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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Interactions Between Commensal Microbes and Mosquito-Borne Viruses	94
Citrus Tristeza Virus: From Pathogen to Panacea	93
Rift Valley Fever Virus Encephalitis: Viral and Host Determinants of Pathogenesis	88
A Hitchhiker's Guide Through the Cell: The World According to the Capsids of Alphaherpesviruses	83
Influenza: Searching for Pandemic Origins	80
Abortive Infection of Animal Cells: What Goes Wrong	62
Block the Spread: Barriers to Transmission of Influenza Viruses	60
A Mammalian Cell's Guide on How to Process a Bacteriophage	59
Structure and Role of O-Linked Glycans in Viral Envelope Proteins	56
Cyclic Nucleotide Signaling in Phage Defense and Counter-Defense	55
Controlling Much? Viral Control of Host Chromatin Dynamics	44
Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Reviews	37
A Structural Perspective on the Alphavirus Life Cycle	34
Poxvirus Host-Range Determinants: SAMD9/9L and Beyond	32
Viral G Protein–Coupled Receptors Encoded by β- and γ-Herpesviruses	32
Structural and Functional Insights into Viral Programmed Ribosomal Frameshifting	32
Grapevine Red Blotch Disease: A Threat to the Grape and Wine Industries	31
SEA-PHAGES and SEA-GENES: Advancing Virology and Science Education	31
Natural Selection, Intracellular Bottlenecks of Virus Populations, and Viral Superinfection Exclusion	29
Seeing Biomolecular Condensates Through the Lens of Viruses	28
Understanding the Impacts of Bacteriophage Viruses: From Laboratory Evolution to Natural Ecosystems	28
Systems Biology of Virus-Host Protein Interactions: From Hypothesis Generation to Mechanisms of Replication and Pathogenesis	27
Expanding the Plant Virome: Umbra-Like Viruses Use Host Proteins for Movement	27
The Knowns and Unknowns of Herpesvirus Nuclear Egress	25
Amoebae: Hiding in Plain Sight: Unappreciated Hosts for the Very Large Viruses	25

The Role of Viruses in Identifying and Analyzing RNA Silencing	24
Crowning Touches in Positive-Strand RNA Virus Genome Replication Complex Structure and Function	21
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Breaking Boundaries: The Perpetual Interplay Between Tobamoviruses and Plant Immunity	21
For Better or Worse: Modulation of the Host DNA Damage Response by Human Papillomavirus	20
The Life Cycle of the Vaccinia Virus Genome	20
What Have We Learned by Resurrecting the 1918 Influenza Virus?	17
Experimental Considerations for the Evaluation of Viral Biomolecular Condensates	17
Virologists Can Help Make America Healthy Again	17
Embracing Complexity: What Novel Sequencing Methods Are Teaching Us About Herpesvirus Genomic Diversity	16
Microviruses: A World Beyond phiX174	16
Antiviral and Immunomodulatory Effects of Interferon Lambda at the Maternal-Fetal Interface	16
Nuclear Capsid Uncoating and Reverse Transcription of HIV-1	15
Studying Retroviral Life Cycles Using Visible Viruses and Live Cell Imaging	15
The Risk of Virus Emergence in South America: A Subtle Balance Between Increasingly Favorable Conditions and a Protective Environment	13
Viral Evolution Shaped by Host Proteostasis Networks	13
The Spectrum of Postacute Sequelae of COVID-19 in Children: From MIS-C to Long COVID	10
Viral Membrane Fusion: A Dance Between Proteins and Lipids	10
In Transition: How Influenza Virus Switches from Transcription to Genome Replication	10
The Times They Are a-Changing	8
The Future of Virology Education	8
The Emergence and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2	8
Spatial Transcriptomics to Study Virus-Host Interactions	8
The Molecular Maze of Potyviral and Host Protein Interactions	8
Introduction	8
The Role of Viral RNA Degrading Factors in Shutoff of Host Gene Expression	8
APOBEC3G Antagonism by Vif, or When Structure Meets Biological and Evolutionary Studies	7
Lab Legends and Field Phantoms: The Tale of Virus-Resistant Plants	7
The Collaborative Cross as a Model for Studying Viral Infections	7