OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Plant Biology is 42. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Contents	603
Steroidal compounds in Paris polyphylla:structure, biological activities, and biosynthesis	133
Developing for nutrient uptake: Induced organogenesis in parasitic plants and root nodule symbiosis	126
Context-specific functions of transcription factors controlling plant development: From leaves to flowers	124
Stories that can’t be told by SNPs; DNA methylation variation in plant populations	110
β-Glucan-binding proteins are key modulators of immunity and symbiosis in mutualistic plant–microbe interactions	108
More than an on-and-off switch: Post-translational modifications of plant pattern recognition receptor complexes	106
Peculiarities of the regulation of translation initiation in plants	98
The dynamics of maize leaf development: Patterned to grow while growing a pattern	98
Transplastomic approaches for metabolic engineering	91
β-Glucosidases in specialized metabolism: Towards a new understanding of the gatekeepers of plant chemical arsenal	84
Understanding signaling pathways governing the polar development of root hairs in low-temperature, nutrient-deficient environments	77
Looking at mechanobiology through an evolutionary lens	77
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	76
Hormonal regulation of inflorescence and intercalary meristems in grasses	76
Specialized metabolism in St John's wort	74
Tactics of host manipulation by intracellular effectors from plant pathogenic fungi	72
Microbiota-root-shoot-environment axis and stress tolerance in plants	67
Phylogenetic and genomic mechanisms shaping glucosinolate innovation	66
Maternal-filial transfer structures in endosperm: A nexus of nutritional dynamics and seed development	64
Beauty is more than epidermis deep: How cell division and expansion sculpt the leaf spongy mesophyll	63
Editorial overview: Plant metabolism without a border: The interface of primary and specialised metabolism	62
Editorial Board	61
The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment	58
Plant-microbiome crosstalk and disease development	57

How transposable elements are recognized and epigenetically silenced in plants?	57
Plant growth and development: Experimental diversity is essential for dissecting plant diversity	54
Chemical tools for unpicking plant specialised metabolic pathways	53
The parental contributions to early plant embryogenesis and the concept of maternal-to-zygotic transition in plants	52
NLR immune receptors and diverse types of non-NLR proteins control race-specific resistance in Triticeae	51
At the root of plant symbioses: Untangling the genetic mechanisms behind mutualistic associations	50
Protein polarization: Spatiotemporal precisions in cell division and differentiation	49
Plant sphingolipids: Subcellular distributions and functions	47
Contents	46
Something old, something new: Conservation of the ethylene precursor 1-amino-cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid as a signaling molecule	46
Unlocking diversity from wild relatives of perennial fruit crops in the pan-genomics era	45
Mechanotransduction in the spotlight of mechano-sensitive channels	45
Polymorphisms in plants to restrict losses to pathogens: From gene family expansions to complex network evolution	45
HD-Zip IV transcription factors: Drivers of epidermal cell fate integrate metabolic signals	44
Mechanisms of temperature-regulated growth and thermotolerance in crop species	43
Re-imagining crop domestication in the era of high throughput phenomics	43
Recent insights into air space formation in plant shoots	42