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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Molecular Circadian Clock Is a Target of Anti-cancer Translation Inhibitors	190
Impact of Simulated Rotating Shift Work on Mammary Tumor Development in the p53^R270H©/+WAPCre Mouse Model for Breast Cancer	86
Estradiol Regulates Circadian Responses to Acute and Constant Light Exposure in Female Mice	51
Use of Hidden Markov Models to Identify Behavioral Patterns in Accelerometry Data of Subterranean Rodents in Field Enclosures	26
Circadian Interactomics: How Research Into Protein-Protein Interactions Beyond the Core Clock Has Influenced the Model of Circadian Timekeeping	22
Divergent Circadian Foraging Strategies in Response to Diurnal Predation Versus Persistent Rain in Asian Weaver Ant, Oecophylla smaragdina, Suggest Possible Energetic Trade-offs	20
Regular Caffeine Intake Delays REM Sleep Promotion and Attenuates Sleep Quality in Healthy Men	19
Comments on Block et al., Pittendrigh Remembered, 2023	19
A Naturalistic Actigraphic Assessment of Changes in Adolescent Sleep, Light Exposure, and Activity Before and During COVID-19	19
Sensitive Timing: A Reappraisal of Chronobiology’s Foundational Texts	18
Unstable Phase Response Curves Shown by Spatiotemporal Patterns in the Plant Root Circadian Clock	18
S-Cone Photoreceptors Regulate Daily Rhythms and Light-Induced Arousal/Wakefulness in Diurnal Grass Rats (Arvicanthis niloticus)	17
Correction to “Corrigendum to “Transcriptomic plasticity of the circadian clock in response to photoperiod: A study in male melatonin-competent mice””	17
Antisense Transcription of the Neurospora Frequency Gene Is Rhythmically Regulated by CSP-1 Repressor but Dispensable for Clock Function	17
Using Polygenic Scores for Circadian Rhythms to Predict Wellbeing, Depressive Symptoms, Chronotype, and Health	16
Reduced Plasticity in Coupling Strength in the Aging SCN Clock as Revealed by Kuramoto Modeling	16
Bacteria and Bellicosity: Photoperiodic Shifts in Gut Microbiota Drive Seasonal Aggressive Behavior in Male Siberian Hamsters	16
Modern Language for Modern Circadian Biologists: The End of the “Slave” Oscillator	15
Evaluating the Adaptive Fitness of Circadian Clocks and their Evolution	12
Steve Brown	11
Time of Day of Vaccination Does Not Associate With SARS–CoV–2 Antibody Titer Following First Dose of mRNA COVID–19 Vaccine	10
Shared Components of the FRQ-Less Oscillator and TOR Pathway Maintain Rhythmicity in Neurospora	10
Transcriptomic Plasticity of the Circadian Clock in Response to Photoperiod: A Study in Male Melatonin-Competent Mice	10
The Free-Running Circasemilunar Period Is Determined by Counting Circadian Clock Cycles in the Marine Midge Clunio Marinus	10
Circadian Rhythms in Fear Extinction Recall Depend on the Time of Day of Extinction Recall, Not the Time of Day of Extinction Learning	9

Using Wearable Skin Temperature Data to Advance Tracking and Characterization of the Menstrual Cycle in a Real-World Setting	9
Characterizing Gun Violence by Time, Day of the Week, Holidays, and Month in 6 US Cities, 2015-2021	9
Adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster to Long Photoperiods of High-Latitude Summers Is Facilitated by the ls-Timeless Allele	9
Prolonged Light Exposure Induces Circadian Impairment in Aquaporin-4-Knockout Mice	9
Examining the Efficacy of Bright Light Therapy on Cognitive Function in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Survivors	8
Circadian Adaptation of Melatonin and Cortisol in Police Officers Working Rotating Shifts	8
Evening Light Intensity and Phase Delay of the Circadian Clock in Early Childhood	8
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome in Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial on the Effects of Chronotherapy on Sleep	8
Longitudinal Location Influences Preference for Daylight Saving Time	8
A Subset of Circadian Neurons Expressing dTRPA1 Enables Appropriate Phasing of Activity Rhythms in Drosophila melanogaster Under Warm Temperatures	8
Time of Day of Vaccination Affects SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Responses in an Observational Study of Health Care Workers	7
Biological Fluid Flows: Signaling Mediums for Circadian Timing	7
Corrigendum to “Transcriptomic plasticity of the circadian clock in response to photoperiod: A study in male melatonin-competent mice”	7
Daylength Shapes Entrainment Patterns to Artificial Photoperiods in a Subterranean Rodent	7
Generation and Disruption of Circadian Rhythms in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus: A Core-Shell Model	7
Pittendrigh Remembered	7
Circadian Regulation of the Neuroimmune Environment Across the Lifespan: From Brain Development to Aging	7
The Estrous Cycle Coordinates the Circadian Rhythm of Eating Behavior in Mice	7
Use of Light Protection Equipment at Night Reduces Time Until Discharge From the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Randomized Interventional Study	7
Bright Light Decreases Peripheral Skin Temperature in Healthy Men: A Forced Desynchrony Study Under Dim and Bright Light (II)	7
