OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology is 21. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board/Publication Information	218
Outside Front Cover	197
Alzheimer’s Disease: Effects on brain circuits and synapses	178
In memoriam: Huib Ovaa, the brain behind the formula (18/12/1973–19/05/2020)	165
Removal of cellular protrusions	90
Balance between the cell viability and death in 3D	87
Plasma membrane repair empowers the necrotic survivors as innate immune modulators	85
Approximating the living	83
Thrombospondin-1 in vascular development, vascular function, and vascular disease	82
Dissecting the neurobiology of linguistic disorganisation and impoverishment in schizophrenia	79
Epitranscriptomic regulation of cognitive development and decline	75
Start early and pack light: Collaborative adventures in theory and experiment	74
Editorial	73
Rearrangement of co-cultured cellular systems: Biological and physical aspects	73
Outside Front Cover	71
Outside Front Cover	70
Editorial Board/Publication Information	69
Editorial Board/Publication Information	68
Antibodies in the intracellular domain	67
Natural variation in metabolism of the Calvin-Benson cycle	66
Mechanisms of formation and functions of the early embryonic cavities	59
Evolution of the insect Hox gene cluster: Comparative analysis across 243 species	59
All eggs in one basket: How potyvirus infection is controlled at a single cap-independent translation event	59
The emerging roles of the cytoskeleton in intestinal epithelium homeostasis	58
The tubulin code: Empowering microtubules	57

Mechanical mechanisms of morphogenesis as potential substrates for evolutionary change	55
The C. elegans anchor cell: A model to elucidate mechanisms underlying invasion through basement membrane	55
Modelling the dynamics of mammalian gut homeostasis	53
Parallels between the extracellular matrix roles in developmental biology and cancer biology	53
Understanding the interplay of membrane trafficking, cell surface mechanics, and stem cell differentiation	52
RNA Polymerases I and III in development and disease	52
Somite development and regionalisation of the vertebral axial skeleton	51
Snapshots from within the cell: Novel trafficking and non trafficking functions of Snap29 during tissue morphogenesis	50
Membrane compartmentalisation of the ubiquitin system	50
Outside Front Cover	49
Editorial Board/Publication Information	48
Editorial Board/Publication Information	48
The developmental and evolutionary origins of cellular pluripotency in the vertebrate neural crest	47
Out with the old, in with the new: Meiotic driving of sex chromosome evolution	46
Carnegie in 4D? Stem-cell-based models of human embryo development	46
An emerging role for the endoplasmic reticulum in stress granule biogenesis	46
rDNA transcription, replication and stability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	45
The ever-diversifying landscape of intra-genomic conflict	44
Deep conservation and co-option of programmed cell death facilitates evolution of alternative phenotypes at multiple biological levels	43
Molecular cell types as functional units of the efferent vagus nerve	42
Recent advances in understanding cell types during human gastrulation	41
Epithelial to mesenchymal transition during mammalian neural crest cell delamination	40
The Calvin Benson cycle in bacteria: New insights from systems biology	40
Thrombospondin proteins – Versatile extracellular proteins with multiple biological functions	39
The Drivers of Diversity: Integrated genetic and hormonal cues regulate neural diversity	38
S-cone circuits in the primate retina for non-image-forming vision	38
Outside Front Cover	38
Establishing and maintaining Hox profiles during spinal cord development	38
The tubulin code in platelet biogenesis.	37
C. elegans: An elegant experimental system for the study of cilia biology	37
Self-organized collective cell behaviors as design principles for synthetic developmental biology	37
Recent insights into atrial chamber formation	36
Hox, homology, and parsimony: An organismal perspective	36
Dynamic regulation of ribosome levels and translation during development	35
Tissue interplay during morphogenesis	35
Hydrostatic pressure as a driver of cell and tissue morphogenesis	35
Outside Front Cover	34
Towards a molecular understanding of the 5′TOP motif in regulating translation of ribosomal mRNAs	34
Developmental energetics: Energy expenditure, budgets and metabolism during animal embryogenesis	34
Engineered implementations of spatial computation in biological systems	34
Editorial Board/Publication Information	34
Apoptotic signaling: Beyond cell death	34
The HERC proteins and the nervous system	33
Kidney development to kidney organoids and back again	33
Outside Front Cover	33
The mechanics of shaping organs in plants	33
Nuclear organization by satellite DNA, SAF-A/hnRNPU and matrix attachment regions	33
Maternal selection of human embryos in early gestation: Insights from recurrent miscarriage	33
Genetically encoded intrabodies as high-precision tools to visualize and manipulate neuronal function	33
Viral manipulation of host cell gene expression	32

Human placental development and function	32
How to get the most out of your cancer spatial transcriptomics data	31
