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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Mars rover detects long-chain carbon molecules	4475
Mining threatens health of Panama’s environment	1856
Are algorithmic bias claims supported?—Response	1694
Magellanic cloud may be two galaxies, not one	1501
Stepping out of my comfort zone	1371
Q&A with Mani L. Bhaumik	1205
We are worthy	1161
Bold ideas, daunting challenges Grace in All Simplicity Robert N. Cahn and Chris Quigg Pegasus, 2023. 400 pp.	1105
News at a glance	1100
In Science Journals	1032
News at a glance	999
Mars’s magnetic field was long-lived, reversible	995
A science superpower in the wings?	960
The first but not the last	929
Summer reading 2023 In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems , Giorgio Parisi , Penguin Press, 2023, 144 pp. <	796
Twice the tolerance	774
Mouse stem cells grown into embryo mimics	707
Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African	699
Childhood vaccine crusader shares concerns for future	697
News at a glance	681
Finding my community	673
Spatial thinkers receive their due Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions Temple Grandin Riverh	668
In Other Journals	661
San Andreas fault may shake less than once feared	652
In Science Journals	650

Pakistan’s turtle species at risk of extinction	647
In Science Journals	632
Vote against Amazon deforestation in Brazil	631
Plans for U.S. bat lab spark outbreak fears	611
China’s research enterprise undergoes shake-up	611
In Other Journals	593
Improve trans policies in Brazil’s universities	578
News at a glance	577
Hearing the seas Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water Amorina Kingdon Crown, 2024. 336 pp.	575
New Products	563
Given the same data, ecologists arrive at different conclusions	559
In Science Journals	555
In Other Journals	550
Racing the clock	550
‘America first’ could affect health worldwide	538
A BARRage of firing while asleep	536
Legal rhino horn trade: A thorny proposition	533
Failure to replicate Anatomy of a Train Wreck: The Rise and Fall of Priming Research Ruth Leys University of Chicago Press, 2024. 416 pp.	528
News at a glance	522
Arterial pulses link heart-brain oscillations	514
STEM must meet people where they are	512
WHO and USAID budget cuts hurt the US	509
Funding delays frustrate agricultural researchers	501
Invisible matter, invisible brains?	499
A strange fascination	491
Radiocarbon dates revise histories of Indigenous societies	488
Pandemic-inspired policies	485
Panama must protect mangroves and peatlands	471
The Asiatic cheetah’s road to extinction	465
Neural implants without brain surgery	455
To reduce ‘reputational bias,’ NIH may revamp grant scoring	453
Plastics treaty text must center ecosystems	452
Congo’s mpox crisis	451
Roger Searle Payne (1935–2023)	451
Dinosaur diversity before the asteroid	447
Communicating my value	445
Once reluctant, new NIH chief Monica Bertagnolli embraces role	443
The cosmic time machine on Long Island winds down	443
Genomic research data and the justice system—Response	433
Align wildfire prevention with conservation	430
Molecular recorders to track cellular events	429
Accelerating agricultural innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean: The crucial role of public investment data in science	421
Tech companies liable for illegal wildlife trade	420
A bacterial toxin disarms gut defenses against inflammation	420
The material properties of chromatin in vivo	418
Breaking the silence	417
Squirrels in Ivory Coast may be an animal reservoir for mpox	417
In Other Journals	411
In Other Journals	408
Airport plan imperils South Korea’s tidal flat	408

John I. Brauman (1937–2024)	399
Glacial melt due to global warming is triggering earthquakes	396
A computer scientist’s technological gamble This is for Everyone Tim Berners-Lee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025. 400 pp.	394
Reliable earthquake precursors?	392
A two-phase model that unifies and extends the classical models of membrane transport	386
Confronting risks of mirror life	384
Skin side effects stymie advance of HIV vaccine	378
Neuromedin U programs eosinophils to promote mucosal immunity of the small intestine	378
Scientists can save nuclear arms control	377
Cascading impacts of natural disasters in a connected world	377
How does cancer affect motivation?	376
Molecular evolution of sour tolerance in birds	376
COVID-19 is surging again—with far fewer serious cases	375
Sex and gender essentialism in textbooks	372
Tumors can teem with microbes. But what are they doing there?	372
Thermal acclimation of stem respiration implies a weaker carbon-climate feedback	370
A genome-to-proteome map reveals how natural variants drive proteome diversity and shape fitness	367
The hottest year was even hotter than expected	366
Mammals responded to reduced road traffic	366
Erratum for the Research Article “Latrophilin GPCRs direct synapse specificity by coincident binding of FLRTs and teneurins” by R. Sando et al .	364
Erratum for the Report “Synthetic transcription elongation factors license transcription across repressive chromatin” by G. S. Erwin et al .	364
