OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Autoimmunity is 42. 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
Safety of biologic immunosuppressants in pregnant women with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases	376
GILZ regulates type I interferon release and sequesters STAT1	225
Consumption of complement in a 26-year-old woman with severe thrombotic thrombocytopenia after ChAdOx1 nCov-19 vaccination	187
Janus kinase inhibition prevents autoimmune diabetes in LEW.1WR1 rats	131
Advances in SLE classification criteria	127
The universal effects of low-dose interleukin-2 across 13 autoimmune diseases in a basket clinical trial	119
ATP-binding cassette G1 membrane transporter-mediated cholesterol efflux capacity influences coronary atherosclerosis and cardiovascular risk in Rheumatoid Arthritis	101
HNF4α, SP1 and c-myc are master regulators of CNS autoimmunity	100
Breach of tolerance versus burden of bile acids: Resolving the conundrum in the immunopathogenesis and natural history of primary biliary cholangitis	93
Editorial Board	93
Differences in innate immune cell populations distinguish autoimmune from herpesvirus-associated encephalitis	89
Disease activity in patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases after SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations	86
Clinical relevance of nitrated beta 2-glycoprotein I in antiphospholipid syndrome: Implications for thrombosis risk	80
Autoreactivity to self-antigens LL37 and ADAMTSL5 influences the clinical response to risankizumab in psoriatic patients	76
Global and regional epidemiology of psoriatic arthritis in patients with psoriasis: A comprehensive systematic analysis and modelling study	74
Lupus nephritis: new progress in diagnosis and treatment	73
Ectopic CD4+ T cells in choroid plexus mediate neuropsychiatric lupus symptoms in mice via interferon-γ induced microglia activation	73
Identifying the most influential gene expression profile in distinguishing ANCA-associated vasculitis from healthy controls	71
Mesenchymal stromal cells-derived extracellular vesicles alleviate systemic sclerosis via miR-29a-3p	68
Genetic and transcriptomic analyses support a switch to lytic phase in Epstein Barr virus infection as an important driver in developing Systemic Lupus Erythematosus	68
Tfh cell-derived small extracellular vesicles exacerbate the severity of collagen-induced arthritis by enhancing B-cell responses	68
Mechanisms of Immunothrombosis in Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT) Compared to Natural SARS-CoV-2 Infection	65
Anti-annexin A4 antibody as a biomarker for desquamative interstitial pneumonia	61
Durable renal response and safety with add-on belimumab in patients with lupus nephritis in real-life setting (BeRLiSS-LN). Results from a large, nationwide, multicentric cohort	61
LAT1 enables T cell activation under inflammatory conditions	60

Assessment of the 2023 ACR/EULAR antiphospholipid syndrome classification criteria in a Chinese cohort: Impact on clinical practice	59
Targeting macrophages with phosphatidylserine-rich liposomes as a potential antigen-specific immunotherapy for type 1 diabetes	56
The complement system and human autoimmune diseases	56
Non-coding RNAs in immunoregulation and autoimmunity: Technological advances and critical limitations	56
Earlier vs. later time period of COVID-19 infection and emergent autoimmune signs, symptoms, and serologies	54
Intracellular virus sensor MDA5 mutation develops autoimmune myocarditis and nephritis	54
Cellular communication network factor 3 contributes to the pathological process of rheumatoid arthritis through promoting cell senescence and osteoclastogenesis in the joint	52
Editorial Board	50
Glycobiology of psoriasis: A review	50
Sunscreen use associated with elevated prevalence of anti-nuclear antibodies in U.S. adults	48
Blood clots and bleeding events following BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine: An analysis of European data	48
Whole blood transcriptome identifies interferon-regulated genes as key drivers in thrombotic primary antiphospholipid syndrome	47
Editorial Board	47
Editorial Board	46
Identification of the central tolerance checkpoint for autoreactive proteinase 3+ B cells in human bone marrow	45
Silencing of aryl hydrocarbon receptor repressor restrains Th17 cell immunity in autoimmune hepatitis	42
Autoantibodies against a subunit of mitochondrial respiratory chain complex I in inclusion body myositis	42
Antigenic mimicry – The key to autoimmunity in immune privileged organs	42