OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal for Parasitology is 10. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Taxonomy and molecular epidemiology of Cryptosporidium and Giardia – a 50 year perspective (1971–2021)	133
Control of human toxoplasmosis	96
Honey bee survival mechanisms against the parasite Varroa destructor: a systematic review of phenotypic and genomic research efforts	90
Why ignoring parasites in fish ecology is a mistake	83
The protein and microRNA cargo of extracellular vesicles from parasitic helminths – current status and research priorities	73
Long-term production effects of clinical cryptosporidiosis in neonatal calves	49
The “tropical lineage” of the brown dog tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato identified as Rhipicephalus linnaei ( )	44
Association of the invasive Haemaphysalis longicornis tick with vertebrate hosts, other native tick vectors, and tick-borne pathogens in New York City, USA	43
A journey through 50 years of research relevant to the control of gastrointestinal nematodes in ruminant livestock and thoughts on future directions	41
Extracellular vesicles: new targets for vaccines against helminth parasites	41
Experimental evidence of harmful effects of Crithidia mellificae and Lotmaria passim on honey bees	40
A repeatable and quantitative DNA metabarcoding assay to characterize mixed strongyle infections in horses	38
Effect of cleaner fish on sea lice in Norwegian salmon aquaculture: a national scale data analysis	37
Integrative taxonomy and species delimitation of Rhipicephalus turanicus (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae)	36
Bumped Kinase Inhibitors as therapy for apicomplexan parasitic diseases: lessons learned	35
Diversity of monogeneans and tapeworms in cypriniform fishes across two continents	34
The yin and yang of human soil-transmitted helminth infections	34
Hyperendemic Dirofilaria immitis infection in a sheltered dog population: an expanding threat in the Mediterranean region	30
The influence of liver fluke infection on production in sheep and cattle: a meta-analysis	29
Revisiting the phylogeny of microsporidia	29
Uptake of Schistosoma mansoni extracellular vesicles by human endothelial and monocytic cell lines and impact on vascular endothelial cell gene expression	28
Potential functions of atypical memory B cells in Plasmodium-exposed individuals	27
Genetic and biological characterisation of three cryptic Eimeria operational taxonomic units that infect chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus)	26
Microhabitat distributions and species interactions of ectoparasites on the gills of cichlid fish in Lake Victoria, Tanzania	26
Extracellular vesicles produced by the protozoan parasite Trichomonas vaginalis contain a preferential cargo of tRNA-derived small RNAs	26

Fifty years of the schistosome tegument: discoveries, controversies, and outstanding questions	26
Macrocyclic lactone resistance in Dirofilaria immitis: risks for prevention of heartworm disease	25
Shortened egg reappearance periods of equine cyathostomins following ivermectin or moxidectin treatment: morphological and molecular investigation of efficacy and species composition	25
The rise of ecological parasitology: twelve landmark advances that changed its history	24
High prevalence of Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium ovale in co-infections with Plasmodium falciparum in asymptomatic malaria parasite carriers in southwestern Nigeria	24
Mosquitoes are attracted by the odour of Plasmodium-infected birds	24
A paradigm for the recognition of cryptic trematode species in tropical Indo-west Pacific fishes: the problematic genus Preptetos (Trematoda: Lepocreadiidae)	24
High Plasmodium infection intensity in naturally infected malaria vectors in Africa	24
Protein kinases in Toxoplasma gondii	23
Comparative analysis of gene expression between Babesia bovis blood stages and kinetes allowed by improved genome annotation	23
Zoonotic hookworms of dogs and cats – lessons from the past to inform current knowledge and future directions of research	23
Meta-analysis of seasonal dynamics of parasite infections in aquatic ecosystems	23
Migratory birds have higher prevalence and richness of avian haemosporidian parasites than residents	23
Geographical spread and structural basis of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine drug-resistant malaria parasites	22
A 4 year observation of gastrointestinal nematode egg counts, nemabiomes and the benzimidazole resistance genotypes of Teladorsagia circumcincta on a Scottish sheep farm	22
