OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Molecular Evolution is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction: Stochastic Epigenetic Modification and Evolution of Sex Determination in Vertebrates	52
Correction: Analysis of Cancer-Resisting Evolutionary Adaptations in Wild Animals and Applications for Human Oncology	36
Molecular Evolution of Malacostracan Short Wavelength Sensitive Opsins	36
Modified Metabolism and Response to UV Radiation: Gene Expression Variations Along an Elevational Gradient in the Asiatic Toad (Bufo gargarizans)	33
Extant Sequence Reconstruction: The Accuracy of Ancestral Sequence Reconstructions Evaluated by Extant Sequence Cross-Validation	30
Molecular Evolution of the Green-Sensitive Opsins (RH2) in Sulawesi Oryzias Species with a Single Origin	24
Prebiotic N-(2-Aminoethyl)-Glycine (AEG)-Assisted Synthesis of Proto-RNA?	22
Avoiding Catastrophic Mutations Accurately Predicts Amino Acid to Codon Pairing	21
Scaling up Functional Analyses of the G Protein-Coupled Receptor Rhodopsin	19
Unusual Evolution of Cephalopod Tryptophan Indole-Lyases	17
Embracing Complexity: Yeast Evolution Experiments Featuring Standing Genetic Variation	17
Screening for Viruses in Pallas’s Long-Tongued Bats (Glossophaga soricina) in Brazil	16
The Ancient Origins of Death Domains Support the ‘Original Sin’ Hypothesis for the Evolution of Programmed Cell Death	14
Odorant-Binding and Chemosensory Proteins in Fig Wasps: Evolutionary Insights From Comparative Studies	13
Post-Subfunctionalization Functions of HIF-1αA and HIF-1αB in Cyprinid Fish: Fine-Tuning Mitophagy and Apoptosis Regulation Under Hypoxic Stress	13
An Ultimate Question for Functional A-to-I mRNA Editing: Why Not a Genomic G?	13
Learning from the Codon Table: Convergent Recoding Provides Novel Understanding on the Evolution of A-to-I RNA Editing	13
Evaluating Pretrained Protein Language Model Embeddings as Proxies for Functional Similarity	13
Overlaps Between CDS Regions of Protein-Coding Genes in the Human Genome: A Case Study on the NR1D1-THRA Gene Pair	13
Understanding Functional Evolution in Orthologs and Paralogs	12
MEGA 12.1: Cross-Platform Release for macOS and Linux Operating Systems	12
Organophosphorus Compound Formation Through the Oxidation of Reduced Oxidation State Phosphorus Compounds on the Hadean Earth	12
dN/dS-H, a New Test to Distinguish Different Selection Modes in Protein Evolution and Cancer Evolution	11
Phylogenetic and Evolutionary Analysis of Plant Small RNA 2′-O-Methyltransferase (HEN1) Protein Family	11
On the Nature of the Last Common Ancestor: A Story from its Translation Machinery	11

Evolution of Transcript Abundance is Influenced by Indels in Protein Low Complexity Regions	11
Systematic Detection of Alternative Open Reading Frames (altORFs) in Cancer Driver Genes	10
Molecular Footprints on Osmoregulation-Related Genes Associated with Freshwater Colonization by Cetaceans and Sirenians	9
Biochemical Property Based Positional Matrix: A New Approach Towards Genome Sequence Comparison	9
On Protein Loops, Prior Molecular States and Common Ancestors of Life	9
A Closer Look at Non-random Patterns Within Chemistry Space for a Smaller, Earlier Amino Acid Alphabet	9
Possible Acquisition and Molecular Evolution of vpu Genes Inferred from Comprehensive Sequence Analysis of Human and Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses	9
Reconstructing Evolutionary Histories with Hierarchical Orthologous Groups	8
Adaptation and Exaptation: From Small Molecules to Feathers	8
The Last Universal Common Ancestor of Ribosome-Encoding Organisms: Portrait of LUCA	8
The De Novo Emergence of Two Brain Genes in the Human Lineage Appears to be Unsupported	8
Functional Diversity of the Lepidopteran ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters	8
Cystathionine Gamma-Lyase: A Potential Longevity Gene Under Selection?	8