TALE transcription factors: Cofactors no more	31
Strategic use of organoids and organs-on-chip as biomimetic tools	31
Neuronal ensembles in memory processes	31
Imaging spatiotemporal translation regulation in vivo	31
High-resolution omics of vascular ageing and inflammatory pathways in neurodegeneration	30
Collective cell migration across scales: A systems perspective	30
C. elegans as a model for health and disease	29
Evolvability in vertebrate segmentation	29
Outside Front Cover	29
Recent advancement in the spatial immuno-oncology	29
Targeting tau only extracellularly is likely to be less efficacious than targeting it both intra- and extracellularly	29
Dermal extracellular matrix molecules in skin development, homeostasis, wound regeneration and diseases	29
Neuronal identity and cognitive control dynamics in the PFC	29
A near death experience: The secret stem cell life of caspase-3	28
Charting the cardiac landscape: Advances in spatial transcriptomics for heart biology	28
Evolution, structure and function of divergent macroH2A1 splice isoforms	28
Ubiquitin and Legionella: From bench to bedside	28
Moving through the crowd. Where are we at understanding physiological axon growth?	28
Mitochondrial Apoptotic Signaling Involvement in Remodeling During Myogenesis and Skeletal Muscle Atrophy	28
Pinpointing the locus of GABAergic vulnerability in Alzheimer’s disease	27
Recent advances in understanding microRNA function and regulation in C. elegans	27
Cover image of cell death and resilience in health and disease	27
Epigenetics of inflammation in hypothalamus pituitary gonadal and neuroendocrine disorders	27
Unravelling the mysteries of human embryogenesis	27
Dickkopf signaling, beyond Wnt-mediated biology	27
Editorial Board/Publication Information	27
Editorial Board/Publication Information	27
Stress granules and P-bodies – New ideas and experimental models worth exploring	27
Epigenetic regulation of inflammation	27
Timing without coding: How do long non-coding RNAs regulate circadian rhythms?	26
Outside Front Cover	26
Force: A messenger of axon outgrowth	26
Outside Front Cover	26
MicroRNAs: Key modulators of inflammation-associated diseases	26
Mitochondrial-derived vesicles in skeletal muscle remodeling and adaptation	26
Editorial	26
Temporal control of neuronal wiring	25
Inflammation in Hernia and the epigenetic control	25
Host plant physiological transformation and microbial population heterogeneity as important determinants of the Soft Rot Pectobacteriaceae–plant interactions	25
WNT5B in cellular signaling pathways	25
Developmental heterogeneity of vascular cells: Insights into cellular plasticity in atherosclerosis?	25
Mechanics of neural tube morphogenesis	25
Editorial on “Vascular cell fate in health and disease”	25
Towards deciphering the bone marrow microenvironment with spatial multi-omics	24
Regulation of organelle size and organization during development	24
Circadian NAD(P)(H) cycles in cell metabolism	24
P-body-like condensates in the germline	24
Biomechanical models and mechanisms of cellular morphogenesis and cerebral cortical expansion and folding	24
Hox gene functions in the C. elegans nervous system: From early patterning to maintenance of neuronal identity	24
Nuclear envelope assembly and dynamics during development	24
The implications of physiological biomolecular condensates in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	24
The interplay of tissue mechanics and gene regulatory networks in the evolution of morphogenesis	23
Novel approaches to increase synaptic resilience as potential treatments for Alzheimer’s disease	23
Mitochondrial recovery by the UPRmt: Insights from C. elegans	23
Start-Shape-Stop: Cell communication mechanisms controlling organ size	23
Editorial Board/Publication Information	23
Homeodomain complex formation and biomolecular condensates in Hox gene regulation	23
Editorial Board/Publication Information	23
Thrombospondins modulate cell function and tissue structure in the skeleton	22
Microtubule and auditory function – an underestimated connection	22
The influence of epigenetics and inflammation on cardiometabolic risks	22
The molecular clockwork of mammalian cells	22
Thrombospondin-1 in drug activity and tumor response to therapies	22
“Transfer” of power: The intersection of DNA virus infection and tRNA biology	22
Histone variant-specific post-translational modifications	22
Emerging roles of DNA repair factors in the stability of centromeres	22
Gradients, waves and nematics: quantitative perspectives on regeneration	21
Multi-layered transcriptional control of cranial neural crest development	21
Time to see: How temporal identity factors specify the developing mammalian retina	21
Gastrulation morphogenesis in synthetic systems	21
Transcription-coupled H3.3 recycling: A link with chromatin states	21
Sex differences in daily timekeeping and circadian clock circuits	21
Reframing research on evolutionary novelty and co-option: Character identity mechanisms versus deep homology	21
Collective sperm movement in mammalian reproductive tracts	21
Special issue: “Novel functions of programmed cell death in development: Current status and future challenges”	21
Lessons for cardiac regeneration from non-mammalian model organisms	21
Nuclear size and shape control	21