Development of caecaloids to study host–pathogen interactions: new insights into immunoregulatory functions of Trichuris muris extracellular vesicles in the caecum	22
Theileria parva: a parasite of African buffalo, which has adapted to infect and undergo transmission in cattle	22
The potential for vaccines against scour worms of small ruminants	22
The state of fish parasite discovery and taxonomy: a critical assessment and a look forward	21
Advances in the treatment, diagnosis, control and scientific understanding of taeniid cestode parasite infections over the past 50 years	21
Diversity of extracellular vesicles from different developmental stages of Fasciola hepatica	20
A comparison of the structure and function of nematocysts in free-living and parasitic cnidarians (Myxozoa)	19
Modelling the potential spread of Hyalomma marginatum ticks in Europe by migratory birds	19
Molecular phylogeny of Diplostomum, Tylodelphys, Austrodiplostomum and Paralaria (Digenea: Diplostomidae) necessitates systematic changes and reveals a history of evolutionary host switching events	19
Projecting the potential distribution of ticks in China under climate and land use change	18
Spatio-temporal variation in environmental features predicts the distribution and abundance of Ixodes scapularis	18
Faecal egg counts and nemabiome metabarcoding highlight the genomic complexity of equine cyathostomin communities and provide insight into their dynamics in a Scottish native pony herd	18
Weak population structure and recent demographic expansion of the monogenean parasite Kapentagyrus spp. infecting clupeid fishes of Lake Tanganyika, East Africa	18
Strongyloides genotyping: a review of methods and application in public health and population genetics	18
Methods to assess the effect of meat processing on viability of Toxoplasma gondii: towards replacement of mouse bioassay by in vitro testing	17
The cellular and molecular origins of extracellular vesicles released by the helminth pathogen, Fasciola hepatica	17
Influence of land use and host species on parasite richness, prevalence and co-infection patterns	17
The Leishmania donovani species complex: A new insight into taxonomy☆	17
Extracellular vesicles from Heligmosomoides bakeri and Trichuris muris contain distinct microRNA families and small RNAs that could underpin different functions in the host	17
Cryptosporidium species and subtypes in river water and riverbed sediment using next-generation sequencing	17
Seasonal dynamics of haemosporidian (Apicomplexa, Haemosporida) parasites in house sparrows Passer domesticus at four European sites: comparison between lineages and the importance of screening method	17
Faecal prevalence, distribution and risk factors associated with canine soil-transmitted helminths contaminating urban parks across Australia	16
Helminth genome analysis reveals conservation of extracellular vesicle biogenesis pathways but divergence of RNA loading machinery between phyla	16
A global assessment of Echinococcus multilocularis infections in domestic dogs: proposing a framework to overcome past methodological heterogeneity	16
Trichinella spiralis infection ameliorated diet-induced obesity model in mice	16
First elucidation of a didymozoid life cycle: Saccularina magnacetabula n. gen. n. sp. infecting an arcid bivalve	15
Effects of pH on free-living stages of a Nordic strain of the economically important freshwater fish parasite Ichthyophthirius multifiliis	15
Persistence of avian haemosporidians in the wild: a case study to illustrate seasonal infection patterns in relation to host life stages	15
First description of Lotmaria passim and Crithidia mellificae haptomonad stages in the honeybee hindgut	15
Disentangling the evolutionary history of peri-Mediterranean cyprinids using host-specific gill monogeneans	15
A new diagnostic approach to fast-track and increase the accessibility of gastrointestinal nematode identification from faeces: FECPAKG2 egg nemabiome metabarcoding	15
Advances in molecular epidemiology of cryptosporidiosis in dogs and cats	14
Friend or foe? The apparent benefits of gregarine (Apicomplexa: Sporozoa) infection in the European earwig	14
Morphological and molecular characterization of an African freshwater fish trypanosome, including its development in a leech vector	14
Differential expression of microRNAs and tRNA fragments mediate the adaptation of the liver fluke Fasciola gigantica to its intermediate snail and definitive mammalian hosts	14

Extracellular vesicles secreted by model tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta: biogenesis, ultrastructure and protein composition	14
Molecular characterization of Blastocystis and Entamoeba of muskoxen and sheep in Greenland	14
