OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Virology is 24. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Interactions Between Commensal Microbes and Mosquito-Borne Viruses	146
Rift Valley Fever Virus Encephalitis: Viral and Host Determinants of Pathogenesis	110
Citrus Tristeza Virus: From Pathogen to Panacea	102
Block the Spread: Barriers to Transmission of Influenza Viruses	96
Influenza: Searching for Pandemic Origins	96
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	89
Abortive Infection of Animal Cells: What Goes Wrong	78
Structure and Role of O-Linked Glycans in Viral Envelope Proteins	77
Controlling Much? Viral Control of Host Chromatin Dynamics	67
Cyclic Nucleotide Signaling in Phage Defense and Counter-Defense	48
	46
Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Reviews	45
A Structural Perspective on the Alphavirus Life Cycle	44
Poxvirus Host-Range Determinants: SAMD9/9L and Beyond	42
Mucins and Respiratory Virus Infection	40
Viral G Protein–Coupled Receptors Encoded by β- and γ-Herpesviruses	39
Structural and Functional Insights into Viral Programmed Ribosomal Frameshifting	39
SEA-PHAGES and SEA-GENES: Advancing Virology and Science Education	38
Seeing Biomolecular Condensates Through the Lens of Viruses	35
Influenza Virus Antigenic Drift: Balancing Fitness and Immune Evasion	35
Natural Selection, Intracellular Bottlenecks of Virus Populations, and Viral Superinfection Exclusion	34
Grapevine Red Blotch Disease: A Threat to the Grape and Wine Industries	33
Understanding the Impacts of Bacteriophage Viruses: From Laboratory Evolution to Natural Ecosystems	31
Systems Biology of Virus-Host Protein Interactions: From Hypothesis Generation to Mechanisms of Replication and Pathogenesis	30

The Knowns and Unknowns of Herpesvirus Nuclear Egress	29
Amoebae: Hiding in Plain Sight: Unappreciated Hosts for the Very Large Viruses	29
Breaking Boundaries: The Perpetual Interplay Between Tobamoviruses and Plant Immunity	28
The Role of Viruses in Identifying and Analyzing RNA Silencing	28
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Expanding the Plant Virome: Umbra-Like Viruses Use Host Proteins for Movement	26
Crowning Touches in Positive-Strand RNA Virus Genome Replication Complex Structure and Function	24
The Life Cycle of the Vaccinia Virus Genome	24
For Better or Worse: Modulation of the Host DNA Damage Response by Human Papillomavirus	24