OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Virology is 7. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Interactions Between Commensal Microbes and Mosquito-Borne Viruses	146
Rift Valley Fever Virus Encephalitis: Viral and Host Determinants of Pathogenesis	110
Citrus Tristeza Virus: From Pathogen to Panacea	102
Influenza: Searching for Pandemic Origins	96
Block the Spread: Barriers to Transmission of Influenza Viruses	96
A Mammalian Cell's Guide on How to Process a Bacteriophage	92
A Hitchhiker's Guide Through the Cell: The World According to the Capsids of Alphaherpesviruses	89
Abortive Infection of Animal Cells: What Goes Wrong	78
Structure and Role of O-Linked Glycans in Viral Envelope Proteins	77
Controlling Much? Viral Control of Host Chromatin Dynamics	67
Cyclic Nucleotide Signaling in Phage Defense and Counter-Defense	48
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Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Reviews	45
A Structural Perspective on the Alphavirus Life Cycle	44
Poxvirus Host-Range Determinants: SAMD9/9L and Beyond	42
Mucins and Respiratory Virus Infection	40
Viral G Protein–Coupled Receptors Encoded by β- and γ-Herpesviruses	39
Structural and Functional Insights into Viral Programmed Ribosomal Frameshifting	39
SEA-PHAGES and SEA-GENES: Advancing Virology and Science Education	38
Seeing Biomolecular Condensates Through the Lens of Viruses	35
Influenza Virus Antigenic Drift: Balancing Fitness and Immune Evasion	35
Natural Selection, Intracellular Bottlenecks of Virus Populations, and Viral Superinfection Exclusion	34
Grapevine Red Blotch Disease: A Threat to the Grape and Wine Industries	33
Understanding the Impacts of Bacteriophage Viruses: From Laboratory Evolution to Natural Ecosystems	31
Systems Biology of Virus-Host Protein Interactions: From Hypothesis Generation to Mechanisms of Replication and Pathogenesis	30

The Knowns and Unknowns of Herpesvirus Nuclear Egress	29
Amoebae: Hiding in Plain Sight: Unappreciated Hosts for the Very Large Viruses	29
Breaking Boundaries: The Perpetual Interplay Between Tobamoviruses and Plant Immunity	28
The Role of Viruses in Identifying and Analyzing RNA Silencing	28
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Expanding the Plant Virome: Umbra-Like Viruses Use Host Proteins for Movement	26
For Better or Worse: Modulation of the Host DNA Damage Response by Human Papillomavirus	24
Crowning Touches in Positive-Strand RNA Virus Genome Replication Complex Structure and Function	24
The Life Cycle of the Vaccinia Virus Genome	24
Experimental Considerations for the Evaluation of Viral Biomolecular Condensates	23
The Antiviral Response in Insect Vectors: Immune Mechanisms and Implications for Disease Control	22
What Have We Learned by Resurrecting the 1918 Influenza Virus?	22
Microviruses: A World Beyond phiX174	21
Virologists Can Help Make America Healthy Again	20
For the Love of Poliovirus	18
Phage Therapy and Global Health Equity: Opportunities in the Era of Antibiotic Resistance	17
Antiviral and Immunomodulatory Effects of Interferon Lambda at the Maternal-Fetal Interface	15
Studying Retroviral Life Cycles Using Visible Viruses and Live Cell Imaging	14
The Orthohantavirus GN/GC Spikes: Molecular Determinants of Infection and Targets for Antiviral Immune Interventions	14
Nuclear Capsid Uncoating and Reverse Transcription of HIV-1	14
Viral Evolution Shaped by Host Proteostasis Networks	13
The Spectrum of Postacute Sequelae of COVID-19 in Children: From MIS-C to Long COVID	13
Embracing Complexity: What Novel Sequencing Methods Are Teaching Us About Herpesvirus Genomic Diversity	13
The Risk of Virus Emergence in South America: A Subtle Balance Between Increasingly Favorable Conditions and a Protective Environment	13
Viral Membrane Fusion: A Dance Between Proteins and Lipids	12
The Role of Viral RNA Degrading Factors in Shutoff of Host Gene Expression	11
The Emergence and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2	11
In Transition: How Influenza Virus Switches from Transcription to Genome Replication	10
Targeting Herpesvirus Recombination Proteins for Antiviral Therapy	9
The Molecular Maze of Potyviral and Host Protein Interactions	9
Spatial Transcriptomics to Study Virus-Host Interactions	9
The Future of Virology Education	9
Introduction	9
What's in a Name? Upgrading Virus Species Nomenclature	9
Lab Legends and Field Phantoms: The Tale of Virus-Resistant Plants	8
The Times They Are a-Changing	8
The Collaborative Cross as a Model for Studying Viral Infections	8
APOBEC3G Antagonism by Vif, or When Structure Meets Biological and Evolutionary Studies	8
From Entry to the Nucleus: How Retroviruses Commute	7
Immunomodulation by Enteric Viruses	7