OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Biological Rhythms 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Molecular Circadian Clock Is a Target of Anti-cancer Translation Inhibitors	238
Comments on Block et al., Pittendrigh Remembered, 2023	105
Circadian Rhythms in Fear Extinction Recall Depend on the Time of Day of Extinction Recall, Not the Time of Day of Extinction Learning	52
Estradiol Regulates Circadian Responses to Acute and Constant Light Exposure in Female Mice	29
Time of Day of Vaccination Does Not Associate With SARS–CoV–2 Antibody Titer Following First Dose of mRNA COVID–19 Vaccine	26
Using Polygenic Scores for Circadian Rhythms to Predict Wellbeing, Depressive Symptoms, Chronotype, and Health	24
Chronic Alcohol Consumption Disrupts the Skeletal Muscle Circadian Clock in Female Mice	21
Voluntary Wheel Running Exercise Does Not Attenuate Circadian and Cardiac Dysfunction Caused by Conditional Deletion of Bmal1	21
Bright Light Decreases Peripheral Skin Temperature in Healthy Men: A Forced Desynchrony Study Under Dim and Bright Light (II)	20
Tracking Daily Variations in Rest-Wake to Guide Personalized Timing of Temozolomide for High-Grade Glioma Patients	20
Twenty-four-hour Skin Temperature Rhythms in Young People With Emerging Mood Disorders: Relationships With Illness Subtypes and Clinical Stage	20
The Reindeer Circadian Clock Is Rhythmic and Temperature-compensated But Shows Evidence of Weak Coupling Between the Secondary and Core Molecular Clock Loops	19
The Association of Time of Day of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Vaccine Administration With SARS-CoV-2 Anti-Spike IgG Antibody Levels: An Exploratory Observational Study	19
Direct Temperature Responses of Bmal1 and Per2 in Reindeer Fibroblasts: Insight Into a Unique Circadian Clock Adaptation to Polar Environm	18
Circadian Control of Glial Cell Homeodynamics	18
A Detailed Re-Examination of the Period Gene Rescue Experiments Shows That Four to Six Cryptochrome-Positive Posterior Dorsal Clock Neurons (DN_1p) of Drosophila melanogaster C	15
Lunar Cycle Influences Production of Tilapia (Oreochromis spp) Eggs in an Intensive Outdoor Production System in the Tropics	14
Modeling of Jet Lag and Searching for an Optimal Light Treatment	14
A Phenomenological Mouse Circadian Pacemaker Model	12
Sleep Deprivation Does not Change the Flash Electroretinogram in Wild-type and Opn4^−/−Gnat1^−/− Mice	11
The Food-entrainable Oscillator Is a Complex of Non-SCN Activity Bout Oscillators Uncoupled From the SCN Circadian Pacemaker	11
How Light at Night Sets the Circalunar Clock in the Marine Midge Clunio marinus	11
Enhanced Circadian Phase Tracking: A 5-h DLMO Sampling Protocol Using Wearable Data	10
Long-Term Imaging Reveals a Circadian Rhythm of Intracellular Chloride in Neurons of the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus	10
Menstrual Cycle Variations in Wearable-Detected Finger Temperature and Heart Rate, But Not in Sleep Metrics, in Young and Midlife Individuals	10

Diurnal Changes in Capecitabine Clock-Controlled Metabolism Enzymes Are Responsible for Its Pharmacokinetics in Male Mice	10
Methods for Detecting PER2:LUCIFERASE Bioluminescence Rhythms in Freely Moving Mice	10
Circadian Medicine Education: The Time Has Arrived	10
Wolfgang Engelmann: Passionate Researcher, Teacher, and Artist (26 February 1934 to 1 July 2023)	10
The Combination of Topological Data Analysis and Mathematical Modeling Improves Sleep Stage Prediction From Consumer-Grade Wearables	9
Divergent Circadian Foraging Strategies in Response to Diurnal Predation Versus Persistent Rain in Asian Weaver Ant, Oecophylla smaragdina, Suggest Possible Energetic Trade-offs	9
Antisense Transcription of the Neurospora Frequency Gene Is Rhythmically Regulated by CSP-1 Repressor but Dispensable for Clock Function	9
