OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Biology is 60. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites	554
Mammalian evolution: Digging for lower extinction rates	375
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past	233
Kleptoplasty: Solar-powered sea slugs house stolen plastids in kleptosomes	199
Social bonding: Without oxytocin, voles are not-so-fast friends	189
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators	154
A blinking focal pattern of re-entrant activity in the avian tectum	138
North Atlantic tipping point ahead	137
Human evolution: Neanderthal footprints in African genomes	129
Gonzalo Giribet	126
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse	121
Mistletoes	119
Genome evolution: On the nature of trade-offs with polyploidy and endopolyploidy	118
Metabolism: Secretory autophagy balances nutrient supply and demand	113
Paleontology: Ediacaran ecology drove ocean ventilation	109
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise	108
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise	104
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons	102
My bird	101
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin	99
Short-term memory: How oscillatory networks preserve sensory history	93
Telomere inheritance: Why the parent matters, not just the genes	93
Object learning: Ball games for flies	93
Animal behavior: Capuchin gang abducts infant howler monkeys	91
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe	91

Photobiology: Fish eggs go sunny side up	90
Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward	88
Ancient Australia	87
Daniel J.C. Kronauer	84
Homeostasis: Stay cool but keep on breathing	82
Tube morphogenesis: A developing valve squeezes into shape around a transient cell	80
Cerebellar-cortical beta oscillations emerge as a predictive signal facilitating the stability of behavioral performance	80
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe	79
Wound repair: Two distinct Rap1 pathways close the gap	78
Q & A	77
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks	77
Evo–devo: Ferns flourished due to developmental covariance between leaves and vasculature	76
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?	75
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex	75
Self-recognition: From touching the body to knowing the self	74
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on	73
Incorporating global change reveals extinction risk beyond the current Red List	72
Iberian ribbed newts	70
Causal oscillations in the visual thalamo-cortical network in sustained attention in ferrets	67
MICOS	67
Dynamic BMP signaling mediates notochord segmentation in zebrafish	67
Stealth echolocation in aerial hawking bats reflects a substrate gleaning ancestry	65
Plant–microbe interactions: A transcriptional switch governing fungal lifestyle shifts	65
Specializations in optic flow encoding in the pretectum of hummingbirds and zebra finches	65
Australian magpies	65
Organization of an ascending circuit that conveys flight motor state in Drosophila	64
Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly	63
Excitatory and inhibitory neural dynamics jointly tune motion detection	63
Cambrian origin of the arachnid brain	62
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin	62
A circuit from the basolateral amygdala to hippocampal CA3 regulates social behavior	61
Erin Saupe	61
Rolling back public health	61
High-fat food reinforces risk taking by suppressing defensive neurons	60
Plant–microbe interactions: Plant-exuded myo-inositol attracts specific bacterial taxa	60