OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Science is 234. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Mars rover detects long-chain carbon molecules	3440
Mining threatens health of Panama’s environment	3417
Are algorithmic bias claims supported?—Response	2444
NASA launches spacecraft to a mysterious metal-rich asteroid	1647
Magellanic cloud may be two galaxies, not one	1595
Stepping out of my comfort zone	1430
When less is more in the evolution of language	1306
Q&A with Mani L. Bhaumik	1302
We are worthy	1293
Tumors can teem with microbes. But what are they doing there?	1288
Mammals responded to reduced road traffic	1243
Bold ideas, daunting challenges Grace in All Simplicity Robert N. Cahn and Chris Quigg Pegasus, 2023. 400 pp.	1052
News at a glance	1001
In Science Journals	992
Uranus should be NASA’s top target, report finds	975
News at a glance	975
A quantum sense for dark matter	962
Catalog of bird shapes yields ecological ‘gold mine’	908
Biden’s 2023 budget request for science aims high—again	903
Mars’s magnetic field was long-lived, reversible	841
A science superpower in the wings?	830
Back in person, back to the races	813
The first but not the last	809
Summer reading 2023 In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems , Giorgio Parisi , Penguin Press, 2023, 144 pp. <	795
Mouse stem cells grown into embryo mimics	790

Twice the tolerance	790
Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African	788
Childhood vaccine crusader shares concerns for future	765
News at a glance	759
Finding my community	741
Before tunnel collapse, scientists sent warnings	712
Spatial thinkers receive their due Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions Temple Grandin Riverh	701
In Other Journals	686
San Andreas fault may shake less than once feared	679
In Science Journals	671
Pakistan’s turtle species at risk of extinction	661
In Science Journals	609
Universities are not political prizes	597
Vote against Amazon deforestation in Brazil	597
Lost and found Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation Christopher Kemp Norton, 2022. 256 pp.	593
China’s research enterprise undergoes shake-up	587
Staving off cell death	579
Redo college intro science	577
Plans for U.S. bat lab spark outbreak fears	575
In Other Journals	573
Improve trans policies in Brazil’s universities	560
News at a glance	553
Hearing the seas Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water Amorina Kingdon Crown, 2024. 336 pp.	552
New Products	551
Given the same data, ecologists arrive at different conclusions	549
Indonesia’s utopian new capital may not be as green as it looks	543
In Science Journals	542
Racing the clock	536
In Other Journals	530
‘America first’ could affect health worldwide	523
A BARRage of firing while asleep	513
Failure to replicate Anatomy of a Train Wreck: The Rise and Fall of Priming Research Ruth Leys University of Chicago Press, 2024. 416 pp.	509
Legal rhino horn trade: A thorny proposition	509
News at a glance	498
Communicating my value	497
Strong interactions and isospin symmetry breaking in a supermoiré lattice	494
The cosmic time machine on Long Island winds down	481
Once reluctant, new NIH chief Monica Bertagnolli embraces role	480
Solid electrolytes redefine ion conduction	469
A computer scientist’s technological gamble This is for Everyone Tim Berners-Lee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025. 400 pp.	467
Increasing global human exposure to wildland fires despite declining burned area	464
Tethering gene regulation to chromatin organization	461
Architects of molecular cages win Chemistry Nobel	459
Filling the gaps	458
Policy reforms for antibiotic use claims in livestock	458
A host-adapted auxotrophic gut symbiont induces mucosal immunodeficiency	455
Global mean sea level over the past 4.5 million years	454
Reliable earthquake precursors?	448
Molecular recorders to track cellular events	448
Plastics treaty text must center ecosystems	444

Erratum for the Research Article “Structural basis for strychnine activation of human bitter taste receptor TAS2R46” by W. Xu et al .	440
Direct targeting and regulation of RNA polymerase II by cell signaling kinases	437
Quantum interference in atom-exchange reactions	437
Trypanosome doublet microtubule structures reveal flagellum assembly and motility mechanisms	431
The pandemic whistleblower	428
Molecular evolution of sour tolerance in birds	421
STEM must meet people where they are	419
Arterial pulses link heart-brain oscillations	419
WHO and USAID budget cuts hurt the US	407
Funding delays frustrate agricultural researchers	407
Harvard court victory leaves scientists feeling vindicated but uncertain	406
Erratum for the Report “Synthetic transcription elongation factors license transcription across repressive chromatin” by G. S. Erwin et al .	405
Erratum for the Research Article “Latrophilin GPCRs direct synapse specificity by coincident binding of FLRTs and teneurins” by R. Sando et al .	404
