OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Virchows Archiv is 27. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Pulmonary pathology and COVID-19: lessons from autopsy. The experience of European Pulmonary Pathologists	219
The pulmonary pathology of COVID-19	128
ESGO/ESTRO/ESP Guidelines for the management of patients with endometrial carcinoma	105
Basic principles of biobanking: from biological samples to precision medicine for patients	77
Post-mortem viral dynamics and tropism in COVID-19 patients in correlation with organ damage	75
Fibrotic progression and radiologic correlation in matched lung samples from COVID-19 post-mortems	67
Number of pathologists in Germany: comparison with European countries, USA, and Canada	57
Increased number of pulmonary megakaryocytes in COVID-19 patients with diffuse alveolar damage: an autopsy study with clinical correlation and review of the literature	51
Male breast cancer: an update	48
Pleural mesothelioma classification update	45
Morphologic and molecular classification of lung neuroendocrine neoplasms	45
New concepts in EBV-associated B, T, and NK cell lymphoproliferative disorders	44
Autopsy findings after long-term treatment of COVID-19 patients with microbiological correlation	42
International Consensus Classification of acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma	42
The prognostic role of histologic grade, worst pattern of invasion, and tumor budding in early oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma: a comparative study	41
Updates on breast biomarkers	41
Cardiac hypertrophy at autopsy	39
Mutational landscape of marginal zone B-cell lymphomas of various origin: organotypic alterations and diagnostic potential for assignment of organ origin	36
Grading of invasive breast carcinoma: the way forward	35
Vaping-related lung injury	34
Improving tumor budding reporting in colorectal cancer: a Delphi consensus study	34
Artificial intelligence applied to breast pathology	34
Update on genetically defined lung neoplasms: NUT carcinoma and thoracic SMARCA4-deficient undifferentiated tumors	32
Organ manifestations of COVID-19: what have we learned so far (not only) from autopsies?	31
Comparison of HercepTest™ mAb pharmDx (Dako Omnis, GE001) with Ventana PATHWAY anti-HER-2/neu (4B5) in breast cancer: correlation with HER2 amplification and HER2 low status	30

Can AI-assisted microscope facilitate breast HER2 interpretation? A multi-institutional ring study	29
Characterization of a distinct low-grade oncocytic renal tumor (CD117-negative and cytokeratin 7-positive) based on a tertiary oncology center experience: the new evidence from China	28
Germany’s first COVID-19 deceased: a 59-year-old man presenting with diffuse alveolar damage due to SARS-CoV-2 infection	27
Papillary lesions of the breast	27
ESP, EORTC, and EURACAN Expert Opinion: practical recommendations for the pathological diagnosis and clinical management of intermediate melanocytic tumors and rare related melanoma variants	27
Detection of microsatellite instability with Idylla MSI assay in colorectal and endometrial cancer	27
Placenta histopathology in SARS-CoV-2 infection: analysis of a consecutive series and comparison with control cohorts	27
FOXI1 expression in chromophobe renal cell carcinoma and renal oncocytoma: a study of The Cancer Genome Atlas transcriptome–based outlier mining and immunohistochemistry	27