OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Biology is 67. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The tumor microenvironment	1061
A Novel Bat Coronavirus Closely Related to SARS-CoV-2 Contains Natural Insertions at the S1/S2 Cleavage Site of the Spike Protein	414
Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis	392
Ferroptosis	316
The origins and potential future of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in the evolving COVID-19 pandemic	242
Effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on human sleep and rest-activity rhythms	222
Sleep in university students prior to and during COVID-19 Stay-at-Home orders	204
A genome-scale phylogeny of the kingdom Fungi	173
Turtles and Tortoises Are in Trouble	173
Trophic Interactions and the Drivers of Microbial Community Assembly	170
Effects of lockdown on human sleep and chronotype during the COVID-19 pandemic	166
Causal Evidence for a Role of Theta and Alpha Oscillations in the Control of Working Memory	157
Global Patterns and Drivers of Bee Distribution	155
On the evolutionary epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2	154
Climate and Urbanization Drive Mosquito Preference for Humans	150
Phylogenomic Evidence for the Monophyly of Bryophytes and the Reductive Evolution of Stomata	139
Turning the tide of parachute science	135
Growth–defense trade-offs in plants	131
Widespread introgression across a phylogeny of 155 Drosophila genomes	127
Copper biology	120
Measuring biological diversity	119
The Regulation of Drosophila Sleep	111
Sleep Disturbance Forecasts β-Amyloid Accumulation across Subsequent Years	110
Two Distinct Types of Eye-Head Coupling in Freely Moving Mice	108
Complete Connectomic Reconstruction of Olfactory Projection Neurons in the Fly Brain	107

Odorant Receptor Inhibition Is Fundamental to Odor Encoding	105
Increased LRRK2 kinase activity alters neuronal autophagy by disrupting the axonal transport of autophagosomes	103
Representational drift in the mouse visual cortex	102
Dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens core signals perceived saliency	102
The tectum/superior colliculus as the vertebrate solution for spatial sensory integration and action	97
A Role for Astroglial Calcium in Mammalian Sleep and Sleep Regulation	95
Nuclear Deformation Causes DNA Damage by Increasing Replication Stress	94
Airborne environmental DNA for terrestrial vertebrate community monitoring	94
Bright Spots in Coastal Marine Ecosystem Restoration	91
The cytoskeleton in phagocytosis and macropinocytosis	89
Non-retroviral Endogenous Viral Element Limits Cognate Virus Replication in Aedes aegypti Ovaries	84
Mushroom Bodies Are Required for Learned Visual Navigation, but Not for Innate Visual Behavior, in Ants	83
Membrane Curvature Catalyzes Lipid Droplet Assembly	83
Cellular functions of actin- and microtubule-associated septins	82
Noradrenergic circuit control of non-REM sleep substates	80
Global potential and limits of mangrove blue carbon for climate change mitigation	80
Durotaxis	76
Stable Introduction of Plant-Virus-Inhibiting Wolbachia into Planthoppers for Rice Protection	76
Bacterial and archaeal symbioses with protists	75
Tempo and Pattern of Avian Brain Size Evolution	75
Visual Imagery and Perception Share Neural Representations in the Alpha Frequency Band	75
Phasic Activation of Dorsal Raphe Serotonergic Neurons Increases Pupil Size	74
Unique spatiotemporal fMRI dynamics in the awake mouse brain	74
Neutrophil Swarming in Damaged Tissue Is Orchestrated by Connexins and Cooperative Calcium Alarm Signals	73
Newly Explored Faecalibacterium Diversity Is Connected to Age, Lifestyle, Geography, and Disease	73
How Mechanical Forces Shape Plant Organs	72
A Vagal-NTS Neural Pathway that Stimulates Feeding	72
Actin-based force generation and cell adhesion in tissue morphogenesis	72
Precision and the Bayesian brain	72
Connectomics Analysis Reveals First-, Second-, and Third-Order Thermosensory and Hygrosensory Neurons in the Adult Drosophila Brain	72
A WOX/Auxin Biosynthesis Module Controls Growth to Shape Leaf Form	72
Vertical Lobes of the Mushroom Bodies Are Essential for View-Based Navigation in Australian Myrmecia Ants	71
Microtubule-Mediated Wall Anisotropy Contributes to Leaf Blade Flattening	70
Mapping Cortical Integration of Sensory and Affective Pain Pathways	70
The Function and Evolution of Motile DNA Replication Systems in Ciliates	70
Arabidopsis pavement cell morphogenesis requires FERONIA binding to pectin for activation of ROP GTPase signaling	69
The evolutionary emergence of land plants	69
State-Dependent TMS over Prefrontal Cortex Disrupts Fear-Memory Reconsolidation and Prevents the Return of Fear	68
Vagus nerve stimulation induces widespread cortical and behavioral activation	68
The Mechanosensitive Ion Channel MSL10 Potentiates Responses to Cell Swelling in Arabidopsis Seedlings	67
FERONIA receptor kinase-regulated reactive oxygen species mediate self-incompatibility in Brassica rapa	67
Reward Association Enhances Stimulus-Specific Representations in Primary Visual Cortex	67
The Molecular Basis of Host Selection in a Crucifer-Specialized Moth	67
Mechano-transduction via the pectin-FERONIA complex activates ROP6 GTPase signaling in Arabidopsis pavement cell morphogenesis	67