OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of APMIS is 4. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The human microbiome in disease and pathology	60
Electronic reporting of diagnostic laboratory test results from all healthcare sectors is a cornerstone of national preparedness and control of COVID‐19 in Denmark	58
Could SARS‐CoV‐2 infection affect male fertility and sexuality?	34
Pandemics: past, present, future	31
The Swedish public health response to COVID‐19	25
SARS‐CoV‐2 spike mRNA vaccine sequences circulate in blood up to 28 days after COVID‐19 vaccination	23
Human skin microbiota in health and disease	21
Role of IL‐22 in homeostasis and diseases of the skin	21
Current and novel diagnostics for orthopedic implant biofilm infections: a review	20
The gut microbiota can orchestrate the signaling pathways in colorectal cancer	18
Pathogen‐associated molecular patterns and extracellular Hsp70 interplay in NLRP3 inflammasome activation in monocytic and bronchial epithelial cellular models of COPD exacerbations	17
Prognostic role of TSPAN1, KIAA1324 and ESRP1 in prostate cancer	16
Evaluation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenesis and therapeutics in military‐relevant animal infection models	15
Zoonotic and reverse zoonotic transmission of viruses between humans and pigs	15
USP7, negatively regulated by miR‐409‐5p, aggravates hypoxia‐induced cardiomyocyte injury	15
Interleukin‐9‐secreting CD4⁺ T cells regulate CD8⁺ T cells cytotoxicity in patients with acute coronary syndromes	15
PD‐L1 immunohistochemistry: Clones, cutoffs, and controversies	14
Salivary gland tumours in Iceland 1986–2015: a nationwide epidemiological analysis over a 30‐year time period	14
Overview of rearing and testing conditions and a guide for optimizing Galleria mellonella breeding and use in the laboratory for scientific purposes	13
Meta‐analysis of caries microbiome studies can improve upon disease prediction outcomes	13
The discovery of bacterial biofilm in patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer	13
Our current clinical understanding of Candida biofilms: where are we two decades on?	13
VGLL4 with low YAP expression is associated with favorable prognosis in colorectal cancer	13
Aquaporin‐1 in breast cancer	12
The effect of calcitriol and all‐trans retinoic acid on T‐bet, IFN‐γ, GATA3 and IL‐4 genes expression in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis	12

Frequency and coexistence of KRAS, NRAS, BRAF and PIK3CA mutations and occurrence of MMR deficiency in Danish colorectal cancer patients	12
Azole resistance in Candida auris: mechanisms and combinatorial therapy	12
Neuroinvasive potential of SARS‐CoV2 with neuroradiological and neuropathological findings: is the brain a target or a victim?	12
Toll‐like receptor 5 and 8 in hepatocellular carcinoma	11
The impact of mental models on the treatment and research of chronic infections due to biofilms	11
The COVID‐19 pandemic: key considerations for the epidemic and its control	11
Immunotyping in tubo‐ovarian high‐grade serous carcinoma by PD‐L1 and CD8+ T‐lymphocytes predicts disease‐free survival	11
Aquaporin‐5 in breast cancer	11
SARS‐CoV‐2 superspreading in cities vs the countryside	10
BUB1 predicts poor prognosis and immune status in liver hepatocellular carcinoma	10
Accuracy of anterior nasal swab rapid antigen tests compared with RT‐PCR for massive SARS‐CoV‐2 screening in low prevalence population	10
Pertussis seroprevalence among adults of reproductive age (20–39 years) in fourteen European countries	10
Automated assessment of Ki‐67 proliferation index in neuroendocrine tumors by deep learning	10
Prevalence of paediatric hyperinflammatory conditions in paediatric and adolescent hospitalized COVID‐19 patients: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	9
Tertiary lymphoid structures and gastric cancer prognosis	9
Sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma: in‐depth review of a genetically heterogeneous tumor	9
The Inequality of Females in Bladder Cancer	9
Serum metabolomic profiling reveals important difference between infants with and without subsequent recurrent wheezing in later childhood after RSV bronchiolitis	9
Biopsy quality is essential for preoperative prognostication in oral tongue cancer	9
Novel human in vitro vegetation simulation model for infective endocarditis	9
