OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Evolution Medicine and Public Health is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Mutation rate of SARS-CoV-2 and emergence of mutators during experimental evolution	117
Race and genetics versus ‘race’ in genetics	49
Conflicts over calcium and the treatment of COVID-19	48
Bitter taste receptors	45
The evolutionary biology of endometriosis	31
Let fever do its job	29
Variants in SARS-CoV-2 associated with mild or severe outcome	20
High-altitude pulmonary edema	19
Reinterpreting patterns of variation in human thyroid function	15
Cytokine storms, evolution and COVID-19	14
Too much of a good thing	14
One health disparities and COVID-19	13
Variation among human populations in endometriosis and PCOS A test of the inverse comorbidity model	13
Age-related change in adult chimpanzee social network integration	12
Twinning during the pandemic	12
Which ‘imperfect vaccines’ encourage the evolution of higher virulence?	11
Between a hygiene rock and a hygienic hard place	11
Socioeconomic status effects on health vary between rural and urban Turkana	10
Helminth infection is associated with dampened cytokine responses to viral and bacterial stimulations in Tsimane forager-horticulturalists	10
Immune cell type and DNA methylation vary with reproductive status in women: possible pathways for costs of reproduction	10
Mismatch: a comparative study of vitamin D status in British-Bangladeshi migrants	10
Daily rhythms of both host and parasite affect antimalarial drug efficacy	10
An evolutionary mismatch narrative to improve lifestyle medicine: a patient education hypothesis	9
Did giraffe cardiovascular evolution solve the problem of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction?	9
Evolved resistance to a novel cationic peptide antibiotic requires high mutation supply	8

Heritage-specific oral microbiota in Indigenous Australian dental calculus	8
Evolutionary context of psoriatic immune skin response	8
Women who breastfeed exhibit cognitive benefits after age 50	8
An integrated comparative physiology and molecular approach pinpoints mediators of breath-hold capacity in dolphins	8
Five reasons COVID-19 is less severe in younger age-groups	7
Adaptive function and correlates of anxiety during a pandemic	7
Food insecurity, diet and mental distress among resource insecure students during COVID-19	6
Species interactions drive the spread of ampicillin resistance in human-associated gut microbiota	6
Antigenic evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in immunocompromised hosts	6
Implications of leg length for metabolic health and fitness	6
Associations of age at marriage and first pregnancy with maternal nutritional status in Nepal	6
Epidemiological transitions in human evolution and the richness of viruses, helminths, and protozoa	6
Multiple sclerosis and the microbiota	6
Commentary—fat but fit…and cold? Potential evolutionary and environmental drivers of metabolically healthy obesity	6
Concordance of HIV transmission risk factors elucidated using viral diversification rate and phylogenetic clustering	5
A novel perspective suggesting high sustained energy expenditure may be net protective against cancer	5
Disgusting odors trigger the oral immune system	5
Modeling the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 under non-pharmaceutical interventions and testing	5
The evolution of the human healthcare system and implications for understanding our responses to COVID-19	5
Evolution of higher mesenchymal CD44 expression in the human lineage	5
Can vaccines control bacterial virulence and pathogenicity? Bordetella pertussis: the advantage of fitness over virulence	5
A novel predictor of ACE2-binding ability among betacoronaviruses	5
Hymenolepis diminuta-based helminth therapy in C3(1)-TAg mice does not alter breast tumor onset or progression	4
Evolutionary selection of alleles in the melanophilin gene that impacts on prostate organ function and cancer risk	4
Serial passage in an insect host indicates genetic stability of the human probioticEscherichia coliNissle 1917	4
Low birthweight is associated with epigenetic age acceleration in the first 3 years of life	4
Anthropometrics of Estonian children in relation to family disruption	4
Tradeoffs in milk immunity affect infant infectious disease risk	4
Emerging fungal pathogen: Candida auris	4
Reconsidering LINE-1’s role in cancer: does LINE-1 function as a reporter detecting early cancer-associated epigenetic signatures?	4
Social determinants of health and disease in companion dogs: a cohort study from the Dog Aging Project	4
Child dietary patterns in Homo sapiens evolution	4
Lower testosterone levels are associated with higher risk of death in men	4
Hygiene may attenuate selection for antibiotic resistance by changing microbial community structure	3
Evobiopsychosocial medicine	3
Humans can detect axillary odor cues of an acute respiratory infection in others	3
Postpartum depression and mother–offspring conflict over maternal investment	3
Emotional factors, medical interventions and mode of birth among low-risk primiparous women in Poland	3
An evolutionary explanation for antibiotics’ association with increased colon cancer risk	3
Host–gut microbiota interactions during pregnancy	3
Integrating evolutionary aspects into dual-use discussion: the cases of influenza virus and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	3
Squatting, pelvic morphology and a reconsideration of childbirth difficulties	3
Biomarkers or biotargets? Using competition to lure cancer cells into evolutionary traps	3
Signaling sickness: the role of recalled sickness behavior and psychosocial factors in shaping communication style	2
Kimberly A. Plomp, Charlotte A. Roberts, Sarah Elton and Gillian R. Bentley, eds., Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach	2
How a pregnant woman’s relationships with her siblings relate to her mental health: a prenatal allocare perspective	2
Embedded racism: Inequitable niche construction as a neglected evolutionary process affecting health	2
Life history traits and cancer prevalence in birds	2
US fathers’ reports of bonding, infant temperament and psychosocial stress based on family sleep arrangements	2
Sound reasons for unsound sleep: Comparative support for the sentinel hypothesis in industrial and nonindustrial groups	2

Different predictors of intimate partner and natal family violence against women	2
A growth area	2
Integrating evolutionary, developmental and physiological mismatch	2
Phylogenetic prioritization of HIV-1 transmission clusters with viral lineage-level diversification rates	2
Disease from opposing forces in regulatory control	2
Combination antimicrobial therapy to manage resistance	2
Migration and descent, adaptations to altitude and tuberculosis in Nepalis and Tibetans	2
Bet-hedging in innate and adaptive immune systems	2
Pain	2
Early life, life course and gender influences on levels of C-reactive protein among migrant Bangladeshis in the UK	2
Comment on Parker et al. (Evolution, Medicine and Public Health 2021;9:120–30.)	2
Gestational potential space hypothesis	2
Strength is negatively associated with depression and accounts for some of the sex difference	2
Father absence and pubertal timing in Korean boys and girls	2
Greater chronic morbidity is associated with greater fatigue in six countries	2
Cesarean section and breastfeeding outcomes in an Indigenous Qom community with high breastfeeding support	2
Socioeconomic impacts on Andean adolescents’ growth	2
The effects of lifestyle change on indicators of cardiometabolic health in semi-nomadic pastoralists	2