OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Virology is 21. 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