OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Immunology is 14. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Mycobacterial diseases in patients with inborn errors of immunity	246
Recent progress in type 1 classical dendritic cell cross-presentation - cytosolic, vacuolar, or both?	131
Animal models of shigellosis: a historical overview	114
BAFF receptor polymorphisms and deficiency in humans	107
Inflammasome activation by SARS-CoV-2 and its participation in COVID-19 exacerbation	77
MITA/STING-mediated antiviral immunity and autoimmunity: the evolution, mechanism, and intervention	74
Editorial Board	61
The role of interferon in the thymus	60
Down syndrome and type I interferon: not so simple	58
Better living through chemistry: CRISPR/Cas engineered T cells for cancer immunotherapy	57
How to bridle a neutrophil	55
Revisiting the role of MRGPRX2 on hypersensitivity reactions to neuromuscular blocking drugs	54
HLA variation and antigen presentation in COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 infection	53
Candidiasis in patients with APS-1: low IL-17, high IFN-γ, or both?	53
Immunology and microbiology: how do they affect social cognition and emotion recognition?	52
Imaging the T-cell receptor: new approaches, new insights	52
Why TAPBPR? Implications of an additional player in MHC class I peptide presentation	49
Changing the landscape of tumor immunology: novel tools to examine T cell specificity	48
Editorial Board	46
Molecular regulation and dysregulation of T follicular helper cells – learning from inborn errors of immunity	46
Publisher's Note	45
Publisher's Note	45
Editorial Board	44
Cytokine-mediated STAT-dependent pathways underpinning human B-cell differentiation and function	44
Nasal vaccines for pertussis	43

Major histocompatibility complex class I assembly within endolysosomal pathways	41
New insights and approaches for analyses of immunopeptidomes	38
TAP-ing into the cross-presentation secrets of dendritic cells	37
Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species: double agents in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection	34
TH17 cell immune adaptation	34
Peptide-dependent tuning of major histocompatibility complex motional properties and the consequences for cellular immunity	33
Neuro-innate immune interactions in gut mucosal immunity	33
Tissue-resident CD8 T cells in central nervous system inflammatory diseases: present at the crime scene and …guilty	33
COVID-19 vaccines	33
Principles of bacterial innate immunity against viruses	33
Humoral immunity at the brain borders in homeostasis	32
Therapeutic induction of tolerogenic dendritic cells via aryl hydrocarbon receptor signaling	32
Get into the groove! The influence of TAPBPR on cargo selection	31
Oncogenic viruses, cancer biology, and innate immunity	31
The future of vaccination in Latin America: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic	30
An easy pill to swallow: oral recombinant vaccines for the 21st century	29
IFNε, IFNω and IFNλ: interferons defending the mucosa	29
Autoimmunity, IgE and FcεRI-bearing cells	29
Genome and population dynamics during chronic infection with Helicobacter pylori	29
Help me help you: emerging concepts in T follicular helper cell differentiation, identity, and function	29
Principles and practical applications of structure-based vaccine design	28
Gut microbiome-mediated regulation of neuroinflammation	28
The signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 at the center of the causative gene network of the hyper-IgE syndrome	28
Defining the niche for stem-like CD8+ T cell formation and function	27
Functional heterogeneity and adaptation of naive T cells in response to tonic TCR signals	27
Structure–function of type I and III interferons	27
T cell immunity to cytomegalovirus infection	27
ILC2s – development, divergence, dispersal	26
Ebola virus disease: current vaccine solutions	26
Gene: environment interactions in immune and inflammatory responses to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	25
Major histocompatibility complex class II in the tumor microenvironment: functions of nonprofessional antigen-presenting cells	24
The value of vaccines	24
Advances and challenges in investigating B-cells via single-cell transcriptomics	24
CD1 displays its own negative regulators	23
PANoptosome signaling and therapeutic implications in infection: central role for ZBP1 to activate the inflammasome and PANoptosis	23
A critical review of measures of childhood vaccine confidence	22
Trained immunity: implications for vaccination	22
Tryptophan and indole metabolism in immune regulation	21
AP-1 transcription factors in cytotoxic lymphocyte development and antitumor immunity	19
Fuelling B cells: dynamic regulation of B cell metabolism	19
Immune checkpoint receptors in autoimmunity	19
Host-encoded antivirulence defenses: host physiologies teach pathogens to play nice	19
ICOSL in host defense at epithelial barriers: lessons from ICOSLG deficiency	19
Editorial overview: Framing the logic of type 2 immunity	18
Immunometabolic regulation of germinal centers and its implications for aging	18
Discovering mechanisms of macrophage tissue infiltration with Drosophila	18
Intrinsic and extrinsic regulation of IgE B cell responses	18
The path ahead for understanding Toll-like receptor-driven systemic autoimmunity	18
Molecular mechanisms regulating T helper 2 cell differentiation and function	18
Chemokines that govern T cell activity in tumors	18

Carbohydrate metabolism in supporting and regulating neutrophil effector functions	18
Microbiome modulation of antigen presentation in tolerance and inflammation	18
B cells spatial organization defines their phenotype and function in cancer “Tell me with whom you consort, and I will tell you who you are” ― Goethe	18
Recent insights into the mechanisms of anaphylaxis	17
Innate immune activation and modulatory factors of Helicobacter pylori towards phagocytic and nonphagocytic cells	17
Insights into pandemic respiratory viruses: manipulation of the antiviral interferon response by SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A virus	17
‘Persistent germinal center responses: slow-growing trees bear the best fruits’	16
Inborn errors of IKAROS and AIOLOS	16
Extracellular matrix–natural killer cell interactome: an uncharted territory in health and disease	16
Navigating the complexity of chronic HIV-1 associated immune dysregulation	16
Editorial overview: BAFF family ligands and receptors – a license to live	16
Function, occurrence and inhibition of different forms of BAFF	16
Editorial Board	16
Editorial Board	15
Editorial overview: Indoles: very busy (and not indolent) molecules at work in immune regulation	15
Regulation of MHC class II and CD86 expression by March-I in immunity and disease	15
Editorial overview: Nature repeating itself: conformational flexibility determines MHC class I and class II epitope selection	15
Monogenic susceptibility to live viral vaccines	15
HyperIgE in hypomorphic recombination-activating gene defects	15
Pharma — manufacturing: the unappreciated and overlooked indispensable skill	14
Differential signaling by type-I and type-III interferons in mucosa	14
Immunological lessons from genome-wide association studies of infections	14
Editorial Board	14