OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Virchows Archiv is 30. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Clinical, histopathological, and immunohistochemical spectrum of hepatolithiasis: a tertiary care center-based study from north India	105
Clinicopathological characteristics and prognostic significance of HER2 status evaluation in patients with urothelial carcinoma: a retrospective single-center experience in China	88
Trichogerminoma with malignant transformation	66
Non-small cell lung carcinoma with clear cell features: a clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular study of 31 cases	59
Gene expression profiling using targeted RNA-sequencing to elucidate the progression from histologically normal lung tissues to non-invasive lesions in invasive lung adenocarcinoma	58
Exploratory evidence maps for the WHO Classification of Tumours 5th edition for lung and thymus tumors	58
Seed storage cell granuloma: a nostalgic look back on pseudotuberculosis	57
Mature and immature ovarian teratomas share methylation profiles of imprinted genes: a MS-MLPA analysis	54
Zonated quantification of immunohistochemistry in normal and steatotic livers	50
Neovascular prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) expression in bone and soft tissue sarcoma: a systematic analysis	48
Application of the Milan system for reporting salivary gland cytopathology using cell blocks	48
SS18::POU5F1-fused sarcoma of the parotid with divergent ganglioneuromatous differentiation—a novel manifestation of a rare tumor	47
Crypt abscesses, crypt distortion, and crypt rupture may help distinguish inflammatory bowel disease from segmental colitis associated with diverticulosis	43
YAP1::TFE3 fusion in a case of malignant TFE3-rearranged PEComa of the lung: expanding the spectrum of pulmonary PEComa-like mesenchymal neoplasms	43
Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinomas: conceptual controversy and clinical impact	42
SMARCB1-deficient sinonasal adenocarcinoma: a rare variant of SWI/SNF-deficient malignancy often misclassified as high-grade non-intestinal-type sinonasal adenocarcinoma or myoepithelial carcinoma	40
Necrosis in lymph nodes and their differential diagnoses: application of reticulin staining	38
Well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumor of the urinary bladder expressing GATA 3	38
Correction to: Programmed death-ligand 1 and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) – low TIL density may predict poorer long-term prognosis in T1 laryngeal cancer	37
Primary mismatch repair–deficient prostate cancer can be identified prospectively in prostate biopsies and radical prostatectomies	37
Claudin-18 expression in small bowel adenocarcinoma: a clinico-pathologic study	35
Publisher Correction to: Distinct patterns of biomarker expression for atypical intraductal proliferations in prostate cancer	34
Polarised light scanner for digital pathology	34
Corded and hyalinized endometrioid endometrial carcinoma with high-grade features: a clinicopathological and TCGA-based molecular analysis	33
International Consensus Classification of myeloid and lymphoid neoplasms: myeloproliferative neoplasms	32

Correction to: ZC3H7A/B:BCOR fusion fbromyxoid sarcoma of soft tissue: an emerging aggressive sarcoma overlapping with malignant ossifying fbromyxoid tumors	32
Cutting-edge technology and automation in the pathology laboratory	31
Organ manifestations of COVID-19: what have we learned so far (not only) from autopsies?	31
On delusional personalities in pathology	31
Cause of death and the autopsy rate in an elderly population	30