OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of EMBO Reports is 44. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
CCR4‐NOT differentially controls host versus virus poly(a)‐tail length and regulates HCMV infection	172
lncRNA‐encoded pep‐AP attenuates the pentose phosphate pathway and sensitizes colorectal cancer cells to Oxaliplatin	131
The mission to ensure continued funding for excellent basic research	130
Equally potent: Nlrp3 mutation in macrophages or neutrophils is sufficient to drive autoinflammation	114
Piwil2 (Mili) sustains neurogenesis and prevents cellular senescence in the postnatal hippocampus	105
Dipeptidyl peptidase 9 triggers BRCA2 degradation and promotes DNA damage repair	105
Lamin A‐mediated nuclear lamina integrity is required for proper ciliogenesis	102
Nlrp3 inflammasome activation in macrophages suffices for inducing autoinflammation in mice	99
Aire‐dependent transcripts escape Raver2‐induced splice‐event inclusion in the thymic epithelium	91
Enhancing Spns2/S1P in macrophages alleviates hyperinflammation and prevents immunosuppression in sepsis	89
LGBTIQ+N	89
The Golgi microtubules regulate single cell durotaxis	86
Through an ecological lens	84
Concerns about academic freedom caused by the Russia–Ukraine War	81
TERT activates endogenous retroviruses to promote an immunosuppressive tumour microenvironment	80
E3 ubiquitin ligase NEDD4L negatively regulates inflammation by promoting ubiquitination of MEKK2	76
XIAP promotes melanoma growth by inducing tumour neutrophil infiltration	71
The post‐translational regulation of transcription factor EB (TFEB) in health and disease	65
SETD1A function in leukemia is mediated through interaction with mitotic regulators BuGZ/BUB3	61
SCF ^FBXW7 regulates G2‐M progression through control of CCNL1	60
Dynamin‐like proteins mediate extracellular vesicle secretion in Mycobacterium tuberculosis	59
METTL3 protects METTL14 from STUB1‐mediated degradation to maintain m⁶A homeostasis	58
Functional skewing of TRIM21‐SIRT5 interplay dictates IL‐1β production in DSS‐induced colitis	58
UBAP2L‐dependent coupling of PLK1 localization and stability during mitosis	57
Global and precise identification of functional miRNA targets in mESCs by integrative analysis	57

The transcriptional regulator Sin3A balances IL‐17A and Foxp3 expression in primary CD4 T cells	55
pH regulates hematopoietic stem cell potential via polyamines	54
SPTing across condensates: SEC‐mediated translocation of SPT complex from pausing condensates to elongation condensates	54
Noncanonical Wnt signaling promotes colon tumor growth, chemoresistance and tumor fibroblast activation	50
Scalable RT‐LAMP‐based SARS‐CoV‐2 testing for infection surveillance with applications in pandemic preparedness	49
PRMT5 links lipid metabolism to contractile function of skeletal muscles	49
Zika virus alters centrosome organization to suppress the innate immune response	49
A Good Day for Helminths: how parasite‐derived GDH suppresses inflammatory responses	49
Morphofunctional changes at the active zone during synaptic vesicle exocytosis	48
Blood flow diverts extracellular vesicles from endothelial degradative compartments to promote angiogenesis	47
Tissue‐like environments shape functional interactions of HIV‐1 with immature dendritic cells	47
Functions of animal microRNA‐encoded peptides: the race is on!	46
Resting natural killer cell homeostasis relies on tryptophan/NAD⁺ metabolism and HIF‐1α	45
Sequestration of LINE‐1 in cytosolic aggregates by MOV10 restricts retrotransposition	45
Animals do count	44
Microtubules are not required to generate a nascent axon in embryonic spinal neurons in vivo	44
Striking the right balance between youth and experience	44
A tiny loop in the Argonaute PIWI domain tunes small RNA seed strength	44
Rapid evolutionary repair by secondary perturbation of a primary disrupted transcriptional network	44
Sci‐Con	44
Somatosensory neurons express specific sets of lincRNAs, and lincRNA CLAP promotes itch sensation in mice	44