OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Biology is 39. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
An updated tribal classification of Lamiaceae based on plastome phylogenomics	116
Parkinson’s disease-associated alterations of the gut microbiome predict disease-relevant changes in metabolic functions	107
Plastid phylogenomic insights into relationships of all flowering plant families	103
Plasma membrane integrity: implications for health and disease	88
Altered brain-wide auditory networks in a zebrafish model of fragile X syndrome	87
Tandem gene duplications drive divergent evolution of caffeine and crocin biosynthetic pathways in plants	83
Multiple links between 5-methylcytosine content of mRNA and translation	83
Hidden genomic features of an invasive malaria vector, Anopheles stephensi, revealed by a chromosome-level genome assembly	75
Modified nucleic acids: replication, evolution, and next-generation therapeutics	74
ONTbarcoder and MinION barcodes aid biodiversity discovery and identification by everyone, for everyone	73
Genomes of the dinoflagellate Polarella glacialis encode tandemly repeated single-exon genes with adaptive functions	63
Modelling the suppression of a malaria vector using a CRISPR-Cas9 gene drive to reduce female fertility	63
Comparison of 15 dinoflagellate genomes reveals extensive sequence and structural divergence in family Symbiodiniaceae and genus Symbiodinium	62
Performance analysis of novel toxin-antidote CRISPR gene drive systems	60
Winter is coming: the future of cryopreservation	59
New targeted approaches for epigenetic age predictions	52
FGF-2 promotes angiogenesis through a SRSF1/SRSF3/SRPK1-dependent axis that controls VEGFR1 splicing in endothelial cells	52
Genome-enabled insights into the biology of thrips as crop pests	50
A tissue level atlas of the healthy human virome	49
The hard clam genome reveals massive expansion and diversification of inhibitors of apoptosis in Bivalvia	49
The replication machinery of LUCA: common origin of DNA replication and transcription	48
Contaminant DNA in bacterial sequencing experiments is a major source of false genetic variability	47
Prokaryotic virus host predictor: a Gaussian model for host prediction of prokaryotic viruses in metagenomics	47
Evolution of metabolic capabilities and molecular features of diplonemids, kinetoplastids, and euglenids	46
Long-term live imaging and multiscale analysis identify heterogeneity and core principles of epithelial organoid morphogenesis	46

Differential loss of effector genes in three recently expanded pandemic clonal lineages of the rice blast fungus	45
Unraveling the molecular interactions involved in phase separation of glucocorticoid receptor	45
Genome-wide pQTL analysis of protein expression regulatory networks in the human liver	44
Genomic evidence for a hybrid origin of the yeast opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans	44
The rise of diversity in metabolic platforms across the Candidate Phyla Radiation	43
Extreme mobility of the world’s largest flying mammals creates key challenges for management and conservation	43
The draft nuclear genome sequence and predicted mitochondrial proteome of Andalucia godoyi, a protist with the most gene-rich and bacteria-like mitochondrial genome	43
Protein assembly systems in natural and synthetic biology	43
Reorganization of the 3D chromatin architecture of rice genomes during heat stress	43
Genome sequencing sheds light on the contribution of structural variants to Brassica oleracea diversification	41
Putative ligand binding sites of two functionally characterized bark beetle odorant receptors	40
Discordant evolution of mitochondrial and nuclear yeast genomes at population level	40
ACBE, a new base editor for simultaneous C-to-T and A-to-G substitutions in mammalian systems	40
Large-scale discovery of male reproductive tract-specific genes through analysis of RNA-seq datasets	40
The genome of a wild Medicago species provides insights into the tolerant mechanisms of legume forage to environmental stress	39
Autochthonous faecal viral transfer (FVT) impacts the murine microbiome after antibiotic perturbation	39
Long-term persistence of crAss-like phage crAss001 is associated with phase variation in Bacteroides intestinalis	39
Global population genetic structure and demographic trajectories of the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens	39