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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The people behind the papers – Stanley Strawbridge	145
The Excursion	119
Shared cis-regulatory modules control expression of the tandem paralogs midline and H15 in the follicular epithelium	110
Interplay of SHH, WNT and BMP4 signaling regulates the development of the lamina propria in the murine ureter	108
Approaches to benchmark and characterize in vitro human model systems	105
PTEN regulates starburst amacrine cell dendrite morphology during development	102
Aberrant centrosome biogenesis disrupts nephron and collecting duct progenitor growth and fate resulting in fibrocystic kidney disease	72
Testosterone acts through the membrane protein GPRC6A to cause cardiac edema in zebrafish embryos	69
Zasp52 strengthens whole embryo tissue integrity through supracellular actomyosin networks	61
A new cell culture resource for investigations of reptilian gene function	55
In preprints: new insights into truncated radial glia	54
Abscisic acid biosynthesis is necessary for full auxin effects on hypocotyl elongation	52
Cdkn1c orchestrates a molecular network that regulates euploidy of male mouse germline stem cells	50
Ernest Arenas (1962-2024): a legacy of advancing dopaminergic neurogenesis research	49
Correction: Wt1 transcription factor impairs cardiomyocyte specification and drives a phenotypic switch from myocardium to epicardium	48
The people behind the papers – Jake Turley	48
In preprints: retinoic acid degradation and tissue stiffness coordinate axolotl limb regeneration	48
Nutritional control of developmental processes	46
Pten inhibition dedifferentiates long-distance axon-regenerating intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells and upregulates mitochondria-associated Dynlt1a and Lars2	43
Cerebellum lineage allocation, morphogenesis and repair: impact of interplay amongst cells	43
Developmental and evolutionary comparative analysis of a regulatory landscape in mouse and chicken	42
The role of O-GlcNAcylation in development	40
Nup107 contributes to the maternal-to-zygotic transition by preventing the premature nuclear export of pri-miR427	40
FOXC1 and FOXC2 regulate growth plate chondrocyte maturation towards hypertrophy in the embryonic mouse limb skeleton	40
The genetic basis of natural variation in the timing of vegetative phase change inArabidopsis thaliana	40

Csf1rb regulates definitive hematopoiesis in zebrafish	40
Adhesion strength, cell packing density and cell surface buckling in pericellular matrix-mediated tissue cohesion	39
The people behind the papers – Yanmei Tao and Zhengdong Wei	39
Single-cell transcriptional and functional analysis of dopaminergic neurons in organoid-like cultures derived from human fetal midbrain	38
hnRNPH1 establishes Sertoli–germ cell crosstalk through cooperation with PTBP1 and AR, and is essential for male fertility in mice	38
An interview with Meritxell (Meri) Huch	38
Harnessing developmental cues for cardiomyocyte production	36
Destabilisation of bam transcripts terminates the mitotic phase of Drosophila female germline differentiation	36
Ccn2a-FGFR1-SHH signaling is necessary for intervertebral disc homeostasis and regeneration in adult zebrafish	36
The people behind the papers – Sun-Hee Hwang, Eric Brooks and Saikat Mukhopadhyay	35
The people behind the papers – Agnès Roure and Sébastien Darras	35
Alignment of the cell long axis by unidirectional tension acts cooperatively with Wnt signalling to establish planar cell polarity	35