OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Communications Biology is 62. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Reflecting on the Communications Biology Editor Training Program	915
Inferring single-cell and spatial microRNA activity from transcriptomics data	268
A multi-tissue longitudinal proteomics study to evaluate the suitability of post-mortem samples for pathophysiological research	256
Single-cell RNA-seq data augmentation using generative Fourier transformer	239
Arabidopsis conditional photosynthesis mutants abc1k1 and var2 accumulate partially processed thylakoid preproteins and are defective in chloroplast biogenesis	168
Positively charged cytoplasmic residues in corin prevent signal peptidase cleavage and endoplasmic reticulum retention	167
Uncovering narrative aging: an underlying neural mechanism compensated through spatial constructional ability	167
Small molecules and heat treatments reverse vernalization via epigenetic modification in Arabidopsis	167
DDX1 is required for non-spliceosomal splicing of tRNAs but not of XBP1 mRNA	166
A global palaeo-science community: an interview with Pal(a)eoPERCS	163
Viral genomic features predict Orthopoxvirus reservoir hosts	161
Proteomic analyses reveal the key role of gene co-option in the evolution of the scaly-foot snail scleritome	146
Resveratrol does not mimic the positive effects of calorie restriction on lifespan in Microcebus murinus	142
Identification of coevolving positions by ancestral reconstruction	138
Elucidating shared genetic association between female body mass index and preeclampsia	131
Nuclear mechano-confinement induces geometry-dependent HP1α condensate alterations	127
Defective X-chromosome inactivation and cancer risk in women	127
RBPMS inhibits bladder cancer metastasis by downregulating MYC pathway through alternative splicing of ANKRD10	126
One-step Cre-loxP organism creation by TAx9	124
Distinct neural representations of different linguistic components following sign language learning	116
Integrated transcriptomic profiling reveals a STING-mediated Type II Interferon signature in SOD1-mutant amyotrophic lateral sclerosis models	116
Diversification and extinction of Hemiptera in deep time	115
Densely vascularized thick 3D tissue shows enhanced protein secretion constructed with intermittent positive pressure	109
New mouse models for exploring renal tumor extension into the inferior vena cava	106
Developmental air pollution exposure augments airway hyperreactivity, alters transcriptome, and DNA methylation in female adult progeny	104

The eukaryotic-like characteristics of small GTPase, roadblock and TRAPPC3 proteins from Asgard archaea	99
Infusing structural assumptions into dimensionality reduction for single-cell RNA sequencing data to identify small gene sets	99
A miniature dialysis-culture device allows high-density human-induced pluripotent stem cells expansion from growth factor accumulation	98
Direct and indirect pathways for heterosynaptic interaction underlying developmental synapse elimination in the mouse cerebellum	97
Newly detected data from Haestasaurus and review of sauropod skin morphology suggests Early Jurassic origin of skin papillae	96
Development of an arteriolar niche and self-renewal of breast cancer stem cells by lysophosphatidic acid/protein kinase D signaling	95
Generation of transgenic mice expressing a FRET biosensor, SMART, that responds to necroptosis	92
Oxygen tension modulates the mitochondrial genetic bottleneck and influences the segregation of a heteroplasmic mtDNA variant in vitro	90
Structural and dynamical investigation of histone H2B in well-hydrated nucleosome core particles by solid-state NMR	89
The lexicon of antimicrobial peptides: a complete set of arginine and tryptophan sequences	87
DLST-dependence dictates metabolic heterogeneity in TCA-cycle usage among triple-negative breast cancer	86
The ATF2/miR-3913-5p/CREB5 axis is involved in the cell proliferation and metastasis of colorectal cancer	86
The origins of haplotype 58 (H58) Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi	85
Cryo-EM structure of transmembrane AAA+ protease FtsH in the ADP state	84
The purine metabolite inosine monophosphate accelerates myelopoiesis and acute pancreatitis progression	81
Asymmetric conformations of cleaved HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein trimers in styrene-maleic acid lipid nanoparticles	78
Neurocognitive biases from the lab to real life	77
Gut mycobiota alterations in patients with COVID-19 and H1N1 infections and their associations with clinical features	76
Multiple ageing effects on testicular/epididymal germ cells lead to decreased male fertility in mice	71
SLAPSHOT reveals rapid dynamics of extracellularly exposed proteome in response to calcium-activated plasma membrane phospholipid scrambling	71
Neck and capsid architecture of the robust Agrobacterium phage Milano	71
Efficient end-to-end learning for cell segmentation with machine generated weak annotations	69
Vibrio cholerae senses human enteric α-defensin 5 through a CarSR two-component system to promote bacterial pathogenicity	68
A data-driven crop model for maize yield prediction	68
Neuroeconomically dissociable forms of mental accounting are altered in a mouse model of diabetes	67
Chromatin environment-dependent effects of DOT1L on gene expression in male germ cells	67
Disability shouldn’t limit accessibility in science	67
Integrative multi-omics analysis reveals the translational landscape of the plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne incognita	67
TDP-43 nuclear retention is antagonized by hypo-phosphorylation of its C-terminus in the cytoplasm	66
A hammerhead ribozyme selects mechanically stable conformations for catalysis against viral RNA	65
Author Correction: Comparative genomics reveal a novel phylotaxonomic order in the genus Fusobacterium	64
Identification of selective SWI/SNF dependencies in enzalutamide-resistant prostate cancer	64
Pivotal roles of Plasmodium falciparum lysophospholipid acyltransferase 1 in cell cycle progression and cytostome internalization	63
The medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex jointly represent the cognitive map of task space	63
Zika virus modulates human fibroblasts to enhance transmission success in a controlled lab-setting	62
A review of quorum-sensing and its role in mediating interkingdom interactions in the ocean	62
Protein structure and interactions elucidated with in-cell NMR for different cell cycle phases and in 3D human tissue models	62
Enhanced genome editing with a Streptococcus equinus Cas9	62