OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Biology is 64. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?	654
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators	319
A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice	291
My bird	206
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise	198
Lost knowledge	190
Efference copies: Side-eyeing across species	188
Collective behaviour: When avoidance becomes a deterrent	155
Anthropocene at altitude	152
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin	144
How to survive in the desert	140
Lucy Aplin	138
Evolution and development: From the pet shop to the pelagic zone	128
How to know whales, and ourselves	127
Mammals, wildlife trade, and the next global pandemic	124
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters	118
Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL	115
Human evolution: Neanderthal footprints in African genomes	111
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites	111
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons	105
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex	105
Australian magpies	104
Gonzalo Giribet	103
A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs	103
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe	102

North Atlantic tipping point ahead	101
Iberian ribbed newts	99
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on	98
Evolutionary genetics: Inversions — Do not quail but go big!	97
Specializations in optic flow encoding in the pretectum of hummingbirds and zebra finches	94
Nurse honey bees filter fungicide residues to maintain larval health	88
The biomechanics of turgor pressure	87
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin	87
Mistletoes	86
Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly	85
Apical PAR protein caps orient the mitotic spindle in C. elegans early embryos	84
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse	83
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise	83
Specialized predation by deep-sea Solenogastres revealed by sequencing of gut contents	81
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past	81
Floral bullseyes and stratospheric ozone	78
Cell biology: How does the nucleus get its membrane?	77
Colors	77
Evidence for a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition	76
Predictive saccades and decision making in the beetle-predating saffron robber fly	75
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks	75
Sleep: The great adaptive diversity	75
Ancient Australia	73
Circabidian rhythm of sex pheromone reception in a scarab beetle	72
Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular toolkit used by an algivorous protist for cell wall perforation	72
An insular cortical circuit required for itch sensation and aversion	71
Erin Saupe	70
Lipocalins	69
Modulation of sweet preference by neurosteroid-sensitive, δ-GABAA receptors in adult mouse gustatory insular cortex	69
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe	68
Metabolism: Secretory autophagy balances nutrient supply and demand	68
Self-recognition: From touching the body to knowing the self	67
Paleontology: Ediacaran ecology drove ocean ventilation	66
Rolling back public health	66
Salp fecal pellets release more bioavailable iron to Southern Ocean phytoplankton than krill fecal pellets	65
Oxytocin-mediated social preference and socially reinforced reward learning in the miniature fish Danionella cerebrum	65
Probabilistically constrained vector summation of motion direction in the mouse superior colliculus	65
Photobiology: Fish eggs go sunny side up	64
Mammalian evolution: Digging for lower extinction rates	64
Plant–microbe interactions: Plant-exuded myo-inositol attracts specific bacterial taxa	64
Excitatory and inhibitory neural dynamics jointly tune motion detection	64
Centriole-less pericentriolar material serves as a microtubule organizing center at the base of C. elegans sensory cilia	64
Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward	64