OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of eLife is 98. 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
Escape from neutralizing antibodies by SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variants	1129
Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with bioBakery 3	799
SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) by the numbers	753
A connectome and analysis of the adult Drosophila central brain	553
Atomic structures of respiratory complex III2, complex IV, and supercomplex III2-IV from vascular plants	551
Screening of healthcare workers for SARS-CoV-2 highlights the role of asymptomatic carriage in COVID-19 transmission	374
Tracking excess mortality across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic with the World Mortality Dataset	292
A mechanistic model and therapeutic interventions for COVID-19 involving a RAS-mediated bradykinin storm	285
COVID-19 medical papers have fewer women first authors than expected	269
Quantification of the pace of biological aging in humans through a blood test, the DunedinPoAm DNA methylation algorithm	258
Effects of common mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 Spike RBD and its ligand, the human ACE2 receptor on binding affinity and kinetics	257
How to measure and evaluate binding affinities	254
ACE2: Evidence of role as entry receptor for SARS-CoV-2 and implications in comorbidities	245
N501Y mutation of spike protein in SARS-CoV-2 strengthens its binding to receptor ACE2	242
Evidence for transmission of COVID-19 prior to symptom onset	239
DunedinPACE, a DNA methylation biomarker of the pace of aging	218
The connectome of the adult Drosophila mushroom body provides insights into function	218
Kallikrein-kinin blockade in patients with COVID-19 to prevent acute respiratory distress syndrome	209
Does the human placenta express the canonical cell entry mediators for SARS-CoV-2?	202
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein induces inflammation via TLR2-dependent activation of the NF-κB pathway	201
An electrophysiological marker of arousal level in humans	195
Antimicrobial resistance and COVID-19: Intersections and implications	190
Single cell transcriptomics identifies a unique adipose lineage cell population that regulates bone marrow environment	187
DNA damage—how and why we age?	184
Sampling alternative conformational states of transporters and receptors with AlphaFold2	181

A 10-year follow-up study of sex inclusion in the biological sciences	173
Colistin kills bacteria by targeting lipopolysaccharide in the cytoplasmic membrane	171
Lytic transglycosylases mitigate periplasmic crowding by degrading soluble cell wall turnover products	167
Cancer-associated fibroblasts and their influence on tumor immunity and immunotherapy	163
The tumor microenvironment as a metabolic barrier to effector T cells and immunotherapy	162
Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 viral entry upon blocking N- and O-glycan elaboration	161
Differential occupational risks to healthcare workers from SARS-CoV-2 observed during a prospective observational study	161
Cohesin and condensin extrude DNA loops in a cell cycle-dependent manner	158
FRET-based dynamic structural biology: Challenges, perspectives and an appeal for open-science practices	157
A whole-brain connectivity map of mouse insular cortex	157
A connectome of the Drosophila central complex reveals network motifs suitable for flexible navigation and context-dependent action selection	153
Structure of the bacterial ribosome at 2 Å resolution	153
Accurate and versatile 3D segmentation of plant tissues at cellular resolution	151
SARS-CoV-2 requires cholesterol for viral entry and pathological syncytia formation	149
Microbiota-derived short chain fatty acids modulate microglia and promote Aβ plaque deposition	147
Sex differences in biological aging with a focus on human studies	146
Neuronal timescales are functionally dynamic and shaped by cortical microarchitecture	145
Modular output circuits of the fastigial nucleus for diverse motor and nonmotor functions of the cerebellar vermis	143
The Spike D614G mutation increases SARS-CoV-2 infection of multiple human cell types	141
Standardizing workflows in imaging transcriptomics with the abagen toolbox	140
Association of Toll-like receptor 7 variants with life-threatening COVID-19 disease in males: findings from a nested case-control study	139
Simultaneous trimodal single-cell measurement of transcripts, epitopes, and chromatin accessibility using TEA-seq	138
A cross-kingdom conserved ER-phagy receptor maintains endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis during stress	137
