OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Immunology is 89. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Linking the maternal milk microbiota and infant respiratory infections	1105
Lactation-associated macrophages	1061
Maternal infection programmes offspring immunity	887
Revealing T follicular helper cells with BCL6	683
Understanding COVID-19-associated coagulopathy	622
TCF1 in T cell immunity: a broadened frontier	594
Modelling vaccination strategies for COVID-19	574
XXtra killer cells	550
Comparing neurological complications after COVID-19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 infection	539
Tissue-specific epigenomics of resident memory CD8+ T cells	480
First glimpses into the mechanisms of Long COVID	455
Social distancing plus rapid vaccination prevents emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants	453
TSLP uses up fats to coat the skin	389
Sucralose: not sweet enough for T cells	383
The autoinflammatory disease APLAID is driven by G-CSF	380
Cross-reactive tissue-resident CD8+ T cells may provide first line of defence against SARS-CoV-2	375
Microbiome effects on immune surveillance of intestinal tumours	365
The mole rat’s secret to cancer resistance	342
IgA selects for fit, peace-loving fungi	327
Sensing extracellular ATP boosts memory T cell commitment	319
Heart failure affects innate immune memory	315
Low serotonin linked to long COVID	309
Inflammatory cytokines and cardiac arrhythmias: the lesson from COVID-19	302
Thymic masqueraders	287
Neutralization susceptibility of Omicron lineages	286

When ‘mild’ COVID-19 is not so mild	276
Dexamethasone restrains neutrophils in severe COVID-19	264
Time of day determines cancer immunotherapy response	261
How the brain regulates inflammation	250
Immunology of food aversion	247
Pyroptotic cell products promote tissue repair	240
How neuroinflammation weakens muscles	237
Early life antibiotics have lasting effects on the lung epithelium	229
A guide to complement biology, pathology and therapeutic opportunity	228
Inflammatory rewiring	226
Taking AIM2 at atherosclerotic plaques	224
A pan-cancer signature for dysfunctional T cells	211
Seeing SARS-CoV-2 variants through the eyes of T cells	197
A pre-TCRα-independent pathway of αβ T cell differentiation	191
Boosting glymphatic drainage via adrenergic receptor inhibition protects the injured brain	190
Adipose tissue maintains healthy joint fibroblasts via cortisol signalling	186
Antitumour roles for antihistamines	185
Effect of prenatal stress on the developing brain	185
Sensing proteotoxic stress	183
Three-dimensional genome organization in immune cell fate and function	178
Cholesterol controls tolerogenic versus immunogenic DCs	169
‘Prime and spike’ induces mucosal immunity and reduces SARS-CoV-2 transmission	168
Orally delivered lactate-producing bacteria limit CNS autoimmunity	167
NMDAR-directed CAAR T cells show promise for autoimmune encephalitis	165
Novel insights into double-stranded RNA-mediated immunopathology	163
Bacteria tag tumours for CAR T cell attack	163
Understanding NK cell heterogeneity	162
Natural killer cells that target autoimmune cells linked with protection against multiple sclerosis	158
The brain tumour microenvironment imparts neutrophils with pro-tumour properties	156
B cell-derived acetylcholine curbs haematopoiesis	155
The epigenetic ghost of infections past	152
Regulation goes awry in the liver	149
ComplexEye: a multi-lens array microscope for high-throughput cell migration analysis	143
Vaccines only partially protect against Long COVID	139
The inflammatory pathogenesis of colorectal cancer	136
Will SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern affect the promise of vaccines?	132
Immunomodulation by radiotherapy in tumour control and normal tissue toxicity	132
Defining the TH17 cell lineage	130
Omicron, the great escape artist	127
Ancient DNA reveals evolutionary origins of autoimmune diseases	125
Charge-based immunoreceptor signalling in health and disease	123
Human immune organoids: a tool to study vaccine responses	123
Viral infection and antiviral immunity in the oral cavity	118
Same yet different — how lymph node heterogeneity affects immune responses	117
Decoding the human prenatal immune system with single-cell multi-omics	117
Macrophage commonalities across tissues and inflammation	116
Using art and history to communicate immunology to a broad audience	116
Tuning immunity through tissue mechanotransduction	113
Challenges in developing personalized neoantigen cancer vaccines	110
Myeloid cell-targeted therapies for solid tumours	109

Antigen presentation for central tolerance induction	109
Mitochondria in monocyte-derived cells promote tissue damage in multiple sclerosis	109
Trogocytosis challenges the cellular specificity of lineage markers and monoclonal antibodies	105
TGFβ control of immune responses in cancer: a holistic immuno-oncology perspective	105
Immunomodulation by endothelial cells — partnering up with the immune system?	98
SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy	96
Modified uridines are the key to a successful message	95
COVID-19 vaccines: modes of immune activation and future challenges	95
Regulation of cGAS–STING signalling and its diversity of cellular outcomes	95
Expanding dendritic cell nomenclature in the single-cell era	93
ORF9c and ORF10 as accessory proteins of SARS-CoV-2 in immune evasion	93
Sex-specific role for microglial CST7 in Alzheimer’s disease	92
The role of transcription factors in shaping regulatory T cell identity	91
Brain regulatory T cells	89