OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Genome Biology 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Mitonuclear Coevolution in Bumblebees (Bombus): Genomic Signatures and Its Role in Climatic Niche Adaptation	120
OrthoPhy: A Program to Construct Ortholog Data Sets Using Taxonomic Information	117
Genome Evolution and Introgression in the New Zealand mud Snails Potamopyrgus estuarinus and Potamopyrgus kaitunuparaoa	70
Diversity of Sex Chromosomes in Vertebrates: Six Novel Sex Chromosomes in Basal Haplochromines (Teleostei: Cichlidae)	60
Exploring the Natural Origins of SARS-CoV-2 in the Light of Recombination	53
Comprehensive Phylogenomics of Methylobacterium Reveals Four Evolutionary Distinct Groups and Underappreciated Phyllosphere Diversity	50
“Correcting” Gene Trees to be More Like Species Trees Frequently Increases Topological Error	46
Impact of Phylogenetic Method Choice on Indel Analyses in HIV-1 Subtype B	44
Palaeognaths Reveal Evolutionary Ancestry of the Avian Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II	44
High Polymorphism Levels of De Novo ORFs in a Yoruba Human Population	43
Genealogical Analyses of 3 Cultivated and 1 Wild Specimen of Vitis vinifera from Greece	38
Genomic Resources and Annotations for a Colonial Ascidian, the Light-Bulb Sea Squirt Clavelina lepadiformis	37
Filtration of Gene Trees From 9,000 Exons, Introns, and UCEs Disentangles Conflicting Phylogenomic Relationships in Tree Frogs (Hylidae)	35
Myxozoans (Cnidaria) do not Retain Key Oxygen-Sensing and Homeostasis Toolkit Genes	34
Correction to: Genome-Scale Data Reveal Deep Lineage Divergence and a Complex Demographic History in the Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) throughout the Southwestern and Central United	33
Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genome Assemblies for the Endangered Wood-Decaying Fungus Somion occarium	33
Highlight: Gene Cluster Reshuffling Drives Natural Sunscreen Evolution in Lichens	33
Multiple Domestication Centers of the Indian Pig Population	33
Genetic Analysis of Mingrelians Reveals Long-Term Continuity of Populations in Western Georgia (Caucasus)	31
The Nitroplast and Its Relatives Support a Universal Model of Features Predicting Gene Retention in Endosymbiont and Organelle Genomes	30
Discovery of New Genomic Configuration of Mating-Type Loci in the Largest Lineage of Lichen-Forming Fungi	30
Divergence in theSaccharomycesSpecies’ Heat Shock Response Is Indicative of Their Thermal Tolerance	29
Whole-Genome Sequences of Two Kazachstania barnettii Strains Isolated from Anthropic Environments	29
Cis-regulatory Variation in Relation to Sex and Sexual Dimorphism in Drosophila melanogaster	29
Does Effective Population Size Govern Evolutionary Differences in Telomere Length?	29

Technological Development and Advances for Constructing and Analyzing Plant Pangenomes	27
Ancient Sheep Genomes Reveal Four Millennia of North European Short-Tailed Sheep in the Baltic Sea Region	27