OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Communications Biology is 61. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Hippocampal subfield plasticity is associated with improved spatial memory	806
GFI1B and LSD1 repress myeloid traits during megakaryocyte differentiation	219
A male-specific doublesex isoform reveals an evolutionary pathway of sexual development via distinct alternative splicing mechanisms	215
Reflecting on the Communications Biology Editor Training Program	202
LTK mutations responsible for resistance to lorlatinib in non-small cell lung cancer harboring CLIP1-LTK fusion	192
Eco-evolutionary model on spatial graphs reveals how habitat structure affects phenotypic differentiation	148
Dynamics of evolutionary succession and coordination between opposite adaptations in cuckoo hosts under antagonistic coevolution	148
OptoRheo: Simultaneous in situ micro-mechanical sensing and imaging of live 3D biological systems	147
Information decay and enzymatic information recovery for DNA data storage	145
Inhibiting LXRα phosphorylation in hematopoietic cells reduces inflammation and attenuates atherosclerosis and obesity in mice	140
Eigenmode-based approach reveals a decline in brain structure–function liberality across the human lifespan	139
Genetic variants associated with platelet count are predictive of human disease and physiological markers	135
Mycelium chemistry differs markedly between ectomycorrhizal and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	132
Density fluctuations, homeostasis, and reproduction effects in bacteria	117
State-dependent binding of cholesterol and an anionic lipid to the muscle-type Torpedo nicotinic acetylcholine receptor	112
Competitive hierarchies in bryozoan assemblages mitigate network instability by keeping short and long feedback loops weak	111
Reformulation of Trivers–Willard hypothesis for parental investment	111
Inferring single-cell and spatial microRNA activity from transcriptomics data	111
DDX1 is required for non-spliceosomal splicing of tRNAs but not of XBP1 mRNA	110
Positively charged cytoplasmic residues in corin prevent signal peptidase cleavage and endoplasmic reticulum retention	107
Uncovering narrative aging: an underlying neural mechanism compensated through spatial constructional ability	105
TDP-43 nuclear retention is antagonized by hypo-phosphorylation of its C-terminus in the cytoplasm	102
Chromatin environment-dependent effects of DOT1L on gene expression in male germ cells	101
A global palaeo-science community: an interview with Pal(a)eoPERCS	99
A metabolic link between the astrocytic α2-Na/K ATPase and episodic paralysis	96

In vivo pharmacokinetic enhancement of monomeric Fc and monovalent bispecific designs through structural guidance	95
A tissue-level phenome-wide network map of colocalized genes and phenotypes in the UK Biobank	93
A modeling framework for determining modulation of neural-level tuning from non-invasive human fMRI data	90
Identifying the serious clinical outcomes of adverse reactions to drugs by a multi-task deep learning framework	89
Plant roots affect free-living diazotroph communities in temperate grassland soils despite decades of fertilization	88
In-vivo corneal confocal microscopy: Imaging analysis, biological insights and future directions	87
A whole-ecosystem experiment reveals flow-induced shifts in a stream community	82
Age-related demethylation of the TDP-43 autoregulatory region in the human motor cortex	81
Multi-species and multi-tissue methylation clocks for age estimation in toothed whales and dolphins	80
Activation-inducible CAR expression enables precise control over engineered CAR T cell function	80
Asymmetric chromatin retention and nuclear envelopes separate chromosomes in fused cells in vivo	80
miR-143-3p modulates depressive-like behaviors via Lasp1 in the mouse ventral hippocampus	79
3D architecture and structural flexibility revealed in the subfamily of large glutamate dehydrogenases by a mycobacterial enzyme	78
The secretory protein COA1 enables Metarhizium robertsii to evade insect immune recognition during cuticle penetration	77
FMRI speech tracking in primary and non-primary auditory cortex while listening to noisy scenes	77
Cpt1a Drives primed-to-naïve pluripotency transition through lipid remodeling	76
Subtype and cell type specific expression of lncRNAs provide insight into breast cancer	76
Cyclo(Pro-Tyr) elicits conserved cellular damage in fungi by targeting the [H+]ATPase Pma1 in plasma membrane domains	75
LeMeDISCO is a computational method for large-scale prediction & molecular interpretation of disease comorbidity	71
Identification of DNA methylation markers for age and Bovine Respiratory Disease in dairy cattle: A pilot study based on Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing	71
Preselection of potential target spaces based on partial information by the supplementary eye field	70
Frontoparietal network activation is associated with motor recovery in ischemic stroke patients	70
Super-resolved analysis of colocalization between replication and transcription along the cell cycle in a model of oncogene activation	69
Importance of copy number variants in childhood apraxia of speech and other speech sound disorders	69
Climate change threatens Chinook salmon throughout their life cycle	68
Tooth enamel nitrogen isotope composition records trophic position: a tool for reconstructing food webs	67
Personalized visual encoding model construction with small data	66
Going beyond established model systems of Alzheimer’s disease: companion animals provide novel insights into the neurobiology of aging	65
Expression of the human usherin c.2299delG mutation leads to early-onset auditory loss and stereocilia disorganization	65
Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora	65
Deciphering tissue structure and function using spatial transcriptomics	64
Three-dimensional spatial transcriptomics uncovers cell type localizations in the human rheumatoid arthritis synovium	64
Proline codon pair selection determines ribosome pausing strength and translation efficiency in bacteria	63
Pan-cancer proteogenomic investigations identify post-transcriptional kinase targets	62
Sex differences in metabolic pathways are regulated by Pfkfb3 and Pdk4 expression in rodent muscle	61
Inferring the stabilization effects of SARS-CoV-2 variants on the binding with ACE2 receptor	61