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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
YAP1 and its fusion proteins in cancer initiation, progression and therapeutic resistance	84
Human gastrulation: The embryo and its models	41
Cell competition: A historical perspective	40
Modeling human embryo development with embryonic and extra-embryonic stem cells	39
The developmental biology of kinesins	34
Seeing stars: Development and function of retinal astrocytes	32
The role of cnidarian developmental biology in unraveling axis formation and Wnt signaling	29
Postembryonic screen for mutations affecting spine development in zebrafish	29
A developmental perspective on the evolution of the nervous system	29
Vitamin A1/A2 chromophore exchange: Its role in spectral tuning and visual plasticity	29
Gastruloids: Pluripotent stem cell models of mammalian gastrulation and embryo engineering	27
Mechanisms of vitamin A metabolism and deficiency in the mammalian and fly visual system	27
Vascular deficiencies in renal organoids and ex vivo kidney organogenesis	27
Evolution of organoid technology: Lessons learnt in Co-Culture systems from developmental biology	27
Conserved and context-dependent roles for pdgfrb signaling during zebrafish vascular mural cell development	27
Development and maintenance of vision’s first synapse	26
Identification of novel human Wnt target genes using adult endodermal tissue-derived organoids	26
Neural crest metabolism: At the crossroads of development and disease	26
The (unusual) heuristic value of Hox gene clusters; a matter of time?	26
Cell competition-induced apical elimination of transformed cells, EDAC, orchestrates the cellular homeostasis	26
VEGF signaling activates the matrix metalloproteinases, MmpL7 and MmpL5 at the sites of active skeletal growth and MmpL7 regulates skeletal elongation	26
Retinoic acid signaling restricts the size of the first heart field within the anterior lateral plate mesoderm	25
Shark and ray genomics for disentangling their morphological diversity and vertebrate evolution	24
The evolutionary history and spectral tuning of vertebrate visual opsins	24
Wnt signaling determines body axis polarity in regenerating Hydra tissue fragments	24

Lamellipodia-like protrusions and focal adhesions contribute to collective cell migration in zebrafish