Erratum for the Review “Addressing interconnect challenges for enhanced computing performance” by J.-S. Kim et al .	362
The real da Vinci code	361
The paradox of conscientious medicine The Conscience of Care Dov Fox Harvard University Press, 2025. 224 pp.	361
Regulate worker heat exposure in global trade	359
Architects of molecular cages win Chemistry Nobel	357
Before tunnel collapse, scientists sent warnings	355
Solid electrolytes redefine ion conduction	354
Data-based tools can prevent crowd crushes	354
Congo calling	352
Erratum for the Research Article “Structural basis for strychnine activation of human bitter taste receptor TAS2R46” by W. Xu et al .	350
Toward a low-carbon transition in India	349
Research security policy needs clear guidelines	349
Revisiting the human sociobiology debate Sociobiology: The New Synthesis Edward O. Wilson Harvard University Press, 1975. 697 pp.	347
Direct targeting and regulation of RNA polymerase II by cell signaling kinases	347
Auditors can’t save carbon offsets	345
A case for altruistic cities	345
Slow rupture in a fluid-rich fault zone initiated the 2024 M _w 7.5 Noto earthquake	340
Implementing equitable wildfire response plans	335
Harvard court victory leaves scientists feeling vindicated but uncertain	334
Experimental treatments target the brain’s ‘plumbing’	332
Staving off cell death	331
COVID-19 and children	329
The sugar cube: Network control and emergence in stereoediting reactions	327
More than mitigation: The role of forests in climate adaptation	327
Sponging away phylogenomic incongruence	325
Engineering better artificial chromosomes	324
Halt illegal cyber tiger trade in Asia	324
Bad news for Paxlovid? Resistance may be coming	324
Thermal radiation with a twist	320
Organelles share the load	319
Mimicking polar bear hairs in aerogel fibers	319
Role of protein kinase PLK1 in the epigenetic maintenance of centromeres	318
The many faces of anthropogenic subsidence	316
Monkeys have rhythm	316
Biocatalytic C–H oxidation meets radical cross-coupling: Simplifying complex piperidine synthesis	311
Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture	309
Deep-sea impacts of climate interventions	309
Quantum interference in atom-exchange reactions	309
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization	308
Realization of three- and four-body interactions between momentum states in a cavity	305
Strong interactions and isospin symmetry breaking in a supermoiré lattice	304
Emerging patterns in rodent-borne zoonotic diseases	303
Variability of flowing stream network length across the US	301
Using machine learning to decode animal communication	298
NASA launches spacecraft to a mysterious metal-rich asteroid	297
The evolution of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils	297
A silicone-based support material eliminates interfacial instabilities in 3D silicone printing	296
Fog, a research ‘underdog,’ gets serious attention	294
Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO ₂	294
A molecular machine directs the synthesis of a catenane	291
Evolutionary convergence of sensory circuits in the pallium of amniotes	288
Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip	284
A tale of two forms of cohesin in DNA repair	283
Circularly polarized electroluminescence from chiral supramolecular semiconductor thin films	283
Observing the quantum topology of light	282
Indigenizing conservation science for a sustainable Amazon	282
Spin-down by dynamo action in simulated radiative stellar layers	278
Comment on “Human TKTL1 implies greater neurogenesis in frontal neocortex of modern humans than Neanderthals”	276
Global mean sea level over the past 4.5 million years	276

When less is more in the evolution of language	275
Retrograde endocannabinoid signaling at inhibitory synapses in vivo	275
The increasing effects of light pollution on professional and amateur astronomy	275
Electric double-layer synthesis of a spongelike, lightweight reticular membrane	274
Pervasive incomplete lineage sorting illuminates speciation and selection in primates	274
Curing a Black family’s distrust in medicine	273
Investor nominated to head NSF in agency shake-up	273
Fading melodies	273
Tectonic degassing drove global temperature trends since 20 Ma	271
Time to support Indigenous science	271
Wastewater surveillance for public health	271
Emission lines due to ionizing radiation from a compact object in the remnant of Supernova 1987A	267
Negative refraction in hyperbolic hetero-bicrystals	266
The bumpy road to friction control	265
Nucleotide metabolic rewiring enables NLRP3 inflammasome hyperactivation in obesity	264
Cavity-enabled enhancement of ultrafast intramolecular vibrational redistribution over pseudorotation	262
An unconventional Rubisco small subunit underpins the CO ₂ -concentrating organelle in land plants	262
Covalent inhibitors of the PI3Kα RAS binding domain impair tumor growth driven by RAS and HER2	262
New origin of life theory may explain biomolecular handedness	261
Molecular cascades and cell type–specific signatures in ASD revealed by single-cell genomics	261
