OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Biology is 66. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?	706
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators	348
My bird	226
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise	216
Lost knowledge	211
Efference copies: Side-eyeing across species	199
Collective behaviour: When avoidance becomes a deterrent	167
Anthropocene at altitude	164
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin	152
How to survive in the desert	149
Lucy Aplin	141
Evolution and development: From the pet shop to the pelagic zone	134
How to know whales, and ourselves	126
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters	125
Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL	122
Human evolution: Neanderthal footprints in African genomes	120
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex	118
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites	118
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons	113
Australian magpies	111
A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs	110
Response to Kratochvíl and Rovatsos	107
Plant–microbe interactions: A transcriptional switch governing fungal lifestyle shifts	107
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe	104
North Atlantic tipping point ahead	101

Iberian ribbed newts	99
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on	95
Evolutionary genetics: Inversions — Do not quail but go big!	94
Specializations in optic flow encoding in the pretectum of hummingbirds and zebra finches	94
The biomechanics of turgor pressure	92
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin	90
Apical PAR protein caps orient the mitotic spindle in C. elegans early embryos	89
Mistletoes	89
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise	89
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse	88
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past	86
Colors	85
Cell biology: How does the nucleus get its membrane?	82
Sleep: The great adaptive diversity	81
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks	81
Deficient synaptic neurotransmission results in a persistent sleep-like cortical activity across vigilance states in mice	80
Bats resolve conflicting sensory information for individual recognition	80
Spastin locally amplifies microtubule dynamics to pattern the axon for presynaptic cargo delivery	79
Ancient Australia	78
Stealth echolocation in aerial hawking bats reflects a substrate gleaning ancestry	77
Gonzalo Giribet	76
Mammalian evolution: Digging for lower extinction rates	73
Circabidian rhythm of sex pheromone reception in a scarab beetle	73
Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular toolkit used by an algivorous protist for cell wall perforation	72
Causal oscillations in the visual thalamo-cortical network in sustained attention in ferrets	72
An insular cortical circuit required for itch sensation and aversion	72
Modulation of sweet preference by neurosteroid-sensitive, δ-GABAA receptors in adult mouse gustatory insular cortex	70
Metabolism: Secretory autophagy balances nutrient supply and demand	70
Erin Saupe	70
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe	70
Self-recognition: From touching the body to knowing the self	69
Rolling back public health	69
Probabilistically constrained vector summation of motion direction in the mouse superior colliculus	68
Photobiology: Fish eggs go sunny side up	67
Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward	67
Cephalopod behaviour	67
Oxytocin-mediated social preference and socially reinforced reward learning in the miniature fish Danionella cerebrum	67
Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test	67
Predictive saccades and decision making in the beetle-predating saffron robber fly	67
Hormone-controlled changes in the differentiation state of post-mitotic neurons	66
Rapid turnover of top predators in African terrestrial faunas around the Permian-Triassic mass extinction	66
Real-time processes in the development of action planning	66