OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Biology is 67. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-12-01 to 2023-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Probable Pangolin Origin of SARS-CoV-2 Associated with the COVID-19 Outbreak	839
The tumor microenvironment	792
A Novel Bat Coronavirus Closely Related to SARS-CoV-2 Contains Natural Insertions at the S1/S2 Cleavage Site of the Spike Protein	407
Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis	288
Ferroptosis	254
Establishment of Wolbachia Strain wAlbB in Malaysian Populations of Aedes aegypti for Dengue Control	228
The origins and potential future of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in the evolving COVID-19 pandemic	222
Effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on human sleep and rest-activity rhythms	213
Probable Pangolin Origin of SARS-CoV-2 Associated with the COVID-19 Outbreak	204
Sleep in university students prior to and during COVID-19 Stay-at-Home orders	192
Effects of lockdown on human sleep and chronotype during the COVID-19 pandemic	157
The Evolution of Insect Metamorphosis	155
Chromatin Organization in Early Land Plants Reveals an Ancestral Association between H3K27me3, Transposons, and Constitutive Heterochromatin	145
On the evolutionary epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2	144
A genome-scale phylogeny of the kingdom Fungi	143
Turtles and Tortoises Are in Trouble	140
Trophic Interactions and the Drivers of Microbial Community Assembly	140
Climate and Urbanization Drive Mosquito Preference for Humans	133
Phylogenomic Evidence for the Monophyly of Bryophytes and the Reductive Evolution of Stomata	132
Causal Evidence for a Role of Theta and Alpha Oscillations in the Control of Working Memory	131
Turning the tide of parachute science	125
Global Patterns and Drivers of Bee Distribution	123
Mangroves give cause for conservation optimism, for now	120
Tumor-associated macrophages	120
Development of Wild and Cultivated Plants under Global Warming Conditions	104

Uncertainty and Surprise Jointly Predict Musical Pleasure and Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Auditory Cortex Activity	99
Defined Cell Types in Superior Colliculus Make Distinct Contributions to Prey Capture Behavior in the Mouse	98
Odorant Receptor Inhibition Is Fundamental to Odor Encoding	98
Complete Connectomic Reconstruction of Olfactory Projection Neurons in the Fly Brain	97
Climate Change Drives Poleward Increases and Equatorward Declines in Marine Species	96
Two Distinct Types of Eye-Head Coupling in Freely Moving Mice	95
Widespread introgression across a phylogeny of 155 Drosophila genomes	91
Sleep Disturbance Forecasts β-Amyloid Accumulation across Subsequent Years	90
The Regulation of Drosophila Sleep	88
Increased LRRK2 kinase activity alters neuronal autophagy by disrupting the axonal transport of autophagosomes	86
Copper biology	86
What Is REM Sleep?	85
Measuring biological diversity	83
Deconstructing Hunting Behavior Reveals a Tightly Coupled Stimulus-Response Loop	83
The tectum/superior colliculus as the vertebrate solution for spatial sensory integration and action	80
A Role for Astroglial Calcium in Mammalian Sleep and Sleep Regulation	79
Size-Dependent Increase in RNA Polymerase II Initiation Rates Mediates Gene Expression Scaling with Cell Size	79
Non-retroviral Endogenous Viral Element Limits Cognate Virus Replication in Aedes aegypti Ovaries	78
Growth–defense trade-offs in plants	78
Dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens core signals perceived saliency	78
Nuclear Deformation Causes DNA Damage by Increasing Replication Stress	77
The Origin of Land Plants Is Rooted in Two Bursts of Genomic Novelty	77
Membrane Curvature Catalyzes Lipid Droplet Assembly	76
In Vivo Accumulation of Plastic-Derived Chemicals into Seabird Tissues	76
Probabilistic Models of Larval Zebrafish Behavior Reveal Structure on Many Scales	75
UBAP2L Forms Distinct Cores that Act in Nucleating Stress Granules Upstream of G3BP1	74
Individual and Population Benefits of Marine Reserves for Reef Sharks	74
Airborne environmental DNA for terrestrial vertebrate community monitoring	73
Bright Spots in Coastal Marine Ecosystem Restoration	73
Salicylic Acid Targets Protein Phosphatase 2A to Attenuate Growth in Plants	72
Representational drift in the mouse visual cortex	72
Genomic and Fitness Consequences of Genetic Rescue in Wild Populations	71
Cellular functions of actin- and microtubule-associated septins	71
The Function and Evolution of Motile DNA Replication Systems in Ciliates	70
Mushroom Bodies Are Required for Learned Visual Navigation, but Not for Innate Visual Behavior, in Ants	70
Compact Root Architecture 2 Promotes Root Competence for Nodulation through the miR2111 Systemic Effector	70
Stable Introduction of Plant-Virus-Inhibiting Wolbachia into Planthoppers for Rice Protection	70
Two MYB Proteins in a Self-Organizing Activator-Inhibitor System Produce Spotted Pigmentation Patterns	69
The Genomic Impact of European Colonization of the Americas	69
Cellular Heterogeneity in Pressure and Growth Emerges from Tissue Topology and Geometry	67
Tempo and Pattern of Avian Brain Size Evolution	67
Marine Heatwave Drives Cryptic Loss of Genetic Diversity in Underwater Forests	67