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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Mars rover detects long-chain carbon molecules	3596
Mining threatens health of Panama’s environment	3549
Are algorithmic bias claims supported?—Response	2508
NASA launches spacecraft to a mysterious metal-rich asteroid	1627
Magellanic cloud may be two galaxies, not one	1510
Stepping out of my comfort zone	1371
When less is more in the evolution of language	1369
Q&A with Mani L. Bhaumik	1335
We are worthy	1301
Tumors can teem with microbes. But what are they doing there?	1255
Mammals responded to reduced road traffic	1026
Bold ideas, daunting challenges Grace in All Simplicity Robert N. Cahn and Chris Quigg Pegasus, 2023. 400 pp.	1021
News at a glance	1020
In Science Journals	1014
News at a glance	968
Uranus should be NASA’s top target, report finds	946
A quantum sense for dark matter	914
Catalog of bird shapes yields ecological ‘gold mine’	872
Biden’s 2023 budget request for science aims high—again	868
Mars’s magnetic field was long-lived, reversible	836
A science superpower in the wings?	833
Back in person, back to the races	813
The first but not the last	805
Summer reading 2023 In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems , Giorgio Parisi , Penguin Press, 2023, 144 pp. <	801
Twice the tolerance	793

Mouse stem cells grown into embryo mimics	751
Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African	720
Childhood vaccine crusader shares concerns for future	699
News at a glance	681
Before tunnel collapse, scientists sent warnings	676
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	631
In Other Journals	601
San Andreas fault may shake less than once feared	601
In Science Journals	596
Pakistan’s turtle species at risk of extinction	591
In Science Journals	580
Vote against Amazon deforestation in Brazil	577
Lost and found Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation Christopher Kemp Norton, 2022. 256 pp.	573
China’s research enterprise undergoes shake-up	571
Redo college intro science	565
Plans for U.S. bat lab spark outbreak fears	564
In Other Journals	557
News at a glance	556
Improve trans policies in Brazil’s universities	556
Hearing the seas Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water Amorina Kingdon Crown, 2024. 336 pp.	535
New Products	535
Given the same data, ecologists arrive at different conclusions	531
In Science Journals	519
Racing the clock	517
In Other Journals	505
‘America first’ could affect health worldwide	500
A BARRage of firing while asleep	498
Legal rhino horn trade: A thorny proposition	492
Failure to replicate Anatomy of a Train Wreck: The Rise and Fall of Priming Research Ruth Leys University of Chicago Press, 2024. 416 pp.	484
News at a glance	483
Roger Searle Payne (1935–2023)	482
Congo’s mpox crisis	481
Auditors can’t save carbon offsets	470
Skin side effects stymie advance of HIV vaccine	469
COVID-19 is surging again—with far fewer serious cases	467
Communicating my value	463
Dinosaur diversity before the asteroid	463
Strong interactions and isospin symmetry breaking in a supermoiré lattice	463
Solid electrolytes redefine ion conduction	459
The cosmic time machine on Long Island winds down	456
Once reluctant, new NIH chief Monica Bertagnolli embraces role	455
Architects of molecular cages win Chemistry Nobel	448
Increasing global human exposure to wildland fires despite declining burned area	446
Tethering gene regulation to chromatin organization	444
Policy reforms for antibiotic use claims in livestock	439
Filling the gaps	434
Molecular evolution of sour tolerance in birds	433
Arterial pulses link heart-brain oscillations	431
STEM must meet people where they are	429

WHO and USAID budget cuts hurt the US	415
Funding delays frustrate agricultural researchers	411
Harvard court victory leaves scientists feeling vindicated but uncertain	410
Erratum for the Research Article “Latrophilin GPCRs direct synapse specificity by coincident binding of FLRTs and teneurins” by R. Sando et al .	409
Erratum for the Report “Synthetic transcription elongation factors license transcription across repressive chromatin” by G. S. Erwin et al .	409
Erratum for the Review “Addressing interconnect challenges for enhanced computing performance” by J.-S. Kim et al .	408
Invisible matter, invisible brains?	408
A case for altruistic cities	406
A strange fascination	406
Radiocarbon dates revise histories of Indigenous societies	403
Thermal acclimation of stem respiration implies a weaker carbon-climate feedback	402
Pandemic-inspired policies	398
Engineering better artificial chromosomes	395
The hottest year was even hotter than expected	393
Panama must protect mangroves and peatlands	392
The Asiatic cheetah’s road to extinction	389
Thermal radiation with a twist	385
Neural implants without brain surgery	385
Tech companies liable for illegal wildlife trade	385
Bad news for Paxlovid? Resistance may be coming	380
Revisiting the human sociobiology debate Sociobiology: The New Synthesis Edward O. Wilson Harvard University Press, 1975. 697 pp.	380
Ancient Borrelia genomes document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever	377
