OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Science China-Life Sciences is 35. 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
What the genome of the leafy seadragon teaches us about rapid evolution of camouflage and adaptations to life in the kelp forest	268
Whole-exome sequencing reveals genetic risks of early-onset sporadic dilated cardiomyopathy in the Chinese Han population	219
Unraveling the origins of PGY-sRNA-6, BZL-sRNA-20, and XKC-sRNA-h3	185
Convergent and conserved roads lead to Rome: now archaea fill the gap of transcription termination	151
Comprehensive cultivation of the broiler gut microbiota guides bacterial isolation from chickens	139
Identification of EPOR and JAK2 double heterozygous variants in twin cases with familial erythrocytosis	114
m6A reader YTHDF2 governs the onset of atrial fibrillation by modulating Cacna1c translation	99
Strategic codon selection for enhanced genetic code expansion	95
Enlarged fins of Tibetan catfish provide new evidence of adaptation to high plateau	88
The oligosaccharyltransferase subunit PsSTT3A regulates N-glycosylation and is critical for development and virulence of Phytophthora sojae	87
Where the hope grows: strategies to fight cancer in China	81
Profile of Dr. Chen Dong	77
PCAF-mediated acetylation of METTL3 impairs mRNA translation efficiency in response to oxidative stress	76
Expression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase as an intracellularly free and extracellularly cell surface-immobilized enzyme on a gut microbe as a live biotherapeutic for phenylketonuria	76
Artificial enzymes: learning from nature and beyond	68
Tangled but ordered human mitochondrial tRNA maturation	66
Selenium-enriched Cardamine violifolia protects against sepsis-induced intestinal injury by regulating mitochondrial fusion in weaned pigs	66
Dietary carbohydrate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: a 16-year prospective cohort study	65
Harnessing the Streptomyces-originating type I-E CRISPR/Cas system for efficient genome editing in Streptomyces	56
Systematical identification of regulatory GPCRs by single-cell trajectory inference reveals the role of ADGRD1 and GPR39 in adipogenesis	56
Prevalence of malnutrition among adult inpatients in China: a nationwide cross-sectional study	52
Profile of Dr. Jiaojun Zhu	50
Synergistic effects of mTOR inhibitors with VEGFR3 inhibitors on the interaction between TSC2-mutated cells and lymphatic endothelial cells	48
Clinical biomarkers of perioperative neurocognitive disorder: initiation and recommendation	45
Multi-omics analysis of attenuated variant reveals potential evaluation marker of host damaging for SARS-CoV-2 variants	44

BEND3 takes the rein	44
Unraveling the stereoscopic gene transcriptional landscape of zebrafish using FishSED, a fish spatial expression database with multispecies scalability	44
Microbe-induced gene silencing explores interspecies RNAi and opens up possibilities of crop protection	43
SUB1 promotes colorectal cancer metastasis by activating NF-κB signaling via UBR5-mediated ubiquitination of UBXN1	42
Cutting the Gordian knot of plant genetics: retrieval of missing heritability in tomato	41
Paracrine function amplifies pro-tumor electrochemical signal within neuron-glioma synapses	41
Longitudinal virological changes and underlying pathogenesis in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Guangzhou, China	38
Mechanical transmission enables EMT cancer cells to drive epithelial cancer cell migration to guide tumor spheroid disaggregation	38
Applications and grants of National Natural Science Foundation of China’s General Program in cardiovascular research: a 10-year review	37
CREB1 contributes colorectal cancer cell plasticity by regulating lncRNA CCAT1 and NF-κB pathways	36
OsDREB1C, an integrator for photosynthesis, nitrogen use efficiency, and early flowering	35
Lysosomal cholesterol accumulation is commonly found in most peroxisomal disorders and reversed by 2-hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin	35
Potential oligonucleotide drugs in Bencao sRNA Atlas	35
Exploring the role of autophagy during early human embryonic development through single-cell transcriptome and methylome analyses	35