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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Are algorithmic bias claims supported?—Response	3223
NASA launches spacecraft to a mysterious metal-rich asteroid	3041
Magellanic cloud may be two galaxies, not one	2306
Stepping out of my comfort zone	1597
When less is more in the evolution of language	1512
Genomic research data and the justice system—Response	1265
Q&A with Mani L. Bhaumik	1251
We are worthy	1219
Tumors can teem with microbes. But what are they doing there?	1192
Mammals responded to reduced road traffic	1168
Bold ideas, daunting challenges Grace in All Simplicity Robert N. Cahn and Chris Quigg Pegasus, 2023. 400 pp.	1164
News at a glance	986
In Science Journals	964
News at a glance	946
Uranus should be NASA’s top target, report finds	939
A quantum sense for dark matter	930
Catalog of bird shapes yields ecological ‘gold mine’	884
Biden’s 2023 budget request for science aims high—again	879
Filling the gaps	878
Mars’s magnetic field was long-lived, reversible	831
A science superpower in the wings?	785
Back in person, back to the races	771
The pandemic whistleblower	764
In Science Journals	762
Vote against Amazon deforestation in Brazil	757

Universities are not political prizes	741
New Products	733
Lost and found Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation Christopher Kemp Norton, 2022. 256 pp.	732
China’s research enterprise undergoes shake-up	726
The first but not the last	700
Summer reading 2023 In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems , Giorgio Parisi , Penguin Press, 2023, 144 pp. <	690
Pandemic spotlight brings attention—and plenty of heat	688
Twice the tolerance	688
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	656
Childhood vaccine crusader shares concerns for future	628
News at a glance	618
Finding my community	612
Before tunnel collapse, scientists sent warnings	602
Spatial thinkers receive their due Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions Temple Grandin Riverh	594
In Other Journals	588
In Science Journals	567
San Andreas fault may shake less than once feared	567
Pakistan’s turtle species at risk of extinction	561
Staving off cell death	552
Mining threatens health of Panama’s environment	551
Mars rover detects long-chain carbon molecules	547
News at a glance	538
The Asiatic cheetah’s road to extinction	532
‘America first’ could affect health worldwide	528
Racing the clock	524
In Other Journals	509
Tech companies liable for illegal wildlife trade	508
Legal rhino horn trade: A thorny proposition	505
A BARRage of firing while asleep	504
Keep it simple and switch to pure tellurium	503
Quantum interference in atom-exchange reactions	502
Origin and fate of the pseudogap in the doped Hubbard model	499
Total synthesis of (−)-cylindrocyclophane A facilitated by C−H functionalization	499
Congo calling	497
Redo college intro science	490
Hearing the seas Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water Amorina Kingdon Crown, 2024. 336 pp.	489
Indonesia’s utopian new capital may not be as green as it looks	487
New Products	479
Given the same data, ecologists arrive at different conclusions	477
Plans for U.S. bat lab spark outbreak fears	474
In Other Journals	472
Improve trans policies in Brazil’s universities	471
News at a glance	461
In Science Journals	453
Congo’s mpox crisis	447
Communicating my value	438
Failure to replicate Anatomy of a Train Wreck: The Rise and Fall of Priming Research Ruth Leys University of Chicago Press, 2024. 416 pp.	437
Negative refraction in hyperbolic hetero-bicrystals	436
Accessing pluripotent materials through tempering of dynamic covalent polymer networks	434

Forest fight	433
Trypanosome doublet microtubule structures reveal flagellum assembly and motility mechanisms	432
Compartment-specific tuning of dendritic feature selectivity by intracellular Ca ²⁺ release	431
Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO ₂	426
Evidence of spillover benefits from large-scale marine protected areas to purse seine fisheries	424
Commensal bacteria promote endocrine resistance in prostate cancer through androgen biosynthesis	419
Large library docking identifies positive allosteric modulators of the calcium-sensing receptor	417
Time to support Indigenous science	417
Emerging patterns in rodent-borne zoonotic diseases	415
Pain-resolving microglia	412
Olfactory receptor 2 in vascular macrophages drives atherosclerosis by NLRP3-dependent IL-1 production	412
Preparing for “Disease X”	408
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for ventilation and indoor air quality	407
Mental programming of spatial sequences in working memory in the macaque frontal cortex	405
Particle toxicity’s role in air pollution	400
A host-adapted auxotrophic gut symbiont induces mucosal immunodeficiency	397
Retrograde endocannabinoid signaling at inhibitory synapses in vivo	389
Structural basis for odorant recognition of the insect odorant receptor OR-Orco heterocomplex	387
COVID-19 is surging again—with far fewer serious cases	386
