OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Genetics is 13. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A Field Guide to Eukaryotic Transposable Elements	335
Pioneer Transcription Factors Initiating Gene Network Changes	294
DNA End Resection: Mechanism and Control	157
Noncanonical Roles of tRNAs: tRNA Fragments and Beyond	143
RAD51 Gene Family Structure and Function	128
Molecular Mechanisms of CRISPR-Cas Immunity in Bacteria	122
Regulation and Function of RNA Pseudouridylation in Human Cells	120
Prevalence and Adaptive Impact of Introgression	116
Moonlighting Proteins	91
Museum Genomics	72
Conserved Upstream Open Reading Frame Nascent Peptides That Control Translation	69
Cold Shock Response in Bacteria	65
Mosaicism in Human Health and Disease	56
Regulatory Themes and Variations by the Stress-Signaling Nucleotide Alarmones (p)ppGpp in Bacteria	48
Meiosis: Dances Between Homologs	46
Architecture and Dynamics of Meiotic Chromosomes	45
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Linking Human Cortical Development and Evolution	44
Variation and Evolution of Human Centromeres: A Field Guide and Perspective	42
Genetic Regulation of RIPK1 and Necroptosis	42
Histone Variants: The Nexus of Developmental Decisions and Epigenetic Memory	39
Evolution and Plasticity of Genome-Wide Meiotic Recombination Rates	38
The Four Causes: The Functional Architecture of Centromeres and Kinetochores	37
Toxin-Antidote Elements Across the Tree of Life	36
APOBEC-Induced Mutagenesis in Cancer	35
Genetics of Shoot Meristem and Shoot Regeneration	35

The tracrRNA in CRISPR Biology and Technologies	34
The Sins of Our Forefathers: Paternal Impacts on De Novo Mutation Rate and Development	33
Scalable Functional Assays for the Interpretation of Human Genetic Variation	32
Green Algal Models for Multicellularity	32
Drosophila sechellia: A Genetic Model for Behavioral Evolution and Neuroecology	31
Enhancer Function and Evolutionary Roles of Human Accelerated Regions	29
Genetic Diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Clinical Isolates and Resulting Outcomes of Tuberculosis Infection and Disease	29
DREAM On: Cell Cycle Control in Development and Disease	29
Transposon Insertion Sequencing, a Global Measure of Gene Function	27
The Epigenetic Control of the Transposable Element Life Cycle in Plant Genomes and Beyond	27
Transcription-Translation Coupling in Bacteria	26
Canalization and Robustness in Human Genetics and Disease	26
The Drama of Wallerian Degeneration: The Cast, Crew, and Script	26
Decoding the Spermatogenesis Program: New Insights from Transcriptomic Analyses	24
New Horizons for Dissecting Epistasis in Crop Quantitative Trait Variation	24
The Nuclear-to-Cytoplasmic Ratio: Coupling DNA Content to Cell Size, Cell Cycle, and Biosynthetic Capacity	24
A Functional Dissection of the mRNA and Locally Synthesized Protein Population in Neuronal Dendrites and Axons	23
Plant Cell Identity in the Era of Single-Cell Transcriptomics	23
Genotype–Phenotype Relationships in the Context of Transcriptional Adaptation and Genetic Robustness	23
Brown Algal Model Organisms	22
Genome Protection by DNA Polymerase θ	20
Mechanisms Underlying Circuit Dysfunction in Neurodevelopmental Disorders	19
The Evolutionary and Historical Foundation of the Modern Horse: Lessons from Ancient Genomics	18
Genomic and Epigenetic Foundations of Neocentromere Formation	18
Evolutionary Genomics of High Fecundity	16
Revelations About Aging and Disease from Unconventional Vertebrate Model Organisms	15
Measuring and Modeling Single-Cell Heterogeneity and Fate Decision in Mouse Embryos	15
How to Switch from Mitosis to Meiosis: Regulation of Germline Entry in Plants	15
Quiescence in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	14
Canary in the Coal Mine? Male Infertility as a Marker of Overall Health	14
Mitochondria Are Fundamental for the Emergence of Metazoans: On Metabolism, Genomic Regulation, and the Birth of Complex Organisms	13
Errors of the Egg: The Establishment and Progression of Human Aneuploidy Research in the Maternal Germline	13
The Complex Genetic Basis and Multilayered Regulatory Control of Yeast Pseudohyphal Growth	13