OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology is 16. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Cis Interactions of Membrane Receptors and Ligands	277
Morphogenesis of the Vertebrate Intestine: From Form to Function	179
A Tale of Three Systems: Toward a Neuroimmunoendocrine Model of Obesity	159
Promoters and Antagonists of Phagocytosis: A Plastic and Tunable Response	133
What Makes Us Human: Insights from the Evolution and Development of the Human Neocortex	111
Exploring Mechanical Forces Shaping Self-Organization and Morphogenesis During Early Embryo Development	92
Evolution of Sensory Receptors	92
Biogenesis and Regulatory Roles of Circular RNAs	83
The Visual Opsin Gene Repertoires of Teleost Fishes: Evolution, Ecology, and Function	66
Calcium Signaling Mechanisms Across Kingdoms	65
Mitochondria as Cellular and Organismal Signaling Hubs	58
Tissue Homeostasis and Non-Homeostasis: From Cell Life Cycles to Organ States	58
Organoid Imaging: Seeing Development and Function	55
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Mechanochemical Principles of Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Cells and Tissues	49
Physiological Functions of Intracellular Protein Degradation	47
When We Publish: Accuracy and Quality Control in the Time of Open Access	47
Recent Advances in Ciliate Biology	45
The Tubulin Code, from Molecules to Health and Disease	44
Neofunctionalization of Toll Signaling in Insects: From Immunity to Dorsoventral Patterning	43
A New Infectious Unit: Extracellular Vesicles Carrying Virus Populations	42
Components and Mechanisms of Nuclear Mechanotransduction	38
Neurobiology, Stem Cell Biology, and Immunology: An Emerging Triad for Understanding Tissue Homeostasis and Repair	38
Surprises from Intravital Imaging of the Innate Immune Response	33
Mechanisms of Regeneration and Fibrosis in the Endometrium	33

Glycocalyx Curving the Membrane: Forces Emerging from the Cell Exterior	32
Morphogenetic Roles of Hydrostatic Pressure in Animal Development	30
Filopodia In Vitro and In Vivo	30
Spatial Organization of Chromatin: Emergence of Chromatin Structure During Development	29
The Genomics and Cell Biology of Host-Beneficial Intracellular Infections	26
Tissue Biology: In Search of a New Paradigm	25
The Logic of Transgenerational Inheritance: Timescales of Adaptation	25
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reaction Diffusion in Vertebrate Skin Color Patterning	24
The Archaeal Cell Cycle	22
Dormancy, Quiescence, and Diapause: Savings Accounts for Life	21
Biophysical and Quantitative Principles of Centrosome Biogenesis and Structure	20
Motor Cooperation During Mitosis and Ciliogenesis	20
Self-Organization of Cellular Units	19
Mitochondrial Structure, Dynamics, and Physiology: Light Microscopy to Disentangle the Network	18
Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Bacterial Rod Shape Formation and Regulation	17
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Functionalized Protein Binders in Developmental Biology	16
A Fish Eye View: Retinal Morphogenesis from Optic Cup to Neuronal Lamination	16