OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Physiological Reviews is 62. 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
Neuropathic Pain: From Mechanisms to Treatment	550
Diversity and Biology of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts	533
Pregnancy and COVID-19	384
Regulation of cerebral blood flow in humans: physiology and clinical implications of autoregulation	316
Elevated Plasmin(ogen) as a Common Risk Factor for COVID-19 Susceptibility	289
Regulation and metabolic functions of mTORC1 and mTORC2	269
Brain Lateralization: A Comparative Perspective	229
Physiology of the Endometrium and Regulation of Menstruation	213
Molecular physiology of bile acid signaling in health, disease, and aging	196
Brain mechanisms of insomnia: new perspectives on causes and consequences	196
Fluid transport in the brain	188
Behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of pavlovian and instrumental extinction learning	172
Bone metastasis: mechanisms, therapies, and biomarkers	160
Exercise under heat stress: thermoregulation, hydration, performance implications, and mitigation strategies	159
Microenvironmental Determinants of Pancreatic Cancer	159
Cellular Circuits in the Brain and Their Modulation in Acute and Chronic Pain	158
SUMO: From Bench to Bedside	158
Developmental origins of metabolic diseases	156
Obesity cardiomyopathy: evidence, mechanisms, and therapeutic implications	153
Role of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine protein modification in cellular (patho)physiology	139
Physiology and Pathophysiology of Itch	128
Mitochondrial calcium exchange in physiology and disease	128
Revisiting the Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain: Toward a Meta-Networking Theory of Cerebral Functions	127
Sex determination, gonadal sex differentiation, and plasticity in vertebrate species	124
Physiological roles of hydrogen sulfide in mammalian cells, tissues, and organs	120

The complexity of Alzheimer’s disease: an evolving puzzle	111
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: From the Bench to the Bedside	108
Calcium-release channels: structure and function of IP₃ receptors and ryanodine receptors	97
Rho GTPase signaling in cancer progression and dissemination	96
The Female Response to Seminal Fluid	95
Cardiac Mechano-Electric Coupling: Acute Effects of Mechanical Stimulation on Heart Rate and Rhythm	93
Carotid body chemoreceptors: physiology, pathology, and implications for health and disease	92
The Urothelium: Life in a Liquid Environment	90
The osteocyte as a signaling cell	88
Cardiac transmembrane ion channels and action potentials: cellular physiology and arrhythmogenic behavior	86
Physiology and pathophysiology of human airway mucus	82
Glial Connexins and Pannexins in the Healthy and Diseased Brain	80
Mitochondrial quality control in health and in Parkinson’s disease	79
Mitochondria in health, disease, and aging	76
Inflammation and thrombosis in COVID-19 pathophysiology: proteinase-activated and purinergic receptors as drivers and candidate therapeutic targets	76
Human temperature regulation under heat stress in health, disease, and injury	76
From Ancient to Emerging Infections: The Odyssey of Viruses in the Male Genital Tract	75
The roles of calcium and ATP in the physiology and pathology of the exocrine pancreas	73
Nongenomic Actions of Thyroid Hormone: The Integrin Component	71
Ion Channels Controlling Circadian Rhythms in Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Excitability	67
Neuronal Circuits in Barrel Cortex for Whisker Sensory Perception	65
Are We Meeting the Promise of Endotypes and Precision Medicine in Asthma?	62
The physiological control of eating: signals, neurons, and networks	62