OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology is 27. 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
A Pandemic Year: Perils and Possibilities	37
Neurobiology, Stem Cell Biology, and Immunology: An Emerging Triad for Understanding Tissue Homeostasis and Repair	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