OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Cell Biology is 42. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The ATG conjugation systems in autophagy	267
Pay attention to membrane tension: Mechanobiology of the cell surface	118
Novel roles of phosphoinositides in signaling, lipid transport, and disease	114
Loop extrusion: theory meets single-molecule experiments	113
Receptor tyrosine kinase activation: From the ligand perspective	110
New insights into the regulation of apoptosis, necroptosis, and pyroptosis by receptor interacting protein kinase 1 and caspase-8	106
Causes and consequences of micronuclei	101
Caveolae: Formation, dynamics, and function	99
The role of liquid–liquid phase separation in regulating enzyme activity	97
Advances in elucidating the function of leucine-rich repeat protein kinase-2 in normal cells and Parkinson's disease	94
The role of the cell nucleus in mechanotransduction	82
The state of the septin cytoskeleton from assembly to function	82
The extracellular matrix viscoelasticity as a regulator of cell and tissue dynamics	80
Fluid-like chromatin: Toward understanding the real chromatin organization present in the cell	76
Mechanics of the cellular actin cortex: From signalling to shape change	75
Mitochondrial dynamics: Shaping and remodeling an organelle network	72
Tunneling nanotubes: Reshaping connectivity	68
Autophagosomes are formed at a distinct cellular structure	67
The cell pushes back: The Arp2/3 complex is a key orchestrator of cellular responses to environmental forces	66
New perspectives on integrin-dependent adhesions	65
Unconventional endocytic mechanisms	60
FtsZ dynamics in bacterial division: What, how, and why?	57
Macropinocytosis: Insights from immunology and cancer	56
Membrane supply and remodeling during autophagosome biogenesis	56
Caveolae: Mechanosensing and mechanotransduction devices linking membrane trafficking to mechanoadaptation	53

Recent insight into intermediate filament structure	51
Mechanistic advances in axon pathfinding	51
Advances in understanding molecular regulation of innate immune memory	50
Protein quality control in the endoplasmic reticulum	50
Recognising the signals for endosomal trafficking	48
Tracking and interpreting long-range chromatin interactions with super-resolution live-cell imaging	48
Clathrin-independent endocytosis, retrograde trafficking, and cell polarity	47
Microtubule nucleation: The waltz between γ-tubulin ring complex and associated proteins	46
The multifaceted roles of microRNAs in differentiation	45
Three-dimensional chromatin in disease: What holds us together and what drives us apart?	45
Simulating realistic membrane shapes	45
Chromatin and transcriptional regulation by reversible RNA methylation	43
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and different migration strategies as viewed from the neural crest	43
Pluripotent stem cell models of early mammalian development	43
Live-cell imaging in the era of too many microscopes	42
Endosomal microdomains: Formation and function	42
A mechanical perspective on phagocytic cup formation	42