Evaluation of analytical accuracy of HER2 status in patients with breast cancer	9
Aquaporins in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma	9
Identification of microorganisms directly from blood culture bottles with polymicrobial growth: comparison of FilmArray and direct MALDI‐TOF MS	8
Analyses of ABO blood groups with susceptibility and symptomatic variations of COVID‐19 infection, a questionnaire‐based survey	8
Transcriptomic fingerprint of bacterial infection in lower extremity ulcers	8
The Hammer vs Mitigation—A comparative retrospective register study of the Swedish and Danish national responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020	8
Regulation of the expression of human endogenous retroviruses: elements in fetal development and a possible role in the development of cancer and neurological diseases	8
Diagnostics with clinical microbiome‐based identification of microorganisms in patients with brain abscesses—a prospective cohort study	8
Animal models of chronic and recurrent Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection: significance of macrolide treatment	8
Reduced frequency of T helper 17 and T helper 1 cells and their association with critical coronavirus disease 2019	7
Biomarkers for iron metabolism among patients hospitalized with community‐acquired pneumonia caused by infection with SARS‐CoV‐2, bacteria, and influenza	7
Altered gut microbiota in hepatocellular carcinoma: Insights into the pathogenic mechanism and preclinical to clinical findings	7
Implant‐associated osteomyelitis: Development, characterisation, and application of a porcine model	7
Female reproductive tract microbiome and early miscarriages	7
Detection methods targeting the positive‐ and negative‐sense RNA transcripts from plus‐stranded RNA viruses	7
Dynamics of skin microbiota in shoulder surgery infections	7
Canola oilseed‐ and Escherichia coli‐ derived hepatitis C virus (HCV) core proteins adjuvanted with oil bodies, induced robust Th1‐oriented immune responses in immunized mice	7
Acinetobacter baumannii: insights towards a comprehensive approach for the prevention of outbreaks in health‐care facilities	7
High prevalence of pharyngeal bacterial pathogens among healthy adolescents and young adults	7
Host‐microbe metatranscriptome reveals differences between acute and chronic infections in diabetes‐related foot ulcers	7
Dual role of B7‐H6 as a novel prognostic marker in hepatocellular carcinoma	7
Extensive microbiological respiratory tract specimen characterization in critically ill COVID‐19 patients	7
Performance of PCR‐based syndromic testing compared to bacterial culture in patients with suspected pneumonia applying microscopy for quality assessment	6
The panel of syntaxin 1 and insulinoma‐associated protein 1 outperforms classic neuroendocrine markers in pulmonary neuroendocrine neoplasms	6
Prognostic implications of the tumor immune microenvironment and immune checkpoint pathway in primary central nervous system diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma in the North Indian population	6
Nuclear overexpression levels of MAGE‐A3 predict poor prognosis in patients with prostate cancer	6
Limitations of using 16S rRNA microbiome sequencing to predict oral squamous cell carcinoma	6
A simple, safe and sensitive method for SARS‐CoV‐2 inactivation and RNA extraction for RT‐qPCR	6
Prognostic significance of atypical mitotic figures in smooth muscle tumors of uncertain malignant potential (STUMP) of the uterus and uterine adnexa	6
Potential impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the national and regional incidence, epidemiology and diagnostic testing of chlamydia and gonorrhoea in Sweden, 2020	6

Silencing KLF16 inhibits oral squamous cell carcinoma cell proliferation by arresting the cell cycle and inducing apoptosis	6
Tourniquet‐induced ischemia and reperfusion in subcutaneous tissue, skeletal muscle, and calcaneal cancellous bone	6
Do mast cells contribute to the continued survival of vertebrates?	6
Serum ACE as a prognostic biomarker in COVID‐19: a case series	6
Bacterial invasion of the submicron osteocyte lacuna–canaliculi network (OLCN): a part of osteomyelitis disease biology	6
Human rhinovirus 16 induces antiviral and inflammatory response in the human vascular endothelium	6
Clinical aspects of histological and hormonal parameters in boys with cryptorchidism	5
