OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science is 27. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Are algorithmic bias claims supported?—Response	4343
NASA launches spacecraft to a mysterious metal-rich asteroid	3002
Magellanic cloud may be two galaxies, not one	2675
To move beyond the paradigms of Western medicine Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice Rupa Marya and Raj Patel Farrar, Straus and Giro	2188
In Other Journals	1531
Stepping out of my comfort zone	1444
When less is more in the evolution of language	1217
Genomic research data and the justice system—Response	1204
Q&A with Mani L. Bhaumik	1195
We are worthy	1102
Tumors can teem with microbes. But what are they doing there?	1089
Mammals responded to reduced road traffic	1074
Bold ideas, daunting challenges Grace in All Simplicity Robert N. Cahn and Chris Quigg Pegasus, 2023. 400 pp.	1040
News at a glance	1036
In Science Journals	925
News at a glance	916
Uranus should be NASA’s top target, report finds	914
A quantum sense for dark matter	879
Catalog of bird shapes yields ecological ‘gold mine’	870
Biden’s 2023 budget request for science aims high—again	840
Filling the gaps	793
Mars’s magnetic field was long-lived, reversible	784
A science superpower in the wings?	758
Back in person, back to the races	747
The pandemic whistleblower	743

In Science Journals	728
Vote against Amazon deforestation in Brazil	721
Universities are not political prizes	713
New Products	712
Lost and found Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation Christopher Kemp Norton, 2022. 256 pp.	707
China’s research enterprise undergoes shake-up	700
The first but not the last	690
Summer reading 2023 In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems , Giorgio Parisi , Penguin Press, 2023, 144 pp. <	671
Twice the tolerance	670
Pandemic spotlight brings attention—and plenty of heat	660
Mouse stem cells grown into embryo mimics	650
Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African	636
Childhood vaccine crusader shares concerns for future	634
News at a glance	630
Finding my community	618
Before tunnel collapse, scientists sent warnings	616
Spatial thinkers receive their due Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions Temple Grandin Riverh	583
San Andreas fault may shake less than once feared	581
In Other Journals	581
In Science Journals	571
Pakistan’s turtle species at risk of extinction	561
Watching a metal filament grow	555
Staving off cell death	532
Mining threatens health of Panama’s environment	528
Mars rover detects long-chain carbon molecules	522
News at a glance	515
The Asiatic cheetah’s road to extinction	511
‘America first’ could affect health worldwide	508
Racing the clock	508
In Other Journals	499
Tech companies liable for illegal wildlife trade	498
Legal rhino horn trade: A thorny proposition	494
Panama must protect mangroves and peatlands	489
Caloric restriction has a new player	486
Quantum interference in atom-exchange reactions	484
Molecular recorders to track cellular events	472
A BARRage of firing while asleep	465
Congo calling	464
To reduce ‘reputational bias,’ NIH may revamp grant scoring	463
Redo college intro science	458
Once reluctant, new NIH chief Monica Bertagnolli embraces role	458
Hearing the seas Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water Amorina Kingdon Crown, 2024. 336 pp.	457
Indonesia’s utopian new capital may not be as green as it looks	453
New Products	452
Given the same data, ecologists arrive at different conclusions	451
Policy reforms for antibiotic use claims in livestock	447
Chinese students fight back against visa rejections	446
Richard C. Lewontin (1929–2021)	441
Plans for U.S. bat lab spark outbreak fears	440
In Other Journals	439

Improve trans policies in Brazil’s universities	438
News at a glance	436
In Science Journals	423
Congo’s mpox crisis	422
RNA drugs custommade for rare diseases face wider test	421
Communicating my value	407
Failure to replicate Anatomy of a Train Wreck: The Rise and Fall of Priming Research Ruth Leys University of Chicago Press, 2024. 416 pp.	405
What tore apart The Lancet ’s COVID-19 origin probe?	401
Toward gallium oxide power electronics	400
The bumpy road to friction control	399
Particle toxicity’s role in air pollution	398
Transgenic fish invades Brazilian streams	395
Using machine learning to decode animal communication	394
Roger Searle Payne (1935–2023)	392
The histone H3.1 variant regulates TONSOKU-mediated DNA repair during replication	389
Retrograde endocannabinoid signaling at inhibitory synapses in vivo	388
Cell division in tissues enables macrophage infiltration	388
Auditors can’t save carbon offsets	386
Organelles share the load	380
Macrophage-derived oncostatin M repairs the lung epithelial barrier during inflammatory damage	379
Preparing for “Disease X”	377
Extending ketamine’s antidepressant effects	375
Strong interactions and isospin symmetry breaking in a supermoiré lattice	373
Electric double-layer synthesis of a spongelike, lightweight reticular membrane	372
Glacial melt due to global warming is triggering earthquakes	371