Parasites under pressure: salmon lice have the capacity to adapt to depth-based preventions in aquaculture	14
Identification and characterization of a new 34 kDa MORN motif-containing sporozoite surface-exposed protein, Cp-P34, unique to Cryptosporidium	13
Phylogenetic reconstruction of early diverging tapeworms (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea) reveals ancient radiations in vertebrate hosts and biogeographic regions	13
Climatic requirements of the eastern paralysis tick, Ixodes holocyclus, with a consideration of its possible geographic range up to 2090	13
Haemosporidian prevalence, parasitaemia and aggregation in relation to avian assemblage life history traits at different elevations	13
Assembly rules of helminth parasite communities in grey mullets: combining components of diversity	13
Age-specific patterns of DBLα var diversity can explain why residents of high malaria transmission areas remain susceptible to Plasmodium falciparum blood stage infection throughout life	13
Temperature–parasite interaction: do trematode infections protect against heat stress?	13
Review of the global distribution and hosts of the economically important fish parasitic isopod genus Ceratothoa (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), including the description of Ceratothoa springbok n. sp. from S	13
Specialist by preference, generalist by need: availability of quality hosts drives parasite choice in a natural multihost–parasite system	13
Quantitative proteomics and phosphoproteomic analyses of mouse livers after tick-borne Babesia microti infection	12
Unique glycan and lipid composition of helminth-derived extracellular vesicles may reveal novel roles in host-parasite interactions	12
Bloody flukes: a review of aporocotylids as parasites of cultured marine fishes	12
Global profiling of lncRNAs-miRNAs-mRNAs reveals differential expression of coding genes and non-coding RNAs in the lung of beagle dogs at different stages of Toxocara canis infection	12
Bovine sarcocystosis: Sarcocystis species, diagnosis, prevalence, economic and public health considerations, and association of Sarcocystis species with eosinophilic myositis in cattle	11
Cryptosporidium equi n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Cryptosporidiidae): Biological and genetic characterisations	11
Immunization with extracellular vesicles excreted by Toxoplasma gondii confers protection in murine infection, activating cellular and humoral responses	11
In silico analyses of neuropeptide-like protein (NLP) profiles in parasitic nematodes	11
Blood–cerebrospinal fluid barrier: another site disrupted during experimental cerebral malaria caused by Plasmodium berghei ANKA	11
Comparative tachyzoite proteome analyses among six Neospora caninum isolates with different virulence	11
More is less: mass-flowering fruit tree crops dilute parasite transmission between bees	11
Detection of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii in oral fluid from pigs	11
Machine learning algorithms to predict the 1 year unfavourable prognosis for advanced schistosomiasis	11
Non-resident definitive host presence is sufficient to sustain avian schistosome populations	11
Antibody kinetics and exposure to Toxoplasma gondii in cats: a seroepidemiological study	11
Intercontinental distributions, phylogenetic position and life cycles of species of Apharyngostrigea (Digenea, Diplostomoidea) illuminated with morphological, experimental, molecular and genomic data	11
Loss of forest cover and host functional diversity increases prevalence of avian malaria parasites in the Atlantic Forest	10
Trichinella spiralis secretes abundant unencapsulated small RNAs with potential effects on host gene expression	10
Is parasite taxonomy really in trouble? A quantitative analysis	10
Molecular phylogeny and speciation patterns in host-specific monogeneans (Cichlidogyrus, Dactylogyridae) parasitizing cichlid fishes (Cichliformes, Cichlidae) in Lake Tanganyika	10
Assessment of the exposure to Echinococcus multilocularis associated with carnivore faeces using real-time quantitative PCR and flotation technique assays	10
Extended survival and reproductive potential of single-sex male and female Schistosoma japonicum within definitive hosts	10
Plasmodium falciparum LipB mutants display altered redox and carbon metabolism in asexual stages and cannot complete sporogony in Anopheles mosquitoes	10
Contracaecum osculatum (sensu lato) infection of Gadus morhua in the Baltic Sea: inter- and intraspecific interactions	10
Intrigue surrounding the life-cycles of species of Clistobothrium (Cestoda: Phyllobothriidea) parasitising large pelagic sharks	10