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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites	532
Mammalian evolution: Digging for lower extinction rates	357
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past	224
Kleptoplasty: Solar-powered sea slugs house stolen plastids in kleptosomes	189
Social bonding: Without oxytocin, voles are not-so-fast friends	175
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators	165
A blinking focal pattern of re-entrant activity in the avian tectum	152
North Atlantic tipping point ahead	135
Human evolution: Neanderthal footprints in African genomes	135
Gonzalo Giribet	126
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse	119
Mistletoes	116
Genome evolution: On the nature of trade-offs with polyploidy and endopolyploidy	115
Metabolism: Secretory autophagy balances nutrient supply and demand	112
Paleontology: Ediacaran ecology drove ocean ventilation	109
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise	107
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise	104
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons	102
Anthropocene at altitude	97
My bird	96
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin	96
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters	92
Short-term memory: How oscillatory networks preserve sensory history	91
Object learning: Ball games for flies	90
Telomere inheritance: Why the parent matters, not just the genes	89

The heterochronic LIN-14 protein is a BEN domain transcription factor	88
Animal behavior: Capuchin gang abducts infant howler monkeys	88
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe	87
Photobiology: Fish eggs go sunny side up	86
Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward	86
Ancient Australia	84
Daniel J.C. Kronauer	82
Coalitionary intra-group aggression by wild female bonobos	78
Homeostasis: Stay cool but keep on breathing	78
The enteric nervous system	76
Tube morphogenesis: A developing valve squeezes into shape around a transient cell	75
Cerebellar-cortical beta oscillations emerge as a predictive signal facilitating the stability of behavioral performance	75
Photosynthetic sucrose drives the lateral root clock in Arabidopsis seedlings	74
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe	74
Sleep spindles track cortical learning patterns for memory consolidation	73
Wound repair: Two distinct Rap1 pathways close the gap	72
Performance errors during rodent learning reflect a dynamic choice strategy	71
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks	71
Spastin locally amplifies microtubule dynamics to pattern the axon for presynaptic cargo delivery	71
Q & A	70
Evo–devo: Ferns flourished due to developmental covariance between leaves and vasculature	69
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex	69
Interommatidial cells build a tensile collagen network during Drosophila retinal morphogenesis	67
Two distinct compartments of a ctenophore comb plate provide structural and functional integrity for the motility of giant multicilia	67
Bats resolve conflicting sensory information for individual recognition	66
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?	65
Marine heat waves drive bleaching and necrosis of temperate sponges	63
Self-recognition: From touching the body to knowing the self	63
Iron and manganese availability drives primary production and carbon export in the Weddell Sea	63
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on	63
A novel period mutation implicating nuclear export in temperature compensation of the Drosophila circadian clock	62
Experience-dependent reconfiguration of thermoreceptors regulates neuronal response plasticity	62
Iberian ribbed newts	62
Incorporating global change reveals extinction risk beyond the current Red List	62
MICOS	61
Nurse honey bees filter fungicide residues to maintain larval health	60
Australian magpies	60
Causal oscillations in the visual thalamo-cortical network in sustained attention in ferrets	60
Plant–microbe interactions: A transcriptional switch governing fungal lifestyle shifts	60
Dynamic BMP signaling mediates notochord segmentation in zebrafish	60