Controlled colonization of the human gut with a genetically engineered microbial therapeutic	384
Tectonic degassing drove global temperature trends since 20 Ma	384
North American bird declines are greatest where species are most abundant	384
Group 2 innate lymphoid cells promote inhibitory synapse development and social behavior	383
The evolution of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils	378
Chemical remodeling of a cellular chaperone to target the active state of mutant KRAS	375
Structure of human PINK1 at a mitochondrial TOM-VDAC array	375
Data-based tools can prevent crowd crushes	374
Molecular recorders to track cellular events	369
Cell division in tissues enables macrophage infiltration	369
Strong interactions and isospin symmetry breaking in a supermoiré lattice	365
Revisiting the human sociobiology debate Sociobiology: The New Synthesis Edward O. Wilson Harvard University Press, 1975. 697 pp.	365
Reliable earthquake precursors?	363
RNA drugs custommade for rare diseases face wider test	363
Panama must protect mangroves and peatlands	360
The sugar cube: Network control and emergence in stereoediting reactions	358
John I. Brauman (1937–2024)	358
In Other Journals	355
Squirrels in Ivory Coast may be an animal reservoir for mpox	351
Tethering gene regulation to chromatin organization	350
The material properties of chromatin in vivo	350
Implementing equitable wildfire response plans	350
In Other Journals	348
Breaking the silence	347
Airport plan imperils South Korea’s tidal flat	347
New origin of life theory may explain biomolecular handedness	346
How does cancer affect motivation?	344
Glacial melt due to global warming is triggering earthquakes	342
Roger Searle Payne (1935–2023)	340
Auditors can’t save carbon offsets	338
The bumpy road to friction control	338
Organelles share the load	337
Macrophage-derived oncostatin M repairs the lung epithelial barrier during inflammatory damage	335
Extending ketamine’s antidepressant effects	332
STEM must meet people where they are	330
A strange fascination	329
Radiocarbon dates revise histories of Indigenous societies	322
Arterial pulses link heart-brain oscillations	321
Skin side effects stymie advance of HIV vaccine	320
Molecular evolution of sour tolerance in birds	320
Invisible matter, invisible brains?	319
A case for altruistic cities	318
Erratum for the Review “Addressing interconnect challenges for enhanced computing performance” by J.-S. Kim et al .	318
Erratum for the Research Article “Latrophilin GPCRs direct synapse specificity by coincident binding of FLRTs and teneurins” by R. Sando et al .	318
Accelerating agricultural innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean: The crucial role of public investment data in science	316
Comment on “Human TKTL1 implies greater neurogenesis in frontal neocortex of modern humans than Neanderthals”	315
Ancient Borrelia genomes document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever	315
Erratum for the Research Article “Structural basis for strychnine activation of human bitter taste receptor TAS2R46” by W. Xu et al .	315
Erratum for the Report “Synthetic transcription elongation factors license transcription across repressive chromatin” by G. S. Erwin et al .	311
Thermal radiation with a twist	310
Crows “count” the number of self-generated vocalizations	307
COVID-19 and children	299
Caloric restriction has a new player	299
Neural implants without brain surgery	299
What tore apart The Lancet ’s COVID-19 origin probe?	298
Prefrontal synaptic regulation of homeostatic sleep pressure revealed through synaptic chemogenetics	298
WHO and USAID budget cuts hurt the US	297
Cavity-enabled enhancement of ultrafast intramolecular vibrational redistribution over pseudorotation	297
Increasing global human exposure to wildland fires despite declining burned area	296
Policy reforms for antibiotic use claims in livestock	296
Biocatalytic C–H oxidation meets radical cross-coupling: Simplifying complex piperidine synthesis	295

Shot noise in a strange metal	294
Funding delays frustrate agricultural researchers	293
Harvard court victory leaves scientists feeling vindicated but uncertain	293
Revisiting the mid-Pleistocene transition ocean circulation crisis	293
Functional maps of a genomic locus reveal confinement of an enhancer by its target gene	292
Neuromedin U programs eosinophils to promote mucosal immunity of the small intestine	291
Evolutionary convergence of sensory circuits in the pallium of amniotes	290
To reduce ‘reputational bias,’ NIH may revamp grant scoring	289
Fork coupling directs DNA replication elongation and termination	289
Thermal acclimation of stem respiration implies a weaker carbon-climate feedback	286
The increasing effects of light pollution on professional and amateur astronomy	286
Pandemic-inspired policies	285
Electric double-layer synthesis of a spongelike, lightweight reticular membrane	284
Toward a low-carbon transition in India	284
Indigenizing conservation science for a sustainable Amazon	283
Engineering better artificial chromosomes	282
Synchronous recognition of amines in oxidative carbonylation toward unsymmetrical ureas	281
