OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cytokine is 34. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
IL-6 antagonists to replace systemic corticosteroids as the preferred anti-inflammatory therapy in patients with COVID-19?	317
Associations between RORγt and T-bet Expressions, clinicopathological indices and survival rate in oral Squamous cell carcinoma patients	188
Editorial Board	95
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]	90
Silencing BLNK protects against interleukin-1β-induced chondrocyte injury through the NF-κB signaling pathway	89
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	87
The effect of acute acid exposure on immunomodulatory protein secretion, cell survival, and cell cycle progression in tumour cell lines	85
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	78
A comprehensive review: neuroinflammation and immune communication between the central nervous system and the periphery	73
Obesity and its chronic inflammation as pain potentiation factor in rats with osteoarthritis	72
Investigation of the relationship between monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 rs1024611 variant and severity of COVID-19	65
PD-1 inhibitor induces myocarditis by reducing regulatory T cells, activating inflammatory responses, promoting myocardial apoptosis and autophagy	65
Influence of trem-1 gene polymorphisms on cytokine levels during malaria by Plasmodium vivax in a frontier area of the Brazilian Amazon	65
Exosomes derived from myelodysplastic syndromes cells induce IL-1β production from macrophages to promote disease progress	58
CD4+ Foxp3+ Regulatory T-cells in Modulating Inflammatory Microenvironment in Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps: Progress and Future Prospect	57
LncRNA ROR promotes NLRP3-mediated cardiomyocyte pyroptosis by upregulating FOXP1 via interactions with PTBP1	56
Interleukin-36γ aggravates macrophage foam cell formation and atherosclerosis progression in ApoE knockout mice	54
Decreased FGF23 inhibits placental angiogenesis via the ERK1/2-EGR-1 signaling pathway in preeclampsia	53
Associations between exercise, inflammation and symptom severity in those with mental health disorders	51
Impact of oral flora in tongue coating and saliva on oral cancer risk and the regulatory role of Interleukin-8	49
Kaempferol: Unveiling its anti-inflammatory properties for therapeutic innovation	48
Cardiac disturbances and changes in tissue cytokine levels in mice fed with a high-refined carbohydrate diet	48
Editorial Board	45
Persistent imbalance, anti-apoptotic, and anti-inflammatory signature of circulating C-C chemokines and cytokines in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria	44
Seasonal shifts in respiratory pathogen co-infections and the associated differential induction of cytokines in children	43

Serum NLRP3: A potential marker for identifying high-risk coronary arterial aneurysm in children with Kawasaki disease	42
High occurrence of CRLF2 abnormalities in Mexican children with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia	41
The role of innate lymphoid cells in systemic lupus erythematosus	40
Adaptive resistance of tumor cells to anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy: A reversible phenomenon	39
TRAF6-TAK1-IKKβ pathway mediates TLR2 agonists activating “one-step” NLRP3 inflammasome in human monocytes	39
Cytokines in Liver Transplantation	37
The correlation of serum musclin with diabetic nephropathy	36
Association of caspase-1 gene polymorphisms with rheumatoid arthritis risk in a Chinese Han population	36
Extracellular HSP70 facilitated β-glucan induced trained immunity in macrophages to suppress sepsis via TLR2-NF-κB axis	35
Editorial Board	34
COPD and the IL-33/ST2 axis targeted therapy: A role for vitamin D?	34