OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Development is 34. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The people behind the papers – Stanley Strawbridge	118
The Excursion	117
Ernest Arenas (1962-2024): a legacy of advancing dopaminergic neurogenesis research	108
The people behind the papers – Jake Turley	86
In preprints: retinoic acid degradation and tissue stiffness coordinate axolotl limb regeneration	67
Sall4 regulates posterior trunk mesoderm development by promoting mesodermal gene expression and repressing neural genes in the mesoderm	59
Shared cis-regulatory modules control expression of the tandem paralogs midline and H15 in the follicular epithelium	55
Nutritional control of developmental processes	55
The people behind the papers – Yanmei Tao and Zhengdong Wei	54
Adhesion strength, cell packing density and cell surface buckling in pericellular matrix-mediated tissue cohesion	54
The people behind the papers – Agnès Roure and Sébastien Darras	54
An interview with Meritxell (Meri) Huch	53
In preprints: new insights into truncated radial glia	47
The people behind the papers – Sun-Hee Hwang, Eric Brooks and Saikat Mukhopadhyay	46
The Forest of Biologists – for biologists, for biology	45
The people behind the papers – Abdul Kareem and Marcus Heisler	43
Normal cell cycle progression requires negative regulation of E2F1 by Groucho during S phase and its relief at G2 phase	42
Biased precursor ingression underlies the center-to-pole pattern of male sex determination in mouse	42
Plant development: from sessile to fertile	42
Nup107 contributes to the maternal-to-zygotic transition by preventing the premature nuclear export of pri-miR427	41
PHLPP1 regulates CFTR activity and lumen expansion through AMPK	39
Aberrant centrosome biogenesis disrupts nephron and collecting duct progenitor growth and fate resulting in fibrocystic kidney disease	39
Harnessing developmental cues for cardiomyocyte production	38
DIS3 ribonuclease regulates Sertoli cell development to support spermatogenesis in mice	36
Quantitative videomicroscopy reveals latent control of cell-pair rotations in vivo	36

Ccn2a-FGFR1-SHH signaling is necessary for intervertebral disc homeostasis and regeneration in adult zebrafish	36
Frozen potential: embryo research at the crossroads of ethics, regulation and scientific opportunity	36
MIG-23 is involved in sperm migration by modulating extracellular ATP levels in Ascaris suum	36
Zasp52 strengthens whole embryo tissue integrity through supracellular actomyosin networks	36
The functional specificity of ERECTA-family receptors in Arabidopsis stomatal development is ensured by molecular chaperones in the endoplasmic reticulum	35
PTEN regulates starburst amacrine cell dendrite morphology during development	35
The notochord: development, disease and stem cell-based modelling	34
The role of O-GlcNAcylation in development	34
Drosophila embryos spatially sort their nutrient stores to facilitate their utilization	34