Association Between Augmentation Index and Total Sleep Time in Night Shift Workers	6
Bright Light Increases Alertness and Not Cortisol in Healthy Men: A Forced Desynchrony Study Under Dim and Bright Light (I)	6
An Interview With Dr. Marishka Brown	6
Michael Menaker (1934-2021)	6
The Associations of Chronotype and Shift Work With Rheumatoid Arthritis	6
Sex Inclusion in Transcriptome Studies of Daily Rhythms	6
The Circadian Clock, the Brain, and COVID-19: The Cases of Olfaction and the Timing of Sleep	6
Coupling Between Subregional Oscillators Within the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Determines Free-Running Period in the Rat	6
Journal Club Commentaries: An Invitation for Chronobiology Trainees to Share Their Ideas	6
Time of Day of BNT162b2 COVID-19 Immunization Affects Total SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Levels but Not Neutralizing Activity	6
Investigating the Roles for Essential Genes in the Regulation of the Circadian Clock in Synechococcus elongatus Using CRISPR Interference	6
Scheduled Exercise Partially Offsets Alcohol-Induced Clock Dysfunction in Skeletal Muscle and Liver of Female Mice	6
Voluntary Wheel Running Exercise Does Not Attenuate Circadian and Cardiac Dysfunction Caused by Conditional Deletion of Bmal1	6
Persistence of Nocturnality in Decapitated and Bisected Flatworms	6
Perinatal Photoperiod Has Long-Term Effects on the Rest-Activity Cycle and Sleep in Male and Female Mice	5
Augmenting Circadian Biology Research With Data Science	5
The Neuropeptide PDF Is Crucial for Delaying the Phase of Drosophila’s Evening Neurons Under Long Zeitgeber Periods	5
From Bench to Bedside and Back Again: Translating Circadian Science to Medicine	5
Roles for the Synechococcus elongatus RNA-Binding Protein Rbp2 in Regulating the Circadian Clock	5
Daytime aversive stimuli do not phase shift behavioral rhythms under light-dark cycles in a strictly diurnal rodent	5
Biological Sex Influences Daily Locomotor Rhythms in Mice Held Under Different Housing Conditions	5
Diurnal Variation in SARS-CoV-2 PCR Test Results: Test Accuracy May Vary by Time of Day	5
Chronic Alcohol Consumption Disrupts the Skeletal Muscle Circadian Clock in Female Mice	5
Ambient Temperature as a Strong Zeitgeber of Circadian Rhythms in Response to Temperature Sensitivity and Poor Heat Dissipation Abilities in Subterranean African Mole-Rats	4
Patricia J. DeCoursey (28 December 1932 to 1 January 2022)	4
Sleep of Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Role of Atypical Work Schedules: A Scoping Review	4
Chronotype and Sleep Timing by Race-Gender: The CARDIA Sleep Study	4
Lunar Cycle Influences Production of Tilapia (Oreochromis spp) Eggs in an Intensive Outdoor Production System in the Tropics	4
Impact of Light Schedules and Model Parameters on the Circadian Outcomes of Individuals	4
Enhanced Robustness of the Mouse Retinal Circadian Clock Upon Inherited Retina Degeneration	4

Caenorhabditis elegans as a Promising Model Organism in Chronobiology	4
Circadian Rhythm in Feeding Behavior of Daphnia dentifera	4
Modeling the Effects of Napping and Non-napping Patterns of Light Exposure on the Human Circadian Oscillator	4
Circadian Control of Glial Cell Homeodynamics	4
Photoperiod-Induced Transcriptional Response in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus	4
Detecting Rhythmic Gene Expression in Single-cell Transcriptomics	4
Validation and TaqMan Conversion of a Molecular Chronotype Assessment Approach	4
Managing Circadian Disruption due to Hospitalization: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of the CircadianCare Inpatient Management System	4
Diel Rhythm and Thermal Independence of Metabolic Rate in a Benthic Shark	4
Toward a Molecular Approach to Chronotype Assessment	4
Are We Finding Functional or Merely Statistically Significant Rhythms?	3
Individual Ants Do Not Show Activity-Rest Rhythms in Nest Conditions	3
Toward an Indoor Lighting Solution for Social Jet Lag	3
Ambient Temperature Effects on the Spring and Autumn Somatic Growth Trajectory Show Plasticity in the Photoneuroendocrine Response Pathway in the Tundra Vole	3
Chronotype and Affective Response to Sleep Restriction and Subsequent Sleep Deprivation	3
The Reindeer Circadian Clock Is Rhythmic and Temperature-compensated But Shows Evidence of Weak Coupling Between the Secondary and Core Molecular Clock Loops	3
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	3
Sex Differences in Pubertal Circadian and Ultradian Rhythmic Development Under Semi-naturalistic Conditions	3
Friedrich K. Stephan. 1941-2023: Curt Richter Professor of Psychology, Florida State University, 1972-2006	3
Sex-Related Variation in Circadian Rhythms in the Bumble Bee Bombus terrestris	3
Modified Wavelet Analyses Permit Quantification of Dynamic Interactions Between Ultradian and Circadian Rhythms	3
Connecting the Dots: Potential Interactions Between Sex Hormones and the Circadian System During Memory Consolidation	3
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	3