OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Virus Evolution is 28. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Evolution of a novel engineered tripartite viral genome of a torradovirus	121
Human immunodeficiency virus dynamics in secondary lymphoid tissues and the evolution of cytotoxic T lymphocyte escape mutants	110
Phycova — a tool for exploring covariates of pathogen spread	84
Uncovering the genetic diversity within the Aedes notoscriptus virome and isolation of new viruses from this highly urbanised and invasive mosquito	82
A single early introduction governed viral diversity in the second wave of SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Hungary	79
Genome-wide diversity of Zika virus: Exploring spatio-temporal dynamics to guide a new nomenclature proposal	74
The evolutionary dynamics and epidemiological history of hepatitis C virus genotype 6, including unique strains from the Li community of Hainan Island, China	64
High pathogenic avian influenza A(H5) viruses of clade 2.3.4.4b in Europe—Why trends of virus evolution are more difficult to predict	61
Intrahost evolution leading to distinct lineages in the upper and lower respiratory tracts during SARS-CoV-2 prolonged infection	54
Genome sizes of animal RNA viruses reflect phylogenetic constraints	50
Diversity and transmission of Aleutian mink disease virus in feral and farmed American mink and native mustelids	45
Analyses of HIV proteases variants at the threshold of viability reveals relationships between processing efficiency and fitness	42
Disentangling the role of poultry farms and wild birds in the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in Europe	42
Impact and mitigation of sampling bias to determine viral spread: Evaluating discrete phylogeography through CTMC modeling and structured coalescent model approximations	42
Effects of host and pathogenicity on mutation rates in avian influenza A viruses	41
Evolutionary rate of SARS-CoV-2 increases during zoonotic infection of farmed mink	40
Correction to: Quantifying the value of viral genomics when inferring who infected whom in the 2014–16 Ebola virus outbreak in Guinea	38
Emergence and transmission dynamics of the FY.4 Omicron variant in Kenya	34
Diverse patterns of intra-host genetic diversity in chronically infected SARS-CoV-2 patients	33
Deep mutational scanning of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.86 and epistatic emergence of the KP.3 variant	32
Discovery of novel Mamastroviruses in Bactrian camels and dromedaries reveals complex recombination history	32
Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus incursions of subtype H5N8, H5N5, H5N1, H5N4, and H5N3 in Germany during 2020-21	32
Community-level variability in Bronx COVID-19 hospitalizations associated with differing population immunity during the second year of the pandemic	31
Deciphering the evolutionary landscape of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus across East Asia	31
A systematic review on Nipah virus: global molecular epidemiology and medical countermeasures development	31

Evolution of anelloviruses from a circovirus-like ancestor through gradual augmentation of the jelly-roll capsid protein	30
Evolution of a globally unique SARS-CoV-2 Spike E484T monoclonal antibody escape mutation in a persistently infected, immunocompromised individual	30
An advanced sequence clustering and designation workflow reveals the enzootic maintenance of a dominant West Nile virus subclade in Germany	29