OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Database-The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation is 21. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Multi-omics molecular biomarkers and database of osteoarthritis	144
Building resource-efficient community databases using open-source software	137
Collecting and managing in situ banana genetic resources information (Musa spp.) using online resources and citizen science	87
FishTEDB 2.0: an update fish transposable element (TE) database with new functions to facilitate TE research	87
GrameneOryza: a comprehensive resource for Oryza genomes, genetic variation, and functional data	80
BioKC: a collaborative platform for curation and annotation of molecular interactions	78
CBGDA: a manually curated resource for gene–disease associations based on genome-wide CRISPR	61
AVPCD: a plant-derived medicine database of antiviral phytochemicals for cancer, Covid-19, malaria and HIV	55
CCIDB: a manually curated cell–cell interaction database with cell context information	52
The importance of graph databases and graph learning for clinical applications	38
CenhANCER: a comprehensive cancer enhancer database for primary tissues and cell lines	38
A roadmap for the functional annotation of protein families: a community perspective	37
Pathway-based, reaction-specific annotation of disease variants for elucidation of molecular phenotypes	29
GeniePool: genomic database with corresponding annotated samples based on a cloud data lake architecture	28
DisGeNet: a disease-centric interaction database among diseases and various associated genes	27
Post-composing ontology terms for efficient phenotyping in plant breeding	26
Assessing the performance of generative artificial intelligence in retrieving information against manually curated genetic and genomic data	26
The overview of the BioRED (Biomedical Relation Extraction Dataset) track at BioCreative VIII	26
CafeteriaSA corpus: scientific abstracts annotated across different food semantic resources	25
OncoCardioDB: a public and curated database of molecular information in onco-cardiology/cardio-oncology	24
Phosprof: pathway analysis database of drug response based on phosphorylation activity measurements	23
NLM-Chem-BC7: manually annotated full-text resources for chemical entity annotation and indexing in biomedical articles	21