Longitudinal Location Influences Preference for Daylight Saving Time	9
The Free-Running Circasemilunar Period Is Determined by Counting Circadian Clock Cycles in the Marine Midge Clunio Marinus	9
Focusing on Excellence: An Interview With Dr. Charlotte Helfrich-Förster	9
Characterizing Gun Violence by Time, Day of the Week, Holidays, and Month in 6 US Cities, 2015-2021	8
Dosing Time of Day Impacts the Safety of Antiarrhythmic Drugs in a Computational Model of Cardiac Electrophysiology	8
Investigating the Roles for Essential Genes in the Regulation of the Circadian Clock in Synechococcus elongatus Using CRISPR Interference	8
Time of Day of BNT162b2 COVID-19 Immunization Affects Total SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Levels but Not Neutralizing Activity	8
Biological Fluid Flows: Signaling Mediums for Circadian Timing	8
Daylength Shapes Entrainment Patterns to Artificial Photoperiods in a Subterranean Rodent	8
Scheduled Exercise Partially Offsets Alcohol-Induced Clock Dysfunction in Skeletal Muscle and Liver of Female Mice	8
Field-Based Assessments of Behavioral Patterns During Shiftwork in Police Academy Trainees Using Wearable Technology	7
Automated Batch Processing of Diurnal Cardiac Activity: Comparison of Fully Automated Batch- to Gold-Standard Manual Processing	7
Modeling the Effects of Napping and Non-napping Patterns of Light Exposure on the Human Circadian Oscillator	7
Are We Finding Functional or Merely Statistically Significant Rhythms?	7
Takao Kondo	7
Modified Wavelet Analyses Permit Quantification of Dynamic Interactions Between Ultradian and Circadian Rhythms	7
Diurnal Variation in SARS-CoV-2 PCR Test Results: Test Accuracy May Vary by Time of Day	7
Detecting Rhythmic Gene Expression in Single-cell Transcriptomics	7
Environmental Light Controls the Daily Organization of Breathing by Activating Brn3b-expressing Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells in Mice	7
The Associations of Chronotype and Shift Work With Rheumatoid Arthritis	7
Cell-Type-Specific Circadian Bioluminescence Rhythms in Dbp Reporter Mice	6
Central and Peripheral Clock Control of Circadian Feeding Rhythms	6
GABA Neurotransmission of the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Is Modified During Rat Postnatal Development	6
Functional Analyses of Four Cryptochromes From Aquatic Organisms After Heterologous Expression in Drosophila melanogaster Circadian Clock Cells	6
Transient Cooling Resets Circadian Rhythms of Locomotor Activity in Lizards	6
The Circadian Response to Evening Light Spectra in Early Childhood: Preliminary Insights	6
Feeding- and Light-Cycle Synergistically Regulate Mouse Blood Pressure Daily Rhythm via Bmal1-Dependent and Independent Mechanisms	6
Practical Advice on Measuring and Applying Light for Laboratory Mammals	6
A Data-Informed Perspective on Public Preferences for Retaining or Abolishing Biannual Clock Changes	6
Nitecap: An Exploratory Circadian Analysis Web Application	6
Effects of Food Availability Cycles on Phase and Period of Activity-rest Rhythm in Drosophila melanogaster	6
Circadian Rhythms, Disease and Chronotherapy	6
Sex Inclusion in Transcriptome Studies of Daily Rhythms	5
Time of Day of Vaccination Affects SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Responses in an Observational Study of Health Care Workers	5
Persistence of Nocturnality in Decapitated and Bisected Flatworms	5
Chronic Phase Shifts Are Associated With Higher Systolic Blood Pressure and Impaired Glucose Tolerance Independently of Estrogen Deficiency in Female Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats	5
Corrigendum to “Transcriptomic plasticity of the circadian clock in response to photoperiod: A study in male melatonin-competent mice”	5
Sex Differences in Pubertal Circadian and Ultradian Rhythmic Development Under Semi-naturalistic Conditions	5
