OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Science China-Life Sciences is 40. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
RNA ac4C modification in cancer biology: from regulatory mechanisms to clinical applications	323
What the genome of the leafy seadragon teaches us about rapid evolution of camouflage and adaptations to life in the kelp forest	311
New insights from a plant immune receptor may help design of disease resistant crops	285
Unveiling potential sex-determining genes and sex-specific markers in autotetraploid Carassius auratus	190
Nanowire-mediated miRNA delivery	160
Quantitative characterization of filamentous fungal promoters on a single-cell resolution to discover cryptic natural products	138
Genetic mutations across multiple pathways drive filamentous growth and virulence in the emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris	136
Danhong Injection targets CaMKII through Dihydrotanshinone I to alleviate cardiomyocyte death and inflammation in viral myocarditis	123
Advances in genotypic antimicrobialresistance testing: a comprehensive review	120
Microbe-induced gene silencing explores interspecies RNAi and opens up possibilities of crop protection	106
A neighboring NLR negatively regulates the wheat broad-spectrum resistance protein encoded by Pm21	104
Movie therapy for children with amblyopia: restoring binocular vision with brain plasticity	103
New loci for refractive errors and ocular biometric parameters in young Chinese Han adults	101
Convergent and conserved roads lead to Rome: now archaea fill the gap of transcription termination	81
Inhibition of KDM6B prevents osteoarthritis by blocking growth plate-like H3K27me3 loss in bivalent genes	79
Loss of Tet hydroxymethylase activity causes mouse embryonic stem cell differentiation bias and developmental defects	71
The genetic basis and process of inbreeding depression in an elite hybrid rice	67
Toward a comprehensive map of Rab-mediated cargo transport to migrasomes	65
m6A reader YTHDF2 governs the onset of atrial fibrillation by modulating Cacna1c translation	61
Metatranscriptomic analysis of host response and vaginal microbiome of patients with severe COVID-19	58
Vibration mechanics involved in buzz pollination lead to size-dependent associations between bumblebees and Pedicularis flowers	55
Pseudo-chromosome—length genome assembly for a deep-sea eel Ilyophis brunneus sheds light on the deep-sea adaptation	55
Enlarged fins of Tibetan catfish provide new evidence of adaptation to high plateau	55
Dissecting the cell microenvironment of ovarian endometrioma through single-cell RNA sequencing	54
Cytokines-activated nuclear IKKα-FAT10 pathway induces breast cancer tamoxifen-resistance	54

Dietary carbohydrate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: a 16-year prospective cohort study	53
Green manuring relocates microbiomes in driving the soil functionality of nitrogen cycling to obtain preferable grain yields in thirty years	49
Burch colposuspension for stress urinary incontinence: a 14-year prospective follow-up	48
Enlarged DNA unwinding by Nme2Cas9 permits a broadened base editing window beyond the protospacer	47
FHL2 deficiency aggravates Candida albicans infection through decreased myelopoiesis	47
NAP-seq: unveiling the hidden world of noncapped RNAs	47
Integration of perioperative features and intragraft TCF7L2 expression to predict lipid metabolic disorder in liver transplant recipients	47
Multi-omics study reveals a light-dependent regulatory network of flavonoid biosynthesis in lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.)	44
Unraveling the diversity of bile acid modifications by integrative mass spectrometry approaches	44
CRISPR screening identifies protein methylation and ubiquitination modifications that modulate aflatoxin B1 cytotoxicity	43
Attenuation of plant immune kinases by U-box type E3 ubiquitin ligases	42
PanSci: decoding panoramas of ageing	42
An artificial immune switch system: engineering durable, broad-spectrum disease resistance in plants	41
Critical roles of non-coding RNAs in lifecycle and biology of Marek’s disease herpesvirus	41
Precision regulation of plant aromatic amino acid homeostasis	41
Phase separation of a master transcription factor targeted by a natural compound regulates fungal ergosterol homeostasis	40
Activating the cGAS-STING pathway in hypoxic microenvironment: blocking ADSL’s ER localization	40
Integrative analysis based on CRISPR screen identifies apilimod as a potential therapeutic agent for cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury treatment	40