OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Virology Journal is 36. 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
The effect of temperature on persistence of SARS-CoV-2 on common surfaces	440
COVID-19 infection: an overview on cytokine storm and related interventions	211
Rapid SARS-CoV-2 antigen detection assay in comparison with real-time RT-PCR assay for laboratory diagnosis of COVID-19 in Thailand	205
False negative rate of COVID-19 PCR testing: a discordant testing analysis	152
Characterization of accessory genes in coronavirus genomes	123
COVID-19 infection among healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study in southwest Iran	104
Evolutionary trajectory of SARS-CoV-2 and emerging variants	103
Rapid point-of-care detection of SARS-CoV-2 using reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP)	94
Influenza co-infection associated with severity and mortality in COVID-19 patients	82
Favipiravir versus other antiviral or standard of care for COVID-19 treatment: a rapid systematic review and meta-analysis	77
SARS-CoV-2: characteristics and current advances in research	77
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of respiratory viruses in children with lower respiratory tract infections in China	74
Harnessing the immune system to overcome cytokine storm and reduce viral load in COVID-19: a review of the phases of illness and therapeutic agents	69
Analysis of the efficacy of HIV protease inhibitors against SARS-CoV-2′s main protease	69
Liver injury in COVID-19: clinical features and treatment management	60
Replication kinetics and infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in common cell culture models	59
The newly emerged COVID-19 disease: a systemic review	59
The role of host eIF2α in viral infection	59
Hepatitis E virus infection during pregnancy	58
In vitro virucidal activity of Echinaforce®, an Echinacea purpurea preparation, against coronaviruses, including common cold coronavirus 229E and SARS-CoV-2	55
Specific cytokines in the inflammatory cytokine storm of patients with COVID-19-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome and extrapulmonary multiple-organ dysfunction	54
Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies using a vesicular stomatitis virus possessing SARS-CoV-2 spike protein	53
Intranasal exposure of African green monkeys to SARS-CoV-2 results in acute phase pneumonia with shedding and lung injury still present in the early convalescence phase	51
COVID-19 pandemic: current knowledge about the role of pets and other animals in disease transmission	51
Association of dyslipidemia with the severity and mortality of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a meta-analysis	50

Characterization of four virulent Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteriophages, and evaluation of their potential use in complex phage preparation	43
Resource-efficient internally controlled in-house real-time PCR detection of SARS-CoV-2	41
The association between interferon lambda 3 and 4 gene single-nucleotide polymorphisms and the recovery of COVID-19 patients	41
A new Hendra virus genotype found in Australian flying foxes	40
Effectiveness of disinfectants against the spread of tobamoviruses: Tomato brown rugose fruit virus and Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus	40
Pathophysiology of Post-COVID syndromes: a new perspective	40
SARS-CoV-2 infection in pediatric population before and during the Delta (B.1.617.2) and Omicron (B.1.1.529) variants era	40
Inhibitors of endosomal acidification suppress SARS-CoV-2 replication and relieve viral pneumonia in hACE2 transgenic mice	39
Estimation of the basic reproduction number (R0) for the novel coronavirus disease in Sri Lanka	38
Precision therapeutic targets for COVID-19	37
Neutralization assay with SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 spike pseudotyped murine leukemia virions	37
The SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein: its role in the viral life cycle, structure and functions, and use as a potential target in the development of vaccines and diagnostics	36