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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?	732
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators	367
My bird	238
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise	219
Lost knowledge	217
Efference copies: Side-eyeing across species	210
Collective behaviour: When avoidance becomes a deterrent	173
Anthropocene at altitude	170
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin	161
How to survive in the desert	158
Lucy Aplin	145
Evolution and development: From the pet shop to the pelagic zone	139
How to know whales, and ourselves	133
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters	127
Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL	126
Human evolution: Neanderthal footprints in African genomes	125
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites	122
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex	120
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons	119
Australian magpies	117
Plant–microbe interactions: A transcriptional switch governing fungal lifestyle shifts	112
Response to Kratochvíl and Rovatsos	112
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe	106
North Atlantic tipping point ahead	103
Iberian ribbed newts	102

Sleep: Giving it up to get it on	99
Evolutionary genetics: Inversions — Do not quail but go big!	96
Specializations in optic flow encoding in the pretectum of hummingbirds and zebra finches	96
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin	94
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise	92
Mistletoes	92
Apical PAR protein caps orient the mitotic spindle in C. elegans early embryos	92
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse	90
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past	89
Sleep: The great adaptive diversity	88
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks	88
Bats resolve conflicting sensory information for individual recognition	84
Deficient synaptic neurotransmission results in a persistent sleep-like cortical activity across vigilance states in mice	84
Ancient Australia	84
Stealth echolocation in aerial hawking bats reflects a substrate gleaning ancestry	83
Gonzalo Giribet	81
Causal oscillations in the visual thalamo-cortical network in sustained attention in ferrets	81
An insular cortical circuit required for itch sensation and aversion	80
Erin Saupe	79
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe	76
Modulation of sweet preference by neurosteroid-sensitive, δ-GABAA receptors in adult mouse gustatory insular cortex	76
Self-recognition: From touching the body to knowing the self	76
Rolling back public health	75
Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test	74
Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward	74
Cephalopod behaviour	74
Probabilistically constrained vector summation of motion direction in the mouse superior colliculus	74
Photobiology: Fish eggs go sunny side up	74
Hormone-controlled changes in the differentiation state of post-mitotic neurons	72
Fear dynamically structures the ocean’s pelagic zone	71
Phased polyploid genomes provide deeper insight into the multiple origins of domesticated Saccharomyces cerevisiae beer yeasts	71
Stimulation of caudal inferior and middle frontal gyri disrupts planning during spoken interaction	71
Two distinct compartments of a ctenophore comb plate provide structural and functional integrity for the motility of giant multicilia	70
Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance	70
Neuroscience: Therapy modulates decision-making in Parkinson’s disease	70
A blinking focal pattern of re-entrant activity in the avian tectum	70
A novel period mutation implicating nuclear export in temperature compensation of the Drosophila circadian clock	69
Homeostasis: Stay cool but keep on breathing	68
Daniel J.C. Kronauer	68
Disparate insults relevant to schizophrenia converge on impaired spike synchrony and weaker synaptic interactions in prefrontal local circuits	68
Animal behavior: Capuchin gang abducts infant howler monkeys	67
Dynamic BMP signaling mediates notochord segmentation in zebrafish	67
MICOS	67
Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator	67