OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Science is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Are algorithmic bias claims supported?—Response	3100
NASA launches spacecraft to a mysterious metal-rich asteroid	2852
Magellanic cloud may be two galaxies, not one	2247
Stepping out of my comfort zone	1561
When less is more in the evolution of language	1484
Genomic research data and the justice system—Response	1228
Q&A with Mani L. Bhaumik	1208
We are worthy	1169
Tumors can teem with microbes. But what are they doing there?	1153
Mammals responded to reduced road traffic	1100
Bold ideas, daunting challenges Grace in All Simplicity Robert N. Cahn and Chris Quigg Pegasus, 2023. 400 pp.	1099
News at a glance	947
In Science Journals	939
News at a glance	933
Uranus should be NASA’s top target, report finds	921
A quantum sense for dark matter	901
Catalog of bird shapes yields ecological ‘gold mine’	860
Biden’s 2023 budget request for science aims high—again	839
Filling the gaps	824
Mars’s magnetic field was long-lived, reversible	788
A science superpower in the wings?	761
Back in person, back to the races	743
The pandemic whistleblower	738
In Science Journals	733
Vote against Amazon deforestation in Brazil	732

Universities are not political prizes	723
New Products	716
Lost and found Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation Christopher Kemp Norton, 2022. 256 pp.	699
China’s research enterprise undergoes shake-up	690
The first but not the last	680
Summer reading 2023 In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems , Giorgio Parisi , Penguin Press, 2023, 144 pp. <	678
Twice the tolerance	671
Pandemic spotlight brings attention—and plenty of heat	661
Mouse stem cells grown into embryo mimics	658
Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African	646
Childhood vaccine crusader shares concerns for future	637
News at a glance	606
Finding my community	597
Before tunnel collapse, scientists sent warnings	588
Spatial thinkers receive their due Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions Temple Grandin Riverh	582
In Other Journals	575
San Andreas fault may shake less than once feared	567
In Science Journals	564
Pakistan’s turtle species at risk of extinction	551
Staving off cell death	542
Mining threatens health of Panama’s environment	536
Mars rover detects long-chain carbon molecules	533
News at a glance	532
The Asiatic cheetah’s road to extinction	521
‘America first’ could affect health worldwide	515
Racing the clock	513
In Other Journals	492
Tech companies liable for illegal wildlife trade	491
A BARRage of firing while asleep	486
Legal rhino horn trade: A thorny proposition	486
Congo calling	482
To reduce ‘reputational bias,’ NIH may revamp grant scoring	481
Redo college intro science	480
Once reluctant, new NIH chief Monica Bertagnolli embraces role	477
Hearing the seas Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water Amorina Kingdon Crown, 2024. 336 pp.	477
Indonesia’s utopian new capital may not be as green as it looks	473
New Products	469
Given the same data, ecologists arrive at different conclusions	469
Plans for U.S. bat lab spark outbreak fears	467
In Other Journals	465
News at a glance	462
Improve trans policies in Brazil’s universities	462
In Science Journals	461
Congo’s mpox crisis	461
Communicating my value	448
Failure to replicate Anatomy of a Train Wreck: The Rise and Fall of Priming Research Ruth Leys University of Chicago Press, 2024. 416 pp.	443
What tore apart The Lancet ’s COVID-19 origin probe?	443
Thermal acclimation of stem respiration implies a weaker carbon-climate feedback	434
John I. Brauman (1937–2024)	421
Caloric restriction has a new player	421

Revisiting the mid-Pleistocene transition ocean circulation crisis	420
Engineering better artificial chromosomes	419
In Other Journals	417
Squirrels in Ivory Coast may be an animal reservoir for mpox	414
Implementing equitable wildfire response plans	411
The material properties of chromatin in vivo	410
Pandemic-inspired policies	410
Tethering gene regulation to chromatin organization	405
In Other Journals	403
Airport plan imperils South Korea’s tidal flat	402
Breaking the silence	400
New origin of life theory may explain biomolecular handedness	397
How does cancer affect motivation?	396
Electric double-layer synthesis of a spongelike, lightweight reticular membrane	394
Glacial melt due to global warming is triggering earthquakes	392
The bumpy road to friction control	385
Roger Searle Payne (1935–2023)	385
Auditors can’t save carbon offsets	382
Particle toxicity’s role in air pollution	382
Organelles share the load	379
Extending ketamine’s antidepressant effects	373
Macrophage-derived oncostatin M repairs the lung epithelial barrier during inflammatory damage	373
COVID-19 and children	372
Gametophyte genome activation occurs at pollen mitosis I in maize	366
WHO and USAID budget cuts hurt the US	364
Role of protein kinase PLK1 in the epigenetic maintenance of centromeres	363
STEM must meet people where they are	363
A strange fascination	361
Radiocarbon dates revise histories of Indigenous societies	360
