OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology is 11. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Organ Evolution: Emergence of Multicellular Function	216
The Organism as the Niche: Physiological States Crack the Code of Adult Neural Stem Cell Heterogeneity	141
The Tubulin Code, from Molecules to Health and Disease	121
When We Publish: Accuracy and Quality Control in the Time of Open Access	116
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How Microtubules Build the Spindle Branch by Branch	77
The Logic of Transgenerational Inheritance: Timescales of Adaptation	66
Molecular Mechanisms of Sexually Dimorphic Nervous System Patterning in Flies and Worms	63
Structural Biology of Cilia and Intraflagellar Transport	53
Physiological Functions of Intracellular Protein Degradation	48
Cis Interactions of Membrane Receptors and Ligands	44
From Cell Types to an Integrated Understanding of Brain Evolution: The Case of the Cerebral Cortex	43
Control of Tissue Development by Morphogens	42
Recent Advances in Ciliate Biology	39
Neurobiology, Stem Cell Biology, and Immunology: An Emerging Triad for Understanding Tissue Homeostasis and Repair	37
A Pandemic Year: Perils and Possibilities	37
Regulation of TORC2 Function and Localization in Yeast	35
Thymic Mimetic Cells: Ontogeny as Immunology	34
Mechanisms of Regeneration and Fibrosis in the Endometrium	33
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reaction Diffusion in Vertebrate Skin Color Patterning	32
Components and Mechanisms of Nuclear Mechanotransduction	28
A Tale of Three Systems: Toward a Neuroimmunoendocrine Model of Obesity	27
What Makes Us Human: Insights from the Evolution and Development of the Human Neocortex	26
Promoters and Antagonists of Phagocytosis: A Plastic and Tunable Response	26
Evolution of Thylakoid Structural Diversity	21

Left-Right Asymmetry in Invertebrates: From Molecules to Organisms	21
Exploring Mechanical Forces Shaping Self-Organization and Morphogenesis During Early Embryo Development	18
Lipid Droplets Big and Small: Basic Mechanisms That Make Them All	18
A New Infectious Unit: Extracellular Vesicles Carrying Virus Populations	17
Neofunctionalization of Toll Signaling in Insects: From Immunity to Dorsoventral Patterning	17
Self-Organization of Cellular Units	15
Mechanobiology of T Cell Activation: To Catch a Bond	15
Surprises from Intravital Imaging of the Innate Immune Response	14
Glycocalyx Curving the Membrane: Forces Emerging from the Cell Exterior	14
The Plant Anaphase-Promoting Complex/Cyclosome	13
RBG Motif Bridge-Like Lipid Transport Proteins: Structure, Functions, and Open Questions	13
Biophysical and Quantitative Principles of Centrosome Biogenesis and Structure	12
Hitchhiking Across Kingdoms: Cotransport of Cargos in Fungal, Animal, and Plant Cells	12
Diversification of Antibodies: From V(D)J Recombination to Somatic Exon Shuffling	12
Dynamic Nutrient Signaling Networks in Plants	12
Microhomology-Mediated End-Joining Chronicles: Tracing the Evolutionary Footprints of Genome Protection	12
The Archaeal Cell Cycle	11
Mechanical Patterning in Animal Morphogenesis	11
Dormancy, Quiescence, and Diapause: Savings Accounts for Life	11