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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Mars rover detects long-chain carbon molecules	3326
Mining threatens health of Panama’s environment	3228
Are algorithmic bias claims supported?—Response	2376
NASA launches spacecraft to a mysterious metal-rich asteroid	1619
Magellanic cloud may be two galaxies, not one	1552
Stepping out of my comfort zone	1349
When less is more in the evolution of language	1266
Genomic research data and the justice system—Response	1251
Q&A with Mani L. Bhaumik	1245
We are worthy	1230
Tumors can teem with microbes. But what are they doing there?	1226
Mammals responded to reduced road traffic	1020
Bold ideas, daunting challenges Grace in All Simplicity Robert N. Cahn and Chris Quigg Pegasus, 2023. 400 pp.	985
News at a glance	958
In Science Journals	954
News at a glance	920
Uranus should be NASA’s top target, report finds	919
A quantum sense for dark matter	892
Catalog of bird shapes yields ecological ‘gold mine’	862
Biden’s 2023 budget request for science aims high—again	816
Mars’s magnetic field was long-lived, reversible	793
A science superpower in the wings?	784
Back in person, back to the races	781
The pandemic whistleblower	781
The first but not the last	776

Summer reading 2023 In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems , Giorgio Parisi , Penguin Press, 2023, 144 pp. <	759
Twice the tolerance	759
Mouse stem cells grown into embryo mimics	757
Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African	733
Childhood vaccine crusader shares concerns for future	724
News at a glance	702
Finding my community	670
Before tunnel collapse, scientists sent warnings	666
Spatial thinkers receive their due Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions Temple Grandin Riverh	658
In Other Journals	644
San Andreas fault may shake less than once feared	639
In Science Journals	606
Pakistan’s turtle species at risk of extinction	590
In Science Journals	579
Vote against Amazon deforestation in Brazil	574
Universities are not political prizes	571
New Products	562
Lost and found Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation Christopher Kemp Norton, 2022. 256 pp.	560
Staving off cell death	559
China’s research enterprise undergoes shake-up	559
Congo calling	550
Redo college intro science	545
Plans for U.S. bat lab spark outbreak fears	544
In Other Journals	532
News at a glance	529
Improve trans policies in Brazil’s universities	529
Hearing the seas Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water Amorina Kingdon Crown, 2024. 336 pp.	526
New Products	522
Given the same data, ecologists arrive at different conclusions	518
Indonesia’s utopian new capital may not be as green as it looks	514
In Science Journals	514
Racing the clock	510
In Other Journals	498
A BARRage of firing while asleep	494
‘America first’ could affect health worldwide	494
Legal rhino horn trade: A thorny proposition	493
Failure to replicate Anatomy of a Train Wreck: The Rise and Fall of Priming Research Ruth Leys University of Chicago Press, 2024. 416 pp.	491
News at a glance	484
Communicating my value	470
Strong interactions and isospin symmetry breaking in a supermoiré lattice	462
The cosmic time machine on Long Island winds down	461
Once reluctant, new NIH chief Monica Bertagnolli embraces role	459
Solid electrolytes redefine ion conduction	457
A computer scientist’s technological gamble This is for Everyone Tim Berners-Lee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025. 400 pp.	456
Evidence of spillover benefits from large-scale marine protected areas to purse seine fisheries	450
Bad news for Paxlovid? Resistance may be coming	449
Increasing global human exposure to wildland fires despite declining burned area	445
Macrophage-derived oncostatin M repairs the lung epithelial barrier during inflammatory damage	443
Global mean sea level over the past 4.5 million years	440
Tethering gene regulation to chromatin organization	438

Architects of molecular cages win Chemistry Nobel	434
A molecular machine directs the synthesis of a catenane	432
Cell division in tissues enables macrophage infiltration	431
Shot noise in a strange metal	431
A two-phase model that unifies and extends the classical models of membrane transport	427
Variability of flowing stream network length across the US	420
Wastewater surveillance for public health	416
Mandrel-free fabrication of giant spring-index and stroke muscles for diverse applications	415
The sugar cube: Network control and emergence in stereoediting reactions	412
Circularly polarized electroluminescence from chiral supramolecular semiconductor thin films	411
The many faces of anthropogenic subsidence	403
Negative refraction in hyperbolic hetero-bicrystals	402
Strong damped Lyman-α absorption in young star-forming galaxies at redshifts 9 to 11	401
Revisiting the mid-Pleistocene transition ocean circulation crisis	400
Large library docking identifies positive allosteric modulators of the calcium-sensing receptor	395
Using machine learning to decode animal communication	394
Cavity-enabled enhancement of ultrafast intramolecular vibrational redistribution over pseudorotation	391
