OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Developmental Biology is 24. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Nociceptor subtypes are born continuously over DRG development	84
Control of the ecdysteroid level plays a crucial role in density-dependent metamorphosis in the giant mealworm beetle Zophobas atratus	41
Pax2a, Sp5a and Sp5l act downstream of Fgf and Wnt to coordinate sensory-neural patterning in the inner ear	41
The great small organisms of developmental genetics: Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster	40
The role of Ire1 in Drosophila eye pigmentation revealed by an RNase dead allele	32
Hormone-related genes heterochronically and modularly regulate neotenic differentiation in termites	32
High-throughput methodology to identify CRISPR-generated Danio rerio mutants using fragment analysis with unmodified PCR products	32
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Genome-wide analysis of early vascular tunic repair and regeneration for Botrylloides digenesis reveals striking similarities to human wound healing.	29
Galnt17 loss-of-function leads to developmental delay and abnormal coordination, activity, and social interactions with cerebellar vermis pathology	29
Ectopic expression of T in the paraxial mesoderm disrupts somite maturation in the mouse	29
Distinct proliferative and middle ear skeletal-patterning functions for SHH-expressing epithelia in the chick hyoid arch	27
The impact of developmental biology in the last 100 years	27
Planar cell polarity and the pathogenesis of Tourette Disorder: New hypotheses and perspectives	27
Zinc finger RNA binding protein 2 (ZFR2) is not required for male fertility in the mouse	27
Editorial Board	26
Optimizing CRISPR/Cas9 approaches in the polymorphic tunicate Ciona intestinalis	26
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Insulator foci distance correlates with cellular and nuclear morphology in early Drosophila embryos	26
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The Kunitz-type serine protease inhibitor Spint2 is required for cellular cohesion, coordinated cell migration and cell survival during zebrafish hatching gland development	24
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