OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Genetics is 32. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Awesome Power of Human Genetics of Infectious Disease	198
The Clockwork Embryo: Mechanisms Regulating Developmental Rate	144
Gametogenesis: Exploring an Endogenous Rejuvenation Program to Understand Cellular Aging and Quality Control	90
DREAM On: Cell Cycle Control in Development and Disease	89
The Nature and Nurture of Extracellular Vesicle–Mediated Signaling	79
Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Pathogens	53
Population Genomic Scans for Natural Selection and Demography	50
Revelations About Aging and Disease from Unconventional Vertebrate Model Organisms	49
Unlocking the Complex Cell Biology of Coral–Dinoflagellate Symbiosis: A Model Systems Approach	47
Functional Diversification of Chromatin on Rapid Evolutionary Timescales	47
Perfecting Targeting in CRISPR	46
Green Algal Models for Multicellularity	46
Decoding the Spermatogenesis Program: New Insights from Transcriptomic Analyses	45
	45
The Genetics of Autophagy in Multicellular Organisms	44
Finding Needles in the Haystack: Strategies for Uncovering Noncoding Regulatory Variants	43
RNA Repair: Hiding in Plain Sight	39
Mechanisms Underlying the Formation and Evolution of Vertebrate Color Patterns	37
Architecture and Dynamics of Meiotic Chromosomes	37
Pooled Genome-Scale CRISPR Screens in Single Cells	36
A Functional Dissection of the mRNA and Locally Synthesized Protein Population in Neuronal Dendrites and Axons	36
Recombination Rate Variation in Social Insects: An Adaptive Perspective	35
The Prokaryotic Roots of Eukaryotic Immune Systems	32
Apoptotic and Nonapoptotic Cell Death in Caenorhabditis elegans Development	32