Erratum for the Research Article “Structural basis for strychnine activation of human bitter taste receptor TAS2R46” by W. Xu et al .	388
A silicone-based support material eliminates interfacial instabilities in 3D silicone printing	388
Structural basis for odorant recognition of the insect odorant receptor OR-Orco heterocomplex	387
Crows “count” the number of self-generated vocalizations	386
Mental programming of spatial sequences in working memory in the macaque frontal cortex	384
The increasing effects of light pollution on professional and amateur astronomy	381
Tumor necrosis factor induces pathogenic mitochondrial ROS in tuberculosis through reverse electron transport	381
Stereoselective amino acid synthesis by synergistic photoredox-pyridoxal radical biocatalysis	380
Filling the gaps	372
Toward gallium oxide power electronics	370
Mechanically robust and stretchable organic solar cells plasticized by small-molecule acceptors	368
Fast and destructive density currents created by ocean-entering volcanic eruptions	367
Tectonic degassing drove global temperature trends since 20 Ma	366
SOX9 switch links regeneration to fibrosis at the single-cell level in mammalian kidneys	366
Policy reforms for antibiotic use claims in livestock	363
Chiral emission from resonant metasurfaces	362
Neuromedin U programs eosinophils to promote mucosal immunity of the small intestine	361
COVID-19 and children	360
Accessing pluripotent materials through tempering of dynamic covalent polymer networks	360
Indigenizing conservation science for a sustainable Amazon	359
The Asiatic cheetah’s road to extinction	359
Emission lines due to ionizing radiation from a compact object in the remnant of Supernova 1987A	359
Molecular evolution of sour tolerance in birds	355
Arterial pulses link heart-brain oscillations	351
WHO and USAID budget cuts hurt the US	349
STEM must meet people where they are	349
Caloric restriction has a new player	346
Funding delays frustrate agricultural researchers	345
Harvard court victory leaves scientists feeling vindicated but uncertain	344
Erratum for the Report “Synthetic transcription elongation factors license transcription across repressive chromatin” by G. S. Erwin et al .	340
Erratum for the Research Article “Latrophilin GPCRs direct synapse specificity by coincident binding of FLRTs and teneurins” by R. Sando et al .	339
Accelerating agricultural innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean: The crucial role of public investment data in science	338
Ancient Borrelia genomes document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever	337
Erratum for the Review “Addressing interconnect challenges for enhanced computing performance” by J.-S. Kim et al .	336
Invisible matter, invisible brains?	336
A case for altruistic cities	328
A strange fascination	327
Electric double-layer synthesis of a spongelike, lightweight reticular membrane	327
Radiocarbon dates revise histories of Indigenous societies	327
Thermal acclimation of stem respiration implies a weaker carbon-climate feedback	325
Pandemic-inspired policies	322
Engineering better artificial chromosomes	318
Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip	318
Controlled colonization of the human gut with a genetically engineered microbial therapeutic	317
Reliable earthquake precursors?	315
Biocatalytic C–H oxidation meets radical cross-coupling: Simplifying complex piperidine synthesis	315
Functional maps of a genomic locus reveal confinement of an enhancer by its target gene	312
Transgenic fish invades Brazilian streams	311
The hottest year was even hotter than expected	309
To reduce ‘reputational bias,’ NIH may revamp grant scoring	309
The material properties of chromatin in vivo	307
Neural implants without brain surgery	307
Squirrels in Ivory Coast may be an animal reservoir for mpox	307
In Other Journals	306
Breaking the silence	306
In Other Journals	304
Airport plan imperils South Korea’s tidal flat	304
John I. Brauman (1937–2024)	303
How does cancer affect motivation?	301
Glacial melt due to global warming is triggering earthquakes	301
Extending ketamine’s antidepressant effects	300
Organelles share the load	298
Panama must protect mangroves and peatlands	297

Comment on “Human TKTL1 implies greater neurogenesis in frontal neocortex of modern humans than Neanderthals”	293
Gametophyte genome activation occurs at pollen mitosis I in maize	292
Spin-down by dynamo action in simulated radiative stellar layers	292
Compartment-specific tuning of dendritic feature selectivity by intracellular Ca ²⁺ release	291
Quantum interference in atom-exchange reactions	289
Thermal radiation with a twist	289
Origin and fate of the pseudogap in the doped Hubbard model	289
Molecular cascades and cell type–specific signatures in ASD revealed by single-cell genomics	289
Toward a low-carbon transition in India	288
Molecular recorders to track cellular events	286
Atomic faulting induced exceptional cryogenic strain hardening in gradient cell–structured alloy	285
Deep-sea impacts of climate interventions	284
Plastics treaty text must center ecosystems	284
Sex and gender essentialism in textbooks	279
