OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Cell Biology 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Causes and consequences of micronuclei	134
The role of liquid–liquid phase separation in regulating enzyme activity	115
The state of the septin cytoskeleton from assembly to function	94
The extracellular matrix viscoelasticity as a regulator of cell and tissue dynamics	94
Tunneling nanotubes: Reshaping connectivity	89
Mitochondrial dynamics: Shaping and remodeling an organelle network	84
The cell pushes back: The Arp2/3 complex is a key orchestrator of cellular responses to environmental forces	74
FtsZ dynamics in bacterial division: What, how, and why?	73
Unconventional endocytic mechanisms	64
Membrane supply and remodeling during autophagosome biogenesis	63
Recent insight into intermediate filament structure	61
Caveolae: Mechanosensing and mechanotransduction devices linking membrane trafficking to mechanoadaptation	60
Tracking and interpreting long-range chromatin interactions with super-resolution live-cell imaging	56
A matter of time: Using dynamics and theory to uncover mechanisms of transcriptional bursting	56
Microtubule nucleation: The waltz between γ-tubulin ring complex and associated proteins	54
The multifaceted roles of microRNAs in differentiation	53
Simulating realistic membrane shapes	51
Jamming and arrest of cell motion in biological tissues	49
Chromatin and transcriptional regulation by reversible RNA methylation	48
Roles of PIKfyve in multiple cellular pathways	46
Progress in deciphering trophoblast cell differentiation during human placentation	46
The dazzling rise of neurofilaments: Physiological functions and roles as biomarkers	44
A single-cell view of spermatogonial stem cells	44
Aligned forces: Origins and mechanisms of cancer dissemination guided by extracellular matrix architecture	43
The Integrator complex at the crossroad of coding and noncoding RNA	40

Biomolecular condensates in membrane receptor signaling	40
On the choreography of genome folding: A grand pas de deux of cohesin and CTCF	40
Lamina-associated domains: Tethers and looseners	39
Key phases in the formation of caveolae	39
Basement membrane remodeling guides cell migration and cell morphogenesis during development	38
Intermediate filaments as effectors of differentiation	38
Microtubule self-repair	38
SMC complexes: Lifting the lid on loop extrusion	38
Biophysical and molecular mechanisms of ESCRT functions, and their implications for disease	37
Regulating specificity in enhancer–promoter communication	36
Nuclear envelope remodelling during mitosis	35