OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Kidney International is 61. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Journal Club	1232
Phosphate meeting cholesterol—consequences for cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease?	950
Function follows form: the quest for the best prognostic imaging biomarker in ADPKD	621
Editorial Board	524
Dysfunction of the circadian clock in the kidney tubule leads to enhanced kidney gluconeogenesis and exacerbated hyperglycemia in diabetes	301
Identification of the gut microbial enzyme turning the urine yellow	296
A pig kidney supporting human physiology	266
Subscription Information	204
In this issue	174
Editorial Board	166
Editorial Board	153
Challenges in the development of novel methodologies for measuring glomerular filtration rate	150
Gene editing: a near future for the treatment of genetic kidney diseases	149
In This Issue	139
Table of Contents	132
Subscription Information	127
Epigenetic alterations and memory: key players in the development/progression of chronic kidney disease promoted by acute kidney injury and diabetes	123
Taking the A(llorecognition) train: connecting passenger T cells to DSA	119
Ttc21b deficiency attenuates autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease in a kidney tubular- and maturation-dependent manner	117
Unexpected metabolic effects of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors	115
On the relevance of thrombomodulin variants in atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome	109
Glomerular-tubular crosstalk via cold shock Y-box binding protein-1 in the kidney	109
Monoclonal immunoglobulin crystalline nephropathies	108
Blood pressure adaptation in vertebrates: comparative biology	105
Misuse of the Cox proportional hazards model and alternative approaches in kidney outcome research	104

Should we consider calcimimetics as a therapeutic option for nephrotic syndrome?	103
Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin is elevated in children with acute kidney injury and sickle cell anemia, and predicts mortality	102
Seeing through the density of dense deposit disease	102
Kidney supportive care: every nephrologist’s business	97
New advances in endocrine hypertension: from genes to biomarkers	93
Improving frozen section evaluation of procurement donor kidney biopsies and reducing the discard rate: a promising role for artificial intelligence	92
A case of ANCA-associated vasculitis after AZD1222 (Oxford–AstraZeneca) SARS-CoV-2 vaccination: casualty or causality?	92
Proximal-tubule molecular relay from early Protein diaphanous homolog 1 to late Rho-associated protein kinase 1 regulates kidney function in obesity-induced kidney damage	87
The Case \| Euglycemic ketoacidosis in a patient on continuous renal replacement therapy	85
Trans-ethnic genome-wide association study of blood metabolites in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) study	81
Thirsty encounters of the third kind	80
Including APOL1 alleles and ancestry adjustments improve a genome-wide polygenic CKD score	78
A single approach to targeting transferrin receptor 2 corrects iron and erythropoietic defects in murine models of anemia of inflammation and chronic kidney disease	75
Rationale and design of the Nephrotic Syndrome Study Network (NEPTUNE) Match in glomerular diseases: designing the right trial for the right patient, today	74
Unlocking the full potential of human pluripotent stem cell derived kidney organoids through bioengineering	74
Endothelial but not systemic ferroptosis inhibition protects from antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody–induced crescentic glomerulonephritis	73
Kidney protective mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors: evidence for a hemodynamic effect	73
Enhancing kidney organoid maturity with inducible vascularization: another step forward for in vitro modeling	72
Caloric restriction reduces the pro-inflammatory eicosanoid 20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid to protect from acute kidney injury	71
Mitochondrial ROS connects P2X7-mediated Ca2+ influx with IL-1α release by monocytes upon chronic tissue damage	70
Antibody and T-cell response to a third dose of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA BNT162b2 vaccine in kidney transplant recipients	70
Multi-omics and imaging mass cytometry characterization of human kidneys to identify pathways and phenotypes associated with impaired kidney function	70
Editorial Board	69
The authors reply	69
The Case \| Neonatal seizures and tubular dysfunction in childhood: joining the dots!	68
Cinacalcet in focal segmental glomerular sclerosis: a case report	68
Response to the commentary “Modeling pulse wave velocity trajectories—challenges, opportunities, and pitfalls”	67
Crystal-induced colitis	67
Impact of study design on vaccine effectiveness estimates of 2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine doses in patients with stage 5 chronic kidney disease	64
Editorial Board	64
The Case \| Is this hemolytic uremic syndrome?	64
Journal Club	63
In This Issue	62
Tumor-induced osteomalacia	62
Subscription Information	62
in this issue	61
Mutations in tumor suppressor genes Vhl and Rassf1a cause DNA damage, chromosomal instability and induce gene expression changes characteristic of clear cell renal cell carcinoma	61
Editorial Board	61