Deep-sea impacts of climate interventions	368
Time to support Indigenous science	368
Neuromedin U programs eosinophils to promote mucosal immunity of the small intestine	362
Gametophyte genome activation occurs at pollen mitosis I in maize	360
Fork coupling directs DNA replication elongation and termination	359
Forest fight	358
How does cancer affect motivation?	356
COVID-19 and children	354
The evolution of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils	353
Plastics treaty text must center ecosystems	352
Biocatalytic C–H oxidation meets radical cross-coupling: Simplifying complex piperidine synthesis	349
Squirrels in Ivory Coast may be an animal reservoir for mpox	348
The material properties of chromatin in vivo	346
Implementing equitable wildfire response plans	346
Pandemic-inspired policies	343
Variability of flowing stream network length across the US	342
Tethering gene regulation to chromatin organization	340
Piecing together an African peace park	338
In Other Journals	337
Airport plan imperils South Korea’s tidal flat	337
Breaking the silence	336
New origin of life theory may explain biomolecular handedness	335
In Other Journals	335
John I. Brauman (1937–2024)	331
Thermal acclimation of stem respiration implies a weaker carbon-climate feedback	331
Revisiting the mid-Pleistocene transition ocean circulation crisis	330
Engineering better artificial chromosomes	330
Data-based tools can prevent crowd crushes	329
STEM must meet people where they are	329
Reliable earthquake precursors?	329
Radiocarbon dates revise histories of Indigenous societies	328
Pain-resolving microglia	326
A strange fascination	326
Neural implants without brain surgery	323
Solid electrolytes redefine ion conduction	322
Indigenizing conservation science for a sustainable Amazon	322
Keep it simple and switch to pure tellurium	322
Molecular evolution of sour tolerance in birds	321
Observing the quantum topology of light	319
Arterial pulses link heart-brain oscillations	319
Fast and destructive density currents created by ocean-entering volcanic eruptions	316
Active-reset protein sensors enable continuous in vivo monitoring of inflammation	315
Sex and gender essentialism in textbooks	315
Emerging patterns in rodent-borne zoonotic diseases	314
Skin side effects stymie advance of HIV vaccine	313
Emission lines due to ionizing radiation from a compact object in the remnant of Supernova 1987A	311
Spin-down by dynamo action in simulated radiative stellar layers	307
Bad news for Paxlovid? Resistance may be coming	307
Prefrontal synaptic regulation of homeostatic sleep pressure revealed through synaptic chemogenetics	306
Vitamin D regulates microbiome-dependent cancer immunity	306
Olfactory receptor 2 in vascular macrophages drives atherosclerosis by NLRP3-dependent IL-1 production	304
Allylic C–H amination cross-coupling furnishes tertiary amines by electrophilic metal catalysis	303
WHO and USAID budget cuts hurt the US	299
Mandrel-free fabrication of giant spring-index and stroke muscles for diverse applications	298
Negative refraction in hyperbolic hetero-bicrystals	297

Cavity-enabled enhancement of ultrafast intramolecular vibrational redistribution over pseudorotation	296
Controlled colonization of the human gut with a genetically engineered microbial therapeutic	296
Role of protein kinase PLK1 in the epigenetic maintenance of centromeres	296
Mimicking polar bear hairs in aerogel fibers	295
Coherent perfect absorption at an exceptional point	294
Strong damped Lyman-α absorption in young star-forming galaxies at redshifts 9 to 11	290
Remote steric control for undirected meta -selective C–H activation of arenes	289
Toward a low-carbon transition in India	289
Thermal radiation with a twist	289
Tectonic degassing drove global temperature trends since 20 Ma	287
The hottest year was even hotter than expected	286
Mechanically robust and stretchable organic solar cells plasticized by small-molecule acceptors	285
Erratum for the Report “Synthetic transcription elongation factors license transcription across repressive chromatin” by G. S. Erwin et al .	284
Erratum for the Research Article “Structural basis for strychnine activation of human bitter taste receptor TAS2R46” by W. Xu et al .	281
Trypanosome doublet microtubule structures reveal flagellum assembly and motility mechanisms	279
Large library docking identifies positive allosteric modulators of the calcium-sensing receptor	278
Comment on “Human TKTL1 implies greater neurogenesis in frontal neocortex of modern humans than Neanderthals”	278
Molecular cascades and cell type–specific signatures in ASD revealed by single-cell genomics	275
Evolutionary convergence of sensory circuits in the pallium of amniotes	275
Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip	274
Invisible matter, invisible brains?	273
Origin and fate of the pseudogap in the doped Hubbard model	273
A case for altruistic cities	272
Erratum for the Review “Addressing interconnect challenges for enhanced computing performance” by J.-S. Kim et al .	272
Evidence of spillover benefits from large-scale marine protected areas to purse seine fisheries	271
