OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of eLife is 89. 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
Comprehensive mutagenesis maps the effect of all single-codon mutations in the AAV2 rep gene on AAV production	1273
ZAF, the first open source fully automated feeder for aquatic facilities	471
Wiring up for controlled flight	377
A double dissociation between semantic and spatial cognition in visual to default network pathways	325
How a gene fuels ear infections	306
The effect of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on cardiovascular function in subarachnoid hemorrhage patients: A randomized trial	286
Correction: Gene regulatory patterning codes in early cell fate specification of the C. elegans embryo	274
Risk-sensitive learning is a winning strategy for leading an urban invasion	264
Bridging the 3D geometrical organisation of white matter pathways across anatomical length scales and species	262
A role for RNA knots in Alzheimer’s disease	262
Dynamic simulations of feeding and respiration of the early Cambrian periderm-bearing cnidarian polyps	253
Volume electron microscopy reveals unique laminar synaptic characteristics in the human entorhinal cortex	242
Altered hepatic metabolism mediates sepsis preventive effects of reduced glucose supply in infected preterm newborns	232
A VgrG2b fragment cleaved by caspase-11/4 promotes Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection through suppressing the NLRP3 inflammasome	216
De novo identification of universal cell mechanics gene signatures	209
Defining the ultrastructure of the hematopoietic stem cell niche by correlative light and electron microscopy	201
Regeneration following tissue necrosis is mediated by non-apoptotic caspase activity	200
Regeneration following tissue necrosis is mediated by non-apoptotic caspase activity	194
Acetylcholine modulates prefrontal outcome coding during threat learning under uncertainty	193
Discovering root causal genes with high-throughput perturbations	193
Impaired yolk sac NAD metabolism disrupts murine embryogenesis with relevance to human birth defects	188
Movies reveal the fine-grained organization of infant visual cortex	187
Mapping patterns of thought onto brain activity during movie-watching	185
Reevaluating the neural noise in dyslexia using biomarkers from electroencephalography and high-resolution magnetic resonance spectroscopy	174
SIV-specific neutralizing antibody induction following selection of a PI3K drive-attenuated nef variant	174

The asymmetric expression of HSPA2 in blastomeres governs the first embryonic cell-fate decision	165
UNC-6/Netrin promotes both adhesion and directed growth within a single axon	164
Dopamine increases protein synthesis in hippocampal neurons enabling dopamine-dependent LTP	162
Multi-dimensional social relationships shape social attention in monkeys	159
Short-term social isolation acts on hypothalamic neurons to promote social behavior in a sex- and context-dependent manner	158
Is creatine a CNS neurotransmitter?	153
Effects of arousal and movement on secondary somatosensory and visual thalamus	152
Inference of the SARS-CoV-2 generation time using UK household data	149
Deciphering molecular heterogeneity and dynamics of human hippocampal neural stem cells at different ages and injury states	147
Putting the theory into ‘burstlet theory’ with a biophysical model of burstlets and bursts in the respiratory preBötzinger complex	146
Neural defensive circuits underlie helping under threat in humans	140
Perturbation of amygdala-cortical projections reduces ensemble coherence of palatability coding in gustatory cortex	138
Human monoclonal antibodies against Staphylococcus aureus surface antigens recognize in vitro and in vivo biofilm	137
An ER phospholipid hydrolase drives ER-associated mitochondrial constriction for fission and fusion	134
AAV ablates neurogenesis in the adult murine hippocampus	132
Local circuit allowing hypothalamic control of hippocampal area CA2 activity and consequences for CA1	130
Insulin sensitivity in mesolimbic pathways predicts and improves with weight loss in older dieters	126
Nonlinear transient amplification in recurrent neural networks with short-term plasticity	126
Lead-OR: A multimodal platform for deep brain stimulation surgery	123
A systematic CRISPR screen reveals an IL-20/IL20RA-mediated immune crosstalk to prevent the ovarian cancer metastasis	121
