OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Science is 3. 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
Mars rover detects long-chain carbon molecules	4644
Mining threatens health of Panama’s environment	1921
Are algorithmic bias claims supported?—Response	1777
Magellanic cloud may be two galaxies, not one	1534
Stepping out of my comfort zone	1380
Q&A with Mani L. Bhaumik	1236
We are worthy	1234
Bold ideas, daunting challenges Grace in All Simplicity Robert N. Cahn and Chris Quigg Pegasus, 2023. 400 pp.	1130
News at a glance	1113
In Science Journals	1100
News at a glance	1046
Mars’s magnetic field was long-lived, reversible	1019
A science superpower in the wings?	948
The first but not the last	829
Summer reading 2023 In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems , Giorgio Parisi , Penguin Press, 2023, 144 pp. <	735
Twice the tolerance	726
Mouse stem cells grown into embryo mimics	723
Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African	702
Childhood vaccine crusader shares concerns for future	699
News at a glance	689
Finding my community	676
Spatial thinkers receive their due Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions Temple Grandin Riverh	666
In Other Journals	660
San Andreas fault may shake less than once feared	650
In Science Journals	648

Pakistan’s turtle species at risk of extinction	648
In Science Journals	633
Vote against Amazon deforestation in Brazil	607
China’s research enterprise undergoes shake-up	594
Plans for U.S. bat lab spark outbreak fears	593
In Other Journals	580
News at a glance	580
Improve trans policies in Brazil’s universities	580
Hearing the seas Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water Amorina Kingdon Crown, 2024. 336 pp.	564
New Products	563
In Science Journals	551
Given the same data, ecologists arrive at different conclusions	551
Racing the clock	549
In Other Journals	539
‘America first’ could affect health worldwide	535
A BARRage of firing while asleep	528
Legal rhino horn trade: A thorny proposition	526
Failure to replicate Anatomy of a Train Wreck: The Rise and Fall of Priming Research Ruth Leys University of Chicago Press, 2024. 416 pp.	523
News at a glance	508
Arterial pulses link heart-brain oscillations	505
STEM must meet people where they are	502
WHO and USAID budget cuts hurt the US	500
Funding delays frustrate agricultural researchers	488
Invisible matter, invisible brains?	475
A strange fascination	472
Radiocarbon dates revise histories of Indigenous societies	470
Pandemic-inspired policies	468
Panama must protect mangroves and peatlands	465
The Asiatic cheetah’s road to extinction	463
Neural implants without brain surgery	461
To reduce ‘reputational bias,’ NIH may revamp grant scoring	461
Plastics treaty text must center ecosystems	453
Roger Searle Payne (1935–2023)	450
Congo’s mpox crisis	442
Dinosaur diversity before the asteroid	440
The cosmic time machine on Long Island winds down	437
Communicating my value	437
Once reluctant, new NIH chief Monica Bertagnolli embraces role	434
Genomic research data and the justice system—Response	430
Align wildfire prevention with conservation	428
Molecular recorders to track cellular events	426
Accelerating agricultural innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean: The crucial role of public investment data in science	425
A bacterial toxin disarms gut defenses against inflammation	422
Tech companies liable for illegal wildlife trade	418
The material properties of chromatin in vivo	413
Squirrels in Ivory Coast may be an animal reservoir for mpox	406
Breaking the silence	404
In Other Journals	402
Airport plan imperils South Korea’s tidal flat	401
In Other Journals	395

John I. Brauman (1937–2024)	395
Glacial melt due to global warming is triggering earthquakes	394
A computer scientist’s technological gamble This is for Everyone Tim Berners-Lee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025. 400 pp.	389
Skin side effects stymie advance of HIV vaccine	386
Reliable earthquake precursors?	386
Scientists can save nuclear arms control	385
How does cancer affect motivation?	384
Cascading impacts of natural disasters in a connected world	384
Tumors can teem with microbes. But what are they doing there?	383
Thermal acclimation of stem respiration implies a weaker carbon-climate feedback	382
Mammals responded to reduced road traffic	379
The hottest year was even hotter than expected	378
Erratum for the Research Article “Latrophilin GPCRs direct synapse specificity by coincident binding of FLRTs and teneurins” by R. Sando et al .	378
Erratum for the Report “Synthetic transcription elongation factors license transcription across repressive chromatin” by G. S. Erwin et al .	378
Erratum for the Review “Addressing interconnect challenges for enhanced computing performance” by J.-S. Kim et al .	378
The paradox of conscientious medicine The Conscience of Care Dov Fox Harvard University Press, 2025. 224 pp.	377
The real da Vinci code	376
Architects of molecular cages win Chemistry Nobel	372
Regulate worker heat exposure in global trade	372
Before tunnel collapse, scientists sent warnings	370
Congo calling	366
Erratum for the Research Article “Structural basis for strychnine activation of human bitter taste receptor TAS2R46” by W. Xu et al .	360