Invisible matter, invisible brains?	402
Erratum for the Review “Addressing interconnect challenges for enhanced computing performance” by J.-S. Kim et al .	397
A case for altruistic cities	397
A strange fascination	396
Radiocarbon dates revise histories of Indigenous societies	395
Thermal acclimation of stem respiration implies a weaker carbon-climate feedback	395
Pandemic-inspired policies	392
Engineering better artificial chromosomes	386
Biocatalytic C–H oxidation meets radical cross-coupling: Simplifying complex piperidine synthesis	383
To reduce ‘reputational bias,’ NIH may revamp grant scoring	381
The hottest year was even hotter than expected	379
Keep it simple and switch to pure tellurium	378
The Asiatic cheetah’s road to extinction	377
Panama must protect mangroves and peatlands	377
Squirrels in Ivory Coast may be an animal reservoir for mpox	375
The material properties of chromatin in vivo	375
Breaking the silence	372
In Other Journals	371
Airport plan imperils South Korea’s tidal flat	369
In Other Journals	367
John I. Brauman (1937–2024)	366
Glacial melt due to global warming is triggering earthquakes	361
How does cancer affect motivation?	360
Organelles share the load	358
Extending ketamine’s antidepressant effects	358
Comment on “Human TKTL1 implies greater neurogenesis in frontal neocortex of modern humans than Neanderthals”	357
Spin-down by dynamo action in simulated radiative stellar layers	356
The increasing effects of light pollution on professional and amateur astronomy	355
Variability of flowing stream network length across the US	353
The bumpy road to friction control	352
A bacterial toxin disarms gut defenses against inflammation	351
Gametophyte genome activation occurs at pollen mitosis I in maize	349
Cell division in tissues enables macrophage infiltration	348
Roger Searle Payne (1935–2023)	341
A genome-to-proteome map reveals how natural variants drive proteome diversity and shape fitness	340
Skin side effects stymie advance of HIV vaccine	339
Congo’s mpox crisis	339
Auditors can’t save carbon offsets	336
Dinosaur diversity before the asteroid	335
COVID-19 is surging again—with far fewer serious cases	335
New origin of life theory may explain biomolecular handedness	331
Shot noise in a strange metal	330
Tech companies liable for illegal wildlife trade	330
Electric double-layer synthesis of a spongelike, lightweight reticular membrane	329
Sex and gender essentialism in textbooks	325
Align wildfire prevention with conservation	320
Sponging away phylogenomic incongruence	319
Covalent inhibitors of the PI3Kα RAS binding domain impair tumor growth driven by RAS and HER2	319
North American bird declines are greatest where species are most abundant	318
Genomic research data and the justice system—Response	318
Forest fight	318
Ancient Borrelia genomes document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever	315
Transgenic fish invades Brazilian streams	313
Implementing equitable wildfire response plans	313
Congo calling	313
Emission lines due to ionizing radiation from a compact object in the remnant of Supernova 1987A	312
Caloric restriction has a new player	311
Accelerating agricultural innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean: The crucial role of public investment data in science	310
Large library docking identifies positive allosteric modulators of the calcium-sensing receptor	310
Toward a low-carbon transition in India	307
Tectonic degassing drove global temperature trends since 20 Ma	306
The sugar cube: Network control and emergence in stereoediting reactions	305
Strong damped Lyman-α absorption in young star-forming galaxies at redshifts 9 to 11	304
Confronting risks of mirror life	303
Role of protein kinase PLK1 in the epigenetic maintenance of centromeres	301
Prefrontal synaptic regulation of homeostatic sleep pressure revealed through synaptic chemogenetics	300
Evolutionary convergence of sensory circuits in the pallium of amniotes	300

A two-phase model that unifies and extends the classical models of membrane transport	300
Evidence of spillover benefits from large-scale marine protected areas to purse seine fisheries	297
Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip	297
The evolution of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils	295
Data-based tools can prevent crowd crushes	291
Macrophage-derived oncostatin M repairs the lung epithelial barrier during inflammatory damage	290
Pain-resolving microglia	288
Neural implants without brain surgery	286
Realization of three- and four-body interactions between momentum states in a cavity	284
Mandrel-free fabrication of giant spring-index and stroke muscles for diverse applications	284
Indigenizing conservation science for a sustainable Amazon	284
Functional maps of a genomic locus reveal confinement of an enhancer by its target gene	284
Thermal radiation with a twist	284
Monkeys have rhythm	282
Deep-sea impacts of climate interventions	279
