OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of eLife is 83. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A new early branching armored dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic of southwestern China	619
Evidence accumulation, not ‘self-control’, explains dorsolateral prefrontal activation during normative choice	394
Add mass spectrometry to the pandemic toolbox	322
Peroxiredoxin 5 regulates osteogenic differentiation through interaction with hnRNPK during bone regeneration	316
Osteoclast-mediated resorption primes the skeleton for successful integration during axolotl limb regeneration	306
Measurements and simulations of microtubule growth imply strong longitudinal interactions and reveal a role for GDP on the elongating end	291
Skeletal dysplasia-causing TRPV4 mutations suppress the hypertrophic differentiation of human iPSC-derived chondrocytes	268
Spatial transformation of multi-omics data unlocks novel insights into cancer biology	260
Correction: Drp1 is required for AgRP neuronal activity and feeding	251
Recombinant single-cycle influenza virus with exchangeable pseudotypes allows repeated immunization to augment anti-tumour immunity with immune checkpoint inhibitors	250
V-ATPase V0a1 promotes Weibel–Palade body biogenesis through the regulation of membrane fission	226
Analysis of long and short enhancers in melanoma cell states	224
Intestinal GCN2 controls Drosophila systemic growth in response to Lactiplantibacillus plantarum symbiotic cues encoded by r/tRNA operons	222
Paracrine signalling between intestinal epithelial and tumour cells induces a regenerative programme	199
Cervical cancer screening improvements with self-sampling during the COVID-19 pandemic	189
Mechanically transduced immunosorbent assay to measure protein-protein interactions	178
Emerging dynamics from high-resolution spatial numerical epidemics	177
COVID-19 cluster size and transmission rates in schools from crowdsourced case reports	172
Dynamics of co-substrate pools can constrain and regulate metabolic fluxes	167
Are single-peaked tuning curves tuned for speed rather than accuracy?	167
Mg2+-dependent conformational equilibria in CorA and an integrated view on transport regulation	165
AARS2 ameliorates myocardial ischemia via fine-tuning PKM2-mediated metabolism	158
Astrocytes mediate two forms of spike timing-dependent depression at entorhinal cortex-hippocampal synapses	151
Predicting individual traits from models of brain dynamics accurately and reliably using the Fisher kernel	145
AARS2 ameliorates myocardial ischemia via fine-tuning PKM2-mediated metabolism	145

Evolutionary rate covariation is a reliable predictor of co-functional interactions but not necessarily physical interactions	143
Estradiol elicits distinct firing patterns in arcuate nucleus kisspeptin neurons of females through altering ion channel conductances	142
Altered visual cortex excitatory/inhibitory ratio following transient congenital visual deprivation in humans	139
Direct observation of the neural computations underlying a single decision	137
Movies reveal the fine-grained organization of infant visual cortex	134
The domesticated transposon protein L1TD1 associates with its ancestor L1 ORF1p to promote LINE-1 retrotransposition	132
Nutritional state-dependent modulation of insulin-producing cells in Drosophila	127
Amelioration of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by targeting adhesion G protein-coupled receptor F1 (Adgrf1)	127
Patterns of interdivision time correlations reveal hidden cell cycle factors	126
Reversal of the adipostat control of torpor during migration in hummingbirds	126
Nucleotide-level linkage of transcriptional elongation and polyadenylation	125
Separable dorsal raphe dopamine projections mimic the facets of a loneliness-like state	125
Pyruvate and related energetic metabolites modulate resilience against high genetic risk for glaucoma	123
Integrating analog and digital modes of gene expression at Arabidopsis FLC	123
Functional gradients in the human lateral prefrontal cortex revealed by a comprehensive coordinate-based meta-analysis	122
A ‘double-edged’ role for type-5 metabotropic glutamate receptors in pain disclosed by light-sensitive drugs	122
Targeting the fatty acid binding proteins disrupts multiple myeloma cell cycle progression and MYC signaling	121
Galvanic current activates the NLRP3 inflammasome to promote Type I collagen production in tendon	120
