OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Genetics & Development is 28. 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
Enhancer-promoter communication: hubs or loops?	83
The role of 3D chromatin domains in gene regulation: a multi-facetted view on genome organization	64
Spatially resolved transcriptomics and its applications in cancer	59
Role of VPS13, a protein with similarity to ATG2, in physiology and disease	48
Chromosome dynamics during interphase: a biophysical perspective	47
Specialized functions of cohesins STAG1 and STAG2 in 3D genome architecture	45
CTCF and CTCFL in cancer	45
Evolution of sexual development and sexual dimorphism in insects	44
To loop or not to loop: what is the role of TADs in enhancer function and gene regulation?	44
Diverse lncRNA mechanisms in brain development and disease	43
The many faces of Polycomb regulation by RNA	42
Single-molecule tracking of transcription protein dynamics in living cells: seeing is believing, but what are we seeing?	41
Evolution of the mutation rate across primates	41
16p11.2 deletion syndrome	40
Copy number variation and neuropsychiatric illness	39
Regulation of 3D chromatin organization by CTCF	39
Microexons: at the nexus of nervous system development, behaviour and autism spectrum disorder	36
Advances in colon cancer research: in vitro and animal models	35
Evolution of pigment cells and patterns: recent insights from teleost fishes	35
4D nucleome modeling	35
Structure-forming repeats and their impact on genome stability	33
Epigenetic regulation of mouse preimplantation embryo development	31
The evolution of the human brain and disease susceptibility	30
African population history: an ancient DNA perspective	30
Microglial ontogeny, diversity and neurodevelopmental functions	30

Advances in repeat expansion diseases and a new concept of repeat motif–phenotype correlation	30
Nuclear mechanisms of gene expression control: pre-mRNA splicing as a life or death decision	29
The role of clustered protocadherins in neurodevelopment and neuropsychiatric diseases	29
Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in cancer pathogenesis	28
Diagnostic genetic testing for neurodevelopmental psychiatric disorders: closing the gap between recommendation and clinical implementation	28
New gene discoveries highlight functional convergence in autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders	28