OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Virus Evolution is 30. 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
Assignment of epidemiological lineages in an emerging pandemic using the pangolin tool	810
Cenote-Taker 2 democratizes virus discovery and sequence annotation	103
An antibody-escape estimator for mutations to the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain	101
The origins and molecular evolution of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in the UK	80
Intra-host evolution during SARS-CoV-2 prolonged infection	73
Virome composition in marine fish revealed by meta-transcriptomics	70
Interannual dynamics, diversity and evolution of the virome in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum from a single crop field	64
Recurrent SARS-CoV-2 mutations in immunodeficient patients	61
The evolutionary history of ACE2 usage within the coronavirus subgenus Sarbecovirus	52
A threat from both sides: Multiple introductions of genetically distinct H5 HPAI viruses into Canada via both East Asia-Australasia/Pacific and Atlantic flyways	50
Possible host-adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 due to improved ACE2 receptor binding in mink	47
RdRp-scan: A bioinformatic resource to identify and annotate divergent RNA viruses in metagenomic sequence data	45
Recombinant SARS-CoV-2 genomes circulated at low levels over the first year of the pandemic	45
Replacement of the Gamma by the Delta variant in Brazil: Impact of lineage displacement on the ongoing pandemic	44
The history of foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype C: the first known extinct serotype?	43
Synonymous mutations and the molecular evolution of SARS-CoV-2 origins	42
Evolution of DNA packaging in gene transfer agents	42
Contributions of adaptation and purifying selection to SARS-CoV-2 evolution	41
The evolutionary dynamics of endemic human coronaviruses	41
Fitness effects of mutations to SARS-CoV-2 proteins	41
Viromics of extant insect orders unveil the evolution of the flavi-like superfamily	40
Metagenomic sequencing reveals a lack of virus exchange between native and invasive freshwater fish across the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia	37
Adintoviruses: a proposed animal-tropic family of midsize eukaryotic linear dsDNA (MELD) viruses	37
Phylodynamics reveals the role of human travel and contact tracing in controlling the first wave of COVID-19 in four island nations	33
Revealing RNA virus diversity and evolution in unicellular algae transcriptomes	32

Discovery of divided RdRp sequences and a hitherto unknown genomic complexity in fungal viruses	32
The discovery, distribution, and diversity of DNA viruses associated withDrosophila melanogasterin Europe	32
Polerovirus genomic variation	31
Identification of novel avian and mammalian deltaviruses provides new insights into deltavirus evolution	31
The characterization of multiple novel paramyxoviruses highlights the diverse nature of the subfamilyOrthoparamyxovirinae	30
Slippery when wet: cross-species transmission of divergent coronaviruses in bony and jawless fish and the evolutionary history of the Coronaviridae	30