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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
How to avoid a post-antibiotic age	613
Genetic admixture and language shift in the medieval Volga-Oka interfluve	286
Spinosaurus	284
Lucy Aplin	228
Ramesh Boonratana	219
Australian magpies	193
The rise and fall of whales	187
Salmonid fishes	172
Palaeontology: Walking with pterosaurs	165
Evolution: Morphological complexity fuels rapid species turnover	147
An LRH-RSL4 feedback regulatory loop controls the determinate growth of root hairs in Arabidopsis	142
Evolution: No end in sight for novel incredible (heterotrophic) protists	137
Brain and body: Implanting a placebo in the brain to alleviate pain	133
How to survive in the desert	130
Post-ER degradation of misfolded GPI-anchored proteins is linked with microautophagy	128
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons	118
Causal oscillations in the visual thalamo-cortical network in sustained attention in ferrets	118
Neuroscience: Therapy modulates decision-making in Parkinson’s disease	118
Life underground	117
Behavioral neuroscience: Computation in individual neurons	116
Developmental biology: A hole in the matrix	115
Nilay Yapici	115
Differential coding of absolute and relative aversive value in the Drosophila brain	112
Molecular basis of (E)-β-farnesene-mediated aphid location in the predator Eupeodes corollae	105
Disparate insults relevant to schizophrenia converge on impaired spike synchrony and weaker synaptic interactions in prefrontal local circuits	105

Conservation genetics	102
Multisensory spatial perception in visually impaired infants	101
Animal behavior: A tale of two apes	98
Alkaloids are associated with increased microbial diversity and metabolic function in poison frogs	98
Identification of a tetrahedral apical cell preserved within a fossilized fern fiddlehead	98
Tubulin sequence divergence is associated with the use of distinct microtubule regulators	97
Oxytocin-mediated social preference and socially reinforced reward learning in the miniature fish Danionella cerebrum	95
Life and science within the upper ocean	95
Iberian ribbed newts	95
A recurrent neural circuit in Drosophila temporally sharpens visual inputs	94
Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom	93
North Atlantic tipping point ahead	92
Organization of an ascending circuit that conveys flight motor state in Drosophila	87
Stimulation of caudal inferior and middle frontal gyri disrupts planning during spoken interaction	85
Chris Stringer	83
Altering arabinans increases Arabidopsis guard cell flexibility and stomatal opening	81
Chromosome segregation: Brushing up on centromeres	77
Social behavior: Using visual cues to guide dancing on the fly	77
Ancient genomes revealed the complex human interactions of the ancient western Tibetans	77
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on	77
Paleozoic cave system preserves oldest-known evidence of amniote skin	76
Evolution: Stress fans the flames of innovation	76
Plant growth: A matter of WAK seeing the wall and talking to BRI1	75
Enhanced reinstatement of naturalistic event memories due to hippocampal-network-targeted stimulation	75
EGFR signaling activates intestinal stem cells by promoting mitochondrial biogenesis and β-oxidation	73
A cluster of neuropeptide S neurons regulates breathing and arousal	71
Recording and manipulation of the maternal oxytocin neural activities in mice	71
Food webs reveal coexistence mechanisms and community organization in carnivores	69
Active vision during prey capture in wild marmoset monkeys	69
Productivity declines threaten East African soda lakes and the iconic Lesser Flamingo	68
Carbon dioxide shapes parasite-host interactions in a human-infective nematode	68
Microbial protection favors parasite tolerance and alters host-parasite coevolutionary dynamics	67
Cytoplasmic incompatibility: A Wolbachia toxin–antidote mechanism comes into view	67
Climate adaptation around the world	66
A family tree of everything alive	65
Active space garnering by leaves of a rosette plant	65
Efference copies: Side-eyeing across species	65
A tree full of primate genomes	64
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise	64
TES-1/Tes and ZYX-1/Zyxin protect junctional actin networks under tension during epidermal morphogenesis in the C. elegans embryo	64