OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-RNA is 2. 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.)

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The emerging roles of circRNAs in traits associated with livestock breeding	84
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Molecular regulation of hypoxia through the lenses of noncoding RNAs and epitranscriptome	57
Computational methods for predicting hotspots at protein–RNA interfaces	47
Inosine triphosphate pyrophosphatase: A guardian of the cellular nucleotide pool and potential mediator of RNA function	42
microRNAs‐based diagnostic and therapeutic applications in liver fibrosis	41
Proteostasis regulation through ribosome quality control and no‐go‐decay	40
Small‐RNA‐guided histone modifications and somatic genome elimination in ciliates	40
Emerging roles of RNA‐binding proteins in fatty liver disease	35
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Untacking small RNA profiling and RNA fragment footprinting: Approaches and challenges in library construction	33
Assembly of multicomponent machines inRNAmetabolism: A common theme inmRNAdecay pathways	32
Revealing the hidden RBP–RNA interactions with RNA modification enzyme‐based strategies	32
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Regulation of alternative splicing: Functional interplay with epigenetic modifications and its implication to cancer	31
Post‐transcriptional regulation of polycistronic microRNAs	29
RNA base editors: The emerging approach of RNA therapeutics	29
Three Stages of Nascent Protein Translocation Through the Ribosome Exit Tunnel	28
The emergent role of mitochondrial RNA modifications in metabolic alterations	28
Choosing the right exit: How functional plasticity of the nuclear pore drives selective and efficient mRNA export	27
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Ribosome dynamics and mRNA turnover, a complex relationship under constant cellular scrutiny	26

Mitochondrial RNA, a new trigger of the innate immune system	26
Roles of non‐coding RNAs in eye development and diseases	24
Conserved motifs in the flavivirus NS3 RNA helicase enzyme	24
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RNA methyltransferase METTL16: Targets and function	23
Recent insights into the structure, function, and regulation of the eukaryotic transfer RNA splicing endonuclease complex	22
tRNA‐derived RNAs: Biogenesis and roles in translational control	22
Non‐coding RNAs in diseases with a focus on osteoarthritis	21
A (dis)integrated stress response: Genetic diseases of eIF2α regulators	21
Uncovering the impacts of alternative splicing on the proteome with current omics techniques	20
Microexon alternative splicing of small GTPase regulators: Implication in central nervous system diseases	19
Caught in the act—Visualizing ribonucleases during eukaryotic ribosome assembly	19
Fates and functions of RNA‐binding proteins under stress	18
Orchestrated centers for the production of proteins or “translation factories”	18
Biogenesis, characterization, and functions of mirtrons	17
RNA nucleotide methylation: 2021 update	17
Applications of the versatile CRISPR‐Cas13 RNA targeting system	16
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LINC00152: Potential driver oncogene in pan‐cancer	15
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miR‐135b: A Potential Biomarker for Pathological Diagnosis and Biological Therapy	15
The “guiding” principles of noncoding RNA function	15
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Noncoding RNAs: Emerging regulators of behavioral complexity	14
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Spatial analysis toolkits for RNA in situ sequencing	14
The spectrum of pre‐mRNA splicing in autism	13
Synthetic antibodies for accelerated RNA crystallography	13
Emerging roles of BET proteins in transcription and co‐transcriptional RNA processing	13
RNA thermometers and other regulatory elements: Diversity and importance in bacterial pathogenesis	13
Alternative splicing in bladder cancer: potential strategies for cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment	13
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Poly(A) tale: From A to A; RNA polyadenylation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes	12
The story of rRNA expansion segments: Finding functionality amidst diversity	12
The Central Dogma revisited: Insights from protein synthesis, CRISPR, and beyond	12
Epi‐miRNAs: Modern mediators of methylation status in human cancers	12
Utilizing functional cell‐free extracts to dissect ribonucleoprotein complex biology at single‐molecule resolution	12
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Physiological and engineered tRNA aminoacylation	11
Keeping development on time: Insights into post‐transcriptional mechanisms driving oscillatory gene expression during vertebrate segmentation	11
On the function and relevance of alternative 3′‐UTRs in gene expression regulation	11
Integrated Biochemical and Computational Methods for Deciphering RNA‐Processing Codes	10
Web tools support predicting protein–nucleic acid complexes stability with affinity changes	10
Insights into established and emerging roles of SR protein family in plants and animals	10
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Roles of minor spliceosome in intron recognition and the convergence with the better understood major spliceosome	10
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Metabolism Meets Translation: Dietary and Metabolic Influences on tRNA Modifications and Codon Biased Translation	9