Functional maps of a genomic locus reveal confinement of an enhancer by its target gene	377
The material properties of chromatin in vivo	377
In Other Journals	376
Breaking the silence	376
Squirrels in Ivory Coast may be an animal reservoir for mpox	376
Airport plan imperils South Korea’s tidal flat	373
John I. Brauman (1937–2024)	367
In Other Journals	367
Glacial melt due to global warming is triggering earthquakes	363
Comment on “Human TKTL1 implies greater neurogenesis in frontal neocortex of modern humans than Neanderthals”	362
How does cancer affect motivation?	362
A computer scientist’s technological gamble This is for Everyone Tim Berners-Lee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025. 400 pp.	361
Transgenic fish invades Brazilian streams	358
Variability of flowing stream network length across the US	357
Direct targeting and regulation of RNA polymerase II by cell signaling kinases	350
The pandemic whistleblower	348
Genomic research data and the justice system—Response	347
Align wildfire prevention with conservation	346
Sponging away phylogenomic incongruence	344
Covalent inhibitors of the PI3Kα RAS binding domain impair tumor growth driven by RAS and HER2	344
Shot noise in a strange metal	341
Molecular recorders to track cellular events	337
Erratum for the Research Article “Structural basis for strychnine activation of human bitter taste receptor TAS2R46” by W. Xu et al .	337
Accelerating agricultural innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean: The crucial role of public investment data in science	330
A bacterial toxin disarms gut defenses against inflammation	329
Caloric restriction has a new player	327
Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip	327
Realization of three- and four-body interactions between momentum states in a cavity	325
A tale of two forms of cohesin in DNA repair	325
Experimental treatments target the brain’s ‘plumbing’	325
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization	323
New origin of life theory may explain biomolecular handedness	323
The sugar cube: Network control and emergence in stereoediting reactions	322
Evidence of spillover benefits from large-scale marine protected areas to purse seine fisheries	321
Implementing equitable wildfire response plans	319
Synchronous recognition of amines in oxidative carbonylation toward unsymmetrical ureas	319
Role of protein kinase PLK1 in the epigenetic maintenance of centromeres	318
Pain-resolving microglia	318
Crows “count” the number of self-generated vocalizations	317
Mimicking polar bear hairs in aerogel fibers	317
Staving off cell death	314
Compartment-specific tuning of dendritic feature selectivity by intracellular Ca ²⁺ release	313
Accessing pluripotent materials through tempering of dynamic covalent polymer networks	313
A host-adapted auxotrophic gut symbiont induces mucosal immunodeficiency	313
Tumor necrosis factor induces pathogenic mitochondrial ROS in tuberculosis through reverse electron transport	312
The histone H3.1 variant regulates TONSOKU-mediated DNA repair during replication	310
Using machine learning to decode animal communication	309
Plastics treaty text must center ecosystems	308
A two-phase model that unifies and extends the classical models of membrane transport	305
Fast and destructive density currents created by ocean-entering volcanic eruptions	301
Congo calling	301
Cavity-enabled enhancement of ultrafast intramolecular vibrational redistribution over pseudorotation	300
Strong damped Lyman-α absorption in young star-forming galaxies at redshifts 9 to 11	298
Quantum interference in atom-exchange reactions	296
Time to support Indigenous science	295
Indigenizing conservation science for a sustainable Amazon	294
The increasing effects of light pollution on professional and amateur astronomy	293
Negative refraction in hyperbolic hetero-bicrystals	290

Spin-down by dynamo action in simulated radiative stellar layers	289
Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture	289
A genome-to-proteome map reveals how natural variants drive proteome diversity and shape fitness	287
Molecular cascades and cell type–specific signatures in ASD revealed by single-cell genomics	287
Biocatalytic C–H oxidation meets radical cross-coupling: Simplifying complex piperidine synthesis	286
The many faces of anthropogenic subsidence	285
Organelles share the load	285
A molecular machine directs the synthesis of a catenane	284
Fork coupling directs DNA replication elongation and termination	284
Total synthesis of (−)-cylindrocyclophane A facilitated by C−H functionalization	283
North American bird declines are greatest where species are most abundant	282
Data-based tools can prevent crowd crushes	280
Toward gallium oxide power electronics	279
Revisiting the mid-Pleistocene transition ocean circulation crisis	278
Indonesia’s utopian new capital may not be as green as it looks	276
Macrophage-derived oncostatin M repairs the lung epithelial barrier during inflammatory damage	275
Reliable earthquake precursors?	275
Vitamin D regulates microbiome-dependent cancer immunity	274
To reduce ‘reputational bias,’ NIH may revamp grant scoring	273
Global mean sea level over the past 4.5 million years	271
