OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Physiological Reviews is 76. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis	1813
Fundamental Mechanisms of Regulated Cell Death and Implications for Heart Disease	431
Metabolomics for Investigating Physiological and Pathophysiological Processes	411
Free Fatty Acid Receptors in Health and Disease	398
Neuropathic Pain: From Mechanisms to Treatment	389
Diversity and Biology of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts	386
Pregnancy and COVID-19	331
Elevated Plasmin(ogen) as a Common Risk Factor for COVID-19 Susceptibility	278
The Neuroscience of Drug Reward and Addiction	272
Sleep Spindles: Mechanisms and Functions	269
Current Principles of Motor Control, with Special Reference to Vertebrate Locomotion	259
Methylglyoxal, a Highly Reactive Dicarbonyl Compound, in Diabetes, Its Vascular Complications, and Other Age-Related Diseases	244
Cell Adhesion by Integrins	213
Regulation of cerebral blood flow in humans: physiology and clinical implications of autoregulation	201
Mammalian Transient Receptor Potential TRPA1 Channels: From Structure to Disease	199
Stiffness Sensing by Cells	185
Brain Lateralization: A Comparative Perspective	174
Regulation and metabolic functions of mTORC1 and mTORC2	161
Physiology of the Endometrium and Regulation of Menstruation	158
Immunity, Hypoxia, and Metabolism–the Ménage à Trois of Cancer: Implications for Immunotherapy	157
Molecular physiology of bile acid signaling in health, disease, and aging	134
Microenvironmental Determinants of Pancreatic Cancer	131
SUMO: From Bench to Bedside	123
Brain mechanisms of insomnia: new perspectives on causes and consequences	122
Mechanistic Links Between Obesity, Diabetes, and Blood Pressure: Role of Perivascular Adipose Tissue	121

Cellular Circuits in the Brain and Their Modulation in Acute and Chronic Pain	120
Behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of pavlovian and instrumental extinction learning	120
Fluid transport in the brain	119
Stem Cells and the Differentiation Hierarchy in Mammary Gland Development	114
Bone metastasis: mechanisms, therapies, and biomarkers	112
Obesity cardiomyopathy: evidence, mechanisms, and therapeutic implications	110
SIRT6, a Mammalian Deacylase with Multitasking Abilities	109
Revisiting the Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain: Toward a Meta-Networking Theory of Cerebral Functions	104
Physiology and Pathophysiology of Itch	104
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: From the Bench to the Bedside	102
Role of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine protein modification in cellular (patho)physiology	101
Sensory Processing at Ribbon Synapses in the Retina and the Cochlea	100
The SLC9A-C Mammalian Na⁺/H⁺Exchanger Family: Molecules, Mechanisms, and Physiology	99
Developmental origins of metabolic diseases	95
Regulation of the Renal NaCl Cotransporter and Its Role in Potassium Homeostasis	88
Exercise under heat stress: thermoregulation, hydration, performance implications, and mitigation strategies	86
The Physiology of the Gastric Parietal Cell	84
Mitochondrial calcium exchange in physiology and disease	82
The Female Response to Seminal Fluid	80
Sex determination, gonadal sex differentiation, and plasticity in vertebrate species	79
The Urothelium: Life in a Liquid Environment	76
Cardiac Mechano-Electric Coupling: Acute Effects of Mechanical Stimulation on Heart Rate and Rhythm	76