Ghost authors revealed: The structure and function of human N⁶‐methyladenosine RNA methyltransferases	9
RNA epigenetic modifications in ovarian cancer: The changes, chances, and challenges	9
Non‐coding RNAs in malaria infection	9
Time to infer miRNA sponge modules	9
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Riboregulation in bacteria: From general principles to novel mechanisms of the trp attenuator and its sRNA and peptide products	8
Measuring the tail: Methods for poly(A) tail profiling	8
The role of alternative splicing and splicing factors in diabetes: Current status and future perspectives	8
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New insights into the centrosome‐associated spliceosome components as regulators of ciliogenesis and tissue identity	7
Origin of functional de novo genes in humans from “hopeful monsters”	7
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RNA‐binding proteins in pain	7
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Long noncoding RNA‐dependent methylation of nonhistone proteins	6
Characterization of circular RNAs with advanced sequencing technologies in human complex diseases	6
Partners in crime: Proteins implicated in RNA repeat expansion diseases	6
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Unraveling the intriguing interplay: Exploring the role of lncRNAs in caspase‐independent cell death	6
Long noncoding RNAs in bacterial infection	6
Integrating transcription and splicing into cell fate: Transcription factors on the block	6
Rules and impacts of nonsense‐mediated mRNA decay in the degradation of long noncoding RNAs	6
Antisense oligonucleotide: A promising therapeutic option to beat COVID‐19	6
Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a research tool for RNA‐mediated human disease	6
The potential versatility of RNA catalysis	5
Sex and the basal mRNA synthesis machinery	5
Multiple structural flavors of RNase P in precursor tRNA processing	5
Alternative polyadenylation: An enigma of transcript length variation in health and disease	5
The HNRNPF/H RNA binding proteins and disease	5
Correction to “A little less aggregation a little more replication: Viral manipulation of stress granules”	5
The tip of the iceberg—The roles of long noncoding RNAs in acute myeloid leukemia	5
Emerging roles of RNA–RNA interactions in transcriptional regulation	4
Beyond reader proteins: RNA binding proteins and RNA modifications in conversation to regulate gene expression	4
Regulation of microRNA by circular RNA	4
Hitting the mark: Localization of mRNA and biomolecular condensates in health and disease	4
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PINTology: A short history of the lncRNA LINC‐PINT in different diseases	3
A mechanistic view of long noncoding RNAs in cancer	3
Unannotated splicing regulatory elements in deep intron space	3
The Pol III transcriptome: Basic features, recurrent patterns, and emerging roles in cancer	3
Alternative splicing: An efficient regulatory approach towards plant developmental plasticity	3
Current advances in circular RNA detection and investigation methods: Are we running in circles?	3
Regulation of antiviral innate immunity by chemical modification of viral RNA	3
Regulation of neuronal RNA signatures by ELAV/Hu proteins	3
The regulatory role of N⁶‐methyladenosine modification in the interaction between host and microbes	3
Novel insights on the positive correlation between sense and antisense pairs on gene expression	2
The curious case of the disappearing piRNAs	2
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Regulation and different functions of the animal microRNA‐induced silencing complex	2
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Correction to “Poly(A) tale: From A to A; RNA polyadenylation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes”	2
The Quaking RNA‐binding proteins as regulators of cell differentiation	2
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Pericentromeric satellite RNAs as flexible protein partners in the regulation of nuclear structure	2
Eukaryotic splicing machinery in the plant–virus battleground	2
Undervalued and novel roles of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins in autoimmune diseases: Resurgence as potential biomarkers and targets	2
The landscape of lncRNAs in cell granules: Insights into their significance in cancer	2
mRNA isoform balance in neuronal development and disease	2
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