OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Chemical Senses is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editor-in-Chief’s Note—Thank you to Reviewers	30
Correction to: Reply: taste loss as a distinct symptom of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis	27
Correction to: Oral thermal processing in the gustatory cortex of awake mice	26
XLVII Annual Meeting of the Association for Chemoreception SciencesProgram Chair: Dan Wesson, PhDBonita Springs, Florida \| April 23-26, 2025	23
Vomeronasal sensory input and its social behavioral output	22
Ultra-high-field fMRI study of insular discrimination of taste quality and perceived taste valence	22
Effects of the genetic polymorphisms of TAS2R43 and TAS2R46 on receptors’ function and on perceived bitter	18
Ablation of AQP5 gene in mice leads to olfactory dysfunction caused by hyposecretion of Bowman’s gland	18
An electronic nose can identify humans by the smell of their ear	17
Perception of citric acid and citrate salt mixtures in humans	17
Receptors and signaling for sour and salty: the ionic taste qualities	16
It takes two: intranasal trigeminal chemosensation and its role in odor processing	16
Odor localization in structural interhemispheric deficits	15
XLV Annual Meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences Program Chair: Marta Yanina Pepino, PhD Bonita Springs, Florida \| April 19–22, 2023	13
No significant salt or sweet taste preference or sensitivity differences following ad libitum consumption of ultra-processed and unprocessed diets: a randomized controlled pilot study	13
Regularity, variability, and individuality: urine marking patterns of male mice toward stimuli representing varying degrees of kinship	12
Consistent social odor representation across 7 languages: the Social Odor Scale translation and validation	12
What are olfaction and gustation, and do all animals have them?	11
Genetic variation in the human olfactory receptor OR5AN1 associates with the perception of musks	11
Odor Sampling Bags Enable Reliable Delivery of Controlled Odor Concentrations	11
Recent odor experience selectively modulates olfactory sensitivity across the glomerular output in the mouse olfactory bulb	11
Gene expression analyses of TAS1R taste receptors relevant to the treatment of cardiometabolic disease	10
Obituary: Bert Menco (1946 to 2025)	9
Impact of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome on olfactory and gustatory capacity	9
Respiratory response to an odor throughout development in rats	9

A non-singularity in sweet taste	8
The APOLLO trial: a proof-of-concept study for vitamin A nasal drops in COVID-19-related postinfectious olfactory dysfunction	8
Human olfactory bulb morphometry and olfactory sulcus depth measurement in normosmia	8
Semantic congruency facilitates the retrieval of visual associations to odors and decreases retroactive memory interference	7
Complement activation correlates with impaired olfactory function in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps	7
Unexpected loss of TAS1R1–TAS1R3 umami taste receptor function in carnivorous Lyncodontini mustelids	7
Selective pressure on a saccharin intake phenotype and its correlates: a replication study	7
Olfactory GPCRs through the lens of structural bioinformatics	7
Emotional self-body odors do not influence the access to visual awareness by emotional faces	6
Enhancement of taste by retronasal odors in patients with Wolfram syndrome and decreased olfactory function	6
A method for assessing approach and avoidance behavior across multiple olfactory stimuli in mice including multivariate hypothesis comparisons	6
Prevalence of olfactory dysfunction among postpartum women and impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy	6
Irregular vomeronasal system of hedgehogs is intermediate between segregated and uniform: how was type-2 receptor (V2R)-pathway in Laurasiatheria lost during evolution?	6
Response characteristics of oral mechanosensory neurons in the mouse trigeminal ganglion	6
Odor dilution sorting as a clinical test of olfactory function: normative values and reliability data.	6
The taste of trigeminal sensations: relation between taste, lingual tactile acuity, and spicy perception in patients with taste dysfunction	5
Kokumi substances as taste modulators: sensory properties and molecular mechanisms	5
Worldwide study of the taste of bitter medicines and their modifiers	5
The development of sniffing	5
Effects of physical exercise and olfactory training with pleasant and unpleasant odors on verbal fluency and depression	5
Monorhinal and birhinal odor processing in humans: an fMRI investigation	5
A structural perspective on insect gustatory receptors	5
Free odor identification engages domain-general cognitive abilities in old adults	5
Gustatory dysfunction in multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Sensitivity of human sweet taste receptor subunits T1R2 and T1R3 to activation by glucose enantiomers	5
Editor-in-Chief's Note—Thank you to Reviewers	5