OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Development is 36. 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
The people behind the papers – Yanmei Tao and Zhengdong Wei	125
The AKT1-FOXO4 axis reciprocally regulates hemochorial placentation	111
Normal cell cycle progression requires negative regulation of E2F1 by Groucho during S phase and its relief at G2 phase	88
Live imaging of adult zebrafish cardiomyocyte proliferation ex vivo	84
MIG-23 is involved in sperm migration by modulating extracellular ATP levels in Ascaris suum	82
The people behind the papers – Stanley Strawbridge	79
Ccn2a-FGFR1-SHH signaling is necessary for intervertebral disc homeostasis and regeneration in adult zebrafish	78
Cdkn1c orchestrates a molecular network that regulates euploidy of male mouse germline stem cells	77
Patterning on the move: the effects of Hh morphogen source movement on signaling dynamics	71
Notch-dependent DNAcis-regulatory elements and their dose-dependent control ofC. elegansstem cell self-renewal	69
Correction: Wt1 transcription factor impairs cardiomyocyte specification and drives a phenotypic switch from myocardium to epicardium	68
Shared cis-regulatory modules control expression of the tandem paralogs midline and H15 in the follicular epithelium	67
The people behind the papers – Ya Min, Stephanie Conway and Elena Kramer	65
In preprints: retinoic acid degradation and tissue stiffness coordinate axolotl limb regeneration	64
The people behind the papers – Kelsey Brooks and Shawn Chavez	58
Harnessing developmental cues for cardiomyocyte production	57
Pten inhibition dedifferentiates long-distance axon-regenerating intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells and upregulates mitochondria-associated Dynlt1a and Lars2	57
In preprints: new insights into truncated radial glia	54
Alignment of the cell long axis by unidirectional tension acts cooperatively with Wnt signalling to establish planar cell polarity	47
The people behind the papers – Jake Turley	46
The Forest of Biologists – for biologists, for biology	45
A new cell culture resource for investigations of reptilian gene function	44
PHLPP1 regulates CFTR activity and lumen expansion through AMPK	44
Nup107 contributes to the maternal-to-zygotic transition by preventing the premature nuclear export of pri-miR427	43
Ernest Arenas (1962-2024): a legacy of advancing dopaminergic neurogenesis research	43

Destabilisation of bam transcripts terminates the mitotic phase of Drosophila female germline differentiation	43
Nutritional control of developmental processes	42
The genetic basis of natural variation in the timing of vegetative phase change inArabidopsis thaliana	41
Developmental and evolutionary comparative analysis of a regulatory landscape in mouse and chicken	39
Interplay of SHH, WNT and BMP4 signaling regulates the development of the lamina propria in the murine ureter	39
Biased precursor ingression underlies the center-to-pole pattern of male sex determination in mouse	38
Aberrant centrosome biogenesis disrupts nephron and collecting duct progenitor growth and fate resulting in fibrocystic kidney disease	37
The Excursion	36
Approaches to benchmark and characterize in vitro human model systems	36
Drosophilaembryos spatially sort their nutrient stores to facilitate their utilization	36
Sall4 regulates posterior trunk mesoderm development by promoting mesodermal gene expression and repressing neural genes in the mesoderm	36
A low-sugar diet enhancesDrosophilabody size in males and females via sex-specific mechanisms	36