Isotopic and compositional constraints on the source of basalt collected from the lunar farside	270
A host-adapted auxotrophic gut symbiont induces mucosal immunodeficiency	270
Compartment-specific tuning of dendritic feature selectivity by intracellular Ca ²⁺ release	269
Stereoselective amino acid synthesis by synergistic photoredox-pyridoxal radical biocatalysis	269
Edge learning using a fully integrated neuro-inspired memristor chip	268
Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture	266
Unveiling facet-dependent degradation and facet engineering for stable perovskite solar cells	265
Crows “count” the number of self-generated vocalizations	265
Shot noise in a strange metal	265
Levitodynamics: Levitation and control of microscopic objects in vacuum	264
Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO ₂	264
Low thermal conductivity in a modular inorganic material with bonding anisotropy and mismatch	263
Tumor necrosis factor induces pathogenic mitochondrial ROS in tuberculosis through reverse electron transport	263
Erratum for the Research Article “Latrophilin GPCRs direct synapse specificity by coincident binding of FLRTs and teneurins” by R. Sando et al .	262
Inactive (PbI ₂ ) ₂ RbCl stabilizes perovskite films for efficient solar cells	262
Ancient Borrelia genomes document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever	261
Accelerating agricultural innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean: The crucial role of public investment data in science	261
The many faces of anthropogenic subsidence	259
Structure of human PINK1 at a mitochondrial TOM-VDAC array	258
Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections	258
Spatial-CUT&Tag: Spatially resolved chromatin modification profiling at the cellular level	258
Slow rupture in a fluid-rich fault zone initiated the 2024 M _w 7.5 Noto earthquake	257
The increasing effects of light pollution on professional and amateur astronomy	257
COVID-19 is surging again—with far fewer serious cases	257
Commensal bacteria promote endocrine resistance in prostate cancer through androgen biosynthesis	256
North American bird declines are greatest where species are most abundant	256
Mental programming of spatial sequences in working memory in the macaque frontal cortex	256
Synchronous recognition of amines in oxidative carbonylation toward unsymmetrical ureas	256
Nuclear pores dilate and constrict in cellulo	255
Mineralization generates megapascal contractile stresses in collagen fibrils	254
Structural basis for odorant recognition of the insect odorant receptor OR-Orco heterocomplex	254
Pervasive incomplete lineage sorting illuminates speciation and selection in primates	254
Total synthesis of (−)-cylindrocyclophane A facilitated by C−H functionalization	253
Muscle repair after physiological damage relies on nuclear migration for cellular reconstruction	253
Accelerated aging of all-inorganic, interface-stabilized perovskite solar cells	252
A two-phase model that unifies and extends the classical models of membrane transport	252
Sabatier principle of metal-support interaction for design of ultrastable metal nanocatalysts	252
The sugar cube: Network control and emergence in stereoediting reactions	251
Wastewater surveillance for public health	250
Group 2 innate lymphoid cells promote inhibitory synapse development and social behavior	249
Confronting risks of mirror life	249
A silicone-based support material eliminates interfacial instabilities in 3D silicone printing	248
SOX9 switch links regeneration to fibrosis at the single-cell level in mammalian kidneys	248
Chemical remodeling of a cellular chaperone to target the active state of mutant KRAS	246
Light-induced mobile factors from shoots regulate rhizobium-triggered soybean root nodulation	246
Atomic faulting induced exceptional cryogenic strain hardening in gradient cell–structured alloy	246
Chiral emission from resonant metasurfaces	245
Accessing pluripotent materials through tempering of dynamic covalent polymer networks	245
A molecular machine directs the synthesis of a catenane	245
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for ventilation and indoor air quality	243
Circularly polarized electroluminescence from chiral supramolecular semiconductor thin films	242
Research beneficiaries speak	240
DNA repair amplifies transcriptional noise	240
Experiencing science The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson MIT Press, 2024. 328 pp	240
Eugene N. Parker (1927–2022)	239
Mom’s IL-6 rewires baby’s gut immunity	239
Deep learning takes on protein folding	238
Where can we find the fertilizer?	237
Funders, diversify research grant awards	236
Feral equids’ varied effects on ecosystems—Response	236
Indonesia tightens grip on conservation science	236
Rising seas endanger maritime heritage	234
Australia’s biodiversity crisis and opportunity	233
Speaking for myself	233
In Science Journals	232
Sharp shift in ice age rhythm pinned to carbon dioxide	230
Chemical reactivity from local temperature	229
No longer an island	229
New Products	229
Taliban decree deepens Afghanistan’s health crisis	228