OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Virology is 7. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Interactions Between Commensal Microbes and Mosquito-Borne Viruses	131
Rift Valley Fever Virus Encephalitis: Viral and Host Determinants of Pathogenesis	102
Citrus Tristeza Virus: From Pathogen to Panacea	99
Influenza: Searching for Pandemic Origins	94
A Mammalian Cell's Guide on How to Process a Bacteriophage	92
A Hitchhiker's Guide Through the Cell: The World According to the Capsids of Alphaherpesviruses	85
Abortive Infection of Animal Cells: What Goes Wrong	78
Block the Spread: Barriers to Transmission of Influenza Viruses	75
Structure and Role of O-Linked Glycans in Viral Envelope Proteins	68
Controlling Much? Viral Control of Host Chromatin Dynamics	65
Cyclic Nucleotide Signaling in Phage Defense and Counter-Defense	45
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A Structural Perspective on the Alphavirus Life Cycle	42
Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Reviews	42
Poxvirus Host-Range Determinants: SAMD9/9L and Beyond	40
Viral G Protein–Coupled Receptors Encoded by β- and γ-Herpesviruses	38
Mucins and Respiratory Virus Infection	38
Structural and Functional Insights into Viral Programmed Ribosomal Frameshifting	35
Natural Selection, Intracellular Bottlenecks of Virus Populations, and Viral Superinfection Exclusion	34
SEA-PHAGES and SEA-GENES: Advancing Virology and Science Education	34
Systems Biology of Virus-Host Protein Interactions: From Hypothesis Generation to Mechanisms of Replication and Pathogenesis	33
Grapevine Red Blotch Disease: A Threat to the Grape and Wine Industries	32
Understanding the Impacts of Bacteriophage Viruses: From Laboratory Evolution to Natural Ecosystems	31
Seeing Biomolecular Condensates Through the Lens of Viruses	29
The Role of Viruses in Identifying and Analyzing RNA Silencing	28

Breaking Boundaries: The Perpetual Interplay Between Tobamoviruses and Plant Immunity	28
Expanding the Plant Virome: Umbra-Like Viruses Use Host Proteins for Movement	27
Amoebae: Hiding in Plain Sight: Unappreciated Hosts for the Very Large Viruses	26
The Knowns and Unknowns of Herpesvirus Nuclear Egress	26
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Crowning Touches in Positive-Strand RNA Virus Genome Replication Complex Structure and Function	23
Experimental Considerations for the Evaluation of Viral Biomolecular Condensates	22
What Have We Learned by Resurrecting the 1918 Influenza Virus?	22
For Better or Worse: Modulation of the Host DNA Damage Response by Human Papillomavirus	22
The Life Cycle of the Vaccinia Virus Genome	22
Virologists Can Help Make America Healthy Again	21
Microviruses: A World Beyond phiX174	21
For the Love of Poliovirus	20
Phage Therapy and Global Health Equity: Opportunities in the Era of Antibiotic Resistance	19
Studying Retroviral Life Cycles Using Visible Viruses and Live Cell Imaging	15
Antiviral and Immunomodulatory Effects of Interferon Lambda at the Maternal-Fetal Interface	15
In Transition: How Influenza Virus Switches from Transcription to Genome Replication	13
Embracing Complexity: What Novel Sequencing Methods Are Teaching Us About Herpesvirus Genomic Diversity	13
The Spectrum of Postacute Sequelae of COVID-19 in Children: From MIS-C to Long COVID	13
Nuclear Capsid Uncoating and Reverse Transcription of HIV-1	13
The Risk of Virus Emergence in South America: A Subtle Balance Between Increasingly Favorable Conditions and a Protective Environment	12
Viral Membrane Fusion: A Dance Between Proteins and Lipids	11
The Role of Viral RNA Degrading Factors in Shutoff of Host Gene Expression	11
The Emergence and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2	11
Viral Evolution Shaped by Host Proteostasis Networks	11
The Molecular Maze of Potyviral and Host Protein Interactions	10
What's in a Name? Upgrading Virus Species Nomenclature	9
Spatial Transcriptomics to Study Virus-Host Interactions	8
APOBEC3G Antagonism by Vif, or When Structure Meets Biological and Evolutionary Studies	8
Introduction	8
The Times They Are a-Changing	8
The Future of Virology Education	8
From Entry to the Nucleus: How Retroviruses Commute	7
Lab Legends and Field Phantoms: The Tale of Virus-Resistant Plants	7
A Trait-Based Approach to Predicting Viral Host-Range Evolvability	7
The Collaborative Cross as a Model for Studying Viral Infections	7
Immunomodulation by Enteric Viruses	7