OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Genes & Development 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Tnpo3 enables EBF1 function in conditions of antagonistic Notch signaling	193
A novel pathogenic mutation of MeCP2 impairs chromatin association independent of protein levels	143
RNA biogenesis and RNA metabolism factors as R-loop suppressors: a hidden role in genome integrity	133
NDF is a transcription factor that stimulates elongation by RNA polymerase II	113
A nonneural miRNA cluster mediates hearing via repression of two neural targets	82
The SpoVA membrane complex is required for dipicolinic acid import during sporulation and export during germination	79
Timing is everything: transcription bursting in development	77
WDR5 represents a therapeutically exploitable target for cancer stem cells in glioblastoma	63
ALL-tRNAseq enables robust tRNA profiling in tissue samples	58
RUNX1 is required in granulocyte–monocyte progenitors to attenuate inflammatory cytokine production by neutrophils	52
CDK4loss-of-function mutations cause microcephaly and short stature	51
Corrigendum: Hierarchical reactivation of transcription during mitosis-to-G1 transition by Brn2 and Ascl1 in neural stem cells	51
The evolving tale of Pol2 function	49
How do genomes encode developmental time?	48
Dorsal determinant Hwa stabilizes β-catenin through direct inhibition of GSK3	47
Minding the message: tactics controlling RNA decay, modification, and translation in virus-infected cells	44
Cohesin in 3D: development, differentiation, and disease	44
Oct4 redox sensitivity potentiates reprogramming and differentiation	41
Metabolic partitioning in the brain and its hijacking by glioblastoma	41
Hunchback functions in the postmitotic larval MDN to restrict axon outgrowth, synapse formation, and backward locomotion	40
USP7 substrates identified by proteomics analysis reveal the specificity of USP7	39
Notch induces transcription by stimulating release of paused RNA polymerase II	39
Letters to the Editor	39
RNA Pol II pausing facilitates phased pluripotency transitions by buffering transcription	39
Rap1 regulates TIP60 function during fate transition between two-cell-like and pluripotent states	38

Histone bivalency regulates the timing of cerebellar granule cell development	36
Corrigendum: Identification of a PTEN-regulated STAT₃brain tumor suppressor pathway	36
A nuclear architecture screen in Drosophila identifies Stonewall as a link between chromatin position at the nuclear periphery and germline stem cell fat	36
LINE-1, the NORth star of nucleolar organization	35
Tolerance thresholds underlie responses to DNA damage during germline development	35
H3K9 trimethylation in active chromatin restricts the usage of functional CTCF sites in SINE B2 repeats	34
Proteomic insights into circadian transcription regulation: novel E-box interactors revealed by proximity labeling	34
Two unrelated distal genes activated by a shared enhancer benefit from localizing inside the same small topological domain	34