OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Biological Sciences is 41. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
mRNA vaccines for COVID-19: what, why and how	176
Regulation of exosome production and cargo sorting	163
Tagitinin C induces ferroptosis through PERK-Nrf2-HO-1 signaling pathway in colorectal cancer cells	144
Immunotherapy in colorectal cancer: current achievements and future perspective	121
Cisplatin Induces Pyroptosis via Activation of MEG3/NLRP3/caspase-1/GSDMD Pathway in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer	111
Interaction between Aβ and Tau in the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease	110
Current advances in the development of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines	103
Ferroptosis-Related Long Non-Coding RNA signature predicts the prognosis of Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma	98
Dihydroartemisinin: A Potential Natural Anticancer Drug	87
Forsythoside A Mitigates Alzheimer's-like Pathology by Inhibiting Ferroptosis-mediated Neuroinflammation via Nrf2/GPX4 Axis Activation	80
Underlying the Mechanisms of Doxorubicin-Induced Acute Cardiotoxicity: Oxidative Stress and Cell Death	75
GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs): cardiovascular actions and therapeutic potential	74
Long COVID and its Management	73
Artificial intelligence in the diagnosis of COVID-19: challenges and perspectives	72
Neutrophil extracellular traps mediate m⁶A modification and regulates sepsis-associated acute lung injury by activating ferroptosis in alveolar epithelial cells	68
Attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines in Chinese college students	65
Construction and applications of SARS-CoV-2 pseudoviruses: a mini review	62
Betulinic acid inhibits pyroptosis in spinal cord injury by augmenting autophagy via the AMPK-mTOR-TFEB signaling pathway	62
VEGF/VEGFR-Targeted Therapy and Immunotherapy in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: Targeting the Tumor Microenvironment	62
Cytokine storm in COVID-19: from viral infection to immune responses, diagnosis and therapy	61
USP24-GSDMB complex promotes bladder cancer proliferation via activation of the STAT3 pathway	59
The Impact of TRPV1 on Cancer Pathogenesis and Therapy: A Systematic Review	59
Hypoxic pancreatic cancer derived exosomal miR-30b-5p promotes tumor angiogenesis by inhibiting GJA1 expression	56
The role of RNA m⁵C modification in cancer metastasis	53
Application of radiomics and machine learning in head and neck cancers	52

LncRNA H19: A novel oncogene in multiple cancers	52
A combination therapy of Phages and Antibiotics: Two is better than one	51
The role of CD4⁺FoxP3⁺ regulatory T cells in the immunopathogenesis of COVID-19: implications for treatment	51
Tumor heterogeneity reshapes the tumor microenvironment to influence drug resistance	51
The Landscape Of Alpha Fetoprotein In Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Where Are We?	50
A Multiple-Hit Hypothesis Involving Reactive Oxygen Species and Myeloperoxidase Explains Clinical Deterioration and Fatality in COVID-19	48
Integrated Machine Learning and Bioinformatic Analyses Constructed a Novel Stemness-Related Classifier to Predict Prognosis and Immunotherapy Responses for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients	47
SARS-CoV-2 main protease suppresses type I interferon production by preventing nuclear translocation of phosphorylated IRF3	46
CD47/SIRPα pathway mediates cancer immune escape and immunotherapy	46
Understanding the Effects of Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and the Possible Probiotics Role: Recent Updates	45
βII spectrin (SPTBN1): biological function and clinical potential in cancer and other diseases	45
Ferroptosis-related Genes for Overall Survival Prediction in Patients with Colorectal Cancer can be Inhibited by Gallic acid	42
SARS-CoV-2 variants evolved during the early stage of the pandemic and effects of mutations on adaptation in Wuhan populations	42
Ferroptosis in Cancer Progression: Role of Noncoding RNAs	42
Development and application of therapeutic antibodies against COVID-19	42
CircRNA ciRS-7: a Novel Oncogene in Multiple Cancers	42
NEAT1 as a competing endogenous RNA in tumorigenesis of various cancers: Role, mechanism and therapeutic potential	41
LncRNA FAM83A-AS1 facilitates tumor proliferation and the migration via the HIF-1α/ glycolysis axis in lung adenocarcinoma	41
Potential of exosomes as diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic carriers for doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity	41
The lncRNA BDNF-AS/WDR5/FBXW7 axis mediates ferroptosis in gastric cancer peritoneal metastasis by regulating VDAC3 ubiquitination	41