OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Development is 35. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The people behind the papers – Stanley Strawbridge	133
The people behind the papers – Ya Min, Stephanie Conway and Elena Kramer	126
Aberrant centrosome biogenesis disrupts nephron and collecting duct progenitor growth and fate resulting in fibrocystic kidney disease	103
The Excursion	91
Approaches to benchmark and characterize in vitro human model systems	89
hnRNPH1 establishes Sertoli–germ cell crosstalk through cooperation with PTBP1 and AR, and is essential for male fertility in mice	79
Developmental and evolutionary comparative analysis of a regulatory landscape in mouse and chicken	79
Harnessing developmental cues for cardiomyocyte production	78
Alignment of the cell long axis by unidirectional tension acts cooperatively with Wnt signalling to establish planar cell polarity	74
Biased precursor ingression underlies the center-to-pole pattern of male sex determination in mouse	70
Shared cis-regulatory modules control expression of the tandem paralogs midline and H15 in the follicular epithelium	68
The functional specificity of ERECTA-family receptors in Arabidopsis stomatal development is ensured by molecular chaperones in the endoplasmic reticulum	63
Interplay of SHH, WNT and BMP4 signaling regulates the development of the lamina propria in the murine ureter	59
The people behind the papers – Kelsey Brooks and Shawn Chavez	51
Frozen potential: embryo research at the crossroads of ethics, regulation and scientific opportunity	51
Cdkn1c orchestrates a molecular network that regulates euploidy of male mouse germline stem cells	50
Destabilisation of bam transcripts terminates the mitotic phase of Drosophila female germline differentiation	47
In preprints: new insights into truncated radial glia	46
Ernest Arenas (1962-2024): a legacy of advancing dopaminergic neurogenesis research	46
The people behind the papers – Jake Turley	45
Nup107 contributes to the maternal-to-zygotic transition by preventing the premature nuclear export of pri-miR427	44
The Forest of Biologists – for biologists, for biology	44
Correction: Wt1 transcription factor impairs cardiomyocyte specification and drives a phenotypic switch from myocardium to epicardium	42
Normal cell cycle progression requires negative regulation of E2F1 by Groucho during S phase and its relief at G2 phase	42
Csf1rb regulates definitive hematopoiesis in zebrafish	39

Adhesion strength, cell packing density and cell surface buckling in pericellular matrix-mediated tissue cohesion	39
In preprints: retinoic acid degradation and tissue stiffness coordinate axolotl limb regeneration	39
FOXC1 and FOXC2 regulate growth plate chondrocyte maturation towards hypertrophy in the embryonic mouse limb skeleton	39
The people behind the papers – Yanmei Tao and Zhengdong Wei	38
An interview with Meritxell (Meri) Huch	38
PHLPP1 regulates CFTR activity and lumen expansion through AMPK	36
Abscisic acid biosynthesis is necessary for full auxin effects on hypocotyl elongation	36
Sall4 regulates posterior trunk mesoderm development by promoting mesodermal gene expression and repressing neural genes in the mesoderm	36
Pten inhibition dedifferentiates long-distance axon-regenerating intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells and upregulates mitochondria-associated Dynlt1a and Lars2	35
Ccn2a-FGFR1-SHH signaling is necessary for intervertebral disc homeostasis and regeneration in adult zebrafish	35
The genetic basis of natural variation in the timing of vegetative phase change inArabidopsis thaliana	35