Pervasive translation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis	119
Phosphate as an adjunct to calcium in promoting coronary vascular calcification in chronic inflammatory states	118
STING mediates immune responses in the closest living relatives of animals	116
Comprehensive mutagenesis maps the effect of all single-codon mutations in the AAV2 rep gene on AAV production	112
A chronic signaling TGFb zebrafish reporter identifies immune response in melanoma	111
Functional visualization of NK cell-mediated killing of metastatic single tumor cells	110
Daily electrical activity in the master circadian clock of a diurnal mammal	110
Sensory input-dependent gain modulation of the optokinetic nystagmus by mid-infrared stimulation in pigeons	109
Using adopted individuals to partition indirect maternal genetic effects into prenatal and postnatal effects on offspring phenotypes	108
Improvement of muscle strength in a mouse model for congenital myopathy treated with HDAC and DNA methyltransferase inhibitors	106
Immunomodulatory drug discovery from herbal medicines: Insights from organ-specific activity and xenobiotic defenses	106
A computationally informed comparison between the strategies of rodents and humans in visual object recognition	104
BATF relieves hepatic steatosis by inhibiting PD1 and promoting energy metabolism	103
Recalibrating vision-for-action requires years after sight restoration from congenital cataracts	102
The ER tether VAPA is required for proper cell motility and anchors ER-PM contact sites to focal adhesions	101
Genetic screen identified PRMT5 as a neuroprotection target against cerebral ischemia	98
NMNAT promotes glioma growth through regulating post-translational modifications of P53 to inhibit apoptosis	97
Sex differences and sex bias in human circadian and sleep physiology research	97
PIMT is a novel and potent suppressor of endothelial activation	97
Phylodynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in France, Europe, and the world in 2020	96
Medial anterior prefrontal cortex stimulation downregulates implicit reactions to threats and prevents the return of fear	95
Correction: Highly contiguous assemblies of 101 drosophilid genomes	92
Antigenic strain diversity predicts different biogeographic patterns of maintenance and decline of antimalarial drug resistance	92
Cellular and molecular dynamics in the lungs of neonatal and juvenile mice in response to E. coli	92
Short-range interactions between fibrocytes and CD8+ T cells in COPD bronchial inflammatory response	91
Becoming less beige with age	90
An antagonism between Spinophilin and Syd-1 operates upstream of memory-promoting presynaptic long-term plasticity	90
Memory-specific encoding activities of the ventral tegmental area dopamine and GABA neurons	90
Rab7-dependent regulation of goblet cell protein CLCA1 modulates gastrointestinal homeostasis	88
Combining mutation and recombination statistics to infer clonal families in antibody repertoires	87
S-adenosylmethionine synthases specify distinct H3K4me3 populations and gene expression patterns during heat stress	86
Scorpionfish BPI is highly active against multiple drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from people with cystic fibrosis	86

Neural excursions from manifold structure explain patterns of learning during human sensorimotor adaptation	86
The substrate-binding domains of the osmoregulatory ABC importer OpuA transiently interact	85
High-resolution imaging of the osteogenic and angiogenic interface at the site of murine cranial bone defect repair via multiphoton microscopy	85
De novo identification of universal cell mechanics gene signatures	85
RAG1 and RAG2 non-core regions are implicated in leukemogenesis and off-target V(D)J recombination in BCR-ABL1-driven B-cell lineage lymphoblastic leukemia	85
Emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 NSP10 highlight strong functional conservation of its binding to two non-structural proteins, NSP14 and NSP16	85
A reductionist paradigm for high-throughput behavioural fingerprinting in Drosophila melanogaster	84
Macro-scale patterns in functional connectivity associated with ongoing thought patterns and dispositional traits	83
Whole genomes from the extinct Xerces Blue butterfly can help identify declining insect species	83
Using light and X-ray scattering to untangle complex neuronal orientations and validate diffusion MRI	83
SAFB regulates hippocampal stem cell fate by targeting Drosha to destabilize Nfib mRNA	83