OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Virology is 10. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Seasonality of Respiratory Viral Infections	648
Abortive Infection: Bacterial Suicide as an Antiviral Immune Strategy	259
Actinobacteriophages: Genomics, Dynamics, and Applications	86
Initial Step of Virus Entry: Virion Binding to Cell-Surface Glycans	83
Viperin Reveals Its True Function	79
Bacteriophages and the Immune System	72
Plant Virus–Derived Vectors: Applications in Agricultural and Medical Biotechnology	62
Autophagy in Plant-Virus Interactions	62
Vaccines to Emerging Viruses: Nipah and Hendra	51
Within-Host Viral Diversity: A Window into Viral Evolution	50
The Current Status of Latency Reversing Agents for HIV-1 Remission	48
Advances in Viroid-Host Interactions	48
Adenosine Deaminases Acting on RNA (ADARs) and Viral Infections	46
Understanding the Complex Phage-Host Interactions in Biofilm Communities	42
Targeted Restriction of Viral Gene Expression and Replication by the ZAP Antiviral System	41
Integrating Viral Metagenomics into an Ecological Framework	41
Viruses and Metabolism: The Effects of Viral Infections and Viral Insulins on Host Metabolism	41
Sex Differences in Respiratory Viral Pathogenesis and Treatments	39
Cyclic Nucleotide Signaling in Phage Defense and Counter-Defense	39
Bacteriophage ICP1: A Persistent Predator of Vibrio cholerae	36
Historical Perspective on the Discovery of the Quasispecies Concept	36
The Curious Strategy of Multipartite Viruses	34
The Potential Role of Endogenous Viral Elements in the Evolution of Bats as Reservoirs for Zoonotic Viruses	34
Challenges of Making Effective Influenza Vaccines	33
The Life Cycle of the Vaccinia Virus Genome	32

Understanding the Impacts of Bacteriophage Viruses: From Laboratory Evolution to Natural Ecosystems	32
Nuclear Capsid Uncoating and Reverse Transcription of HIV-1	32
Conquering the Host: Determinants of Pathogenesis Learned from Murine Gammaherpesvirus 68	31
New Insights into Chikungunya Virus Infection and Pathogenesis	31
Prospects for the Global Elimination of Hepatitis B	29
The Role of Viruses in Identifying and Analyzing RNA Silencing	28
Interaction of Viruses with the Insect Intestine	27
The Hepatitis B Virus Envelope Proteins: Molecular Gymnastics Throughout the Viral Life Cycle	27
The Social Life of Viruses	26
Plant Viruses and Bacteriophage-Based Reagents for Diagnosis and Therapy	26
Viral Hacks of the Plant Vasculature: The Role of Phloem Alterations in Systemic Virus Infection	26
Liquid Phase Partitioning in Virus Replication: Observations and Opportunities	24
The Ecology of Viral Emergence	23
Regulators of Viral Frameshifting: More Than RNA Influences Translation Events	22
Molecular Mechanisms of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus Transformation and Replication	21
Herpesvirus Epigenetic Reprogramming and Oncogenesis	21
A Roadmap for the Success of Oncolytic Parvovirus-Based Anticancer Therapies	21
Replication Compartments of Eukaryotic and Bacterial DNA Viruses: Common Themes Between Different Domains of Host Cells	19
Bacteriophage-Bacteria Interactions in the Gut: From Invertebrates to Mammals	18
Developing Phage Therapy That Overcomes the Evolution of Bacterial Resistance	17
Cellular Electron Cryo-Tomography to Study Virus-Host Interactions	15
RNA-Based Vaccination of Plants for Control of Viruses	15
Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Heterogeneity of Virus Infection, Pathogenicity, and Host Responses: HIV as a Pioneering Example	13
Virus Structures and Dynamics by Magic-Angle Spinning NMR	13
Lessons from Acquired Natural Immunity and Clinical Trials to Inform Next-Generation Human Cytomegalovirus Vaccine Development	13
CBASS to cGAS-STING: The Origins and Mechanisms of Nucleotide Second Messenger Immune Signaling	13
Advances in Understanding Neuropathogenesis of Rift Valley Fever Virus	13
The Role of Viral RNA Degrading Factors in Shutoff of Host Gene Expression	12
Natural Selection, Intracellular Bottlenecks of Virus Populations, and Viral Superinfection Exclusion	12
Shifting the Immune Memory Paradigm: Trained Immunity in Viral Infections	12
Post-Translation Regulation of Influenza Virus Replication	11
Viral G Protein–Coupled Receptors Encoded by β- and γ-Herpesviruses	11
Vaccine Safety, Efficacy, and Trust Take Time	11
APOBEC3: Friend or Foe in Human Papillomavirus Infection and Oncogenesis?	11
Tobacco Mosaic Virus and the History of Molecular Biology	11
A New Coronavirus Emerges, This Time Causing a Pandemic	11
Crowning Touches in Positive-Strand RNA Virus Genome Replication Complex Structure and Function	10
Ecology, Structure, and Evolution of Shigella Phages	10