OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Biology is 59. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites	407
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past	251
Kleptoplasty: Solar-powered sea slugs house stolen plastids in kleptosomes	223
Social bonding: Without oxytocin, voles are not-so-fast friends	213
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators	158
A blinking focal pattern of re-entrant activity in the avian tectum	147
North Atlantic tipping point ahead	144
Gonzalo Giribet	133
Mistletoes	128
Genome evolution: On the nature of trade-offs with polyploidy and endopolyploidy	127
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise	126
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise	125
My bird	112
Short-term memory: How oscillatory networks preserve sensory history	109
Object learning: Ball games for flies	105
Telomere inheritance: Why the parent matters, not just the genes	104
Photobiology: Fish eggs go sunny side up	102
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe	102
Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward	97
Ancient Australia	94
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe	90
Tube morphogenesis: A developing valve squeezes into shape around a transient cell	90
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks	85
Wound repair: Two distinct Rap1 pathways close the gap	85
Q & A	82

Evo–devo: Ferns flourished due to developmental covariance between leaves and vasculature	81
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex	80
Self-recognition: From touching the body to knowing the self	79
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on	78
Dynamic BMP signaling mediates notochord segmentation in zebrafish	77
Rapid turnover of top predators in African terrestrial faunas around the Permian-Triassic mass extinction	75
Probabilistically constrained vector summation of motion direction in the mouse superior colliculus	75
Feature representation under crowding in macaque V1 and V4 neuronal populations	74
Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test	73
A recurrent neural circuit in Drosophila temporally sharpens visual inputs	71
Cephalopod behaviour	71
Plant–microbe interactions: A transcriptional switch governing fungal lifestyle shifts	70
Stealth echolocation in aerial hawking bats reflects a substrate gleaning ancestry	69
Australian magpies	69
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin	68
Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly	68
Excitatory and inhibitory neural dynamics jointly tune motion detection	68
A circuit from the basolateral amygdala to hippocampal CA3 regulates social behavior	66
Cambrian origin of the arachnid brain	66
High-fat food reinforces risk taking by suppressing defensive neurons	65
Erin Saupe	65
Rolling back public health	65
Iron and manganese availability drives primary production and carbon export in the Weddell Sea	64
Oxytocin-mediated social preference and socially reinforced reward learning in the miniature fish Danionella cerebrum	63
Experience-dependent reconfiguration of thermoreceptors regulates neuronal response plasticity	63
Microtubule end-on attachment maturation regulates Mps1 association with its kinetochore receptor	62
Structural changes in cell wall pectic polymers contribute to freezing tolerance induced by cold acclimation in plants	62
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters	61
A novel period mutation implicating nuclear export in temperature compensation of the Drosophila circadian clock	61
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse	60
A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice	60
Mammalian evolution: Digging for lower extinction rates	60
The heterochronic LIN-14 protein is a BEN domain transcription factor	59
Cerebellar-cortical beta oscillations emerge as a predictive signal facilitating the stability of behavioral performance	59
Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom	59
Photosymbiosis: When heterotrophs turn green	59