OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Physiological Reviews is 28. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Neuropathic Pain: From Mechanisms to Treatment	601
Diversity and Biology of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts	585
Pregnancy and COVID-19	401
Regulation of cerebral blood flow in humans: physiology and clinical implications of autoregulation	354
Regulation and metabolic functions of mTORC1 and mTORC2	292
Elevated Plasmin(ogen) as a Common Risk Factor for COVID-19 Susceptibility	290
Brain Lateralization: A Comparative Perspective	240
Physiology of the Endometrium and Regulation of Menstruation	233
Molecular physiology of bile acid signaling in health, disease, and aging	212
Fluid transport in the brain	211
Brain mechanisms of insomnia: new perspectives on causes and consequences	209
Behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of pavlovian and instrumental extinction learning	192
Exercise under heat stress: thermoregulation, hydration, performance implications, and mitigation strategies	176
Bone metastasis: mechanisms, therapies, and biomarkers	173
Developmental origins of metabolic diseases	173
SUMO: From Bench to Bedside	172
Obesity cardiomyopathy: evidence, mechanisms, and therapeutic implications	168
Cellular Circuits in the Brain and Their Modulation in Acute and Chronic Pain	167
Microenvironmental Determinants of Pancreatic Cancer	167
Role of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine protein modification in cellular (patho)physiology	154
Mitochondrial calcium exchange in physiology and disease	144
Revisiting the Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain: Toward a Meta-Networking Theory of Cerebral Functions	138
Physiology and Pathophysiology of Itch	138
Sex determination, gonadal sex differentiation, and plasticity in vertebrate species	137
Physiological roles of hydrogen sulfide in mammalian cells, tissues, and organs	137

The complexity of Alzheimer’s disease: an evolving puzzle	121
Mitochondria in health, disease, and aging	112
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: From the Bench to the Bedside	108
Rho GTPase signaling in cancer progression and dissemination	105
The Female Response to Seminal Fluid	104
The osteocyte as a signaling cell	103
Calcium-release channels: structure and function of IP₃ receptors and ryanodine receptors	103
Cardiac Mechano-Electric Coupling: Acute Effects of Mechanical Stimulation on Heart Rate and Rhythm	101
Physiology and pathophysiology of human airway mucus	98
Cardiac transmembrane ion channels and action potentials: cellular physiology and arrhythmogenic behavior	97
Carotid body chemoreceptors: physiology, pathology, and implications for health and disease	94
The Urothelium: Life in a Liquid Environment	93
Human temperature regulation under heat stress in health, disease, and injury	92
Mitochondrial quality control in health and in Parkinson’s disease	90
Glial Connexins and Pannexins in the Healthy and Diseased Brain	84
From Ancient to Emerging Infections: The Odyssey of Viruses in the Male Genital Tract	78
The roles of calcium and ATP in the physiology and pathology of the exocrine pancreas	77
Inflammation and thrombosis in COVID-19 pathophysiology: proteinase-activated and purinergic receptors as drivers and candidate therapeutic targets	76
Nongenomic Actions of Thyroid Hormone: The Integrin Component	75
Ion Channels Controlling Circadian Rhythms in Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Excitability	69
Neuronal Circuits in Barrel Cortex for Whisker Sensory Perception	69
ER-phagy: mechanisms, regulation, and diseases connected to the lysosomal clearance of the endoplasmic reticulum	68
The physiological control of eating: signals, neurons, and networks	66
CGRP physiology, pharmacology, and therapeutic targets: migraine and beyond	65
Are We Meeting the Promise of Endotypes and Precision Medicine in Asthma?	65
Molecular responses to acute exercise and their relevance for adaptations in skeletal muscle to exercise training	63
The enteric nervous system	63
Phosphate Transport in Epithelial and Nonepithelial Tissue	62
Molecular Physiology and Pathophysiology of Bilirubin Handling by the Blood, Liver, Intestine, and Brain in the Newborn	61
RNA-binding proteins balance brain function in health and disease	60
Optophysiology: Illuminating cell physiology with optogenetics	59
Sodium channelopathies of skeletal muscle and brain	59
Role of the Epigenome in Heart Failure	59
The physiological functions of human peroxisomes	57
Carbonic anhydrases in metazoan model organisms: molecules, mechanisms, and physiology	57
G protein-coupled receptor-G protein interactions: a single-molecule perspective	56
Do hippocampal pyramidal cells respond to nonspatial stimuli?	56
How development sculpts hippocampal circuits and function	55
Albumin uptake and processing by the proximal tubule: physiological, pathological, and therapeutic implications	54
Mechanisms and physiological implications of cooperative gating of clustered ion channels	54
The Renal Physiology of Pendrin-Positive Intercalated Cells	54
Moving immune therapy forward targeting tme	53
The evolution of regulated cell death pathways in animals and their evasion by pathogens	53
Vascular mechanotransduction	53
Lymphatic vessels in cancer	51
Physiological roles of mammalian transmembrane adenylyl cyclase isoforms	49
Trained immunity: adaptation within innate immune mechanisms	47
What’s the buzz? The neuroscience and the treatment of tinnitus	47
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: from genetic heterogeneity to phenotypic continuum	47
Salivary gland function, development, and regeneration	43

Anti-protease Treatments Targeting Plasmin(ogen) and Neutrophil Elastase May Be Beneficial in Fighting COVID-19	43
The superoxide radical switch in the biology of nitric oxide and peroxynitrite	41
Telomere-mediated lung disease	41
Microcircuits for spatial coding in the medial entorhinal cortex	40
Energy metabolism design of the striated muscle cell	39
Principles of odor coding in vertebrates and artificial chemosensory systems	39
Physiology of sedentary behavior	37
The FGF/FGFR system in the physiopathology of the prostate gland	36
Neutrophil extracellular traps in the pathology of cancer and other inflammatory diseases	36
The science and engineering behind sensitized brain-controlled bionic hands	36
Development of antifibrotic therapy for stricturing Crohn’s disease: lessons from randomized trials in other fibrotic diseases	35
Sympathetic and sensory-motor nerves in peripheral small arteries	35
Folding brains: from development to disease modeling	34
Multisystem physiological perspective of human frailty and its modulation by physical activity	34
CD38 in the age of COVID-19: a medical perspective	34
Development and physiological functions of the lymphatic system: insights from human genetic studies of primary lymphedema	33
Impact of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection on Host Functions: Implications for Antiviral Strategies	32
Mechanisms of mechanical overload-induced skeletal muscle hypertrophy: current understanding and future directions	32
Cellular senescence and cardiovascular diseases: moving to the “heart” of the problem	32
The molecular athlete: exercise physiology from mechanisms to medals	31
Circadian clocks of the kidney: function, mechanism, and regulation	31
Clonal hematopoiesis, somatic mosaicism, and age-associated disease	30
Determinants, maintenance, and function of organellar pH	29
The role of junctophilin proteins in cellular function	28
Protease-activated receptors in health and disease	28
Lipodystrophy: A paradigm for understanding the consequences of "overloading" adipose tissue	28