OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolution Medicine and Public Health is 5. 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
Variation among human populations in endometriosis and PCOS A test of the inverse comorbidity model	13
One health disparities and COVID-19	13
Twinning during the pandemic	12
Age-related change in adult chimpanzee social network integration	12
Which ‘imperfect vaccines’ encourage the evolution of higher virulence?	11
Between a hygiene rock and a hygienic hard place	11
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
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
Did giraffe cardiovascular evolution solve the problem of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction?	9
An evolutionary mismatch narrative to improve lifestyle medicine: a patient education hypothesis	9
An integrated comparative physiology and molecular approach pinpoints mediators of breath-hold capacity in dolphins	8

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
Five reasons COVID-19 is less severe in younger age-groups	7
Adaptive function and correlates of anxiety during a pandemic	7
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
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
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
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