OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Virchows Archiv is 28. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Polarised light scanner for digital pathology	155
Non-small cell lung carcinoma with clear cell features: a clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular study of 31 cases	120
On delusional personalities in pathology	89
Well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumor of the urinary bladder expressing GATA 3	83
Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinomas: conceptual controversy and clinical impact	77
Primary mismatch repair–deficient prostate cancer can be identified prospectively in prostate biopsies and radical prostatectomies	71
Follicular adenoma of the thyroid with hyalinizing trabecular tumor-like pattern	69
Exploratory evidence maps for the WHO Classification of Tumours 5th edition for lung and thymus tumors	65
Clinicopathological characteristics and prognostic significance of HER2 status evaluation in patients with urothelial carcinoma: a retrospective single-center experience in China	58
SS18::POU5F1-fused sarcoma of the parotid with divergent ganglioneuromatous differentiation—a novel manifestation of a rare tumor	58
Neovascular prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) expression in bone and soft tissue sarcoma: a systematic analysis	56
Correction to: Programmed death-ligand 1 and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) – low TIL density may predict poorer long-term prognosis in T1 laryngeal cancer	55
Publisher Correction to: Distinct patterns of biomarker expression for atypical intraductal proliferations in prostate cancer	51
The shifting paradigm of programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) in anaplastic thyroid carcinoma: from pathology to clinical practice	50
Cause of death and the autopsy rate in an elderly population	45
Trichogerminoma with malignant transformation	44
Assessment of spin within diagnostic accuracy meta-analyses published in top pathology journals: a cross-sectional study	42
Clinicopathological analysis of thyroid carcinomas with the RET and NTRK fusion genes: characterization for genetic analysis	41
Claudin-18 expression in small bowel adenocarcinoma: a clinico-pathologic study	39
Necrosis in lymph nodes and their differential diagnoses: application of reticulin staining	39
YAP1::TFE3 fusion in a case of malignant TFE3-rearranged PEComa of the lung: expanding the spectrum of pulmonary PEComa-like mesenchymal neoplasms	38
Multicenter evaluation of the Idylla IDH1-2 Mutation Assay Kit for detection of IDH mutational status in glioma	38
Histopathological characteristics of screen-detected colorectal cancers	34
Salivary gland microsecretory adenocarcinoma: a case series study and literature review	32
Correction to: ZC3H7A/B:BCOR fusion fbromyxoid sarcoma of soft tissue: an emerging aggressive sarcoma overlapping with malignant ossifying fbromyxoid tumors	30

Corded and hyalinized endometrioid endometrial carcinoma with high-grade features: a clinicopathological and TCGA-based molecular analysis	29
Mature and immature ovarian teratomas share methylation profiles of imprinted genes: a MS-MLPA analysis	28
The role of external quality assessment in detecting immunohistochemical analyses with inferior performance: focus on the anti-ER SP1 clone	28