OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Basic Research in Cardiology is 19. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Endothelial ACKR3 drives atherosclerosis by promoting immune cell adhesion to vascular endothelium	127
Elevated platelet–leukocyte complexes are associated with, but dispensable for myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury	59
Erythrocytes from patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction induce cardioprotection through the purinergic P2Y13 receptor and nitric oxide signaling	44
Tachycardiomyopathy entails a dysfunctional pattern of interrelated mitochondrial functions	43
Spinal cord astrocytes regulate myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury	41
New insights into cardioprotection, gained by adopting the CAESAR standards of rigor	40
Desmin intermediate filaments and tubulin detyrosination stabilize growing microtubules in the cardiomyocyte	40
Retraction Note to: Amphiregulin enhances cardiac fibrosis and aggravates cardiac dysfunction in mice with experimental myocardial infarction partly through activating EGFR‑dependent pathway	36
Forebrain corticosteroid receptors promote post-myocardial infarction depression and mortality	35
Molecular imaging of the brain–heart axis provides insights into cardiac dysfunction after cerebral ischemia	34
Osteopontin promotes infarct repair	32
Reduction of A-to-I RNA editing in the failing human heart regulates formation of circular RNAs	30
Cardiomyocyte p38 MAPKα suppresses a heart–adipose tissue–neutrophil crosstalk in heart failure development	25
Remote ischaemic conditioning: defining critical criteria for success—report from the 11th Hatter Cardiovascular Workshop	23
Non-responsiveness to cardioprotection by ischaemic preconditioning in Ossabaw minipigs with genetic predisposition to, but without the phenotype of the metabolic syndrome	23
Bone marrow-derived naïve B lymphocytes improve heart function after myocardial infarction: a novel cardioprotective mechanism for empagliflozin	22
Prolonged cardiac NR4A2 activation causes dilated cardiomyopathy in mice	21
Innate immune cells in the pathophysiology of calcific aortic valve disease: lessons to be learned from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease?	20
Remote Ischemic Conditioning: more explanations and more expectations	20
Extracellular stiffness induces contractile dysfunction in adult cardiomyocytes via cell-autonomous and microtubule-dependent mechanisms	19