Solid electrolytes redefine ion conduction	359
Molecular evolution of sour tolerance in birds	358
Arterial pulses link heart-brain oscillations	358
Neural implants without brain surgery	356
Skin side effects stymie advance of HIV vaccine	354
Bad news for Paxlovid? Resistance may be coming	353
Invisible matter, invisible brains?	350
A case for altruistic cities	348
Erratum for the Review “Addressing interconnect challenges for enhanced computing performance” by J.-S. Kim et al .	348
Accelerating agricultural innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean: The crucial role of public investment data in science	347
Erratum for the Research Article “Latrophilin GPCRs direct synapse specificity by coincident binding of FLRTs and teneurins” by R. Sando et al .	347
Ancient Borrelia genomes document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever	346
Evolutionary convergence of sensory circuits in the pallium of amniotes	343
Comment on “Human TKTL1 implies greater neurogenesis in frontal neocortex of modern humans than Neanderthals”	343
Erratum for the Research Article “Structural basis for strychnine activation of human bitter taste receptor TAS2R46” by W. Xu et al .	343
Erratum for the Report “Synthetic transcription elongation factors license transcription across repressive chromatin” by G. S. Erwin et al .	341
Thermal radiation with a twist	338
Pain-resolving microglia	336
Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip	333
Mimicking polar bear hairs in aerogel fibers	332
Plastics treaty text must center ecosystems	331
Policy reforms for antibiotic use claims in livestock	331
Shot noise in a strange metal	329
Observing the quantum topology of light	328
Keep it simple and switch to pure tellurium	326
Controlled colonization of the human gut with a genetically engineered microbial therapeutic	325
Indigenizing conservation science for a sustainable Amazon	323
The increasing effects of light pollution on professional and amateur astronomy	323
COVID-19 is surging again—with far fewer serious cases	320
Quantum interference in atom-exchange reactions	318
The hottest year was even hotter than expected	318
The many faces of anthropogenic subsidence	318
Retrograde endocannabinoid signaling at inhibitory synapses in vivo	312
Data-based tools can prevent crowd crushes	311
Prefrontal synaptic regulation of homeostatic sleep pressure revealed through synaptic chemogenetics	310
Negative refraction in hyperbolic hetero-bicrystals	309
Tectonic degassing drove global temperature trends since 20 Ma	308
Molecular recorders to track cellular events	307
A molecular machine directs the synthesis of a catenane	306
Mandrel-free fabrication of giant spring-index and stroke muscles for diverse applications	306
Toward gallium oxide power electronics	306
The sugar cube: Network control and emergence in stereoediting reactions	306
Strong interactions and isospin symmetry breaking in a supermoiré lattice	305
A host-adapted auxotrophic gut symbiont induces mucosal immunodeficiency	303
Crows “count” the number of self-generated vocalizations	296
Revisiting the human sociobiology debate Sociobiology: The New Synthesis Edward O. Wilson Harvard University Press, 1975. 697 pp.	294
Increasing global human exposure to wildland fires despite declining burned area	294
Muscle repair after physiological damage relies on nuclear migration for cellular reconstruction	293
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for ventilation and indoor air quality	291
Variability of flowing stream network length across the US	291
Strong damped Lyman-α absorption in young star-forming galaxies at redshifts 9 to 11	290

Spin-down by dynamo action in simulated radiative stellar layers	289
Mental programming of spatial sequences in working memory in the macaque frontal cortex	287
RNA drugs custommade for rare diseases face wider test	287
Toward a low-carbon transition in India	287
Emerging patterns in rodent-borne zoonotic diseases	285
Emission lines due to ionizing radiation from a compact object in the remnant of Supernova 1987A	284
Reliable earthquake precursors?	284
Panama must protect mangroves and peatlands	283
Large library docking identifies positive allosteric modulators of the calcium-sensing receptor	282
Pervasive incomplete lineage sorting illuminates speciation and selection in primates	281
A two-phase model that unifies and extends the classical models of membrane transport	280
The evolution of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils	279
Levitodynamics: Levitation and control of microscopic objects in vacuum	278
A silicone-based support material eliminates interfacial instabilities in 3D silicone printing	276
Total synthesis of (−)-cylindrocyclophane A facilitated by C−H functionalization	275
Biocatalytic C–H oxidation meets radical cross-coupling: Simplifying complex piperidine synthesis	274
Sex and gender essentialism in textbooks	274
Remote steric control for undirected meta -selective C–H activation of arenes	273
Allylic C–H amination cross-coupling furnishes tertiary amines by electrophilic metal catalysis	273
