OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States o is 126. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A degradable form of polyoma small T antigen reveals the high specificity of TAZ in regulating gene expression	973
Revealing the structure of snowflakes using acoustic levitation	654
Higher-order effects, continuous species interactions, and trait evolution shape microbial spatial dynamics	525
Inhibition of GPR39 restores defects in endothelial cell–mediated neovascularization under the duress of chronic hyperglycemia: Evidence for regulatory roles of the sonic hedgehog signaling axis	458
Schnurri-3 inhibition suppresses bone and joint damage in models of rheumatoid arthritis	431
GPCR–MAPK signaling pathways underpin fitness trade-offs in whitefly	430
Tungsten is utilized for lactate consumption and SCFA production by a dominant human gut microbe Eubacterium limosum	417
Depressive symptoms during the transition to adolescence: Left hippocampal volume as a marker of social context sensitivity	398
Identification of two archaeal GDGT lipid–modifying proteins reveals diverse microbes capable of GMGT biosynthesis and modification	387
National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty	377
Integrating life history and behavioral aging in the wild	360
Cas9-mediated gene-editing frequency in microalgae is doubled by harnessing the interaction between importin α and phytopathogenic NLSs	359
Bottlenose dolphin mothers modify signature whistles in the presence of their own calves	325
Kinetic pathways of solid–solid phase transitions dictated by short-range interactions	316
Deep silicification–assisted long-term preservation of structural and genomic information across biospecies: From micro to macro	316
Accurate identification and mechanistic evaluation of pathogenic missense variants with Rhapsody-2	288
Greener skies? The quest for sustainable flying	287
Symmetric activation and modulation of the human calcium-sensing receptor	286
Atomic resolution structure of full-length human insulin fibrils	272
Identification of KU-55933 as an anti-atherosclerosis compound by using a hemodynamic-based high-throughput drug screening platform	259
Croquemort elicits activation of the immune deficiency pathway in ticks	257
Memory’s gatekeeper: The role of PFC in the encoding of congruent events	255
Functional redundancy in the toxic pathway of Bt protein Cry1Ab, but not Cry1Fa, against the Asian corn borer	252
Empowering genome-wide association studies via a visualizable test based on the regional association score	248
Roughness-dependent scaling of the contact area and separation gap with pressure for glassy polymers	240

Stomatal patchiness and cellular computing	239
Retraction for Li et al., Synthetic lethality of combined glutaminase and Hsp90 inhibition in mTORC1-driven tumor cells	238
Early life lead exposure from private well water increases juvenile delinquency risk among US teens	236
Modeling DNA methyltransferase function to predict epigenetic correlation patterns in healthy and cancer cells	232
Quantitative comparison of nuclear transport inhibition by SARS coronavirus ORF6 reveals the importance of oligomerization	229
Circadian clock control of interactions between eIF2α kinase CPC-3 and GCN1 with ribosomes regulates rhythmic translation initiation	224
Individuals benefit individual out-group members rather than harm in-group members	221
Mercury’s complex legacy	219
Endurance athletes hiding in plain sight in the high Andes	217
Insurance and climate risks: Policy lessons from three bounding scenarios	211
Correction for Magesh et al., Co-zorbs: Motile, multispecies biofilms aid transport of diverse bacterial species	211
Temperature-dependent fold-switching mechanism of the circadian clock protein KaiB	210
The origin of color categories	209
Glucuronic acid confers colonization advantage to enteric pathogens	209
Aberrant neuronal hyperactivation causes an age-dependent behavioral decline in Caenorhabditis elegans	208
Correction to Supporting Information for Ikeda et al., Seesaw protein: Design of a protein that adopts interconvertible alternative functional conformations and its dynamics	205
A skin-interfaced wireless wearable device and data analytics approach for sleep-stage and disorder detection	199
Ciliary localization of a light-activated neuronal GPCR shapes behavior	198
Untangling the CD4 T cell response to the microbiota	197
Investigating 3D microbial community dynamics of the rhizosphere using quantitative phase and fluorescence microscopy	197
Late Cretaceous community structure changed before the asteroid	195
Impression management in research reporting: When effects are not really as pronounced as claimed	194
Thermodynamic consistency of autocatalytic cycles	193
Directional water navigation and reallocation in Tillandsia capitata	188
An HLA-E-targeted TCR bispecific molecule redirects T cell immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis	186
Correction for Garaizar et al., Toward understanding lipid reorganization in RNA lipid nanoparticles in acidic environments	186
Modeling blood metabolite homeostatic levels reduces sample heterogeneity across cohorts	185
Mitochondrial uncoupling proteins protect human airway epithelial ciliated cells from oxidative damage	185
Methodological and conceptual considerations of the TCM evolution	183
Correction to Supporting Information for Bardy et al., Neuronal medium that supports basic synaptic functions and activity of human neurons in vitro	183
Photoreduction of mercuric bromides in polar ice	183
Clocking out and letting go to unleash green biotech applications in a photosynthetic host	181
Resilience of deep aquifer microbial communities to seasonal hydrological fluctuations	177
TEX38 localizes ZDHHC19 to the plasma membrane and regulates sperm head morphogenesis in mice	174
Adaptive DNA amplification of synthetic gene circuit opens a way to overcome cancer chemoresistance	170
Identification of AK4 and RHOC as potential oncogenes addicted by adult T cell leukemia	169
Indigenous Knowledge as a sole data source in habitat selection functions	168
Integrative spatiotemporal modeling of biomolecular processes: Application to the assembly of the nuclear pore complex	167
