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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites	790
Lipocalins	406
Iberian ribbed newts	263
Mammalian evolution: Digging for lower extinction rates	228
Australian magpies	219
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin	184
Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL	174
Plant–microbe interactions: A transcriptional switch governing fungal lifestyle shifts	167
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past	141
Metabolism: Secretory autophagy balances nutrient supply and demand	138
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks	137
Paleontology: Ediacaran ecology drove ocean ventilation	135
Yeast domestication	128
Stimulation of caudal inferior and middle frontal gyri disrupts planning during spoken interaction	126
Dopamine neurons drive spatiotemporally heterogeneous striatal dopamine signals during learning	125
Predictive saccades and decision making in the beetle-predating saffron robber fly	122
Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom	122
Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test	117
A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs	108
The origins of the killer whale ecomorph	108
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise	104
Specializations in optic flow encoding in the pretectum of hummingbirds and zebra finches	104
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise	103
Iron and manganese availability drives primary production and carbon export in the Weddell Sea	103
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons	99

Sleep: Giving it up to get it on	99
Anthropocene at altitude	94
Excitatory and inhibitory neural dynamics jointly tune motion detection	92
My bird	92
How to know whales, and ourselves	92
Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator	88
Disparate insults relevant to schizophrenia converge on impaired spike synchrony and weaker synaptic interactions in prefrontal local circuits	87
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin	87
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters	86
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?	84
Evolution and development: From the pet shop to the pelagic zone	83
Sleep: The great adaptive diversity	81
Evolutionary genetics: Inversions — Do not quail but go big!	79
A causal role for the human subthalamic nucleus in non-selective cortico-motor inhibition	79
Selective responses to faces, scenes, and bodies in the ventral visual pathway of infants	78
Stealth echolocation in aerial hawking bats reflects a substrate gleaning ancestry	77
Fear dynamically structures the ocean’s pelagic zone	77
Phased polyploid genomes provide deeper insight into the multiple origins of domesticated Saccharomyces cerevisiae beer yeasts	76
Microtubule end-on attachment maturation regulates Mps1 association with its kinetochore receptor	76
Structural changes in cell wall pectic polymers contribute to freezing tolerance induced by cold acclimation in plants	76
Photosynthetic sucrose drives the lateral root clock in Arabidopsis seedlings	76
Interommatidial cells build a tensile collagen network during Drosophila retinal morphogenesis	74
Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding	74
The geologic history of primary productivity	73
Fungal endophytes	73
Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly	72
Coalitionary intra-group aggression by wild female bonobos	72
Genome evolution: On the nature of trade-offs with polyploidy and endopolyploidy	71
Incorporating global change reveals extinction risk beyond the current Red List	70
Discovering the role of Patagonian birds in the dispersal of truffles and other mycorrhizal fungi	69
Plant–microbe interactions: Plant-exuded myo-inositol attracts specific bacterial taxa	69
A circuit from the basolateral amygdala to hippocampal CA3 regulates social behavior	68
Animal medication	67
Change in RhoGAP and RhoGEF availability drives transitions in cortical patterning and excitability in Drosophila	67
Social bonding: Without oxytocin, voles are not-so-fast friends	66
Kleptoplasty: Solar-powered sea slugs house stolen plastids in kleptosomes	66
Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance	66
A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice	65
Two distinct compartments of a ctenophore comb plate provide structural and functional integrity for the motility of giant multicilia	64
Performance errors during rodent learning reflect a dynamic choice strategy	64
Efference copies: Side-eyeing across species	64
Surface flow for colonial integration in reef-building corals	64