OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Cell Science is 33. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Functional residuomics – analyzing how missense mutations impact cellular systems	92
Nuclear speckles – a driving force in gene expression	88
PI31 is a positive regulator of 20S immunoproteasome assembly	72
First person – Francisca Vitorino	72
Approaches to reduce succinate accumulation by restoration of succinate dehydrogenase activity in cultured adrenal cells	67
Reprogramming macrophages with R848-loaded artificial protocells to modulate skin and skeletal wound healing	64
First person – Neža Vadnjal	63
First person – Syed Qaaifah Gillani	63
Cell cycle-dependent palmitoylation of protocadherin 7 by ZDHHC5 promotes successful cytokinesis	63
The roles of dynein and myosin VI motor proteins in endocytosis	55
Keratin 8 mutations in transgenic mice predispose to lung injury	54
Interview with FocalPlane Scientific Advisory Board member Jennifer Waters	52
Estimation of microtubule-generated forces using a DNA origami nanospring	52
Interview with the Guest Editor – James Olzmann	48
First person – Aude Pascal	48
Phosphorylation in the intrinsically disordered region of F-BAR protein Imp2 regulates its contractile ring recruitment	47
First person – Celia Segui-Perez	46
The worst	43
First person – Akruti Shah	43
Mitochondrial antiviral-signalling protein is a client of the BAG6 protein quality control complex	42
MITOL-mediated DRP1 ubiquitylation and degradation promotes mitochondrial hyperfusion in a CMT2A-linked MFN2 mutant	42
The system III – the workplace	40
First person – Abhishek Shinde	39
Apolipoprotein A1 deficiency in mice primes bone marrow stem cells for T cell lymphopoiesis	39
Live-imaging studies reveal how microclots and the associated inflammatory response enhance cancer cell extravasation	39

Let's review I	38
Augmin complex activity finetunes dendrite morphology through non-centrosomal microtubule nucleation in vivo	36
PCTAIRE1 promotes mitotic progression and resistance against antimitotic and apoptotic signals	35
TC10 on endosomes regulates the local balance between microtubule stability and dynamics through the PAK2-JNK pathway and promotes axon outgrowth	35
Microtubules under mechanical pressure can breach dense actin networks	35
Comparative analysis of vertebrates reveals that mouse primordial oocytes do not contain a Balbiani body	35
First person – Olivera Mitevska	34
Polo-like kinase 1 regulates immune synapse assembly and cytotoxic T cell function by driving microtubule dynamics	33