OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Virology is 32. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Structure of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein	120
Developing a direct acting, orally available antiviral agent in a pandemic: the evolution of molnupiravir as a potential treatment for COVID-19	111
Considerations for the discovery and development of 3-chymotrypsin-like cysteine protease inhibitors targeting SARS-CoV-2 infection	98
Recent advances in antiviral drug development towards dengue virus	71
Combating vaccine hesitancy and other 21st century social determinants in the global fight against measles	70
Future considerations for the mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccine platform	60
Zoonotic disease and virome diversity in bats	58
Current challenges to virus discovery by meta-transcriptomics	57
Global overview and major challenges of host prediction methods for uncultivated phages	53
Structure and function of SARS-CoV-2 polymerase	51
Coronavirus entry: how we arrived at SARS-CoV-2	50
Animal models for SARS-CoV-2	49
Dengue vaccine development by the year 2020: challenges and prospects	49
The virome of vector mosquitoes	44
A new generation of vaccines based on alphavirus self-amplifying RNA	44
The healthy human virome: from virus–host symbiosis to disease	43
An update on salicylic acid biosynthesis, its induction and potential exploitation by plant viruses	42
RNA viruses and the cGAS-STING pathway: reframing our understanding of innate immune sensing	42
A structural view of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its assembly	42
Protective and enhancing interactions among dengue viruses 1-4 and Zika virus	41
COVID-19, the first pandemic in the post-genomic era	39
Engineering therapeutic phages for enhanced antibacterial efficacy	39
Cell-to-cell movement of plant viruses via plasmodesmata: a current perspective on potyviruses	39
A microneedle patch for measles and rubella vaccination: a game changer for achieving elimination	39
Recent advances in understanding plant antiviral RNAi and viral suppressors of RNAi	38

Structure, function and assembly of the long, flexible tail of siphophages	34
Viral Z-RNA triggers ZBP1-dependent cell death	34
European regulatory aspects of phage therapy: magistral phage preparations	34
Interfering with SARS-CoV-2: are interferons friends or foes in COVID-19?	33
Host cell-intrinsic innate immune recognition of SARS-CoV-2	33
Anti-viral protective capacity of tissue resident memory T cells	32
Dengue mouse models for evaluating pathogenesis and countermeasures	32
Salicylic acid: transport and long-distance immune signaling	32