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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Morphogenesis of the Vertebrate Intestine: From Form to Function	264
	176
Cis Interactions of Membrane Receptors and Ligands	141
Zebrafish Gastrulation	128
Exploring Mechanical Forces Shaping Self-Organization and Morphogenesis During Early Embryo Development	106
Cyclin’ Through the Root: Developmental Control of Cell Cycle Progression in the Arabidopsis thaliana Root Meristem	93
What Makes Us Human: Insights from the Evolution and Development of the Human Neocortex	92
Evolution of Sensory Receptors	90
Extrachromosomal Circular DNA: A Mobile Genetic Element Shaping Host Biology	81
Biogenesis and Regulatory Roles of Circular RNAs	79
Organoid Imaging: Seeing Development and Function	60
Local Translation in Glial Cells of the Brain	55
Tissue Homeostasis and Non-Homeostasis: From Cell Life Cycles to Organ States	49
Beyond Kleiber's Law: Variation and Mechanisms of Metabolic Scaling	48
Mitochondria as Cellular and Organismal Signaling Hubs	45
	44
When We Publish: Accuracy and Quality Control in the Time of Open Access	42
Mechanochemical Principles of Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Cells and Tissues	42
Recent Advances in Ciliate Biology	34
Neofunctionalization of Toll Signaling in Insects: From Immunity to Dorsoventral Patterning	33
The Tubulin Code, from Molecules to Health and Disease	33
Physiological Functions of Intracellular Protein Degradation	33
	31
Neurobiology, Stem Cell Biology, and Immunology: An Emerging Triad for Understanding Tissue Homeostasis and Repair	31
Mechanisms of Regeneration and Fibrosis in the Endometrium	29

Surprises from Intravital Imaging of the Innate Immune Response	29
Along the Trajectory to Understanding Cellular Aging: More Lessons from Yeast	27
Microproteins at the Frontiers of Biology and Medicine	25
Getting to the Route: The Evolution of Nitrogen-Fixing Nodules	25
On the Structure and Function of Transcription Bodies	25
ADAR1: Beyond Just an RNA Editor	24
Filopodia In Vitro and In Vivo	22
Morphogenetic Roles of Hydrostatic Pressure in Animal Development	20
Tissue Biology: In Search of a New Paradigm	19
Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Dormancy and Quiescence: Insights into Regeneration and Disease	19
Structural Biophysics of Cytoskeletal Force Transduction	19
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reaction Diffusion in Vertebrate Skin Color Patterning	18
The Logic of Transgenerational Inheritance: Timescales of Adaptation	18
Motor Cooperation During Mitosis and Ciliogenesis	17
The Archaeal Cell Cycle	17
Mitochondrial Structure, Dynamics, and Physiology: Light Microscopy to Disentangle the Network	17
Dormancy, Quiescence, and Diapause: Savings Accounts for Life	16
Fighting Enemies in Every Which Way	15
Following the Birth, Life, and Death of mRNAs in Single Cells	15
Functionalized Protein Binders in Developmental Biology	15
A Fish Eye View: Retinal Morphogenesis from Optic Cup to Neuronal Lamination	15
Gene Clusters Reveal Fundamental Principles of Genome Folding and Transcriptional Regulation	15
The Mexican Tetra, Astyanax mexicanus, as a Model System in Cell and Developmental Biology	12