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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Self-organized protein patterns: The MinCDE and ParABS systems	158
Topological epigenetics: The biophysics of DNA supercoiling and its relation to transcription and genome instability	133
Regulation of actin dynamics by Twinfilin	94
Outside Front Cover	94
Beyond static snapshots: Mitochondria in action	89
Highly conserved, but highly specific: Somatic cell–cell fusion in filamentous fungi	84
Myosin motors in sensory hair bundle assembly	74
Jagged-mediated development and disease: Mechanistic insights and therapeutic implications for Alagille syndrome	73
The role of cellular active stresses in shaping the zebrafish body axis	69
Biophysics of endocytic vesicle formation: A focus on liquid–liquid phase separation	65
Editorial Board	63
Outside Back Cover	63
Memorizing environmental signals through feedback and feedforward loops	56
Cytoskeletal form and function in mammalian oocytes and zygotes	54
Understanding membrane traffic from molecular ensemble, energetics, and the cell biology of participant components	51
Editorial Board	50
Editorial overview – Differentiation: the driver of development	49
Editorial Board	48
Cell competition and the regulation of protein homeostasis	47
Outside Back Cover	46
Outside Front Cover	44
Outside Back Cover - Graphical abstract TOC/TOC in double column/Cover image legend if applicable, Bar code, Abstracting and Indexing information	43
Cellularization across eukaryotes: Conserved mechanisms and novel strategies	40
Editorial Board	40
Interorganelle communication and membrane shaping in the early secretory pathway	39

ER and Golgi trafficking in axons, dendrites, and glial processes	38
Development of a multiciliated cell	38
Don't forget to be picky – selective autophagy of protein aggregates in neurodegenerative diseases	38
Cell memory of epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity in cancer	38
Emerging mechanisms and dynamics of three-dimensional genome organisation at zygotic genome activation	37
Extracellular matrix dynamics: A key regulator of cell migration across length-scales and systems	36
Mechanisms controlling the mechanical properties of the nuclei	36
You can go your own way: SNX-BAR coat complexes direct traffic at late endosomes	36
Outside Front Cover	35
How to wrinkle a cell: Emerging mechanisms of microridge morphogenesis	35