OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Virus Research is 43. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 Vaccine: A comprehensive status report	584
Gut microbiota and Covid-19- possible link and implications	427
Co-infection with respiratory pathogens among COVID-2019 cases	388
The ORF6, ORF8 and nucleocapsid proteins of SARS-CoV-2 inhibit type I interferon signaling pathway	359
Natural product-derived phytochemicals as potential agents against coronaviruses: A review	316
iSCAN: An RT-LAMP-coupled CRISPR-Cas12 module for rapid, sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2	216
Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV): An update on etiology, transmission, pathogenesis, and prevention and control	198
African swine fever – A review of current knowledge	187
IFN-γ is an independent risk factor associated with mortality in patients with moderate and severe COVID-19 infection	131
Prospect of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein: Potential role in vaccine and therapeutic development	108
Porcine circoviruses: current status, knowledge gaps and challenges	107
COVID-19: Review on latest available drugs and therapies against SARS-CoV-2. Coagulation and inflammation cross-talking	101
Immunological co-ordination between gut and lungs in SARS-CoV-2 infection	97
Pervasive transmission of E484K and emergence of VUI-NP13L with evidence of SARS-CoV-2 co-infection events by two different lineages in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	91
Putative roles of vitamin D in modulating immune response and immunopathology associated with COVID-19	90
Classical swine fever virus: the past, present and future	90
Climate change and plant virus epidemiology	89
The ORF8 protein of SARS-CoV-2 induced endoplasmic reticulum stress and mediated immune evasion by antagonizing production of interferon beta	88
Phylogenetic and phylodynamic analyses of SARS-CoV-2	87
Clinical features of familial clustering in patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China	85
Identification of high-affinity inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 main protease: Towards the development of effective COVID-19 therapy	79
Melatonin potentials against viral infections including COVID-19: Current evidence and new findings	78
Fecal viral shedding in COVID-19 patients: Clinical significance, viral load dynamics and survival analysis	71
Swine enteric alphacoronavirus (swine acute diarrhea syndrome coronavirus): An update three years after its discovery	67
The role of host genetics in susceptibility to severe viral infections in humans and insights into host genetics of severe COVID-19: A systematic review	66

Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms for PRRSV Pathogenesis and Host Response to Infection	57
Diversity and epidemiology of plant rhabdoviruses	55
The HSV-1 ubiquitin ligase ICP0: Modifying the cellular proteome to promote infection	54
Maize lethal necrosis (MLN): Efforts toward containing the spread and impact of a devastating transboundary disease in sub-Saharan Africa	52
The role of dysregulated immune responses in COVID-19 pathogenesis	51
Isolation and characterization of Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteriophage vB_VpaS_PG07	50
The DHODH inhibitor PTC299 arrests SARS-CoV-2 replication and suppresses induction of inflammatory cytokines	49
Swine influenza virus: Current status and challenge	49
Targeting the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein prefusion conformation: virtual screening and molecular dynamics simulations applied to the identification of potential fusion inhibitors	48
Mutational cascade of SARS-CoV-2 leading to evolution and emergence of omicron variant	48
How ISG15 combats viral infection	48
Potential drugs for the treatment of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) in China	47
On the interactions of the receptor-binding domain of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins with monoclonal antibodies and the receptor ACE2	47
Association of vitamin D with the modulation of the disease severity in COVID-19	47
The role of microRNAs in solving COVID-19 puzzle from infection to therapeutics: A mini-review	46
Epitope-based peptide vaccines predicted against novel coronavirus disease caused by SARS-CoV-2	45
A comprehensive analysis of genome composition and codon usage patterns of emerging coronaviruses	45
Zoonotic and Reverse Zoonotic Transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2	44