OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Virology is 6. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Interactions Between Commensal Microbes and Mosquito-Borne Viruses	92
Citrus Tristeza Virus: From Pathogen to Panacea	88
Rift Valley Fever Virus Encephalitis: Viral and Host Determinants of Pathogenesis	84
A Hitchhiker's Guide Through the Cell: The World According to the Capsids of Alphaherpesviruses	81
Influenza: Searching for Pandemic Origins	79
A Mammalian Cell's Guide on How to Process a Bacteriophage	59
Abortive Infection of Animal Cells: What Goes Wrong	57
Block the Spread: Barriers to Transmission of Influenza Viruses	57
Structure and Role of O-Linked Glycans in Viral Envelope Proteins	53
Controlling Much? Viral Control of Host Chromatin Dynamics	51
Cyclic Nucleotide Signaling in Phage Defense and Counter-Defense	44
Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Reviews	35
A Structural Perspective on the Alphavirus Life Cycle	34
Poxvirus Host-Range Determinants: SAMD9/9L and Beyond	32
Structural and Functional Insights into Viral Programmed Ribosomal Frameshifting	32
Viral G Protein–Coupled Receptors Encoded by β- and γ-Herpesviruses	32
SEA-PHAGES and SEA-GENES: Advancing Virology and Science Education	30
Seeing Biomolecular Condensates Through the Lens of Viruses	29
Grapevine Red Blotch Disease: A Threat to the Grape and Wine Industries	28
Natural Selection, Intracellular Bottlenecks of Virus Populations, and Viral Superinfection Exclusion	27
Systems Biology of Virus-Host Protein Interactions: From Hypothesis Generation to Mechanisms of Replication and Pathogenesis	27
Understanding the Impacts of Bacteriophage Viruses: From Laboratory Evolution to Natural Ecosystems	27
The Role of Viruses in Identifying and Analyzing RNA Silencing	25
Breaking Boundaries: The Perpetual Interplay Between Tobamoviruses and Plant Immunity	24
Expanding the Plant Virome: Umbra-Like Viruses Use Host Proteins for Movement	24

The Knowns and Unknowns of Herpesvirus Nuclear Egress	23
Crowning Touches in Positive-Strand RNA Virus Genome Replication Complex Structure and Function	21
Amoebae: Hiding in Plain Sight: Unappreciated Hosts for the Very Large Viruses	21
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For Better or Worse: Modulation of the Host DNA Damage Response by Human Papillomavirus	19
The Life Cycle of the Vaccinia Virus Genome	18
Experimental Considerations for the Evaluation of Viral Biomolecular Condensates	17
Virologists Can Help Make America Healthy Again	16
Microviruses: A World Beyond phiX174	16
Antiviral and Immunomodulatory Effects of Interferon Lambda at the Maternal-Fetal Interface	16
What Have We Learned by Resurrecting the 1918 Influenza Virus?	16
Embracing Complexity: What Novel Sequencing Methods Are Teaching Us About Herpesvirus Genomic Diversity	15
Studying Retroviral Life Cycles Using Visible Viruses and Live Cell Imaging	15
Nuclear Capsid Uncoating and Reverse Transcription of HIV-1	15
The Role of Viral RNA Degrading Factors in Shutoff of Host Gene Expression	13
In Transition: How Influenza Virus Switches from Transcription to Genome Replication	13
The Risk of Virus Emergence in South America: A Subtle Balance Between Increasingly Favorable Conditions and a Protective Environment	10
Viral Membrane Fusion: A Dance Between Proteins and Lipids	9
Viral Evolution Shaped by Host Proteostasis Networks	9
The Molecular Maze of Potyviral and Host Protein Interactions	8
Spatial Transcriptomics to Study Virus-Host Interactions	8
The Spectrum of Postacute Sequelae of COVID-19 in Children: From MIS-C to Long COVID	8
The Future of Virology Education	8
The Emergence and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2	8
The Times They Are a-Changing	7
Introduction	7
The Collaborative Cross as a Model for Studying Viral Infections	6
APOBEC3G Antagonism by Vif, or When Structure Meets Biological and Evolutionary Studies	6
Lab Legends and Field Phantoms: The Tale of Virus-Resistant Plants	6