Using Wearable Skin Temperature Data to Advance Tracking and Characterization of the Menstrual Cycle in a Real-World Setting	5
Sleep Identification Enabled by Supervised Training Algorithms (SIESTA): An Open-Source Platform for Automatic Sleep Staging of Rodent Electrocorticographic and Electromyographic Data	5
The Neuropeptide PDF Is Crucial for Delaying the Phase of Drosophila’s Evening Neurons Under Long Zeitgeber Periods	5
The Mouse Estrus and Circadian Cycles Interact to Influence Behavioral Rhythms: Relevance to the Menstrual Cycle in Humans	4
School Attendance, Chronotype, and Day-of-the-Week Effect in Adolescent Male Basketball Players	4

Connecting the Dots: Potential Interactions Between Sex Hormones and the Circadian System During Memory Consolidation	4
Sex Differences in Circadian Timing and Biological Night in Adolescents	4
Incorporating Physical Activity in a New Two-Oscillator Model of Circadian Activity in Nocturnal and Diurnal Mammals	4
Vasculature of the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus: Pathways for Diffusible Output Signals	4
PHASE: An Open-Source Program for the Analysis of DrosophilaPhase, Activity, and Sleep Under Entrainment	4
Chronotype and Sleep Timing by Race-Gender: The CARDIA Sleep Study	4
Chronic Social Defeat Stress Shifts Peripheral Circadian Clocks in Male Mice in a Tissue-Specific and Time-of-Day Dependent Fashion	4
Plasticity in Photoperiodism: Drosophila montana Females Have a Life-Long Ability to Switch From Reproduction to Diapause	4
Overlapping Central Clock Network Circuitry Regulates Circadian Feeding and Activity Rhythms in Drosophila	4
Mathematical Analysis of Light-sensitivity Related Challenges in Assessment of the Intrinsic Period of the Human Circadian Pacemaker	4
Friedrich K. Stephan. 1941-2023: Curt Richter Professor of Psychology, Florida State University, 1972-2006	4
Caenorhabditis elegans as a Promising Model Organism in Chronobiology	4
One Health: Circadian Medicine Benefits Both Non-human Animals and Humans Alike	4
The Negative Effects of Travel on Student Athletes Through Sleep and Circadian Disruption	3
Time of Day-Dependent Responses to Cisplatin Treatment in a Male Mouse Model of Hepatoma	3
Circadian Adaptation of Melatonin and Cortisol in Police Officers Working Rotating Shifts	3
A Subset of Circadian Neurons Expressing dTRPA1 Enables Appropriate Phasing of Activity Rhythms in Drosophila melanogaster Under Warm Temperatures	3
Journal Club Commentaries: An Invitation for Chronobiology Trainees to Share Their Ideas	3
Sleep of Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Role of Atypical Work Schedules: A Scoping Review	3
Generation and Disruption of Circadian Rhythms in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus: A Core-Shell Model	3
Circadian Responses to Light in the BTBR Mouse	3
Bacteria and Bellicosity: Photoperiodic Shifts in Gut Microbiota Drive Seasonal Aggressive Behavior in Male Siberian Hamsters	3
A Naturalistic Actigraphic Assessment of Changes in Adolescent Sleep, Light Exposure, and Activity Before and During COVID-19	3
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome in Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial on the Effects of Chronotherapy on Sleep	3
Perinatal Photoperiod Has Long-Term Effects on the Rest-Activity Cycle and Sleep in Male and Female Mice	3
Spontaneous Recovery of Circadian Organization in Mice Lacking a Core Component of the Molecular Clockwork	3
Iterative Metaplasticity Across Timescales: How Circadian, Ultradian, and Infradian Rhythms Modulate Memory Mechanisms	3
Modern Language for Modern Circadian Biologists: The End of the “Slave” Oscillator	3
The Estrous Cycle Coordinates the Circadian Rhythm of Eating Behavior in Mice	3
Evaluating the Adaptive Fitness of Circadian Clocks and their Evolution	3
The Circadian Clock, the Brain, and COVID-19: The Cases of Olfaction and the Timing of Sleep	3