OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Plant Science is 60. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Leveraging glycoside-targeted metabolomics to gain insight into biological function	400
Decoding resilience: ecology, regulation, and evolution of biosynthetic gene clusters	369
Deflecting the parasitic paradigm: new insights into mutualistic transposons in plant genomes	283
Harnessing transposable elements for plant functional genomics and genome engineering	271
Agroecological genomics and participatory science: optimizing crop mixtures for agricultural diversification	237
Necessity for modeling hormonal crosstalk in arabidopsis root development?	194
TANDEM ZINC-FINGER/PLUS3: a multifaceted integrator of light signaling	190
Root cell types as an interface for biotic interactions	183
Navigating nitrogen sustainability with microbiome-associated phenotypes	176
The era of panomics-driven gene discovery in plants	172
Transcriptional regulatory network of high-value active ingredients in medicinal plants	157
Building soil sustainability from root–soil interface traits	156
Fruit quality in organic and conventional farming: advantages and limitations	147
Strategies to intensify CO2 capture by microalgae for the circular bioeconomy	146
Harnessing biological nitrogen fixation in plant leaves	141
Capturing the phosphorylation-linked protein-complex landscape in plants	140
Plant-to-plant signaling: building networks for resilience to stress, or merely eavesdropping?	136
Plant–pest interactions under the microscope of chemical hormesis	131
Tools for studying the cytoskeleton during plant cell division	129
The plant proteome delivers from discovery to innovation	127
‘Microscopic engineering vehicles’ for plants under stress combination	126
Achieving the impossible: prevention and eradication of invasive plants in Mediterranean-type ecosystems	123
Harnessing ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) mutagenesis and multi-omics for wheat rust resistance gene discovery	121
TKP-NLR calcium-permeable channels shield wheat from fungi	112
Transcription factor is not just a transcription factor	112

Unlocking a ‘lock–key’ mechanism governing pollen–pistil interactions	103
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The parallel narrative of RGF/GLV/CLEL peptide signalling	100
Co-conserving Indigenous and local knowledge systems with seeds	93
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Decoding the evolution of C4 photosynthesis	88
Illuminating plants: autoluminescence through big data mining and metabolic optimization	84
Single cell multi-omics atlases unlock cellular mysteries	84
Chinese cabbage: an emerging model for functional genomics in leafy vegetable crops	81
Strategies for breeding crops for future environments	79
Fungi deploy host phosphate signaling disrupter	79
Sensing and regulation of plant extracellular pH	77
Exploring natural product biosynthesis in plants with mass spectrometry imaging	76
Next-generation proximity labeling: redefining protein interactomes	75
Fighting citrus Huanglongbing with evolutionary principles	73
Uvr motifs regulate the chloroplast Clp chaperone–protease system	73
Nano-selenium: a novel candidate for plant microbiome engineering	72
Why study the archeo-histories of dryland landraces now?	72
Computational approaches that aid annotation in metabolomics	71
Origins of strigolactone and karrikin signaling in plants	71
Evolution of cereal floral architecture and threshability	70
A nodule peptide confiscates haem to promote iron uptake in rhizobia	68
Protoplasts: small cells with big roles in plant biology	68
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RPM: rapid detection of chloroplast RNA editing efficiency	67
Phospholipids and flowering regulation	67
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Expanding the plant epigenetic code: histone short-chain acylation	66
Not just signals: RALFs as cell wall-structuring peptides	66
Going beyond improving soil health: cover plants as contaminant removers in agriculture	65
Promoter/enhancer replacement by genome editing for crop improvement	64
Microautophagy in cereal grains: protein storage or degradation?	62
Pectin: a critical component in cell-wall-mediated immunity	62
Toward a multiomics framework for understanding symbiotic nitrogen fixation	62
Integrating root exudation into belowground carbon economics	60