Emission lines due to ionizing radiation from a compact object in the remnant of Supernova 1987A	269
Sex and gender essentialism in textbooks	269
The evolution of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils	267
Confronting risks of mirror life	267
Slow rupture in a fluid-rich fault zone initiated the 2024 M _w 7.5 Noto earthquake	266
Remote steric control for undirected meta -selective C–H activation of arenes	266
Particle toxicity’s role in air pollution	266
Electric double-layer synthesis of a spongelike, lightweight reticular membrane	266
COVID-19 and children	265
Evolutionary convergence of sensory circuits in the pallium of amniotes	264
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for ventilation and indoor air quality	264
Prefrontal synaptic regulation of homeostatic sleep pressure revealed through synaptic chemogenetics	262
Structural basis for odorant recognition of the insect odorant receptor OR-Orco heterocomplex	261
Emerging patterns in rodent-borne zoonotic diseases	259
The bumpy road to friction control	259
Circularly polarized electroluminescence from chiral supramolecular semiconductor thin films	259
Origin and fate of the pseudogap in the doped Hubbard model	258
Pervasive incomplete lineage sorting illuminates speciation and selection in primates	257
Retrograde endocannabinoid signaling at inhibitory synapses in vivo	257
Active-reset protein sensors enable continuous in vivo monitoring of inflammation	257
Spatial-CUT&Tag: Spatially resolved chromatin modification profiling at the cellular level	255
Toward a low-carbon transition in India	255
Unveiling facet-dependent degradation and facet engineering for stable perovskite solar cells	253
Monkeys have rhythm	249
Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections	247
Edge learning using a fully integrated neuro-inspired memristor chip	246
Large library docking identifies positive allosteric modulators of the calcium-sensing receptor	245
Allylic C–H amination cross-coupling furnishes tertiary amines by electrophilic metal catalysis	244
Mineralization generates megapascal contractile stresses in collagen fibrils	244
Chiral emission from resonant metasurfaces	244
Isotopic and compositional constraints on the source of basalt collected from the lunar farside	244
Wastewater surveillance for public health	243
Observing the quantum topology of light	243
Accelerated aging of all-inorganic, interface-stabilized perovskite solar cells	242
Group 2 innate lymphoid cells promote inhibitory synapse development and social behavior	242
Gametophyte genome activation occurs at pollen mitosis I in maize	242
Olfactory receptor 2 in vascular macrophages drives atherosclerosis by NLRP3-dependent IL-1 production	242
Atomic faulting induced exceptional cryogenic strain hardening in gradient cell–structured alloy	242
Mandrel-free fabrication of giant spring-index and stroke muscles for diverse applications	241
Neuromedin U programs eosinophils to promote mucosal immunity of the small intestine	241
Inactive (PbI ₂ ) ₂ RbCl stabilizes perovskite films for efficient solar cells	241
Controlled colonization of the human gut with a genetically engineered microbial therapeutic	240
Stereoselective amino acid synthesis by synergistic photoredox-pyridoxal radical biocatalysis	240
SOX9 switch links regeneration to fibrosis at the single-cell level in mammalian kidneys	239
Tectonic degassing drove global temperature trends since 20 Ma	239
A silicone-based support material eliminates interfacial instabilities in 3D silicone printing	238
Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO ₂	236
Extending ketamine’s antidepressant effects	236
Structure of human PINK1 at a mitochondrial TOM-VDAC array	235
Trypanosome doublet microtubule structures reveal flagellum assembly and motility mechanisms	235
Chemical remodeling of a cellular chaperone to target the active state of mutant KRAS	234
Cell division in tissues enables macrophage infiltration	233
Deep-sea impacts of climate interventions	233
Mental programming of spatial sequences in working memory in the macaque frontal cortex	233
Mechanically robust and stretchable organic solar cells plasticized by small-molecule acceptors	232
Eugene N. Parker (1927–2022)	231
Research beneficiaries speak	231
Australia’s biodiversity crisis and opportunity	229
Experiencing science The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson MIT Press, 2024. 328 pp	228
Taliban decree deepens Afghanistan’s health crisis	228
Speaking for myself	228
New Products	228
No longer an island	227
U.S. cuts hamper disease surveillance worldwide	226
Women-driven community education in Nepal	226
In Other Journals	226
In Science Journals	225
Mechanical properties pattern the skin	225
Russia postpones three scientific ‘megaprojects’	223
Air pollution sensors can double as biodiversity monitors	222
Performing science Love + Science David J. Glass In Vitro Productions, New York City Center, New York, NY, USA, 26 May to 6 July 2023.	222
Shore patrol	222
Sea Change	221
Transforming urban environments If the Past Teaches, What Does the Future Learn? John T. Murphy and Carole L. Crumley, Eds. TU Delft Publishing, 2022.	220
Blurring boundaries	219