Research security policy needs clear guidelines	360
A case for altruistic cities	359
Auditors can’t save carbon offsets	359
Implementing equitable wildfire response plans	359
Toward a low-carbon transition in India	359
Harvard court victory leaves scientists feeling vindicated but uncertain	352
Experimental treatments target the brain’s ‘plumbing’	352
Staving off cell death	345
The sugar cube: Network control and emergence in stereoediting reactions	344
Sponging away phylogenomic incongruence	343
Halt illegal cyber tiger trade in Asia	341
Engineering better artificial chromosomes	339
Bad news for Paxlovid? Resistance may be coming	336
Mimicking polar bear hairs in aerogel fibers	335
Thermal radiation with a twist	335
The many faces of anthropogenic subsidence	333
Retrograde endocannabinoid signaling at inhibitory synapses in vivo	332
Controlled colonization of the human gut with a genetically engineered microbial therapeutic	331
A host-adapted auxotrophic gut symbiont induces mucosal immunodeficiency	331
Synchronous recognition of amines in oxidative carbonylation toward unsymmetrical ureas	329
Large library docking identifies positive allosteric modulators of the calcium-sensing receptor	328
Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip	326
Trypanosome doublet microtubule structures reveal flagellum assembly and motility mechanisms	324
Observing the quantum topology of light	322
Slow rupture in a fluid-rich fault zone initiated the 2024 M _w 7.5 Noto earthquake	322
Crows “count” the number of self-generated vocalizations	320
North American bird declines are greatest where species are most abundant	318
Climate-induced range shifts support local plant diversity but don’t reduce extinction risk	316
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization	316
Induction of broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies by a two-step mechanism informs vaccine design	309
Pervasive incomplete lineage sorting illuminates speciation and selection in primates	307
Global mean sea level over the past 4.5 million years	305
Revisiting the human sociobiology debate Sociobiology: The New Synthesis Edward O. Wilson Harvard University Press, 1975. 697 pp.	304
COVID-19 is surging again—with far fewer serious cases	304
Extending ketamine’s antidepressant effects	303
Macrophage-derived oncostatin M repairs the lung epithelial barrier during inflammatory damage	300
Covalent inhibitors of the PI3Kα RAS binding domain impair tumor growth driven by RAS and HER2	299
Molecular evolution of sour tolerance in birds	293
Biocatalytic C–H oxidation meets radical cross-coupling: Simplifying complex piperidine synthesis	292
A two-phase model that unifies and extends the classical models of membrane transport	290
Using machine learning to decode animal communication	288
A genome-to-proteome map reveals how natural variants drive proteome diversity and shape fitness	288
Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections	288
Origin and fate of the pseudogap in the doped Hubbard model	287
Isotopic and compositional constraints on the source of basalt collected from the lunar farside	286
Evidence of spillover benefits from large-scale marine protected areas to purse seine fisheries	286
Kinetic acceleration of MoS ₂ growth by oxy-metal-organic chemical vapor deposition	283
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for ventilation and indoor air quality	283
Total synthesis of (−)-cylindrocyclophane A facilitated by C−H functionalization	281
A tale of two forms of cohesin in DNA repair	281
Ancient Borrelia genomes document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever	281
Evolutionary convergence of sensory circuits in the pallium of amniotes	281
Comment on “Human TKTL1 implies greater neurogenesis in frontal neocortex of modern humans than Neanderthals”	280
Electric double-layer synthesis of a spongelike, lightweight reticular membrane	279
When less is more in the evolution of language	279
Curing a Black family’s distrust in medicine	278
Fading melodies	276
Investor nominated to head NSF in agency shake-up	275

Time to support Indigenous science	274
Emission lines due to ionizing radiation from a compact object in the remnant of Supernova 1987A	274
The bumpy road to friction control	273
Strong interactions and isospin symmetry breaking in a supermoiré lattice	271
Realization of three- and four-body interactions between momentum states in a cavity	271
NASA launches spacecraft to a mysterious metal-rich asteroid	268
A silicone-based support material eliminates interfacial instabilities in 3D silicone printing	268
Variability of flowing stream network length across the US	268
The evolution of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils	268
Fog, a research ‘underdog,’ gets serious attention	267
Quantum interference in atom-exchange reactions	267
Cavity-enabled enhancement of ultrafast intramolecular vibrational redistribution over pseudorotation	266
An unconventional Rubisco small subunit underpins the CO ₂ -concentrating organelle in land plants	265
New origin of life theory may explain biomolecular handedness	264
Lymphoid tissue chemokines limit priming duration to preserve CD8 ⁺ T cell functionality	262