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization	279
Vitamin D regulates microbiome-dependent cancer immunity	279
Retrograde endocannabinoid signaling at inhibitory synapses in vivo	278
Time to support Indigenous science	276
Tumor necrosis factor induces pathogenic mitochondrial ROS in tuberculosis through reverse electron transport	276
Fast and destructive density currents created by ocean-entering volcanic eruptions	276
Mimicking polar bear hairs in aerogel fibers	276
Revisiting the human sociobiology debate Sociobiology: The New Synthesis Edward O. Wilson Harvard University Press, 1975. 697 pp.	275
Isotopic and compositional constraints on the source of basalt collected from the lunar farside	274
Total synthesis of (−)-cylindrocyclophane A facilitated by C−H functionalization	273
Wastewater surveillance for public health	271
The histone H3.1 variant regulates TONSOKU-mediated DNA repair during replication	271
Emerging patterns in rodent-borne zoonotic diseases	270
Group 2 innate lymphoid cells promote inhibitory synapse development and social behavior	270
Compartment-specific tuning of dendritic feature selectivity by intracellular Ca ²⁺ release	269
Nuclear pores dilate and constrict in cellulo	268
Allylic C–H amination cross-coupling furnishes tertiary amines by electrophilic metal catalysis	265
Toward gallium oxide power electronics	265
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for ventilation and indoor air quality	264
Edge learning using a fully integrated neuro-inspired memristor chip	263
Cavity-enabled enhancement of ultrafast intramolecular vibrational redistribution over pseudorotation	263
Active-reset protein sensors enable continuous in vivo monitoring of inflammation	262
Particle toxicity’s role in air pollution	262
Accessing pluripotent materials through tempering of dynamic covalent polymer networks	261
Molecular cascades and cell type–specific signatures in ASD revealed by single-cell genomics	260
Spatial-CUT&Tag: Spatially resolved chromatin modification profiling at the cellular level	259
Olfactory receptor 2 in vascular macrophages drives atherosclerosis by NLRP3-dependent IL-1 production	258
Unveiling facet-dependent degradation and facet engineering for stable perovskite solar cells	257
A molecular machine directs the synthesis of a catenane	257
Controlled colonization of the human gut with a genetically engineered microbial therapeutic	256
Circularly polarized electroluminescence from chiral supramolecular semiconductor thin films	255
Slow rupture in a fluid-rich fault zone initiated the 2024 M _w 7.5 Noto earthquake	253
Structural basis for odorant recognition of the insect odorant receptor OR-Orco heterocomplex	253
Chiral emission from resonant metasurfaces	253
Crows “count” the number of self-generated vocalizations	252
Using machine learning to decode animal communication	251
Stereoselective amino acid synthesis by synergistic photoredox-pyridoxal radical biocatalysis	251
Fork coupling directs DNA replication elongation and termination	250
Inactive (PbI ₂ ) ₂ RbCl stabilizes perovskite films for efficient solar cells	249
Sabatier principle of metal-support interaction for design of ultrastable metal nanocatalysts	248
Mental programming of spatial sequences in working memory in the macaque frontal cortex	247
Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections	246
Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO ₂	245
Accelerated aging of all-inorganic, interface-stabilized perovskite solar cells	244
COVID-19 and children	244
Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture	243
Revisiting the mid-Pleistocene transition ocean circulation crisis	241
Neuromedin U programs eosinophils to promote mucosal immunity of the small intestine	240
The many faces of anthropogenic subsidence	239
Bad news for Paxlovid? Resistance may be coming	238
A silicone-based support material eliminates interfacial instabilities in 3D silicone printing	238
Mechanically robust and stretchable organic solar cells plasticized by small-molecule acceptors	237
Negative refraction in hyperbolic hetero-bicrystals	237
Chemical remodeling of a cellular chaperone to target the active state of mutant KRAS	237
Pervasive incomplete lineage sorting illuminates speciation and selection in primates	236
Remote steric control for undirected meta -selective C–H activation of arenes	236
SOX9 switch links regeneration to fibrosis at the single-cell level in mammalian kidneys	235
Mineralization generates megapascal contractile stresses in collagen fibrils	235
Atomic faulting induced exceptional cryogenic strain hardening in gradient cell–structured alloy	235
Origin and fate of the pseudogap in the doped Hubbard model	235
Observing the quantum topology of light	235
Structure of human PINK1 at a mitochondrial TOM-VDAC array	234
Synchronous recognition of amines in oxidative carbonylation toward unsymmetrical ureas	234
Research beneficiaries speak	234