OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Virus Evolution is 29. 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
Assignment of epidemiological lineages in an emerging pandemic using the pangolin tool	725
Temporal signal and the phylodynamic threshold of SARS-CoV-2	300
RDP5: a computer program for analyzing recombination in, and removing signals of recombination from, nucleotide sequence datasets	256
Evaluation of NGS-based approaches for SARS-CoV-2 whole genome characterisation	121
Analysis of the virome associated to grapevine downy mildew lesions reveals new mycovirus lineages	101
An antibody-escape estimator for mutations to the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain	87
Cenote-Taker 2 democratizes virus discovery and sequence annotation	83
The virome from a collection of endomycorrhizal fungi reveals new viral taxa with unprecedented genome organization	79
The origins and molecular evolution of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in the UK	67
Intra-host evolution during SARS-CoV-2 prolonged infection	64
Interannual dynamics, diversity and evolution of the virome in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum from a single crop field	55
Virome composition in marine fish revealed by meta-transcriptomics	51
The evolutionary history of ACE2 usage within the coronavirus subgenus Sarbecovirus	51
Recurrent SARS-CoV-2 mutations in immunodeficient patients	50
Possible host-adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 due to improved ACE2 receptor binding in mink	47
Synonymous mutations and the molecular evolution of SARS-CoV-2 origins	39
Recombinant SARS-CoV-2 genomes circulated at low levels over the first year of the pandemic	39
The evolutionary dynamics of endemic human coronaviruses	38
Replacement of the Gamma by the Delta variant in Brazil: Impact of lineage displacement on the ongoing pandemic	37
Diversity and circulation of Jingmen tick virus in ticks and mammals	36
Evolution of DNA packaging in gene transfer agents	36
The history of foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype C: the first known extinct serotype?	35
Viromics of extant insect orders unveil the evolution of the flavi-like superfamily	34
A threat from both sides: Multiple introductions of genetically distinct H5 HPAI viruses into Canada via both East Asia-Australasia/Pacific and Atlantic flyways	34
Phylodynamics reveals the role of human travel and contact tracing in controlling the first wave of COVID-19 in four island nations	33

Towards a unified classification for human respiratory syncytial virus genotypes	33
Intra-genome variability in the dinucleotide composition of SARS-CoV-2	32
Contributions of adaptation and purifying selection to SARS-CoV-2 evolution	31
Extensive genetic diversity and host range of rodent-borne coronaviruses	29
Adintoviruses: a proposed animal-tropic family of midsize eukaryotic linear dsDNA (MELD) viruses	29
Revealing RNA virus diversity and evolution in unicellular algae transcriptomes	29