The natverse, a versatile toolbox for combining and analysing neuroanatomical data	135
Mechanistic theory predicts the effects of temperature and humidity on inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 and other enveloped viruses	135
Distinct mitochondrial defects trigger the integrated stress response depending on the metabolic state of the cell	134
The OpenNeuro resource for sharing of neuroscience data	133
TRex, a fast multi-animal tracking system with markerless identification, and 2D estimation of posture and visual fields	131
A simple and effective F0 knockout method for rapid screening of behaviour and other complex phenotypes	129
A single-cell survey of Drosophila blood	128
Beyond the RNA-dependent function of LncRNA genes	128
Tumor stiffening reversion through collagen crosslinking inhibition improves T cell migration and anti-PD-1 treatment	126
Viral load and contact heterogeneity predict SARS-CoV-2 transmission and super-spreading events	126
Trends in snakebite deaths in India from 2000 to 2019 in a nationally representative mortality study	125
The genomic consequences of hybridization	125
SpikeInterface, a unified framework for spike sorting	124
Single-cell multiomic profiling of human lungs reveals cell-type-specific and age-dynamic control of SARS-CoV2 host genes	122
An open label trial of anakinra to prevent respiratory failure in COVID-19	121
Mapping single-cell atlases throughout Metazoa unravels cell type evolution	119
Assembly of recombinant tau into filaments identical to those of Alzheimer’s disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy	119
HP1 proteins compact DNA into mechanically and positionally stable phase separated domains	119
A versatile oblique plane microscope for large-scale and high-resolution imaging of subcellular dynamics	118
Reporting and misreporting of sex differences in the biological sciences	117
Tailored design of protein nanoparticle scaffolds for multivalent presentation of viral glycoprotein antigens	117
SON and SRRM2 are essential for nuclear speckle formation	117
A fully automated high-throughput workflow for 3D-based chemical screening in human midbrain organoids	114
Discovery of a molecular glue promoting CDK12-DDB1 interaction to trigger cyclin K degradation	113
Racial inequity in grant funding from the US National Institutes of Health	113
Challenges for assessing replicability in preclinical cancer biology	112
Microglial calcium signaling is attuned to neuronal activity in awake mice	111

A community-maintained standard library of population genetic models	110
Investigating the replicability of preclinical cancer biology	110
Metabolic biomarker profiling for identification of susceptibility to severe pneumonia and COVID-19 in the general population	110
SARS-CoV-2 entry into human airway organoids is serine protease-mediated and facilitated by the multibasic cleavage site	108
Dynamic metastable long-living droplets formed by sticker-spacer proteins	107
Training deep neural density estimators to identify mechanistic models of neural dynamics	107
An open-source, high-performance tool for automated sleep staging	106
SARS-CoV-2 strategically mimics proteolytic activation of human ENaC	106
Relationship between simultaneously recorded spiking activity and fluorescence signal in GCaMP6 transgenic mice	106
Ribosome collisions trigger cis-acting feedback inhibition of translation initiation	106
Single-nucleus transcriptomic analysis of human dorsal root ganglion neurons	104
The mTORC1-mediated activation of ATF4 promotes protein and glutathione synthesis downstream of growth signals	103
Highly contiguous assemblies of 101 drosophilid genomes	102
Potential harmful effects of discontinuing ACE-inhibitors and ARBs in COVID-19 patients	102
Genetic architecture of 11 organ traits derived from abdominal MRI using deep learning	101
Heterogeneity in transmissibility and shedding SARS-CoV-2 via droplets and aerosols	101
Convalescent COVID-19 patients are susceptible to endothelial dysfunction due to persistent immune activation	100
Local emergence in Amazonia of Plasmodium falciparum k13 C580Y mutants associated with in vitro artemisinin resistance	100
A single-cell transcriptomic atlas of the adult Drosophila ventral nerve cord	100
Diversity and asynchrony in soil microbial communities stabilizes ecosystem functioning	98
A powerful drug combination strategy targeting glutamine addiction for the treatment of human liver cancer	98
Diverse viral proteases activate the NLRP1 inflammasome	98
The social life of Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus)	98