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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Mitonuclear Coevolution in Bumblebees (Bombus): Genomic Signatures and Its Role in Climatic Niche Adaptation	88
Palaeognaths Reveal Evolutionary Ancestry of the Avian Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II	79
Impact of Phylogenetic Method Choice on Indel Analyses in HIV-1 Subtype B	68
Genealogical Analyses of 3 Cultivated and 1 Wild Specimen of Vitis vinifera from Greece	62
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	57
Highlight: Gene Cluster Reshuffling Drives Natural Sunscreen Evolution in Lichens	57
The Nitroplast and Its Relatives Support a Universal Model of Features Predicting Gene Retention in Endosymbiont and Organelle Genomes	54
Multiple Domestication Centers of the Indian Pig Population	53
Discovery of New Genomic Configuration of Mating-Type Loci in the Largest Lineage of Lichen-Forming Fungi	46
Does Effective Population Size Govern Evolutionary Differences in Telomere Length?	43
Population Genomics of Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata): Insights Into Deep Population Divergence and Multiple Merging Histories	41
Origin and Evolution of Key Enzymes in the Anammox Pathway Revisited	37
Diversity of Sex Chromosomes in Vertebrates: Six Novel Sex Chromosomes in Basal Haplochromines (Teleostei: Cichlidae)	36
Ohnologs and SSD Paralogs Differ in Genomic and Expression Features Related to Dosage Constraints	36
“Correcting” Gene Trees to be More Like Species Trees Frequently Increases Topological Error	34
Technological Development and Advances for Constructing and Analyzing Plant Pangenomes	33
OrthoPhy: A Program to Construct Ortholog Data Sets Using Taxonomic Information	33
Genetic Analysis of Mingrelians Reveals Long-Term Continuity of Populations in Western Georgia (Caucasus)	33
An Ocean of Opsins	32
Genomic Resources and Annotations for a Colonial Ascidian, the Light-Bulb Sea Squirt Clavelina lepadiformis	31
A Simulation Framework for Modeling the Within-Patient Evolutionary Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2	30
Detecting Positive Selection by Modeling Structure Within Images of Genetic Variation	30
High Polymorphism Levels of De Novo ORFs in a Yoruba Human Population	29
Filtration of Gene Trees From 9,000 Exons, Introns, and UCEs Disentangles Conflicting Phylogenomic Relationships in Tree Frogs (Hylidae)	28
Myxozoans (Cnidaria) do not Retain Key Oxygen-Sensing and Homeostasis Toolkit Genes	27

Highlight: The “Wild West” of Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in the Gastrotricha	27
Evolution of Plant Conserved microRNAs After Whole-Genome Duplications	27
Egg Yolk Protein Homologs Identified in Live-Bearing Sharks: Co-Opted in the Lecithotrophy-to-Matrotrophy Shift?	27