OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cytokine is 36. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
IL-6 antagonists to replace systemic corticosteroids as the preferred anti-inflammatory therapy in patients with COVID-19?	290
Associations between RORγt and T-bet Expressions, clinicopathological indices and survival rate in oral Squamous cell carcinoma patients	178
Editorial Board	143
Corrigendum to “Poly I:C vaccination drives transient CXCL9 expression near B cell follicles in the lymph node through type-I and type-II interferon signaling” [Cytokine 183 (2024) 156731]	92
Hsa-miR-379 down-regulates Rac1/MLK3/JNK/AP-1/Collagen I cascade reaction by targeting connective tissue growth factor in human alveolar basal epithelial A549 cells	81
Silencing BLNK protects against interleukin-1β-induced chondrocyte injury through the NF-κB signaling pathway	81
CD4+ Foxp3+ Regulatory T-cells in Modulating Inflammatory Microenvironment in Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps: Progress and Future Prospect	80
The effect of acute acid exposure on immunomodulatory protein secretion, cell survival, and cell cycle progression in tumour cell lines	77
Associations between exercise, inflammation and symptom severity in those with mental health disorders	76
Obesity and its chronic inflammation as pain potentiation factor in rats with osteoarthritis	75
Retraction notice to “Inhibition of the p38-MAPK signaling pathway suppresses the apoptosis and expression of proinflammatory cytokines in human osteoarthritis chondrocytes” [Cytokine 90 (2017) 135–14	75
PD-1 inhibitor induces myocarditis by reducing regulatory T cells, activating inflammatory responses, promoting myocardial apoptosis and autophagy	66
Investigation of the relationship between monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 rs1024611 variant and severity of COVID-19	64
Influence of trem-1 gene polymorphisms on cytokine levels during malaria by Plasmodium vivax in a frontier area of the Brazilian Amazon	63
Cardiac disturbances and changes in tissue cytokine levels in mice fed with a high-refined carbohydrate diet	62
Exosomes derived from myelodysplastic syndromes cells induce IL-1β production from macrophages to promote disease progress	60
LncRNA ROR promotes NLRP3-mediated cardiomyocyte pyroptosis by upregulating FOXP1 via interactions with PTBP1	57
Interleukin-36γ aggravates macrophage foam cell formation and atherosclerosis progression in ApoE knockout mice	53
Exercise induced hypoalgesia profile in rats is associated with IL-10 and IL-1 β levels and pain severity following nerve injury	53
Molecular analysis of phenotypic interactions of asthma	53
Impact of oral flora in tongue coating and saliva on oral cancer risk and the regulatory role of Interleukin-8	52
Kaempferol: Unveiling its anti-inflammatory properties for therapeutic innovation	49
Decreased FGF23 inhibits placental angiogenesis via the ERK1/2-EGR-1 signaling pathway in preeclampsia	49
Interleukin-1α: Novel functions in cell senescence and antiviral response	47
Editorial Board	45

Seasonal shifts in respiratory pathogen co-infections and the associated differential induction of cytokines in children	44
Serum NLRP3: A potential marker for identifying high-risk coronary arterial aneurysm in children with Kawasaki disease	44
Persistent imbalance, anti-apoptotic, and anti-inflammatory signature of circulating C-C chemokines and cytokines in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria	44
IL-33/ST2 enhances MMP-12 expression by macrophages to mediate inflammatory and immune response in IgG4-Related Ophthalmic Disease	42
Increment of CSF fractalkine-positive microvesicles preceded the spatial memory impairment in amyloid beta neurotoxicity	41
Association of caspase-1 gene polymorphisms with rheumatoid arthritis risk in a Chinese Han population	39
Exogenous Oncostatin M induces Cardiac Dysfunction, Musculoskeletal Atrophy, and Fibrosis	38
High occurrence of CRLF2 abnormalities in Mexican children with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia	38
Adaptive resistance of tumor cells to anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy: A reversible phenomenon	37
The role of innate lymphoid cells in systemic lupus erythematosus	37
Cytokines in Liver Transplantation	37
Extracellular HSP70 facilitated β-glucan induced trained immunity in macrophages to suppress sepsis via TLR2-NF-κB axis	36
TRAF6-TAK1-IKKβ pathway mediates TLR2 agonists activating “one-step” NLRP3 inflammasome in human monocytes	36