OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Leukocyte Biology is 33. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Cytokine storm and leukocyte changes in mild versus severe SARS-CoV-2 infection: Review of 3939 COVID-19 patients in China and emerging pathogenesis and therapy concepts	543
Frontline Science: COVID-19 infection induces readily detectable morphologic and inflammation-related phenotypic changes in peripheral blood monocytes	170
NLRP3 inflammasome priming: A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma	118
Natural products and their derivatives: Promising modulators of tumor immunotherapy	113
Innate immune receptors in platelets and platelet-leukocyte interactions	96
Neutrophil calprotectin identifies severe pulmonary disease in COVID-19	92
Multiple roles of caspase-8 in cell death, inflammation, and innate immunity	81
Cytokine release syndrome in COVID-19: Innate immune, vascular, and platelet pathogenic factors differ in severity of disease and sex	80
Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling of peripheral blood reveals an epigenetic signature associated with severe COVID-19	77
The vitals of NETs	75
Neutrophils mediate Th17 promotion in COVID-19 patients	63
Berberine suppresses influenza virus-triggered NLRP3 inflammasome activation in macrophages by inducing mitophagy and decreasing mitochondrial ROS	62
Increasing complexity of NLRP3 inflammasome regulation	61
Leptin correlates with monocytes activation and severe condition in COVID-19 patients	58
IFNγ-mediated repression of system xc− drives vulnerability to induced ferroptosis in hepatocellular carcinoma cells	56
The role of the microbiome and the NLRP3 inflammasome in the gut and lung	53
Specialized immune responses in the peritoneal cavity and omentum	53
The microbiota-gut-bone axis and bone health	51
Neutrophil recruitment by chemokines Cxcl1/KC and Cxcl2/MIP2: Role of Cxcr2 activation and glycosaminoglycan interactions	51
Surmounting the obstacles that impede effective CAR T cell trafficking to solid tumors	49
B cell analysis in SARS-CoV-2 versus malaria: Increased frequencies of plasmablasts and atypical memory B cells in COVID-19	43
Trophoblast-secreted soluble-PD-L1 modulates macrophage polarization and function	43
Cellular immune responses in the pathophysiology of preeclampsia	42
Alveolar and lung interstitial macrophages: Definitions, functions, and roles in lung fibrosis	42
Roles of IL-2 in bridging adaptive and innate immunity, and as a tool for cellular immunotherapy	40

Notch signaling at the crossroads of innate and adaptive immunity	39
The interplay between innate and adaptive immunity in cancer shapes the productivity of cancer immunosurveillance	38
Identification of key signaling pathways induced by SARS-CoV2 that underlie thrombosis and vascular injury in COVID-19 patients	38
Intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes: Maintainers of intestinal immune tolerance and regulators of intestinal immunity	35
The neuro-immune microenvironment of acupoints—initiation of acupuncture effectiveness	34
Porphyromonas gingivalisinduces periodontitis, causes immune imbalance, and promotes rheumatoid arthritis	34
Molecular interactions and functions of IL-32	34
Sustained calcium ion release from bioceramics promotes CaSR-mediated M2 macrophage polarization for osteoinduction	33