OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Virology is 8. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Interactions Between Commensal Microbes and Mosquito-Borne Viruses	125
Reflections on a Career in Plant Virology: A Chip Floating on a Stream	90
Small-Molecule Inhibition of Viral Fusion Glycoproteins	82
Interaction of Viruses with the Insect Intestine	79
Citrus Tristeza Virus: From Pathogen to Panacea	78
Understanding the Complex Phage-Host Interactions in Biofilm Communities	76
Rift Valley Fever Virus Encephalitis: Viral and Host Determinants of Pathogenesis	76
Abortive Infection of Animal Cells: What Goes Wrong	75
Influenza: Searching for Pandemic Origins	74
Block the Spread: Barriers to Transmission of Influenza Viruses	73
A Mammalian Cell's Guide on How to Process a Bacteriophage	72
A Hitchhiker's Guide Through the Cell: The World According to the Capsids of Alphaherpesviruses	69
Viruses and Metabolism: The Effects of Viral Infections and Viral Insulins on Host Metabolism	61
The Ends Dictate the Means: Promoter Switching in Herpesvirus Gene Expression	56
Structure and Role of O-Linked Glycans in Viral Envelope Proteins	56
Controlling Much? Viral Control of Host Chromatin Dynamics	55
Cyclic Nucleotide Signaling in Phage Defense and Counter-Defense	54
Conquering the Host: Determinants of Pathogenesis Learned from Murine Gammaherpesvirus 68	53
Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Reviews	50
A Structural Perspective on the Alphavirus Life Cycle	50
Quantitative Temporal Viromics	49
In Memoriam: Michael M. Goodin (1967–2020)	47
Viral G Protein–Coupled Receptors Encoded by β- and γ-Herpesviruses	47
Poxvirus Host-Range Determinants: SAMD9/9L and Beyond	45
Structural and Functional Insights into Viral Programmed Ribosomal Frameshifting	43

SEA-PHAGES and SEA-GENES: Advancing Virology and Science Education	41
Historical Perspective on the Discovery of the Quasispecies Concept	36
New Insights into Chikungunya Virus Infection and Pathogenesis	34
Grapevine Red Blotch Disease: A Threat to the Grape and Wine Industries	31
Seeing Biomolecular Condensates Through the Lens of Viruses	30
Systems Biology of Virus-Host Protein Interactions: From Hypothesis Generation to Mechanisms of Replication and Pathogenesis	29
Bacteriophage ICP1: A Persistent Predator of Vibrio cholerae	27
Understanding the Impacts of Bacteriophage Viruses: From Laboratory Evolution to Natural Ecosystems	27
Natural Selection, Intracellular Bottlenecks of Virus Populations, and Viral Superinfection Exclusion	26
Amoebae: Hiding in Plain Sight: Unappreciated Hosts for the Very Large Viruses	26
Expanding the Plant Virome: Umbra-Like Viruses Use Host Proteins for Movement	25
The Role of Viruses in Identifying and Analyzing RNA Silencing	24
The Knowns and Unknowns of Herpesvirus Nuclear Egress	24
Breaking Boundaries: The Perpetual Interplay Between Tobamoviruses and Plant Immunity	24
The Social Life of Viruses	22
Recurring Revolutions in Virology	22
For Better or Worse: Modulation of the Host DNA Damage Response by Human Papillomavirus	21
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The Life Cycle of the Vaccinia Virus Genome	20
Crowning Touches in Positive-Strand RNA Virus Genome Replication Complex Structure and Function	19
What Have We Learned by Resurrecting the 1918 Influenza Virus?	18
Experimental Considerations for the Evaluation of Viral Biomolecular Condensates	18
Prospects for the Global Elimination of Hepatitis B	18
Sex Differences in Respiratory Viral Pathogenesis and Treatments	17
Microviruses: A World Beyond phiX174	15
Targeted Restriction of Viral Gene Expression and Replication by the ZAP Antiviral System	15
Virologists Can Help Make America Healthy Again	14
Antiviral and Immunomodulatory Effects of Interferon Lambda at the Maternal-Fetal Interface	13
Studying Retroviral Life Cycles Using Visible Viruses and Live Cell Imaging	12
Embracing Complexity: What Novel Sequencing Methods Are Teaching Us About Herpesvirus Genomic Diversity	12
Advances in Viroid-Host Interactions	11
The Risk of Virus Emergence in South America: A Subtle Balance Between Increasingly Favorable Conditions and a Protective Environment	11
Nuclear Capsid Uncoating and Reverse Transcription of HIV-1	11
In Transition: How Influenza Virus Switches from Transcription to Genome Replication	11
The Emergence and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2	10
Viral Evolution Shaped by Host Proteostasis Networks	10
Viral Membrane Fusion: A Dance Between Proteins and Lipids	9
The Spectrum of Postacute Sequelae of COVID-19 in Children: From MIS-C to Long COVID	8
The Molecular Maze of Potyviral and Host Protein Interactions	8
The Role of Viral RNA Degrading Factors in Shutoff of Host Gene Expression	8
Introduction	8