Negative refraction in hyperbolic hetero-bicrystals	262
Solid electrolytes redefine ion conduction	261
Shot noise in a strange metal	261
Circularly polarized electroluminescence from chiral supramolecular semiconductor thin films	261
Inactive (PbI ₂ ) ₂ RbCl stabilizes perovskite films for efficient solar cells	261
Emerging patterns in rodent-borne zoonotic diseases	260
Data-based tools can prevent crowd crushes	259
A molecular machine directs the synthesis of a catenane	258
Stereoselective amino acid synthesis by synergistic photoredox-pyridoxal radical biocatalysis	258
Accessing pluripotent materials through tempering of dynamic covalent polymer networks	256
Functional maps of a genomic locus reveal confinement of an enhancer by its target gene	256
Strong damped Lyman-α absorption in young star-forming galaxies at redshifts 9 to 11	256
Fork coupling directs DNA replication elongation and termination	255
Molecular cascades and cell type–specific signatures in ASD revealed by single-cell genomics	255
Researching while Chinese	254
Direct targeting and regulation of RNA polymerase II by cell signaling kinases	254
In Other Journals	252
Role of protein kinase PLK1 in the epigenetic maintenance of centromeres	250
Group 2 innate lymphoid cells promote inhibitory synapse development and social behavior	250
Spin-down by dynamo action in simulated radiative stellar layers	249
FERONIA orchestrates plasma membrane nanoclusters for plant thermotolerance	249
Mandrel-free fabrication of giant spring-index and stroke muscles for diverse applications	249
Wastewater surveillance for public health	249
Tumor necrosis factor induces pathogenic mitochondrial ROS in tuberculosis through reverse electron transport	248
Deep-sea impacts of climate interventions	247
Organelles share the load	246
The increasing effects of light pollution on professional and amateur astronomy	244
Virologist accused of starting COVID-19 fights funding ban	243
Active-reset protein sensors enable continuous in vivo monitoring of inflammation	242
Toward gallium oxide power electronics	242
Mechanically robust and stretchable organic solar cells plasticized by small-molecule acceptors	241
Mental programming of spatial sequences in working memory in the macaque frontal cortex	239
Atomic faulting induced exceptional cryogenic strain hardening in gradient cell–structured alloy	237
More than mitigation: The role of forests in climate adaptation	236
Chemical remodeling of a cellular chaperone to target the active state of mutant KRAS	235
SOX9 switch links regeneration to fibrosis at the single-cell level in mammalian kidneys	234
Vitamin D regulates microbiome-dependent cancer immunity	234
Nucleotide metabolic rewiring enables NLRP3 inflammasome hyperactivation in obesity	234
Unveiling facet-dependent degradation and facet engineering for stable perovskite solar cells	233
Accelerated aging of all-inorganic, interface-stabilized perovskite solar cells	232
Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO ₂	232
Revisiting the mid-Pleistocene transition ocean circulation crisis	231
Fast and destructive density currents created by ocean-entering volcanic eruptions	230
Sex and gender essentialism in textbooks	229
COVID-19 and children	229
Prefrontal synaptic regulation of homeostatic sleep pressure revealed through synaptic chemogenetics	227
Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture	227
Edge learning using a fully integrated neuro-inspired memristor chip	227
Chiral emission from resonant metasurfaces	226
Structure of human PINK1 at a mitochondrial TOM-VDAC array	226
Neuromedin U programs eosinophils to promote mucosal immunity of the small intestine	226
Confronting risks of mirror life	226
Increasing global human exposure to wildland fires despite declining burned area	225
Indigenizing conservation science for a sustainable Amazon	224
Monkeys have rhythm	224
Tectonic degassing drove global temperature trends since 20 Ma	223
Research beneficiaries speak	222
Experiencing science The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson MIT Press, 2024. 328 pp	222
Structural basis for odorant recognition of the insect odorant receptor OR-Orco heterocomplex	222
Speaking for myself	222
New Products	221
In Other Journals	221
No longer an island	221
Women-driven community education in Nepal	220
Mechanical properties pattern the skin	220
Russia postpones three scientific ‘megaprojects’	219
In Science Journals	219
Shore patrol	219
Performing science Love + Science David J. Glass In Vitro Productions, New York City Center, New York, NY, USA, 26 May to 6 July 2023.	218
Transforming urban environments If the Past Teaches, What Does the Future Learn? John T. Murphy and Carole L. Crumley, Eds. TU Delft Publishing, 2022.	216
Sea Change	216
Air pollution sensors can double as biodiversity monitors	216
Blurring boundaries	215
Pirates and politics Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia David Graeber Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. 208 pp.	215
Lawsuits force changes in U.S. pesticide regs	215
Study probes link between heat and miscarriage	214
News at a glance	214
News at a glance	214
In Science Journals	213
In Science Journals	213