OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Immunology 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Gene: environment interactions in immune and inflammatory responses to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	273
Inflammasome activation by SARS-CoV-2 and its participation in COVID-19 exacerbation	210
Oncogenic viruses, cancer biology, and innate immunity	152
AP-1 transcription factors in cytotoxic lymphocyte development and antitumor immunity	86
The future of vaccination in Latin America: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic	85
Ebola virus disease: current vaccine solutions	82
An easy pill to swallow: oral recombinant vaccines for the 21st century	73
Revisiting the role of MRGPRX2 on hypersensitivity reactions to neuromuscular blocking drugs	71
A critical review of measures of childhood vaccine confidence	67
Principles and practical applications of structure-based vaccine design	66
Better living through chemistry: CRISPR/Cas engineered T cells for cancer immunotherapy	65
TAP-ing into the cross-presentation secrets of dendritic cells	63
Mycobacterial diseases in patients with inborn errors of immunity	59
COVID-19 vaccines	59
Innate antiviral immunity and immunometabolism in hepatocytes	58
Commander-in-chief: monocytes rally the troops for defense against aspergillosis	58
Metabolism and macrophages in the tumor microenvironment	57
Immunological lessons from genome-wide association studies of infections	57
Host genetics of innate immune system in infection	53
Necroptosis in immunity, tissue homeostasis, and cancer	52
Beyond the gastric epithelium — the paradox of Helicobacter pylori-induced immune responses	51
Pharmacotherapeutic strategies to promote regulatory T cell function in autoimmunity	48
Some thoughts about what non-mammalian jawed vertebrates are telling us about antigen processing and peptide loading of MHC molecules	47
Increasing hepatitis B vaccination coverage of healthcare workers — global lessons for South Africa	46
Regulation of MHC class II and CD86 expression by March-I in immunity and disease	44

Nutritional modulation of antitumor immunity	44
Safety switches for adoptive cell therapy	42
Immunological scars after cure of hepatitis C virus infection: Long‐HepC?	41
Conformational sensing of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules by immune receptors and intracellular assembly factors	40
Bioinspired vaccines to enhance MHC class-I antigen cross-presentation	40
Mapping and modelling human B cell maturation in the germinal centre	39
Patterns of bacterial viability governing noncanonical inflammasome activation	38
Human MALT1 deficiency and predisposition to infections	38
Monogenic autoimmunity and infectious diseases: the double-edged sword of immune dysregulation	38
Signals governing monocyte differentiation during inflammation	37
T follicular helper cells and their impact on humoral responses during pathogen and vaccine challenge	36
Antibody glycosylation directs innate and adaptive immune collaboration	36
Editorial Board	36