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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The functional specificity of ERECTA-family receptors in Arabidopsis stomatal development is ensured by molecular chaperones in the endoplasmic reticulum	127
Quantitative videomicroscopy reveals latent control of cell-pair rotations in vivo	116
Aberrant centrosome biogenesis disrupts nephron and collecting duct progenitor growth and fate resulting in fibrocystic kidney disease	94
The Excursion	89
Ccn2a-FGFR1-SHH signaling is necessary for intervertebral disc homeostasis and regeneration in adult zebrafish	81
Interplay of SHH, WNT and BMP4 signaling regulates the development of the lamina propria in the murine ureter	81
The people behind the papers – Stanley Strawbridge	80
Shared cis-regulatory modules control expression of the tandem paralogs midline and H15 in the follicular epithelium	73
The people behind the papers – Ya Min, Stephanie Conway and Elena Kramer	72
FOXC1 and FOXC2 regulate growth plate chondrocyte maturation towards hypertrophy in the embryonic mouse limb skeleton	70
Approaches to benchmark and characterize in vitro human model systems	68
Testosterone acts through the membrane protein GPRC6A to cause cardiac edema in zebrafish embryos	66
Biased precursor ingression underlies the center-to-pole pattern of male sex determination in mouse	63
Cerebellum lineage allocation, morphogenesis and repair: impact of interplay amongst cells	57
The role of O-GlcNAcylation in development	49
hnRNPH1 establishes Sertoli–germ cell crosstalk through cooperation with PTBP1 and AR, and is essential for male fertility in mice	48
Sall4 regulates posterior trunk mesoderm development by promoting mesodermal gene expression and repressing neural genes in the mesoderm	48
HCR spectral imaging: 10-plex, quantitative, high-resolution RNA and protein imaging in highly autofluorescent samples	47
Adhesion strength, cell packing density and cell surface buckling in pericellular matrix-mediated tissue cohesion	44
In preprints: new insights into truncated radial glia	44
Abscisic acid biosynthesis is necessary for full auxin effects on hypocotyl elongation	44
The people behind the papers – Yanmei Tao and Zhengdong Wei	44
The people behind the papers – Jake Turley	40
The Forest of Biologists – for biologists, for biology	40
Nup107 contributes to the maternal-to-zygotic transition by preventing the premature nuclear export of pri-miR427	39

PHLPP1 regulates CFTR activity and lumen expansion through AMPK	39
Correction: Wt1 transcription factor impairs cardiomyocyte specification and drives a phenotypic switch from myocardium to epicardium	39
The AKT1-FOXO4 axis reciprocally regulates hemochorial placentation	38
Normal cell cycle progression requires negative regulation of E2F1 by Groucho during S phase and its relief at G2 phase	38
Nutritional control of developmental processes	38
In preprints: retinoic acid degradation and tissue stiffness coordinate axolotl limb regeneration	37
The people behind the papers – Kelsey Brooks and Shawn Chavez	36
Cdkn1c orchestrates a molecular network that regulates euploidy of male mouse germline stem cells	36
MIG-23 is involved in sperm migration by modulating extracellular ATP levels in Ascaris suum	35
Cadherin adhesion complexes direct cell aggregation in the epithelial transition of Wnt-induced nephron progenitor cells	34
Destabilisation of bam transcripts terminates the mitotic phase of Drosophila female germline differentiation	34
Notch-dependent DNAcis-regulatory elements and their dose-dependent control ofC. elegansstem cell self-renewal	34
Ernest Arenas (1962-2024): a legacy of advancing dopaminergic neurogenesis research	34