Controlled colonization of the human gut with a genetically engineered microbial therapeutic	259
Mental programming of spatial sequences in working memory in the macaque frontal cortex	259
Functional maps of a genomic locus reveal confinement of an enhancer by its target gene	259
Revisiting the mid-Pleistocene transition ocean circulation crisis	257
SOX9 switch links regeneration to fibrosis at the single-cell level in mammalian kidneys	257
Macrophage-derived oncostatin M repairs the lung epithelial barrier during inflammatory damage	256
Fast and destructive density currents created by ocean-entering volcanic eruptions	256
A host-adapted auxotrophic gut symbiont induces mucosal immunodeficiency	255
Total synthesis of (−)-cylindrocyclophane A facilitated by C−H functionalization	255
Mechanically robust and stretchable organic solar cells plasticized by small-molecule acceptors	255
Fork coupling directs DNA replication elongation and termination	255
Accelerated aging of all-inorganic, interface-stabilized perovskite solar cells	253
Chiral emission from resonant metasurfaces	252
Atomic faulting induced exceptional cryogenic strain hardening in gradient cell–structured alloy	252
Mandrel-free fabrication of giant spring-index and stroke muscles for diverse applications	250
Trypanosome doublet microtubule structures reveal flagellum assembly and motility mechanisms	250
Chemical remodeling of a cellular chaperone to target the active state of mutant KRAS	249
Strong damped Lyman-α absorption in young star-forming galaxies at redshifts 9 to 11	249
Toward gallium oxide power electronics	248
Crows “count” the number of self-generated vocalizations	248
Active-reset protein sensors enable continuous in vivo monitoring of inflammation	247
Group 2 innate lymphoid cells promote inhibitory synapse development and social behavior	247
Unveiling facet-dependent degradation and facet engineering for stable perovskite solar cells	247
Origin and fate of the pseudogap in the doped Hubbard model	245
Structural basis for odorant recognition of the insect odorant receptor OR-Orco heterocomplex	244
Extending ketamine’s antidepressant effects	244
Structure of human PINK1 at a mitochondrial TOM-VDAC array	243
Synchronous recognition of amines in oxidative carbonylation toward unsymmetrical ureas	243
North American bird declines are greatest where species are most abundant	243
Vitamin D regulates microbiome-dependent cancer immunity	243
Inactive (PbI ₂ ) ₂ RbCl stabilizes perovskite films for efficient solar cells	242
Stereoselective amino acid synthesis by synergistic photoredox-pyridoxal radical biocatalysis	242
Large library docking identifies positive allosteric modulators of the calcium-sensing receptor	241
Prefrontal synaptic regulation of homeostatic sleep pressure revealed through synaptic chemogenetics	240
Kinetic acceleration of MoS ₂ growth by oxy-metal-organic chemical vapor deposition	240
Ancient Borrelia genomes document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever	240
Increasing global human exposure to wildland fires despite declining burned area	239
Evidence of spillover benefits from large-scale marine protected areas to purse seine fisheries	238
Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections	238
Isotopic and compositional constraints on the source of basalt collected from the lunar farside	237
Shot noise in a strange metal	236
Edge learning using a fully integrated neuro-inspired memristor chip	236
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for ventilation and indoor air quality	234
Accessing pluripotent materials through tempering of dynamic covalent polymer networks	232
Tumor necrosis factor induces pathogenic mitochondrial ROS in tuberculosis through reverse electron transport	231
Research beneficiaries speak	230
Speaking for myself	230
New Products	228
Experiencing science The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson MIT Press, 2024. 328 pp	228
No longer an island	227
In Other Journals	226
Women-driven community education in Nepal	224
U.S. cuts hamper disease surveillance worldwide	223
In Science Journals	223
Mechanical properties pattern the skin	223
Russia postpones three scientific ‘megaprojects’	222
Air pollution sensors can double as biodiversity monitors	221
Performing science Love + Science David J. Glass In Vitro Productions, New York City Center, New York, NY, USA, 26 May to 6 July 2023.	221
Sea Change	221
Shore patrol	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
Lawsuits force changes in U.S. pesticide regs	219
Pirates and politics Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia David Graeber Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. 208 pp.	217
News at a glance	217
News at a glance	217
Study probes link between heat and miscarriage	216
Working through grief	215
In Science Journals	215
In Science Journals	215
NextGen Voices call for submissions: The future of scientific societies	214
In Other Journals	214
News at a glance	213
Between-group cooperation in bonobos	213
Equality as a work in progress The Patriarchs Angela Saini Beacon Press, 2023. 256 pp.	212