OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Diabetes & Vascular Disease Research is 7. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of high mobility group box-1 on the development of diabetes complications: A plausible pharmacological target	143
Progression of insulin resistance in individuals with type 1 diabetes: A retrospective longitudinal study on individuals from Thailand	38
Longitudinal profiling and tracking stability in the Singapore study of macro-angiopathy and microvascular reactivity in type 2 diabetes cohort	36
The association between osteoprotegerin and arterial stiffness in a 10-year longitudinal study of patients with type 2 diabetes	29
MicroRNA-451a downregulation in liraglutide-treated individuals with diabetes: A potential cardiovascular protective mechanism	23
RNA-based diagnostic innovations: A new frontier in diabetes diagnosis and management	18
Roles of vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells in the vasculoprotective effect of insulin in a mouse model of restenosis	18
Disruption of COMMD1 accelerates diabetic atherosclerosis by promoting glycolysis	13
Predictive value of lncRNA DBH-AS1 for cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus with coronary heart disease	12
Plasma proteomics reveals an improved cardio-metabolic profile in patients with type 2 diabetes post-liraglutide treatment	12
Use of flash glucose monitoring is associated with HbA1c reduction in type 2 diabetes managed with basal insulin in Canada: A real-world prospective observational study	11
High serum Bhlhe40 levels are associated with subclinical atherosclerosis in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A cross-sectional study	11
Alteration of autophagy-related protein 5 (ATG5) levels and Atg5 gene expression in diabetes mellitus with and without complications	11
Association of hemoglobin glycation index with prognosis of coronary artery disease after percutaneous coronary intervention: A retrospective cohort study	10
Molecular mechanisms of diabetic heart disease: Insights from transcriptomic technologies	10
“Arterial stiffness is not associated with changes in the circadian pattern of blood pressure in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction”	10
Coronary artery calcium score and coronary computed tomography angiography predict one-year mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes and peripheral artery disease undergoing partial foot amputation	10
Lipoprotein (a) as a predictor of diabetic retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes: A systematic review	9
Trends in cardiovascular burden and mortality among adults with prediabetes in the US, 1999–2018	9
TyG-BMI and hypertension in Normoglycemia subjects in Japan: A cross-sectional study	9
Ten-year incidence of post-transplant Diabetes Mellitus in renal transplant patients	9
Health care registers can be instrumental for endpoint capture in clinical diabetes trials: example of microvascular complications in Swedish patients with type 2 diabetes	9
Temporal trends in minor and major lower extremity amputation in people with type 2 diabetes: The Fremantle Diabetes Study	8
Epicardial adipose tissue and right ventricular function in type 2 diabetes mellitus using two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography	8
Diabetes mellitus does not alter mortality or hospitalisation risk in patients with newly diagnosed heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: Time to rethink pathophysiological models of disease	8

Mitochondrial mitophagy protection combining rivaroxaban and aspirin in high glucose-exposed human coronary artery endothelial cell. An in vitro study	8
Shared and specific biological signalling pathways for diabetic retinopathy, peripheral neuropathy and nephropathy by high-throughput sequencing analysis	8
Cardiometabolic risk factors, peripheral arterial tonometry and metformin in adults with type 1 diabetes participating in the REducing with MetfOrmin Vascular Adverse Lesions trial	8
Aspirin use in patients with diagnosed diabetes in the United States and China: Nationally representative analysis	7
Function outperforms morphology in the assessment of muscular contribution to insulin sensitivity in premenopausal women	7
Diabetic nephropathy ameliorated in patients with normal home blood pressure compared to those with isolated high home systolic blood pressure: A 5-year prospective cohort study among patients with ty	7