OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Physiological Reviews is 56. 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
Neuropathic Pain: From Mechanisms to Treatment	532
Diversity and Biology of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts	509
Pregnancy and COVID-19	378
Sleep Spindles: Mechanisms and Functions	341
Regulation of cerebral blood flow in humans: physiology and clinical implications of autoregulation	300
Elevated Plasmin(ogen) as a Common Risk Factor for COVID-19 Susceptibility	287
Regulation and metabolic functions of mTORC1 and mTORC2	253
Mammalian Transient Receptor Potential TRPA1 Channels: From Structure to Disease	232
Brain Lateralization: A Comparative Perspective	223
Stiffness Sensing by Cells	223
Physiology of the Endometrium and Regulation of Menstruation	204
Brain mechanisms of insomnia: new perspectives on causes and consequences	187
Molecular physiology of bile acid signaling in health, disease, and aging	184
Fluid transport in the brain	180
Behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of pavlovian and instrumental extinction learning	159
Bone metastasis: mechanisms, therapies, and biomarkers	155
Cellular Circuits in the Brain and Their Modulation in Acute and Chronic Pain	154
Microenvironmental Determinants of Pancreatic Cancer	153
SUMO: From Bench to Bedside	153
Exercise under heat stress: thermoregulation, hydration, performance implications, and mitigation strategies	151
Developmental origins of metabolic diseases	149
Obesity cardiomyopathy: evidence, mechanisms, and therapeutic implications	145
Stem Cells and the Differentiation Hierarchy in Mammary Gland Development	141
Role of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine protein modification in cellular (patho)physiology	135
Revisiting the Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain: Toward a Meta-Networking Theory of Cerebral Functions	124

Physiology and Pathophysiology of Itch	122
Sex determination, gonadal sex differentiation, and plasticity in vertebrate species	118
Mitochondrial calcium exchange in physiology and disease	114
The Physiology of the Gastric Parietal Cell	112
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: From the Bench to the Bedside	108
The complexity of Alzheimer’s disease: an evolving puzzle	108
Physiological roles of hydrogen sulfide in mammalian cells, tissues, and organs	107
Calcium-release channels: structure and function of IP₃ receptors and ryanodine receptors	95
Rho GTPase signaling in cancer progression and dissemination	94
The Female Response to Seminal Fluid	93
The Urothelium: Life in a Liquid Environment	88
Pathogenesis of HIV-Related Lung Disease: Immunity, Infection, and Inflammation	87
Cardiac Mechano-Electric Coupling: Acute Effects of Mechanical Stimulation on Heart Rate and Rhythm	87
Carotid body chemoreceptors: physiology, pathology, and implications for health and disease	85
Cardiac transmembrane ion channels and action potentials: cellular physiology and arrhythmogenic behavior	84
The osteocyte as a signaling cell	83
Physiology and pathophysiology of human airway mucus	78
Glial Connexins and Pannexins in the Healthy and Diseased Brain	77
Inflammation and thrombosis in COVID-19 pathophysiology: proteinase-activated and purinergic receptors as drivers and candidate therapeutic targets	75
From Ancient to Emerging Infections: The Odyssey of Viruses in the Male Genital Tract	75
Mitochondrial quality control in health and in Parkinson’s disease	71
Human temperature regulation under heat stress in health, disease, and injury	70
Nongenomic Actions of Thyroid Hormone: The Integrin Component	70
The roles of calcium and ATP in the physiology and pathology of the exocrine pancreas	69
Ion Channels Controlling Circadian Rhythms in Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Excitability	65
Neuronal Circuits in Barrel Cortex for Whisker Sensory Perception	64
Are We Meeting the Promise of Endotypes and Precision Medicine in Asthma?	62
Mitochondria in health, disease, and aging	61
The physiological control of eating: signals, neurons, and networks	60
Phosphate Transport in Epithelial and Nonepithelial Tissue	58
Role of the Epigenome in Heart Failure	56