infection	34
Replication-deficient whole-virus vaccines against cytomegalovirus induce protective immunity in a guinea pig congenital infection model	34
Longitudinal Analysis of the Phenotype, Transcriptional Profile, and Anatomic Location of Memory CD8 T Cell Subsets after Acute Viral Infection	34