Isotopic and compositional constraints on the source of basalt collected from the lunar farside	281
Plastics treaty text must center ecosystems	280
A silicone-based support material eliminates interfacial instabilities in 3D silicone printing	280
Confronting risks of mirror life	278
The many faces of anthropogenic subsidence	278
Transgenic fish invades Brazilian streams	276
Observing the quantum topology of light	275
Wastewater surveillance for public health	275
The histone H3.1 variant regulates TONSOKU-mediated DNA repair during replication	275
Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip	274
Active-reset protein sensors enable continuous in vivo monitoring of inflammation	274
Gametophyte genome activation occurs at pollen mitosis I in maize	273
Muscle repair after physiological damage relies on nuclear migration for cellular reconstruction	273
Sex and gender essentialism in textbooks	272
The cosmic time machine on Long Island winds down	270
Spin-down by dynamo action in simulated radiative stellar layers	269
Solid electrolytes redefine ion conduction	269
Strong damped Lyman-α absorption in young star-forming galaxies at redshifts 9 to 11	268
Circularly polarized electroluminescence from chiral supramolecular semiconductor thin films	267
The hottest year was even hotter than expected	266
Stereoselective amino acid synthesis by synergistic photoredox-pyridoxal radical biocatalysis	265
Allylic C–H amination cross-coupling furnishes tertiary amines by electrophilic metal catalysis	264
Using machine learning to decode animal communication	263
Emission lines due to ionizing radiation from a compact object in the remnant of Supernova 1987A	263
Mimicking polar bear hairs in aerogel fibers	263
Mechanically robust and stretchable organic solar cells plasticized by small-molecule acceptors	262
Remote steric control for undirected meta -selective C–H activation of arenes	262
Molecular cascades and cell type–specific signatures in ASD revealed by single-cell genomics	261
Slow rupture in a fluid-rich fault zone initiated the 2024 M _w 7.5 Noto earthquake	260
Nuclear pores dilate and constrict in cellulo	259
Levitodynamics: Levitation and control of microscopic objects in vacuum	258
Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections	258
Pervasive incomplete lineage sorting illuminates speciation and selection in primates	256
Spatial-CUT&Tag: Spatially resolved chromatin modification profiling at the cellular level	255
Once reluctant, new NIH chief Monica Bertagnolli embraces role	254
A two-phase model that unifies and extends the classical models of membrane transport	253
Fast and destructive density currents created by ocean-entering volcanic eruptions	253
Chiral emission from resonant metasurfaces	252
Atomic faulting induced exceptional cryogenic strain hardening in gradient cell–structured alloy	248
A molecular machine directs the synthesis of a catenane	248
Toward gallium oxide power electronics	247
Deep-sea impacts of climate interventions	246
Accelerated aging of all-inorganic, interface-stabilized perovskite solar cells	245
Mandrel-free fabrication of giant spring-index and stroke muscles for diverse applications	245
Mineralization generates megapascal contractile stresses in collagen fibrils	245
Role of protein kinase PLK1 in the epigenetic maintenance of centromeres	245
Inactive (PbI ₂ ) ₂ RbCl stabilizes perovskite films for efficient solar cells	244
Vitamin D regulates microbiome-dependent cancer immunity	244
Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture	243
Variability of flowing stream network length across the US	243
Light-induced mobile factors from shoots regulate rhizobium-triggered soybean root nodulation	242
Tumor necrosis factor induces pathogenic mitochondrial ROS in tuberculosis through reverse electron transport	242
Unveiling facet-dependent degradation and facet engineering for stable perovskite solar cells	240
Edge learning using a fully integrated neuro-inspired memristor chip	240
Bad news for Paxlovid? Resistance may be coming	239
SOX9 switch links regeneration to fibrosis at the single-cell level in mammalian kidneys	239
Sabatier principle of metal-support interaction for design of ultrastable metal nanocatalysts	238
Research beneficiaries speak	237
Experiencing science The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson MIT Press, 2024. 328 pp	236
Eugene N. Parker (1927–2022)	235
Indonesia tightens grip on conservation science	235
Speaking for myself	234
Funders, diversify research grant awards	234
Australia’s biodiversity crisis and opportunity	231
Sharp shift in ice age rhythm pinned to carbon dioxide	229
In Science Journals	229
Taliban decree deepens Afghanistan’s health crisis	228
No longer an island	228
Shore patrol	228
New Products	228
Strong El Niños primed Earth for mass extinction	226
News at a glance	225
In Science Journals	225
Why the ‘Ferrari of viruses’ is surging	223
Comic relief	222
Ocean drillers exhume a bounty of mantle rocks	222
India’s ocean exploration undermines climate goals	222
Face readers	221