OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology is 12. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Morphogenesis of the Vertebrate Intestine: From Form to Function	268
	186
Interstitial Spaces: A Basolateral Source of Structure and Signals	147
Zebrafish Gastrulation	137
Cis Interactions of Membrane Receptors and Ligands	112
Cyclin’ Through the Root: Developmental Control of Cell Cycle Progression in the Arabidopsis thaliana Root Meristem	107
Exploring Mechanical Forces Shaping Self-Organization and Morphogenesis During Early Embryo Development	105
What Makes Us Human: Insights from the Evolution and Development of the Human Neocortex	97
Biogenesis and Regulatory Roles of Circular RNAs	92
Extrachromosomal Circular DNA: A Mobile Genetic Element Shaping Host Biology	87
Evolution of Sensory Receptors	65
Beyond Kleiber's Law: Variation and Mechanisms of Metabolic Scaling	58
Tissue Homeostasis and Non-Homeostasis: From Cell Life Cycles to Organ States	54
Organoid Imaging: Seeing Development and Function	53
Local Translation in Glial Cells of the Brain	52
Mitochondria as Cellular and Organismal Signaling Hubs	50
	49
Mechanochemical Principles of Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Cells and Tissues	46
When We Publish: Accuracy and Quality Control in the Time of Open Access	37
Recent Advances in Ciliate Biology	35
Physiological Functions of Intracellular Protein Degradation	34
Mechanisms of Regeneration and Fibrosis in the Endometrium	33
The Tubulin Code, from Molecules to Health and Disease	33
Neurobiology, Stem Cell Biology, and Immunology: An Emerging Triad for Understanding Tissue Homeostasis and Repair	33
	33

Neofunctionalization of Toll Signaling in Insects: From Immunity to Dorsoventral Patterning	33
Surprises from Intravital Imaging of the Innate Immune Response	32
Along the Trajectory to Understanding Cellular Aging: More Lessons from Yeast	30
Microproteins at the Frontiers of Biology and Medicine	27
On the Structure and Function of Transcription Bodies	27
Getting to the Route: The Evolution of Nitrogen-Fixing Nodules	25
ADAR1: Beyond Just an RNA Editor	25
Filopodia In Vitro and In Vivo	24
Morphogenetic Roles of Hydrostatic Pressure in Animal Development	23
Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Dormancy and Quiescence: Insights into Regeneration and Disease	21
Structural Biophysics of Cytoskeletal Force Transduction	21
Tissue Biology: In Search of a New Paradigm	20
The Origin and Early Evolution of Fungi: Challenges, Inferences, and Principles	19
The Logic of Transgenerational Inheritance: Timescales of Adaptation	19
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reaction Diffusion in Vertebrate Skin Color Patterning	19
Developmental Programming of Human Kidney Function	18
Motor Cooperation During Mitosis and Ciliogenesis	18
The Archaeal Cell Cycle	17
Dormancy, Quiescence, and Diapause: Savings Accounts for Life	16
Functionalized Protein Binders in Developmental Biology	15
Mitochondrial Structure, Dynamics, and Physiology: Light Microscopy to Disentangle the Network	15
Fighting Enemies in Every Which Way	15
Gene Clusters Reveal Fundamental Principles of Genome Folding and Transcriptional Regulation	14
The Translation of Genetic Information in Neurodevelopment	13
The Mexican Tetra, Astyanax mexicanus, as a Model System in Cell and Developmental Biology	13
A Fish Eye View: Retinal Morphogenesis from Optic Cup to Neuronal Lamination	12
How Microtubules Build the Spindle Branch by Branch	12
Following the Birth, Life, and Death of mRNAs in Single Cells	12