Isotopic and compositional constraints on the source of basalt collected from the lunar farside	273
Chemical remodeling of a cellular chaperone to target the active state of mutant KRAS	272
Using machine learning to decode animal communication	271
Wastewater surveillance for public health	271
Cavity-enabled enhancement of ultrafast intramolecular vibrational redistribution over pseudorotation	271
Fork coupling directs DNA replication elongation and termination	271
Circularly polarized electroluminescence from chiral supramolecular semiconductor thin films	271
Forest fight	271
Edge learning using a fully integrated neuro-inspired memristor chip	271
Active-reset protein sensors enable continuous in vivo monitoring of inflammation	270
Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO ₂	269
Origin and fate of the pseudogap in the doped Hubbard model	269
Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture	268
Deep-sea impacts of climate interventions	268
Coherent perfect absorption at an exceptional point	268
Preparing for “Disease X”	267
Molecular cascades and cell type–specific signatures in ASD revealed by single-cell genomics	267
Commensal bacteria promote endocrine resistance in prostate cancer through androgen biosynthesis	267
Unveiling facet-dependent degradation and facet engineering for stable perovskite solar cells	266
Accessing pluripotent materials through tempering of dynamic covalent polymer networks	265
Cell division in tissues enables macrophage infiltration	265
Time to support Indigenous science	263
Transgenic fish invades Brazilian streams	262
Tumor necrosis factor induces pathogenic mitochondrial ROS in tuberculosis through reverse electron transport	261
Neuromedin U programs eosinophils to promote mucosal immunity of the small intestine	261
Sabatier principle of metal-support interaction for design of ultrastable metal nanocatalysts	260
Slow rupture in a fluid-rich fault zone initiated the 2024 M _w 7.5 Noto earthquake	259
Structural basis for odorant recognition of the insect odorant receptor OR-Orco heterocomplex	259
Nuclear pores dilate and constrict in cellulo	259
Spatial-CUT&Tag: Spatially resolved chromatin modification profiling at the cellular level	257
Mineralization generates megapascal contractile stresses in collagen fibrils	257
Evidence of spillover benefits from large-scale marine protected areas to purse seine fisheries	257
Chiral emission from resonant metasurfaces	257
Compartment-specific tuning of dendritic feature selectivity by intracellular Ca ²⁺ release	256
Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections	256
Light-induced mobile factors from shoots regulate rhizobium-triggered soybean root nodulation	255
Structure of human PINK1 at a mitochondrial TOM-VDAC array	254
Stereoselective amino acid synthesis by synergistic photoredox-pyridoxal radical biocatalysis	254
SOX9 switch links regeneration to fibrosis at the single-cell level in mammalian kidneys	253
Accelerated aging of all-inorganic, interface-stabilized perovskite solar cells	252
Mechanically robust and stretchable organic solar cells plasticized by small-molecule acceptors	252
Vitamin D regulates microbiome-dependent cancer immunity	247
Fast and destructive density currents created by ocean-entering volcanic eruptions	247
Inactive (PbI ₂ ) ₂ RbCl stabilizes perovskite films for efficient solar cells	246
Atomic faulting induced exceptional cryogenic strain hardening in gradient cell–structured alloy	246
Synchronous recognition of amines in oxidative carbonylation toward unsymmetrical ureas	245
North American bird declines are greatest where species are most abundant	244
Group 2 innate lymphoid cells promote inhibitory synapse development and social behavior	244
Trypanosome doublet microtubule structures reveal flagellum assembly and motility mechanisms	243
The histone H3.1 variant regulates TONSOKU-mediated DNA repair during replication	242
Confronting risks of mirror life	242
Olfactory receptor 2 in vascular macrophages drives atherosclerosis by NLRP3-dependent IL-1 production	242
Experiencing science The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson MIT Press, 2024. 328 pp	241
Research beneficiaries speak	241
Eugene N. Parker (1927–2022)	240
Indonesia tightens grip on conservation science	237
Funders, diversify research grant awards	236
Rising seas endanger maritime heritage	236
Speaking for myself	235
Australia’s biodiversity crisis and opportunity	234
In Science Journals	233
Sharp shift in ice age rhythm pinned to carbon dioxide	232
New Products	232
Taliban decree deepens Afghanistan’s health crisis	231
No longer an island	231
Shore patrol	230
News at a glance	229
Strong El Niños primed Earth for mass extinction	229
In Science Journals	226
Why the ‘Ferrari of viruses’ is surging	225
Comic relief	224
Face readers	223
Ocean drillers exhume a bounty of mantle rocks	223
India’s ocean exploration undermines climate goals	223
Morality in a more-than-human world The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why Jeff Sebo Norton, 2025. 192 pp. Animals, Robot	222
Australia’s inadequate marine protection	222