Roger Searle Payne (1935–2023)	279
Total synthesis of (−)-cylindrocyclophane A facilitated by C−H functionalization	279
Fork coupling directs DNA replication elongation and termination	277
A genome-to-proteome map reveals how natural variants drive proteome diversity and shape fitness	275
Covalent inhibitors of the PI3Kα RAS binding domain impair tumor growth driven by RAS and HER2	275
Pain-resolving microglia	274
Skin side effects stymie advance of HIV vaccine	273
Congo’s mpox crisis	273
Auditors can’t save carbon offsets	272
Keep it simple and switch to pure tellurium	271
Retrograde endocannabinoid signaling at inhibitory synapses in vivo	271
Synchronous recognition of amines in oxidative carbonylation toward unsymmetrical ureas	269
The evolution of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils	269
A host-adapted auxotrophic gut symbiont induces mucosal immunodeficiency	268
The bumpy road to friction control	268
Dinosaur diversity before the asteroid	268
RNA drugs custommade for rare diseases face wider test	267
Mimicking polar bear hairs in aerogel fibers	267
COVID-19 is surging again—with far fewer serious cases	265
Role of protein kinase PLK1 in the epigenetic maintenance of centromeres	264
New origin of life theory may explain biomolecular handedness	262
Confronting risks of mirror life	262
Allylic C–H amination cross-coupling furnishes tertiary amines by electrophilic metal catalysis	257
Isotopic and compositional constraints on the source of basalt collected from the lunar farside	257
Pervasive incomplete lineage sorting illuminates speciation and selection in primates	257
Olfactory receptor 2 in vascular macrophages drives atherosclerosis by NLRP3-dependent IL-1 production	256
The histone H3.1 variant regulates TONSOKU-mediated DNA repair during replication	256
Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections	256
Trypanosome doublet microtubule structures reveal flagellum assembly and motility mechanisms	254
Prefrontal synaptic regulation of homeostatic sleep pressure revealed through synaptic chemogenetics	254
Mineralization generates megapascal contractile stresses in collagen fibrils	254
Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO ₂	253
Emerging patterns in rodent-borne zoonotic diseases	253
Observing the quantum topology of light	252
Chemical remodeling of a cellular chaperone to target the active state of mutant KRAS	252
Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture	250
Time to support Indigenous science	250
Group 2 innate lymphoid cells promote inhibitory synapse development and social behavior	250
Structure of human PINK1 at a mitochondrial TOM-VDAC array	249
Inactive (PbI ₂ ) ₂ RbCl stabilizes perovskite films for efficient solar cells	248
Unveiling facet-dependent degradation and facet engineering for stable perovskite solar cells	248
Remote steric control for undirected meta -selective C–H activation of arenes	247
Slow rupture in a fluid-rich fault zone initiated the 2024 M _w 7.5 Noto earthquake	247
Tech companies liable for illegal wildlife trade	246
Forest fight	245
Spatial-CUT&Tag: Spatially resolved chromatin modification profiling at the cellular level	244
Data-based tools can prevent crowd crushes	242
Accelerated aging of all-inorganic, interface-stabilized perovskite solar cells	240
Sabatier principle of metal-support interaction for design of ultrastable metal nanocatalysts	239
Vitamin D regulates microbiome-dependent cancer immunity	239
Nuclear pores dilate and constrict in cellulo	236
North American bird declines are greatest where species are most abundant	234
Revisiting the human sociobiology debate Sociobiology: The New Synthesis Edward O. Wilson Harvard University Press, 1975. 697 pp.	234
Implementing equitable wildfire response plans	234
Edge learning using a fully integrated neuro-inspired memristor chip	233
Particle toxicity’s role in air pollution	233
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for ventilation and indoor air quality	233
Evolutionary convergence of sensory circuits in the pallium of amniotes	233
Active-reset protein sensors enable continuous in vivo monitoring of inflammation	231
Research beneficiaries speak	230
Australia’s biodiversity crisis and opportunity	230
Eugene N. Parker (1927–2022)	230
Sharp shift in ice age rhythm pinned to carbon dioxide	229
Experiencing science The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson MIT Press, 2024. 328 pp	229
Speaking for myself	229
New Products	228
Taliban decree deepens Afghanistan’s health crisis	228
Funders, diversify research grant awards	227
Women-driven community education in Nepal	227
No longer an island	227
In Other Journals	227
In Science Journals	226
Mechanical properties pattern the skin	226
U.S. cuts hamper disease surveillance worldwide	226
The wave blown around the world	225
Russia postpones three scientific ‘megaprojects’	225
Performing science Love + Science David J. Glass In Vitro Productions, New York City Center, New York, NY, USA, 26 May to 6 July 2023.	224
Shore patrol	224
Air pollution sensors can double as biodiversity monitors	224
Sea Change	223
Blurring boundaries	222