OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Virology is 8. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Interactions Between Commensal Microbes and Mosquito-Borne Viruses	122
Reflections on a Career in Plant Virology: A Chip Floating on a Stream	86
Rift Valley Fever Virus Encephalitis: Viral and Host Determinants of Pathogenesis	79
Small-Molecule Inhibition of Viral Fusion Glycoproteins	79
Citrus Tristeza Virus: From Pathogen to Panacea	76
Interaction of Viruses with the Insect Intestine	75
Understanding the Complex Phage-Host Interactions in Biofilm Communities	73
Abortive Infection of Animal Cells: What Goes Wrong	72
A Hitchhiker's Guide Through the Cell: The World According to the Capsids of Alphaherpesviruses	72
Block the Spread: Barriers to Transmission of Influenza Viruses	71
Influenza: Searching for Pandemic Origins	71
Viruses and Metabolism: The Effects of Viral Infections and Viral Insulins on Host Metabolism	66
A Mammalian Cell's Guide on How to Process a Bacteriophage	59
The Ends Dictate the Means: Promoter Switching in Herpesvirus Gene Expression	56
Controlling Much? Viral Control of Host Chromatin Dynamics	54
Structure and Role of O-Linked Glycans in Viral Envelope Proteins	54
Cyclic Nucleotide Signaling in Phage Defense and Counter-Defense	53
Conquering the Host: Determinants of Pathogenesis Learned from Murine Gammaherpesvirus 68	52
Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Reviews	48
Quantitative Temporal Viromics	47
A Structural Perspective on the Alphavirus Life Cycle	47
In Memoriam: Michael M. Goodin (1967–2020)	46
Viral G Protein–Coupled Receptors Encoded by β- and γ-Herpesviruses	45
Poxvirus Host-Range Determinants: SAMD9/9L and Beyond	44
Structural and Functional Insights into Viral Programmed Ribosomal Frameshifting	43

New Insights into Chikungunya Virus Infection and Pathogenesis	41
Historical Perspective on the Discovery of the Quasispecies Concept	36
SEA-PHAGES and SEA-GENES: Advancing Virology and Science Education	34
Understanding the Impacts of Bacteriophage Viruses: From Laboratory Evolution to Natural Ecosystems	30
Natural Selection, Intracellular Bottlenecks of Virus Populations, and Viral Superinfection Exclusion	30
Grapevine Red Blotch Disease: A Threat to the Grape and Wine Industries	27
Bacteriophage ICP1: A Persistent Predator of Vibrio cholerae	27
Seeing Biomolecular Condensates Through the Lens of Viruses	27
Systems Biology of Virus-Host Protein Interactions: From Hypothesis Generation to Mechanisms of Replication and Pathogenesis	26
Expanding the Plant Virome: Umbra-Like Viruses Use Host Proteins for Movement	24
Amoebae: Hiding in Plain Sight: Unappreciated Hosts for the Very Large Viruses	24
The Social Life of Viruses	23
Breaking Boundaries: The Perpetual Interplay Between Tobamoviruses and Plant Immunity	23
The Role of Viruses in Identifying and Analyzing RNA Silencing	22
The Knowns and Unknowns of Herpesvirus Nuclear Egress	22
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Recurring Revolutions in Virology	21
Crowning Touches in Positive-Strand RNA Virus Genome Replication Complex Structure and Function	20
For Better or Worse: Modulation of the Host DNA Damage Response by Human Papillomavirus	20
The Life Cycle of the Vaccinia Virus Genome	19
What Have We Learned by Resurrecting the 1918 Influenza Virus?	18
Experimental Considerations for the Evaluation of Viral Biomolecular Condensates	17
Prospects for the Global Elimination of Hepatitis B	17
Targeted Restriction of Viral Gene Expression and Replication by the ZAP Antiviral System	17
Virologists Can Help Make America Healthy Again	15
Sex Differences in Respiratory Viral Pathogenesis and Treatments	15
Microviruses: A World Beyond phiX174	14
Embracing Complexity: What Novel Sequencing Methods Are Teaching Us About Herpesvirus Genomic Diversity	13
Nuclear Capsid Uncoating and Reverse Transcription of HIV-1	12
Antiviral and Immunomodulatory Effects of Interferon Lambda at the Maternal-Fetal Interface	12
Advances in Viroid-Host Interactions	11
The Spectrum of Postacute Sequelae of COVID-19 in Children: From MIS-C to Long COVID	11
Studying Retroviral Life Cycles Using Visible Viruses and Live Cell Imaging	11
In Transition: How Influenza Virus Switches from Transcription to Genome Replication	11
The Risk of Virus Emergence in South America: A Subtle Balance Between Increasingly Favorable Conditions and a Protective Environment	10
The Emergence and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2	9
The Role of Viral RNA Degrading Factors in Shutoff of Host Gene Expression	9
Viral Evolution Shaped by Host Proteostasis Networks	8
The Molecular Maze of Potyviral and Host Protein Interactions	8
Viral Membrane Fusion: A Dance Between Proteins and Lipids	8
Introduction	8