Clinicopathological and molecular characteristics of the alpha‐fetoprotein–producing gastric cancer: emphasis on two major subtypes	5
A unique case of Fusobacterium nucleatum spondylodiscitis communicating with a pleural empyema through a fistula	5
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors arising from schwannomas: case series and literature review	5
Good's syndrome: brief overview of an enigmatic immune deficiency	5
The use of core genome multilocus sequence typing to determine the duration of vancomycin‐resistant Enterococcus faecium outbreaks	5
A metatranscriptomic approach to explore longitudinal tissue specimens from non‐healing diabetes related foot ulcers	5
Autopsies in pandemics – a perspective on barriers and benefits. Is it time for a revival?	5
PCSK2 expression in neuroendocrine tumors points to a midgut, pulmonary, or pheochromocytoma–paraganglioma origin	5
Historical and contemporary views on cholera transmission: are we repeating past discussions? Can lessons learned from cholera be applied to COVID‐19?	5
Stanford parameters stratify the risk of recurrence in gynecologic smooth muscle tumors of uncertain malignant potential	5
Dynamics of a Staphylococcus aureus infective endocarditis simulation model	5
Effectiveness of fluconazole as antifungal prophylaxis in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or immunotherapy: systematic review and meta‐analysis	5
Distinct contribution of hyperbaric oxygen therapy to human neutrophil function and antibiotic efficacy against Staphylococcus aureus	5
Opportunistic non‐communicable diseases in times of COVID‐19	5
Highly sensitive duplex MSI test and BAT40 germline polymorphism	5
The role of Pap smear in the diagnostics of endocervical adenocarcinoma	5
A possible interplay between HR‐HPV and stemness in tumor development: an in vivo investigation of CD133 as a putative marker of cancer stem cell in HPV18‐infected KB cell line	5
Emergence of circulating influenza A H3N2 viruses with genetic drift in the matrix gene: be alert of false‐negative test results	5
High YAP and TEAD4 immunolabelings are associated with poor prognosis in patients with gallbladder cancer	5
Reliability of Ki67 visual scoring app compared to eyeball estimate and digital image analysis and its prognostic significance in hormone receptor‐positive breast cancer	5
Weight‐based cefuroxime dosing provides comparable orthopedic target tissue concentrations between weight groups – a microdialysis porcine study	5
New contributions on chronic low back pain: disc infection or contaminated cultures?	5
Vitamin A deficiency in K14E7HPV expressing transgenic mice facilitates the formation of malignant cervical lesions	5
Antifungal drug resistance in Candida: a special emphasis on amphotericin B	4
Aspergilloma complicating previous COVID‐19 pneumonitis – a case report	4
Expression of laminin‐5 gamma 2 chain predicts invasion of extramammary Paget’s disease cell	4
Spindle cell tumors of the pleura and the peritoneum: pathologic diagnosis and updates	4
Dynamic distribution of gut microbiota during Alzheimer's disease progression in a mice model	4
Protein O‐mannosyltransferase Rv1002c contributes to low cell permeability, biofilm formation in vitro, and mycobacterial survival in mice	4
Blocking coprophagy increases the levels of inflammation and depression in healthy mice as well as mice receiving fecal microbiota transplantation from disease model mice donors	4
On the history of human coronaviruses	4
Molecular characterization of human adenoviruses associated with respiratory infection in Turkey	4
Multiplex immunofluorescence staining of coverslip‐mounted paraffin‐embedded tissue sections	4
Comparative evaluation of chemiluminescent immunoassay and enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assays for the diagnosis of West Nile virus infections	4
A novel fully human recombinant antibody neutralizing α‐hemolysin of Staphylococcus aureus	4
Vancomycin‐resistant Enterococcus faecium: should we screen on admission?	4
Location of OprD porin in Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates	4
Evaluation of a polymyxin drop test for polymyxin resistance detection among non‐fermentative gram‐negative rods and enterobacterales resistant to carbapenems	4
Cranberry‐lingonberry juice affects the gut and urinary microbiome in children ‐ a randomized controlled trial	4
Vaginal microbiome following orally administered probiotic	4