Post-translational flavinylation is associated with diverse extracytosolic redox functionalities throughout bacterial life	120
Characterizing human mobility patterns in rural settings of sub-Saharan Africa	119
SARS-CoV-2 requires cholesterol for viral entry and pathological syncytia formation	119
Daily electrical activity in the master circadian clock of a diurnal mammal	115
Disordered proteins interact with the chemical environment to tune their protective function during drying	115
The need for high-quality oocyte mitochondria at extreme ploidy dictates mammalian germline development	115
Tracing the substrate translocation mechanism in P-glycoprotein	113
Insight into the evolutionary assemblage of cranial kinesis from a Cretaceous bird	113
Multi-centre analysis of networks and genes modulated by hypothalamic stimulation in patients with aggressive behaviours	112
A scenario for an evolutionary selection of ageing	112
A 3D adult zebrafish brain atlas (AZBA) for the digital age	112
Immunomodulatory drug discovery from herbal medicines: Insights from organ-specific activity and xenobiotic defenses	112
High-throughput library transgenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans via Transgenic Arrays Resulting in Diversity of Integrated Sequences (TARDIS)	110
Two forms of asynchronous release with distinctive spatiotemporal dynamics in central synapses	106
Hippocampal place cell remapping occurs with memory storage of aversive experiences	106
Oral supplementation of gut microbial metabolite indole-3-acetate alleviates diet-induced steatosis and inflammation in mice	106
Fip1 is a multivalent interaction scaffold for processing factors in human mRNA 3′ end biogenesis	105
Cortical activity during naturalistic music listening reflects short-range predictions based on long-term experience	105
A low-tech, cost-effective and efficient method for safeguarding genetic diversity by direct cryopreservation of poultry embryonic reproductive cells	104
Fecal transplant from myostatin deletion pigs positively impacts the gut-muscle axis	103
How inhibitory and excitatory inputs gate output of the inferior olive	103
Inhibition of DNMT1 methyltransferase activity via glucose-regulated O-GlcNAcylation alters the epigenome	102
Using adversarial networks to extend brain computer interface decoding accuracy over time	101
Normal and dysregulated crosstalk between iron metabolism and erythropoiesis	101
Fetal growth delay caused by loss of non-canonical imprinting is resolved late in pregnancy and culminates in offspring overgrowth	100
Caspase-1 activates gasdermin A in non-mammals	100
A non-conducting role of the Cav1.4 Ca2+ channel drives homeostatic plasticity at the cone photoreceptor synapse	100
Chromosome structure in Drosophila is determined by boundary pairing not loop extrusion	100
History information emerges in the cortex during learning	98
Evaluating the effect of metabolic traits on oral and oropharyngeal cancer risk using Mendelian randomization	97

Regulation of chromatin architecture by transcription factor binding	96
Long COVID in cancer patients: preponderance of symptoms in majority of patients over long time period	96
Statin-mediated reduction in mitochondrial cholesterol primes an anti-inflammatory response in macrophages by upregulating Jmjd3	95
Mosquito community composition shapes virus prevalence patterns along anthropogenic disturbance gradients	95
Fast bacterial growth reduces antibiotic accumulation and efficacy	95
Systematic lncRNA mapping to genome-wide co-essential modules uncovers cancer dependency on uncharacterized lncRNAs	94
The Nse5/6-like SIMC1-SLF2 complex localizes SMC5/6 to viral replication centers	92
Position representations of moving objects align with real-time position in the early visual response	92
Persistent cross-species transmission systems dominate Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 epidemiology in a high incidence region: A genomic epidemiology study	91
Retraction: Arginine methylation of SHANK2 by PRMT7 promotes human breast cancer metastasis through activating endosomal FAK signalling	90
Retraction: Proteasome storage granules protect proteasomes from autophagic degradation upon carbon starvation	90
Correction: The long non-coding RNA Cerox1 is a post transcriptional regulator of mitochondrial complex I catalytic activity	89
Template switching during DNA replication is a prevalent source of adaptive gene amplification	89
An emerging view of neural geometry in motor cortex supports high-performance decoding	89