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Papers

(The median citation count of Progress in Lipid Research is 14. 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
Challenges and opportunities for prevention and removal of unwanted variation in lipidomic studies	395
Plant monounsaturated fatty acids: Diversity, biosynthesis, functions and uses	126
Editorial Board	125
The Niemann-Pick type diseases – A synopsis of inborn errors in sphingolipid and cholesterol metabolism	111
Impact of dietary n-6/n-3 fatty acid ratio of atherosclerosis risk: A review	97
The heterogeneity and complexity of skin surface lipids in human skin health and disease	96
Targeting bacterial phospholipids and their synthesis pathways for antibiotic discovery	92
Using molecular simulation to understand the skin barrier	78
The skin barrier: An extraordinary interface with an exceptional lipid organization	78
Editorial Board	71
The constellation of cholesterol-dependent processes associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection	70
Systematic crosstalk in plasmalogen and diacyl lipid biosynthesis for their differential yet concerted molecular functions in the cell	68
Endocannabinoid signaling in adult hippocampal neurogenesis: A mechanistic and integrated perspective	67
Biophysical insights into modulating lipid digestion in food emulsions	67
Making extra room for carotenoids in plant cells: New opportunities for biofortification	66
Editorial Board	65
Understanding the nitrolipidome: From chemistry to mass spectrometry and biological significance of modified complex lipids	53
Multiscale lipid membrane dynamics as revealed by neutron spectroscopy	50
A novel regulatory facet for hypertriglyceridemia: The role of microRNAs in the regulation of triglyceride-rich lipoprotein biosynthesis	49
Oxylipin profiling for clinical research: Current status and future perspectives	48
Mitochondrial phospholipid transport: Role of contact sites and lipid transport proteins	48
Navigating the complexity of lipid oxidation and antioxidation: A review of evaluation methods and emerging approaches	47
Endoplasmic reticulum stress and lipids in health and diseases	46
Comparative efficacy of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on major cardiovascular events: A network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	45
Polyunsaturated fatty acids and fatty acid-derived lipid mediators: Recent advances in the understanding of their biosynthesis, structures, and functions	44

The imperative of arachidonic acid in early human development	44
Editorial Board	42
Lipid dysregulation in triple negative breast cancer: Insights from mass spectrometry-based approaches	42
PARPs in lipid metabolism and related diseases	37
Lipid nutrition: “In silico” studies and undeveloped experiments	37
Phospholipids and their metabolites as diagnostic biomarkers of human diseases	37
Unraveling brain palmitic acid: Origin, levels and metabolic fate	36
The functions of phospholipases and their hydrolysis products in plant growth, development and stress responses	35
Genetic variation and intestinal cholesterol absorption in humans: A systematic review and a gene network analysis	35
Sphingolipid control of cognitive functions in health and disease	34
The balancing act between lipid droplets and lysosomes for membrane functionality in age-related neurodegeneration and inflammation	33
Structural and functional roles of non-bilayer lipid phases of chloroplast thylakoid membranes and mitochondrial inner membranes	33
To image or not to image: Use of imaging mass spectrometry in biomedical lipidomics	31
Plant terpenoid biosynthetic network and its multiple layers of regulation	30
The endocannabinoid system & malignant hyperthermia: From molecular signaling towards clinical implications	30
Lipid-protein interactions regulating the canonical and the non-canonical NLRP3 inflammasome	29
A comprehensive review on the lipid and pleiotropic effects of pitavastatin	26
A new update of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry in lipid research	25
Lipid oxidation in emulsions: New insights from the past two decades	22
Lipid sensing by PPARα: Role in controlling hepatocyte gene regulatory networks and the metabolic response to fasting	21
The gut microbiota-artery axis: A bridge between dietary lipids and atherosclerosis?	21
Climate change and n-3 LC-PUFA availability	20
Editorial Board	19
Sphingolipids and impaired hypoxic stress responses in Huntington disease	19
Editorial Board	19
Editorial Board	18
Corrigendum to “An update of isoprostanoid nomenclature” [Progress in Lipid Research 96 (2024) 101301–101310]	18
Phosphatidic acid signaling and function in nuclei	17
How active cholesterol coordinates cell cholesterol homeostasis: Test of a hypothesis	17
Very long chain fatty acids	17
How fish consumption prevents the development of Major Depressive Disorder? A comprehensive review of the interplay between n-3 PUFAs, LTP and BDNF	17
Systematic review of brain and blood lipidomics in Alzheimer's disease mouse models	16
Studies of the cardiolipin interactome	14
Intestinal fatty acid binding protein: A rising therapeutic target in lipid metabolism	14
Monomethyl branched-chain fatty acids: Health effects and biological mechanisms	14
Triacylglycerol uptake and handling by macrophages: From fatty acids to lipoproteins	14
Mapping the myristoylome through a complete understanding of protein myristoylation biochemistry	14
Oxylipin transport by lipoprotein particles and its functional implications for cardiometabolic and neurological disorders	14
Lipidomics in pathogenesis, progression and treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH): Recent advances	14