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. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Iron and manganese availability drives primary production and carbon export in the Weddell Sea	631
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?	301
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators	285
Genome evolution: On the nature of trade-offs with polyploidy and endopolyploidy	230
A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice	195
My bird	194
Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator	184
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise	179
Lost knowledge	152
Efference copies: Side-eyeing across species	150
Collective behaviour: When avoidance becomes a deterrent	143
Anthropocene at altitude	140
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin	138
Lucy Aplin	132
How to survive in the desert	132
Evolution and development: From the pet shop to the pelagic zone	123
Wound repair: Two distinct Rap1 pathways close the gap	119
How to know whales, and ourselves	119
Mammals, wildlife trade, and the next global pandemic	118
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters	116
Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL	115
Fear dynamically structures the ocean’s pelagic zone	113
Human evolution: Neanderthal footprints in African genomes	108
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites	107
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex	103

A blinking focal pattern of re-entrant activity in the avian tectum	102
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons	101
Australian magpies	101
Causal oscillations in the visual thalamo-cortical network in sustained attention in ferrets	100
Discovering the role of Patagonian birds in the dispersal of truffles and other mycorrhizal fungi	99
Neuroscience: Therapy modulates decision-making in Parkinson’s disease	99
Gonzalo Giribet	98
A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs	96
Stimulation of caudal inferior and middle frontal gyri disrupts planning during spoken interaction	95
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe	95
North Atlantic tipping point ahead	92
Synaptic inhibition in the lateral habenula shapes reward anticipation	91
A recurrent neural circuit in Drosophila temporally sharpens visual inputs	87
Iberian ribbed newts	86
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on	85
The oral microbiota of wild bears in Sweden reflects the history of antibiotic use by humans	83
Evolutionary genetics: Inversions — Do not quail but go big!	81
Specializations in optic flow encoding in the pretectum of hummingbirds and zebra finches	80
Nurse honey bees filter fungicide residues to maintain larval health	80
The biomechanics of turgor pressure	80
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin	79
Mistletoes	78
Phased polyploid genomes provide deeper insight into the multiple origins of domesticated Saccharomyces cerevisiae beer yeasts	78
Animal medication	78
Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly	76
Apical PAR protein caps orient the mitotic spindle in C. elegans early embryos	74
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise	73
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse	72
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past	70
Real-time processes in the development of action planning	70
Human gaze is systematically offset from the center of cone topography	69
Specialized predation by deep-sea Solenogastres revealed by sequencing of gut contents	69
Floral bullseyes and stratospheric ozone	68
Sleep: The great adaptive diversity	68
Evidence for a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition	68
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks	68
Cell biology: How does the nucleus get its membrane?	68
Colors	68
Neuroscience: Flies and grits	67
Ancient Australia	67
Dynamic BMP signaling mediates notochord segmentation in zebrafish	67
Predictive saccades and decision making in the beetle-predating saffron robber fly	67