OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Biology is 63. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites	444
Lipocalins	300
Mammalian evolution: Digging for lower extinction rates	246
Australian magpies	194
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past	185
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex	151
A common molecular mechanism underlying Cornelia de Lange and CHOPS syndromes	151
Metabolism: Secretory autophagy balances nutrient supply and demand	146
Paleontology: Ediacaran ecology drove ocean ventilation	144
Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test	142
Specializations in optic flow encoding in the pretectum of hummingbirds and zebra finches	138
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise	135
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise	130
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on	127
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons	121
Anthropocene at altitude	109
How to know whales, and ourselves	109
Disparate insults relevant to schizophrenia converge on impaired spike synchrony and weaker synaptic interactions in prefrontal local circuits	108
My bird	108
Evolutionary genetics: Inversions — Do not quail but go big!	107
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters	107
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin	107
Fungal endophytes	105
Coalitionary intra-group aggression by wild female bonobos	101
Genome evolution: On the nature of trade-offs with polyploidy and endopolyploidy	100

Kleptoplasty: Solar-powered sea slugs house stolen plastids in kleptosomes	93
Social bonding: Without oxytocin, voles are not-so-fast friends	90
A blinking focal pattern of re-entrant activity in the avian tectum	89
Efference copies: Side-eyeing across species	89
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators	89
Neuroscience: Therapy modulates decision-making in Parkinson’s disease	88
North Atlantic tipping point ahead	87
Lost knowledge	83
Cognitive influences on fixational eye movements	82
Human evolution: Neanderthal footprints in African genomes	81
Self-recognition: From touching the body to knowing the self	80
Collective behaviour: When avoidance becomes a deterrent	79
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe	79
Dynamic BMP signaling mediates notochord segmentation in zebrafish	78
The enteric nervous system	77
Gonzalo Giribet	77
Performance errors during rodent learning reflect a dynamic choice strategy	77
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse	74
Change in RhoGAP and RhoGEF availability drives transitions in cortical patterning and excitability in Drosophila	74
Spastin locally amplifies microtubule dynamics to pattern the axon for presynaptic cargo delivery	73
Structural changes in cell wall pectic polymers contribute to freezing tolerance induced by cold acclimation in plants	71
Modulation of sweet preference by neurosteroid-sensitive, δ-GABAA receptors in adult mouse gustatory insular cortex	70
Rolling back public health	70
Erin Saupe	70
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe	70
Photobiology: Fish eggs go sunny side up	69
MICOS	68
Ancient Australia	68
Daniel J.C. Kronauer	68
Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward	68
Plant–microbe interactions: Plant-exuded myo-inositol attracts specific bacterial taxa	67
Homeostasis: Stay cool but keep on breathing	67
Iberian ribbed newts	66
Stimulation of caudal inferior and middle frontal gyri disrupts planning during spoken interaction	65
Surface flow for colonial integration in reef-building corals	65
Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom	65
Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular toolkit used by an algivorous protist for cell wall perforation	64
Deficient synaptic neurotransmission results in a persistent sleep-like cortical activity across vigilance states in mice	63
Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly	63
Synaptic inhibition in the lateral habenula shapes reward anticipation	63