Conservation of Protein Kinase A Substrates in the Cnidarian Coral Spermatozoa Among Animals and Their Molecular Evolution	8
Evolution of the Metazoan Protein Domain Repertoire Revealed by a Birth-Death-Gain Model	8
Understanding the Origin and Evolution of Tea (Camellia sinensis [L.]): Genomic Advances in Tea	8
RNA or DNA? Revisiting the Chemical Nature of the Cenancestral Genome	8
Evolution and Functional Diversification of Serine Racemase Homologs in Bacteria	7
Best Practices in Designing, Sequencing, and Identifying Random DNA Barcodes	7
Informatic Capabilities of Translation and Its Implications for the Origins of Life	7
Reduction of Tooth Replacement Disproportionately Affects the Evolution of Enamel Matrix Proteins	7
Codon Usage Evolution in Viruses: Implications for Survival and Pathogenicity	7
Correction: Reconstructing Evolutionary Histories with Hierarchical Orthologous Groups	7
A New View of the Last Universal Common Ancestor	7
Biothermodynamics of Hemoglobin and Red Blood Cells: Analysis of Structure and Evolution of Hemoglobin and Red Blood Cells, Based on Molecular and Empirical Formulas, Biosynthesis Reactions, and Therm	7
EasyDIVER + : An Advanced Tool for Analyzing High Throughput Sequencing Data from In Vitro Evolution of Nucleic Acids or Amino Acids	7
GC Content Across Insect Genomes: Phylogenetic Patterns, Causes and Consequences	7
A Law of Redundancy Compounds the Problem of Cancer and Precision Medicine	6
Promiscuous Domains in Eukaryotes and HAT Proteins in FUNGI Have Followed Different Evolutionary Paths	6
Deep Conservation and Unexpected Evolutionary History of Neighboring lncRNAs MALAT1 and NEAT1	6
Correction: Sequence Divergence in Venom Genes Within and Between Montane Pitviper (Viperidae: Crotalinae: Cerrophidion) Species is Driven by Mutation–Drift Equilibrium	6
Caspase Domain Duplication During the Evolution of Caspase-16	6
Analysis of the MCTP Amino Acid Sequence Reveals the Conservation of Putative Calcium- and Lipid-Binding Pockets Within the C2 Domains In Silico	6
PAReTT: A Python Package for the Automated Retrieval and Management of Divergence Time Data from the TimeTree Resource for Downstream Analyses	6
FEZF2 and AIRE1: An Evolutionary Trade-off in the Elimination of Auto-reactive T Cells in the Thymus	6
Evolutionary Nonindependence Between Human piRNAs and Their Potential Target Sites in Protein-Coding Genes	5
Correlated Evolution Drives Structural Convergence of Interacting Proteins	5
Correction: Principles of Molecular Evolution: Concepts from Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics for the Multilevel Theory of Learning	5
Co-evolution of alpha-helical transmembrane protein residues: large-scale variant profiling and complete mutational landscape of 2277 known PDB entries representing 504 unique human protein sequences	5
Tracking the Diversity and Chromosomal Distribution of the Olfactory Receptor Gene Repertoires of Three Anurans Species	5
Main Factors Shaping Amino Acid Usage Across Evolution	5
Evidence for Multiple Independent Expansions of Fox Gene Families Within Flatworms	5
Putative MutS2 Homologs in Algae: More Goods in Shopping Bag?	5
Selection Pressure Regulates the Evolution-Structure–Function Paradigm of Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein Family	5
APGW/AKH Precursor from Rotifer Brachionus plicatilis and the DNA Loss Model Explain Evolutionary Trends of the Neuropeptide LWamide, APGWamide, RPCH, AKH, ACP, CRZ, and GnRH Families	5
Origins and Functional Significance of Eukaryotic Protein Folds	5
OrthoGrafter: Rapid Identification of Orthologs from Precomputed Placement in Phylogenetic Trees	5
Is the Association of the Rare rs35667974 IFIH1 Gene Polymorphism With Autoimmune Diseases a Case of RNA Epigenetics?	5
The Mystery of Cancer Resistance: A Revelation Within Nature	5
Transposable Element Diversity Remains High in Gigantic Genomes	5