OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States o is 129. 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
Natural disasters as natural experiments: Lessons for human stress science	1717
Coming full circle on diazotrophy in the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium	843
Breaking the symmetry of cell contractility drives tubulogenesis via CXCL1 polarization	833
In This Issue	562
The complexity of aerosol production from bubble bursting	538
Intimate contact between red blood cells and vessel walls is sufficient to stabilize capillary networks during development	513
Reconstitution of a biofilm adhesin system from a sulfate-reducing bacterium in Pseudomonas fluorescens	450
March of the proviruses	440
Michael Oldstone (1932–2023): Pioneer in viral pathogenesis, historian and author	401
PVDF–HFP@Nafion-based quasisolid polymer electrolyte for high migration number in working rechargeable Na–O ₂ batteries	370
In vivo selection of synthetic nucleocapsids for tissue targeting	369
The cyclic octapeptide antibiotic argyrin B inhibits translation by trapping EF-G on the ribosome during translocation	362
N6-methyladenosine (m ⁶ A) depletion regulates pluripotency exit by activating signaling pathways in embryonic stem cells	361
A method to predict the response to directional selection using a Kalman filter	345
Microbial self-recycling and biospherics	342
Membrane association of active genes organizes the chloroplast nucleoid structure	327
Multistability of segmented rings by programming natural curvature	326
Exotic self-assembly of hard spheres in a morphometric solvent	322
The ecological and geographic dynamics of extinction: Niche modeling and ecological marginalization	310
Scaling of Berry-curvature monopole dominated large linear positive magnetoresistance	298
Reply to Kodner et al.: Fundamental misunderstanding of both model and methods	291
Plant organellar genomes utilize gene conversion to drive heteroplasmic sorting	289
Cell reprogramming design by transfer learning of functional transcriptional networks	275
In This Issue	269
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In This Issue	259
Life 2.0—A CRISPR path to a sustainable planet	254
In This Issue	254
Supergenes, supergenomes, and complex social traits	248
Pathways to parasitic strategies in ants	247
In high school math, more instructional time helps, but the tracking dilemma remains	243
Genomics serology to inform therapies and vaccines for arthritogenic alphaviruses	239
Reply to McGrew: Chimpanzees do not exhibit widespread cultural diffusion	236
QnAs with Hugo J. Bellen	232
²³ Na imaging: Worth its salt for understanding multiple sclerosis	225
A tribute to Eddy Fischer (April 6, 1920–August 27, 2021): Passionate biochemist and mentor	224
QnAs with David Van Essen	223
Casein kinase rolls the dice in clocks from bread mold to humans	221
Linking a nuclear lncRNA to cytoplasmic lysosome integrity and cell death	220
In This Issue	212
Reply to Best and Ashby: The concept of evolutionarily stable strategies (ESS) helps link ecology and evolution	211
Can feeding the gut microbiome treat malnutrition?	209
Multilevel transcrustal magmatic system beneath the Geysers-Clear Lake area	208
Suppressing APOE4-induced neural pathologies by targeting the VHL–HIF axis	203
Long-term employment and health effects of active labor market programs	202
Life sets off a cascade of machines	197
Emergence and evolution of heterocyte glycolipid biosynthesis enabled specialized nitrogen fixation in cyanobacteria	196
Environmental variability across space and time drives the recolonization pattern of a historically persecuted large carnivore	193
The misalignment of incentives in academic publishing and implications for journal reform	192
Shifting equilibria in a warming boreal forest	192
New evidence for early Indian Ocean trade routes into the South African interior	190
Retraction for Li et al., Synthetic lethality of combined glutaminase and Hsp90 inhibition in mTORC1-driven tumor cells	189
The scientific value of Mars Sample Return	189
Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony	189
Retraction for Lee et al., Acriflavine inhibits HIF-1 dimerization, tumor growth, and vascularization	188
Retraction for Samanta et al., Hypoxia-inducible factors are required for chemotherapy resistance of breast cancer stem cells	188
MK2 degradation as a sensor of signal intensity that controls stress-induced cell fate	185
Hippocampal ripples signal contextually mediated episodic recall	185
Plants sum and subtract stimuli over different timescales	185
Transition metal dichalcogenide nanospheres for high-refractive-index nanophotonics and biomedical theranostics	184
On the surprising effectiveness of a simple matrix exponential derivative approximation, with application to global SARS-CoV-2	182
Presaccadic preview shapes postsaccadic processing more where perception is poor	182
Learning through the grapevine and the impact of the breadth and depth of social networks	181
Babbling opens the sensory phase for imitative vocal learning	180
Structural and mechanistic basis of the central energy-converting methyltransferase complex of methanogenesis	180
Van der Waals quantum dots on layered hexagonal boron nitride	178
Emergent quantum state unveiled by ultrafast collective dynamics in 1 T -TaS ₂	178
Empowering genome-wide association studies via a visualizable test based on the regional association score	178
Vulnerability to natural disasters and sustainable consumption: Unraveling political and regional differences	177
Molecular patterns of matrix protein 1 (M1): A strong predictor of adaptive evolution in H9N2 avian influenza viruses	176
Photon-drag photovoltaic effects and quantum geometric nature	175
