OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Biology and Evolution is 38. 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
TimeTree 5: An Expanded Resource for Species Divergence Times	347
New Methods to Calculate Concordance Factors for Phylogenomic Datasets	343
Corrigendum to: IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era	185
Recent Demographic History Inferred by High-Resolution Analysis of Linkage Disequilibrium	143
Performing Highly Efficient Genome Scans for Local Adaptation with R Package pcadapt Version 4	131
Extreme Genomic CpG Deficiency in SARS-CoV-2 and Evasion of Host Antiviral Defense	125
ASTRAL-Pro: Quartet-Based Species-Tree Inference despite Paralogy	114
Genomic Analysis of European Drosophila melanogaster Populations Reveals Longitudinal Structure, Continent-Wide Selection, and Previously Unknown DNA Viruses	98
GeneRax: A Tool for Species-Tree-Aware Maximum Likelihood-Based Gene Family Tree Inference under Gene Duplication, Transfer, and Loss	82
Asterid Phylogenomics/Phylotranscriptomics Uncover Morphological Evolutionary Histories and Support Phylogenetic Placement for Numerous Whole-Genome Duplications	81
Genomic Epidemiology, Evolution, and Transmission Dynamics of Porcine Deltacoronavirus	75
Bayesian Evaluation of Temporal Signal in Measurably Evolving Populations	74
The Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern Is Driven by Acceleration of the Substitution Rate	73
The Chicken Pan-Genome Reveals Gene Content Variation and a Promoter Region Deletion in IGF2BP1 Affecting Body Size	70
Herbicide Selection Promotes Antibiotic Resistance in Soil Microbiomes	70
Distinct Expression and Methylation Patterns for Genes with Different Fates following a Single Whole-Genome Duplication in Flowering Plants	70
Extensive Ethnolinguistic Diversity in Vietnam Reflects Multiple Sources of Genetic Diversity	67
Adaptive Introgression across Semipermeable Species Boundaries between Local Helicoverpa zea and Invasive Helicoverpa armigera Moths	65
Selection Analysis Identifies Clusters of Unusual Mutational Changes in Omicron Lineage BA.1 That Likely Impact Spike Function	64
Evolutionary Genomics of Structural Variation in Asian Rice (Oryza sativa) Domestication	58
Khoe-San Genomes Reveal Unique Variation and Confirm the Deepest Population Divergence in Homo sapiens	56
A Whole-Genome Scan for Association with Invasion Success in the Fruit Fly Drosophila suzukii Using Contrasts of Allele Frequencies Corrected for Population Structure	56
Gene Loss Predictably Drives Evolutionary Adaptation	54
Broccoli: Combining Phylogenetic and Network Analyses for Orthology Assignment	54
Is Phylotranscriptomics as Reliable as Phylogenomics?	51

Venom Systems as Models for Studying the Origin and Regulation of Evolutionary Novelties	50
Whole-Genome Resequencing of Worldwide Wild and Domestic Sheep Elucidates Genetic Diversity, Introgression, and Agronomically Important Loci	49
Causes and Consequences of Bacteriophage Diversification via Genetic Exchanges across Lifestyles and Bacterial Taxa	48
Unraveling the Complex Hybrid Ancestry and Domestication History of Cultivated Strawberry	47
Ancient Hybridization with an Unknown Population Facilitated High-Altitude Adaptation of Canids	45
Evolution of Plasmid Mobility: Origin and Fate of Conjugative and Nonconjugative Plasmids	43
The Aphid X Chromosome Is a Dangerous Place for Functionally Important Genes: Diverse Evolution of Hemipteran Genomes Based on Chromosome-Level Assemblies	40
Extraordinary Sequence Diversity and Promiscuity of Centromeric Satellites in the Legume Tribe Fabeae	40
The Emergence of the Spike Furin Cleavage Site in SARS-CoV-2	40
Comprehensive Species Sampling and Sophisticated Algorithmic Approaches Refute the Monophyly of Arachnida	40
Giant Starship Elements Mobilize Accessory Genes in Fungal Genomes	40
Purifying Selection Determines the Short-Term Time Dependency of Evolutionary Rates in SARS-CoV-2 and pH1N1 Influenza	39
The Neandertal Progesterone Receptor	38