OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of PeerJ is 38. 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
Computational bioacoustics with deep learning: a review and roadmap	154
Comparing multiple comparisons: practical guidance for choosing the best multiple comparisons test	142
BACPHLIP: predicting bacteriophage lifestyle from conserved protein domains	141
`partR2`: partitioning R²in generalized linear mixed models	140
Transfection types, methods and strategies: a technical review	127
Applications and limitations of current markerless motion capture methods for clinical gait biomechanics	111
phytools 2.0: an updated R ecosystem for phylogenetic comparative methods (and other things)	109
Extensive microbial diversity within the chicken gut microbiome revealed by metagenomics and culture	100
Deep learning prediction of likelihood of ICU admission and mortality in COVID-19 patients using clinical variables	81
Plastic additives: challenges in ecotox hazard assessment	77
Harmful effects of the microplastic pollution on animal health: a literature review	77
Expanding standards in viromics: in silico evaluation of dsDNA viral genome identification, classification, and auxiliary metabolic gene curation	71
Syncmers are more sensitive than minimizers for selecting conserved k‑mers in biological sequences	62
Assessment of activities of daily living in patients post COVID-19: a systematic review	61
eDNAir: proof of concept that animal DNA can be collected from air sampling	61
Reproducible, portable, and efficient ancient genome reconstruction with nf-core/eager	59
Combined application of biochar and nitrogen fertilizer improves rice yield, microbial activity and N-metabolism in a pot experiment	56
Should I use fixed effects or random effects when I have fewer than five levels of a grouping factor in a mixed-effects model?	56
PCAtest: testing the statistical significance of Principal Component Analysis in R	54
A review of sourdough starters: ecology, practices, and sensory quality with applications for baking and recommendations for future research	54
A community perspective on the concept of marine holobionts: current status, challenges, and future directions	53
Publication rate and citation counts for preprints released during the COVID-19 pandemic: the good, the bad and the ugly	52
Evolution ofWolbachiamutualism and reproductive parasitism: insight from two novel strains that co-infect cat fleas	51
Exogenous melatonin improves salt stress adaptation of cotton seedlings by regulating active oxygen metabolism	49
Geographic potential of the world’s largest hornet,Vespa mandariniaSmith (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), worldwide and particularly in North America	47

COVID-19: exploring impacts of the pandemic and lockdown on mental health of Pakistani students	47
Effects of plastic mulching on the accumulation and distribution of macro and micro plastics in soils of two farming systems in Northwest China	46
CIAlign: A highly customisable command line tool to clean, interpret and visualise multiple sequence alignments	46
Effect of storage conditions on SARS-CoV-2 RNA quantification in wastewater solids	45
Macrel: antimicrobial peptide screening in genomes and metagenomes	43
The efficacy of IL-6 inhibitor Tocilizumab in reducing severe COVID-19 mortality: a systematic review	41
COL1A1 is a prognostic biomarker and correlated with immune infiltrates in lung cancer	40
Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem	40
iSUMOK-PseAAC: prediction of lysine sumoylation sites using statistical moments and Chou’s PseAAC	39
Desulfovibrio is not always associated with adverse health effects in the Guangdong Gut Microbiome Project	39
High-performance pipeline for MutMap and QTL-seq	39
Taxonomic revision of the threatened African genus Pseudohydrosme Engl. (Araceae), with P. ebo, a new, critically endangered species from Ebo, Cameroon	38
The effect of ethanol concentration on the morphological and molecular preservation of insects for biodiversity studies	38