OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Cell Biology is 50. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
LNCcation: lncRNA localization and function	608
SuperPlots: Communicating reproducibility and variability in cell biology	404
Mitochondrial regulation of ferroptosis	190
Autophagosome biogenesis: From membrane growth to closure	182
Lysosome biogenesis: Regulation and functions	154
The cell biology of synapse formation	138
Mitophagy pathways in health and disease	119
Critical role of mitochondrial ubiquitination and the OPTN–ATG9A axis in mitophagy	110
Paradoxical roles of caspase-3 in regulating cell survival, proliferation, and tumorigenesis	100
SARM1 acts downstream of neuroinflammatory and necroptotic signaling to induce axon degeneration	100
Liquid–liquid phase separation in autophagy	98
TMEM41B and VMP1 are scramblases and regulate the distribution of cholesterol and phosphatidylserine	91
STING induces LC3B lipidation onto single-membrane vesicles via the V-ATPase and ATG16L1-WD40 domain	88
VPS13D bridges the ER to mitochondria and peroxisomes via Miro	86
The RNA binding protein FMR1 controls selective exosomal miRNA cargo loading during inflammation	85
FUS-dependent liquid–liquid phase separation is important for DNA repair initiation	84
Cancer cells educate natural killer cells to a metastasis-promoting cell state	82
Lipid droplets in the nervous system	82
Mechanisms of nonvesicular lipid transport	82
The NLRP3–inflammasome as a sensor of organelle dysfunction	81
The cell biology of Parkinson’s disease	77
Mitochondria as intracellular signaling platforms in health and disease	70
Recognition of RNA by the S9.6 antibody creates pervasive artifacts when imaging RNA:DNA hybrids	70
CDK4/6 regulate lysosome biogenesis through TFEB/TFE3	69
Seipin and Nem1 establish discrete ER subdomains to initiate yeast lipid droplet biogenesis	68

Sequential dynein effectors regulate axonal autophagosome motility in a maturation-dependent pathway	67
Who’s in control? Principles of Rab GTPase activation in endolysosomal membrane trafficking and beyond	67
Microtubules control cellular shape and coherence in amoeboid migrating cells	67
3D FIB-SEM reconstruction of microtubule–organelle interaction in whole primary mouse β cells	62
Phospholipid ebb and flow makes mitochondria go	61
PD-1 and BTLA regulate T cell signaling differentially and only partially through SHP1 and SHP2	61
COPII collar defines the boundary between ER and ER exit site and does not coat cargo containers	60
Pathogenic mutations in the kinesin-3 motor KIF1A diminish force generation and movement through allosteric mechanisms	59
The proline-rich domain promotes Tau liquid–liquid phase separation in cells	59
Phase separation of Axin organizes the β-catenin destruction complex	58
Endosomal escape of delivered mRNA from endosomal recycling tubules visualized at the nanoscale	58
ULK complex organization in autophagy by a C-shaped FIP200 N-terminal domain dimer	57
Ribosome heterogeneity in stem cells and development	57
Similarities and interplay between senescent cells and macrophages	57
Evolving models for assembling and shaping clathrin-coated pits	56
A PI3K-WIPI2 positive feedback loop allosterically activates LC3 lipidation in autophagy	56
High-fidelity reconstitution of stress granules and nucleoli in mammalian cellular lysate	55
ECM deposition is driven by caveolin-1–dependent regulation of exosomal biogenesis and cargo sorting	53
Ubiquitin chains earmark GPCRs for BBSome-mediated removal from cilia	52
V-ATPase is a universal regulator of LC3-associated phagocytosis and non-canonical autophagy	52
High-content imaging-based pooled CRISPR screens in mammalian cells	51
Topological features of integrin adhesion complexes revealed by multiplexed proximity biotinylation	50
Ubiquitin links smoothened to intraflagellar transport to regulate Hedgehog signaling	50
The long journey to bring a Myc inhibitor to the clinic	50
Secretory autophagy maintains proteostasis upon lysosome inhibition	50