OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Genetics & Development is 30. 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
Enhancer-promoter communication: hubs or loops?	109
To loop or not to loop: what is the role of TADs in enhancer function and gene regulation?	66
Spatially resolved transcriptomics and its applications in cancer	64
Role of VPS13, a protein with similarity to ATG2, in physiology and disease	56
Evolution of sexual development and sexual dimorphism in insects	55
Copy number variation and neuropsychiatric illness	52
16p11.2 deletion syndrome	51
Diverse lncRNA mechanisms in brain development and disease	49
Single-molecule tracking of transcription protein dynamics in living cells: seeing is believing, but what are we seeing?	48
Advances in colon cancer research: in vitro and animal models	44
Regulation of 3D chromatin organization by CTCF	43
Evolution of pigment cells and patterns: recent insights from teleost fishes	40
Microexons: at the nexus of nervous system development, behaviour and autism spectrum disorder	39
Nuclear mechanisms of gene expression control: pre-mRNA splicing as a life or death decision	39
The role of clustered protocadherins in neurodevelopment and neuropsychiatric diseases	38
Structure-forming repeats and their impact on genome stability	37
4D nucleome modeling	37
Microglial ontogeny, diversity and neurodevelopmental functions	35
The evolution of the human brain and disease susceptibility	35
Poison exons in neurodevelopment and disease	35
The evolution of structural colour in butterflies	34
Advances in repeat expansion diseases and a new concept of repeat motif–phenotype correlation	34
Active nematics across scales from cytoskeleton organization to tissue morphogenesis	33
Diagnostic genetic testing for neurodevelopmental psychiatric disorders: closing the gap between recommendation and clinical implementation	32
DNA end resection during homologous recombination	32

Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in cancer pathogenesis	31
The shifting shape of genomes: dynamics of heterochromatin interactions at the nuclear lamina	31
New gene discoveries highlight functional convergence in autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders	31
The nuclear pore complex and the genome: organizing and regulatory principles	30
Break-induced replication mechanisms in yeast and mammals	30