OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Genetics is 70. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The biological and clinical significance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants	774
Abiotic stress responses in plants	762
mRNAs, proteins and the emerging principles of gene expression control	598
Deciphering cell–cell interactions and communication from gene expression	595
Long-read human genome sequencing and its applications	556
Drug delivery systems for RNA therapeutics	450
The genetics of obesity: from discovery to biology	444
Integrating single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to elucidate intercellular tissue dynamics	434
Human organs-on-chips for disease modelling, drug development and personalized medicine	392
RNA-binding proteins in human genetic disease	363
The epitranscriptome beyond m6A	358
Histone post-translational modifications — cause and consequence of genome function	284
The evolving metabolic landscape of chromatin biology and epigenetics	258
Testing at scale during the COVID-19 pandemic	258
A decade of advances in transposon-insertion sequencing	235
Phylogenetic tree building in the genomic age	232
Integrating genetic and non-genetic determinants of cancer evolution by single-cell multi-omics	229
Polygenic adaptation: a unifying framework to understand positive selection	215
Methods and applications for single-cell and spatial multi-omics	215
Measuring and interpreting transposable element expression	214
Molecular mechanisms of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance	193
Genetics meets proteomics: perspectives for large population-based studies	192
Towards population-scale long-read sequencing	169
Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities	166
The relationship between genome structure and function	164

The epigenetic basis of cellular heterogeneity	163
The emerging landscape of spatial profiling technologies	155
Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression	155
Gene therapy using haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells	151
Reprogramming the genetic code	149
Prime editing for precise and highly versatile genome manipulation	148
COMPASS and SWI/SNF complexes in development and disease	147
Transposable elements shape the evolution of mammalian development	140
Emerging mechanisms of cell competition	138
Enhancer redundancy in development and disease	137
Alternative splicing as a source of phenotypic diversity	133
The influence of evolutionary history on human health and disease	133
Extreme heterogeneity of human mitochondrial DNA from organelles to populations	127
Measuring biological age using omics data	126
Autophagy genes in biology and disease	124
Haematopoietic stem cell self-renewal in vivo and ex vivo	122
The road ahead in genetics and genomics	121
Active turnover of DNA methylation during cell fate decisions	117
Navigating the pitfalls of applying machine learning in genomics	114
Advancing the use of genome-wide association studies for drug repurposing	112
Mining genomes to illuminate the specialized chemistry of life	111
A new era in functional genomics screens	110
Host–parasite co-evolution and its genomic signature	109
Functions and consequences of AID/APOBEC-mediated DNA and RNA deamination	105
Redefining fundamental concepts of transcription initiation in bacteria	99
Host genetics and infectious disease: new tools, insights and translational opportunities	99
Gene regulatory programmes of tissue regeneration	98
Obtaining genetics insights from deep learning via explainable artificial intelligence	95
Gene drives gaining speed	94
Making sense of the ageing methylome	87
Biological roles of adenine methylation in RNA	87
Genetic load: genomic estimates and applications in non-model animals	86
The genomics of coloration provides insights into adaptive evolution	84
From molecules to populations: appreciating and estimating recombination rate variation	84
Exploring human genomic diversity with gnomAD	83
The Human Genome Project changed everything	80
Clinical cancer genomic profiling	77
Characterizing cis-regulatory elements using single-cell epigenomics	76
Epigenome plasticity in plants	76
Single-cell atlases: shared and tissue-specific cell types across human organs	75
Generation of extracellular morphogen gradients: the case for diffusion	75
The importance of genomic variation for biodiversity, ecosystems and people	74
The roles of microRNAs in mouse development	72
DNA methylation-based predictors of health: applications and statistical considerations	72
Phylogenetic and phylodynamic approaches to understanding and combating the early SARS-CoV-2 pandemic	71