GenAI synthetic data create ethical challenges for scientists. Here’s how to address them.	174
Reply to Smith and Siegel: Most lithium hops in paddlewheel-claimed conductors occur without spatially and temporally correlated anion-group rotations	172
Weakening AMOC reduces ocean carbon uptake and increases the social cost of carbon	172
A bipartite interaction with the processivity clamp potentiates Pol IV-mediated TLS	171

The AaFoxA factor regulates female reproduction through chromatin remodeling in the mosquito vector Aedes aegypti	171
Identification of AK4 and RHOC as potential oncogenes addicted by adult T cell leukemia	168
Ride-hailing technology mitigates effects of driver racial discrimination, but effects of residential segregation persist	167
Historical Southern Hemisphere biomass burning variability inferred from ice core carbon monoxide records	167
Restoration of atypical protein kinase C ζ function in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease ameliorates disease progression	166
In This Issue	165
Multiple dimeric structures and strand-swap dimerization of E-cadherin in solution visualized by high-speed atomic force microscopy	165
Chemical mapping of the surface interactome of PIEZO1 identifies CADM1 as a modulator of channel inactivation	163
Mixed equilibrium/nonequilibrium effects govern surface mobility in polymer glasses	162
Specialization of the photoreceptor transcriptome by Srrm3 -dependent microexons is required for outer segment maintenance and vision	161
Probing the psychology of AI models	161
Isotope mass-balance constraints preclude that mafic weathering drove Neogene cooling	158
Hydrodynamic flow and concentration gradients in the gut enhance neutral bacterial diversity	158
Loss of resilience preceded transformations of pre-Hispanic Pueblo societies	157
The neural bases of the reach–grasp movement in humans: Quantitative evidence from brain lesions	156
Adaptive DNA amplification of synthetic gene circuit opens a way to overcome cancer chemoresistance	156
The Titanic question in TB control: Should we worry about the bummock?	156
A general framework for interpretable neural learning based on local information-theoretic goal functions	154
Cryo-EM meets crystallography: A model-independent view of the heteronuclear Mn ₄ Ca cluster structure of photosystem II	153
Broken time-reversal symmetry in visual motion detection	150
Correction for Chen et al., Live-attenuated virus vaccine defective in RNAi suppression induces rapid protection in neonatal and adult mice lacking mature B and T cells	149
Vimentin undergoes liquid–liquid phase separation to form droplets which wet and stabilize actin fibers	149
Planets larger than Neptune have elevated eccentricities	148
Photoreduction of mercuric bromides in polar ice	147
Cas9-mediated gene-editing frequency in microalgae is doubled by harnessing the interaction between importin α and phytopathogenic NLSs	147
TEX38 localizes ZDHHC19 to the plasma membrane and regulates sperm head morphogenesis in mice	146
Curve-fitting alone cannot validate neutral theory	146
Dynamic and context-dependent keystone species effects in kelp forests	146
Competition for shared resources increases dependence on initial population size during coalescence of gut microbial communities	145
Scaling language model size yields diminishing returns for single-message political persuasion	144
Activation of proresolving macrophages in dorsal root ganglia attenuates persistent arthritis pain	144
Candidate transmission survival genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis	143
Genetic ablation of the TET family in retinal progenitor cells impairs photoreceptor development and leads to blindness	142
Physical proximity drives gay discrimination in the gig economy	142
S-nitrosylation-triggered secretion of mycobacterial PknG leads to phosphorylation of SODD to prevent apoptosis of infected macrophages	141
Urban highways are barriers to social ties	141
In This Issue	140
Pivotal voting: The opportunity to tip group decisions skews juries and other voting outcomes	139
Elastic turbulence drives particle crystallization	139
The superior explanatory power of models that admit trade-offs in moral judgment and decision-making	138
Henry Bourne: G protein wizard, academic innovator, commentator, and critic	138
Endothelial peroxiredoxin-4 is indispensable for blood–brain barrier integrity and long-term functional recovery after ischemic stroke	137
In This Issue	137
Angiopoietin-like protein 4/8 complex-mediated plasmin generation leads to cleavage of the complex and restoration of LPL activity	136
Nascent mitochondrial proteins initiate the localized condensation of cytosolic protein aggregates on the mitochondrial surface	136
Emergency department visits respond nonlinearly to wildfire smoke	135
Coordination engineering for iron-based hexacyanoferrate as a high-stability cathode for sodium-ion batteries	135
Information theory: A foundation for complexity science	134
Impulsivity is a stable, measurable, and predictive psychological trait	134
Dopamine controls whether new declarative information updates reactivated memories through reconsolidation	132
The “4 + 1” strategy fabrication of iron single-atom catalysts with selective high-valent iron-oxo species generation	131
Spatiotemporal bifurcation of HY5-mediated blue-light signaling regulates wood development during secondary growth	130
Combinations of slow-translating codon clusters can increase mRNA half-life in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	130
Multisubstrate DNA stable isotope probing reveals guild structure of bacteria that mediate soil carbon cycling	130
Precise radiocarbon determination in radioactive waste by a laser-based spectroscopic technique	129