OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Infection Genetics and Evolution is 27. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Different virulence of G4 and G5 Eurasian avian-like H1N1 swine influenza viruses in mice	113
Phylodynamics and phylogeography of watermelon mosaic virus: Multiple local invasion routes in southern France and recombination-driven limits to global analysis	87
Revisiting the Pneumocystis host specificity paradigm and transmission ecology in wild Southeast Asian rodents	66
Increased hepatitis B virus quasispecies diversity is correlated with liver fibrosis progression	59
A multicenter study on molecular epidemiology of rhinovirus isolated from children with community acquired pneumonia in China during 2017–2019	55
The 2023 South Sudanese outbreak of Hepatitis E emphasizes ongoing circulation of genotype 1 in North, Central, and East Africa	51
Multilocus sequence analysis provides new insight into population structure and genetic diversity of Leishmania tropica in Morocco	50
Serological and molecular detection of Leishmania species in dog peripheral blood from Bobo-Dioulasso city, a confirmation of canine leishmaniasis enzootic area for Burkina Faso	49
Detection and population genetic analysis of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) based on knockdown resistance (kdr) mutations in the Yangtze River basin of China	47
First report of blaVEB-3 and blaKPC-2 coexistence with a novel blaKPC-2 transposon in Klebsiella michiganensis	43
Genetic diversity of tick-borne zoonotic pathogens in ixodid ticks collected from small ruminants in Northern Pakistan	42
Lactobacillus spp. derived biosurfactants effect on expression of genes involved in Proteus mirabilis biofilm formation	42
Evolutionary genomics of recent clinical Bordetella pertussis isolates from Iran: wide circulation of multiple ptxP3 lineages and report of the first ptxP3 filamentous hemagglutinin-negative B. pertus	42
Whole-genome analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in a 2020 infection cluster in a nursing home of Southern Italy	41
Evolutionary analysis of major histocompatibility complex variants in chytrid-resistant and susceptible amphibians	41
Molecular insights into peste des petits ruminants virus identified in Bangladesh between 2008 and 2020	40
Prevalence and genetic analysis of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) and type 3 (PCV3) between 2018 and 2020 in central China	39
Molecular and genotyping techniques in diagnosis of Coxiella burnetii: An overview	37
The spatial-temporal pattern of Japanese encephalitis and its influencing factors in Guangxi, China	35
Strategies of rational and structure-driven vaccine design for Arenaviruses	30
Microevolution of a Mycobacteroides abscessus subsp. bolletii strain in a clinical persistent infection	30
Understanding the origin of COVID-19 requires to change the paradigm on zoonotic emergence from the spillover to the circulation model	30
In silico analysis highlighting the prevalence of BCL2L1 gene and its correlation to miRNA in human coronavirus (HCoV) genetic makeup	30
Introduction and rapid dissemination of SARS-CoV-2 Gamma Variant of Concern in Venezuela	30
Sub-genotypes of hepatitis C virus in the Middle East and North Africa: Patterns of distribution and temporal changes	29

Evolutionary perspectives and adaptation dynamics of human seasonal influenza viruses from 2009 to 2019: An insight from codon usage	29
Drivers of virulence and antimicrobial resistance in Gram-negative bacteria in different settings: A genomic perspective	28
Genomic and evolutionary characteristics of G3P[8] group a rotavirus strains in China, 2016 to 2018	27
Extensive genetic diversity in Plasmodium vivax from Sudan and its genetic relationships with other geographical isolates	27
Role of multiple factors likely contributing to severity-mortality of COVID-19	27