OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of eLife is 86. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Becoming less beige with age	1324
Shining a light on hematopoietic stem cells	503
Insight into the evolutionary assemblage of cranial kinesis from a Cretaceous bird	391
Phylodynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in France, Europe, and the world in 2020	334
Outgrowing self-denial	310
Larger but younger fish when growth outpaces mortality in heated ecosystem	290
Predicting individual traits from models of brain dynamics accurately and reliably using the Fisher kernel	277
Aberrant FGF signaling promotes granule neuron precursor expansion in SHH subgroup infantile medulloblastoma	275
Cortico-striatal action control inherent of opponent cognitive-motivational styles	271
Human promoter directionality is determined by transcriptional initiation and the opposing activities of INTS11 and CDK9	266
A reductionist paradigm for high-throughput behavioural fingerprinting in Drosophila melanogaster	263
Serial attentional resource allocation during parallel feature value tracking	240
Netrin signaling mediates survival of dormant epithelial ovarian cancer cells	219
The satiety hormone cholecystokinin gates reproduction in fish by controlling gonadotropin secretion	211
CTFFIND5 provides improved insight into quality, tilt, and thickness of TEM samples	208
Linking genotypic and phenotypic changes in the E. coli long-term evolution experiment using metabolomics	200
Antipsychotic drugs selectively decorrelate long-range interactions in deep cortical layers	200
Whole genomes from the extinct Xerces Blue butterfly can help identify declining insect species	198
Convergence, plasticity, and tissue residence of regulatory T cell response via TCR repertoire prism	195
Reversing protonation of weakly basic drugs greatly enhances intracellular diffusion and decreases lysosomal sequestration	193
Variation in the basal immune state and implications for disease	177
Short-range interactions between fibrocytes and CD8+ T cells in COPD bronchial inflammatory response	174
The non-muscle actinopathy-associated mutation E334Q in cytoskeletal γ-actin perturbs interaction of actin filaments with myosin and ADF/cofilin family proteins	169
An optogenetic cell therapy to restore control of target muscles in an aggressive mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	165
T cells discriminate between groups C1 and C2 HLA-C	163

Apoptotic signaling clears engineered Salmonella in an organ-specific manner	163
Resting natural killer cells promote the progress of colon cancer liver metastasis by elevating tumor-derived stem cell factor	160
Asymmetric distribution of color-opponent response types across mouse visual cortex supports superior color vision in the sky	157
Enhancing bone regeneration and osseointegration using rhPTH(1-34) and dimeric R25CPTH(1-34) in an osteoporotic beagle model	155
Guanidine production by plant homoarginine-6-hydroxylases	151
Paracrine rescue of MYR1-deficient Toxoplasma gondii mutants reveals limitations of pooled in vivo CRISPR screens	149
An unconventional gatekeeper mutation sensitizes inositol hexakisphosphate kinases to an allosteric inhibitor	143
Macro-scale patterns in functional connectivity associated with ongoing thought patterns and dispositional traits	140
G protein subunit Gγ13-mediated signaling pathway is critical to the inflammation resolution and functional recovery of severely injured lungs	139
A new potential strategy for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma treatment by generating serum-based antibodies from tumor-exposed mice	132
Multi-tiered actions of Legionella effectors to modulate host Rab10 dynamics	132
Cryo-EM structures of mitochondrial respiratory complex I from Drosophila melanogaster	128
Differential regulation of the proteome and phosphoproteome along the dorso-ventral axis of the early Drosophila embryo	128
Astrocytes mediate two forms of spike timing-dependent depression at entorhinal cortex-hippocampal synapses	125
Pigmentation level of human iPSC-derived RPE does not indicate a specific gene expression profile	125
Structural and dynamic changes in P-Rex1 upon activation by PIP3 and inhibition by IP4	123
A randomized multiplex CRISPRi-Seq approach for the identification of critical combinations of genes	122
The substrate-binding domains of the osmoregulatory ABC importer OpuA transiently interact	119
Estradiol elicits distinct firing patterns in arcuate nucleus kisspeptin neurons of females through altering ion channel conductances	118
Language experience shapes predictive coding of rhythmic sound sequences	118
Hammerhead-type FXR agonists induce an enhancer RNA Fincor that ameliorates nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in mice	117
Rab7-dependent regulation of goblet cell protein CLCA1 modulates gastrointestinal homeostasis	117
Functional and structural segregation of overlapping helices in HIV-1	117
Spatial transformation of multi-omics data unlocks novel insights into cancer biology	116
Resonating neurons stabilize heterogeneous grid-cell networks	116
A quadratic model captures the human V1 response to variations in chromatic direction and contrast	111
Using adopted individuals to partition indirect maternal genetic effects into prenatal and postnatal effects on offspring phenotypes	111
Ciliary and extraciliary Gpr161 pools repress hedgehog signaling in a tissue-specific manner	110
Analysis of meiosis in Pristionchus pacificus reveals plasticity in homolog pairing and synapsis in the nematode lineage	109
High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma organoids as models of chromosomal instability	109
Mechanically transduced immunosorbent assay to measure protein-protein interactions	108
Temporo-cerebellar connectivity underlies timing constraints in audition	107
Micron-scale geometrical features of microtubules as regulators of microtubule organization	107
Systematic screening of viral and human genetic variation identifies antiretroviral resistance and immune escape link	106
State-dependent representations of mixtures by the olfactory bulb	105
Structural intermediates observed only in intact Escherichia coli indicate a mechanism for TonB-dependent transport	105
Paracrine signalling between intestinal epithelial and tumour cells induces a regenerative programme	103
NMNAT promotes glioma growth through regulating post-translational modifications of P53 to inhibit apoptosis	102
Cellular and molecular dynamics in the lungs of neonatal and juvenile mice in response to E. coli	102
Identification of drugs associated with reduced severity of COVID-19 – a case-control study in a large population	102
A neural progenitor mitotic wave is required for asynchronous axon outgrowth and morphology	102
Osteoclast-mediated resorption primes the skeleton for successful integration during axolotl limb regeneration	102
BATF relieves hepatic steatosis by inhibiting PD1 and promoting energy metabolism	101
Integrating analog and digital modes of gene expression at Arabidopsis FLC	100
COVID-19 cluster size and transmission rates in schools from crowdsourced case reports	98
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	98
Differential functions of the dorsal and intermediate regions of the hippocampus for optimal goal-directed navigation in VR space	98
Combining mutation and recombination statistics to infer clonal families in antibody repertoires	97
Direct observation of the neural computations underlying a single decision	97
SOD1 is a synthetic-lethal target in PPM1D-mutant leukemia cells	96

Mechanism of substrate binding and transport in BASS transporters	92
Genetic and dietary modulators of the inflammatory response in the gastrointestinal tract of the BXD mouse genetic reference population	92
Biocalcification in porcelaneous foraminifera	91
Memory-specific encoding activities of the ventral tegmental area dopamine and GABA neurons	91
The molecular mechanism and evolutionary divergence of caspase 3/7-regulated gasdermin E activation	90
Dynamics of co-substrate pools can constrain and regulate metabolic fluxes	89
Evolution of an extreme hemoglobin phenotype contributed to the sub-Arctic specialization of extinct Steller’s sea cows	89
Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes to study inflammation-induced aberrant calcium transient	89
Goal-directed vocal planning in a songbird	88
Antigenic strain diversity predicts different biogeographic patterns of maintenance and decline of antimalarial drug resistance	87
Sex differences and sex bias in human circadian and sleep physiology research	86