How defective mitochondrial electrical activity leads to inherited blindness	165
Breaking the symmetry of cell contractility drives tubulogenesis via CXCL1 polarization	163
Graphene nanoripples enable unexpected catalytic reactivity	162
Trojan horse peptide conjugates remodel the activity spectrum of clinical antibiotics	162
Climate warming drives population trajectories of freshwater fish	161
Phenotypic screening of the ReFRAME drug repurposing library to discover new drugs for treating sickle cell disease	160
Thermo-photo catalytic anode process for carbonate-superstructured solid fuel cells	160
Prolonged exertion of self-control causes increased sleep-like frontal brain activity and changes in aggressivity and punishment	160
Long-term employment and health effects of active labor market programs	159
In This Issue	158
DNA hypomethylation ameliorates erosive inflammatory arthritis by modulating interferon regulatory factor-8	158
Accounting for spatial sampling patterns in Bayesian phylogeography	157

Proactive or reactive? Neural oscillatory insight into the leader–follower dynamics of early infant–caregiver interaction	156
Genetic ablation of the TET family in retinal progenitor cells impairs photoreceptor development and leads to blindness	153
Fluorescence detection of dopamine signaling to the primate striatum in relation to stimulus–reward associations	153
Theory and observations of the interaction between magnetohydrodynamic waves and shocks	152
BRD9 functions as an HIV-1 latency regulatory factor	152
Pinning down a perpetrator in postsurgical eye pain	152
A randomized trial of behavioral interventions yielding sustained reductions in distracted driving	152
Hidden in plain sight: (Re)definition of a key lepidopteran color patterning gene	151
Correction for Ahituv et al., Starch-rich plant foods 780,000 y ago: Evidence from Acheulian percussive stone tools	151
AlphaFold2-based prediction of the co-condensation propensity of proteins	151
Touching the classical scaling in penetrative convection	149
Independent transitions to fully planktonic life cycles shaped the global distribution of medusozoans in the epipelagic zone	148
Molecular patterns of matrix protein 1 (M1): A strong predictor of adaptive evolution in H9N2 avian influenza viruses	148
Using neuroimaging genomics to investigate the evolution of human brain structure	147
Differential elimination of marked sex chromosomes enables production of nontransgenic male mosquitoes in a single strain	147
Identifying regulation with adversarial surrogates	146
Vulnerability to natural disasters and sustainable consumption: Unraveling political and regional differences	145
Protein kinase Cγ in cerebellar Purkinje cells regulates Ca ²⁺ -activated large-conductance K ⁺ channels and motor coordination	145
β-catenin turnover is regulated by Nek10-mediated tyrosine phosphorylation in A549 lung adenocarcinoma cells	145
The Titanic question in TB control: Should we worry about the bummock?	144
IL-1 receptor antagonism reveals a yin-yang relationship between NFκB and interferon signaling in chronic lymphocytic leukemia	144
Oligopoly competition between satellite constellations will reduce economic welfare from orbit use	141
Persistent deep water anoxia in the eastern South Atlantic during the last ice age	139
A sodium-dependent trehalose transporter contributes to anhydrobiosis in insect cell line, Pv11	138
Single-neuron bursts encode pathological oscillations in subcortical nuclei of patients with Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor	137
Gap junction–transported cAMP from the niche controls stem cell progeny differentiation	137
Thermoelectricity, metallic liquidity, and magnetohydrodynamics	137
Propulsive cell entry diverts pathogens from immune degradation by remodeling the phagocytic synapse	136
Phylogenomics of the tetraploid Hawaiian lobeliads: Implications for their origin, dispersal history, and adaptive radiation	136
Ultrafast transient absorption spectra and kinetics of human blue cone visual pigment at room temperature	136
Tsg101 mimicry of canonical E2 enzymes underlies its role in ubiquitin signaling	136
The James Webb Space Telescope prompts a rethink of how galaxies form	135
Modeling the population-level impact of a third dose of MMR vaccine on a mumps outbreak at the University of Iowa	135
Revealing land control dynamics in emerging agricultural frontiers	134
Observing heroic behavior and its influencing factors in immersive virtual environments	133
Balance and imbalance in biogeochemical cycles reflect the operation of closed, exchange, and open sets	133
Part of the gender gap in voting for Democrats arises because a higher proportion of women than men voters are Black	133
Arabidopsis protein S -acyl transferases positively mediate BR signaling through S -acylation of BSK1	132
The decade-long growth of government-authored news media in China under Xi Jinping	131
Consistently estimating network statistics using aggregated relational data	130
High UV damage and low repair, but not cytosine deamination, stimulate mutation hotspots at ETS binding sites in melanoma	130
Dynamic early recruitment of GAK–Hsc70 regulates coated pit maturation	130
Band gap opening of metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes via noncovalent symmetry breaking	129
NURR1 expression regulates retinal pigment epithelial–mesenchymal transition and age-related macular degeneration phenotypes	129
MBD2a–NuRD binds to the methylated γ-globin gene promoter and uniquely forms a complex required for silencing of HbF expression	129
The retrotransposon R2 maintains Drosophila ribosomal DNA repeats	128
Reversal of an existing hearing loss by gene activation in Spns2 mutant mice	127
The structural origin of the efficient photochromism in natural minerals	127
Green ammonia could produce climate-friendly ways to store energy and fertilize farms	126
Reply to Apanovich and Weeks: Exceptions exist, as recognized in the paper, but are too rare to challenge the original findings	126
Simulating institutional heterogeneity in sustainability science	126
Gain of function due to increased opening probability by two KCNQ5 pore variants causing developmental and epileptic encephalopathy	126