OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Genome Biology and Evolution is 28. 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
Population Genomics of Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata): Insights Into Deep Population Divergence and Multiple Merging Histories	117
Technological Development and Advances for Constructing and Analyzing Plant Pangenomes	100
Discovery of New Genomic Configuration of Mating-Type Loci in the Largest Lineage of Lichen-Forming Fungi	65
Ancient Sheep Genomes Reveal Four Millennia of North European Short-Tailed Sheep in the Baltic Sea Region	64
The Nitroplast and Its Relatives Support a Universal Model of Features Predicting Gene Retention in Endosymbiont and Organelle Genomes	60
Exploring the Natural Origins of SARS-CoV-2 in the Light of Recombination	50
Whole-Genome Sequences of Two Kazachstania barnettii Strains Isolated from Anthropic Environments	48
Filtration of Gene Trees From 9,000 Exons, Introns, and UCEs Disentangles Conflicting Phylogenomic Relationships in Tree Frogs (Hylidae)	45
Comprehensive Phylogenomics of Methylobacterium Reveals Four Evolutionary Distinct Groups and Underappreciated Phyllosphere Diversity	43
A Simulation Framework for Modeling the Within-Patient Evolutionary Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2	42
Myxozoans (Cnidaria) do not Retain Key Oxygen-Sensing and Homeostasis Toolkit Genes	42
Ohnologs and SSD Paralogs Differ in Genomic and Expression Features Related to Dosage Constraints	41
“Correcting” Gene Trees to be More Like Species Trees Frequently Increases Topological Error	40
Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genome Assemblies for the Endangered Wood-Decaying Fungus Somion occarium	40
Multiple Domestication Centers of the Indian Pig Population	39
Divergence in theSaccharomycesSpecies’ Heat Shock Response Is Indicative of Their Thermal Tolerance	37
Does Effective Population Size Govern Evolutionary Differences in Telomere Length?	35
Genome Evolution and Introgression in the New Zealand mud Snails Potamopyrgus estuarinus and Potamopyrgus kaitunuparaoa	33
Diversity of Sex Chromosomes in Vertebrates: Six Novel Sex Chromosomes in Basal Haplochromines (Teleostei: Cichlidae)	32
Egg Yolk Protein Homologs Identified in Live-Bearing Sharks: Co-Opted in the Lecithotrophy-to-Matrotrophy Shift?	31
Impact of Phylogenetic Method Choice on Indel Analyses in HIV-1 Subtype B	31
OrthoPhy: A Program to Construct Ortholog Data Sets Using Taxonomic Information	31
Palaeognaths Reveal Evolutionary Ancestry of the Avian Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II	31
Genetic Analysis of Mingrelians Reveals Long-Term Continuity of Populations in Western Georgia (Caucasus)	30
High Polymorphism Levels of De Novo ORFs in a Yoruba Human Population	29

Evolution of Plant Conserved microRNAs After Whole-Genome Duplications	29
Genealogical Analyses of 3 Cultivated and 1 Wild Specimen of Vitis vinifera from Greece	29
Genomic Resources and Annotations for a Colonial Ascidian, the Light-Bulb Sea Squirt Clavelina lepadiformis	28