OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of EMBO Reports 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The mission to ensure continued funding for excellent basic research	211
Global and precise identification of functional miRNA targets in mESCs by integrative analysis	153
Functional skewing of TRIM21‐SIRT5 interplay dictates IL‐1β production in DSS‐induced colitis	152
LGBTIQ+N	151
Piwil2 (Mili) sustains neurogenesis and prevents cellular senescence in the postnatal hippocampus	141
Dipeptidyl peptidase 9 triggers BRCA2 degradation and promotes DNA damage repair	137
E3 ubiquitin ligase NEDD4L negatively regulates inflammation by promoting ubiquitination of MEKK2	132
Erratum To: The Golgi microtubules regulate single cell durotaxis	125
Dynamin‐like proteins mediate extracellular vesicle secretion in Mycobacterium tuberculosis	120
UBAP2L‐dependent coupling of PLK1 localization and stability during mitosis	102
SETD1A function in leukemia is mediated through interaction with mitotic regulators BuGZ/BUB3	88
Enhancing Spns2/S1P in macrophages alleviates hyperinflammation and prevents immunosuppression in sepsis	80
Through an ecological lens	78
CCR4‐NOT differentially controls host versus virus poly(a)‐tail length and regulates HCMV infection	76
Equally potent: Nlrp3 mutation in macrophages or neutrophils is sufficient to drive autoinflammation	69
The post‐translational regulation of transcription factor EB (TFEB) in health and disease	66
SCFFBXW7 regulates G2‐M progression through control of CCNL1 ubiquitination	66
METTL3 protects METTL14 from STUB1‐mediated degradation to maintain m6A homeostasis	65
IL‐21 has a critical role in establishing germinal centers by amplifying early B cell proliferation	62
Rapid evolutionary repair by secondary perturbation of a primary disrupted transcriptional network	59
Zika virus alters centrosome organization to suppress the innate immune response	59
The DEAD box RNA helicase DDX42 is an intrinsic inhibitor of positive‐strand RNA viruses	56
Morphofunctional changes at the active zone during synaptic vesicle exocytosis	54
Somatosensory neurons express specific sets of lincRNAs, and lincRNA CLAP promotes itch sensation in mice	54
Resting natural killer cell homeostasis relies on tryptophan/NAD+ metabolism and HIF‐1α	51

Animals do count	51
Microtubules are not required to generate a nascent axon in embryonic spinal neurons in vivo	50
Sequestration of LINE‐1 in cytosolic aggregates by MOV10 restricts retrotransposition	49
A tiny loop in the Argonaute PIWI domain tunes small RNA seed strength	49
Blood flow diverts extracellular vesicles from endothelial degradative compartments to promote angiogenesis	48
Noncanonical Wnt signaling promotes colon tumor growth, chemoresistance and tumor fibroblast activation	48
Transient rapamycin treatment during developmental stage extends lifespan in Mus musculus and Drosophila melanogaster	48
Striking the right balance between youth and experience	46
Tissue‐like environments shape functional interactions of HIV‐1 with immature dendritic cells	45
Energetic landscape of polycystin channel gating	44
Scalable RT‐LAMP‐based SARS‐CoV‐2 testing for infection surveillance with applications in pandemic preparedness	44
The transcriptional regulator Sin3A balances IL‐17A and Foxp3 expression in primary CD4 T cells	44
SPTing across condensates: SEC‐mediated translocation of SPT complex from pausing condensates to elongation condensates	44
pH regulates hematopoietic stem cell potential via polyamines	44
PRMT5 links lipid metabolism to contractile function of skeletal muscles	44
STAT5b is a key effector of NRG‐1/ERBB4‐mediated myocardial growth	43
The regulation of human blastoid research	42
Autophagy orchestrates the crosstalk between cells and organs	42