OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Autophagy is 58. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Reticulophagy mediated by the V-ATPase-ATG16L1-LC3C axis	400
A PRKN-independent mechanism regulating cardiac mitochondrial quality control	332
The hallmark domain of the oldest autophagy receptor family is a cargo-binding module	323
TFEB- and TFE3-dependent autophagy activation supports cancer proliferation in the absence of centrosomes	276
ER quality control through reticulophagy and protein secretion	178
A delicate decision between repair and degradation of damaged lysosomes	156
Burkholderia pseudomallei BipD initiates mitophagy to evade killing by hijacking host KLHL9-KLHL13-CUL3 E3 ligase to ubiquitinate IMMT	156
The autophagy pathway beyond model organisms: an evolutionary perspective	145
Enhancing neuronal reticulophagy: a strategy for combating aging and APP toxicity	141
Autophagy regulates organelle reorganization during spermiogenesis in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha	141
Targeting impaired autophagy as a therapeutic strategy for Koolen-de Vries syndrome	139
Tumor-derived CTF1 (cardiotrophin 1) is a critical mediator of stroma-assisted and autophagy-dependent breast cancer cell migration, invasion and metastasis	129
Correction	119
PGAM5 interacts with and maintains BNIP3 to license cancer-associated muscle wasting	118
Autophagy activates EGR1 via MAPK/ERK to induce FGF2 in renal tubular cells for fibroblast activation and fibrosis during maladaptive kidney repair	113
TFEB-dependent autophagy is involved in scavenger receptor OLR1/LOX-1-mediated tumor progression	111
Reticulophagy and viral infection	105
Reconsidering the selectivity of bulk autophagy: cargo hitchhiking specifies cargo for degradation	104
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus degrades DDX10 via SQSTM1/p62-dependent selective autophagy to antagonize its antiviral activity	104
Neuronal antenna senses signals from the bone to sustain cognition by boosting autophagy	102
The active zone protein CLA-1 (Clarinet) bridges two subsynaptic domains to regulate presynaptic sorting of ATG-9	100
ATG7 safeguards human neural integrity	97
Atg1-dependent phosphorylation of Vps34 is required for dynamic regulation of the phagophore assembly site and autophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	96
Should it stay or should it go: gap junction protein GJA1/Cx43 conveys damaged lysosomes to the cell periphery to potentiate exocytosis	90
ALDOA maintains NLRP3 inflammasome activation by controlling AMPK activation	88

PINK1-deficiency facilitates mitochondrial iron accumulation and colon tumorigenesis	85
Endoplasmic reticulum tubule junctions are sites of autophagy	84
Corrigendum	79
Macrophage TRIM21 knockout inhibits septic acute lung injury by downregulating autophagy regulator protein ubiquitination	78
A plant nonenveloped double-stranded RNA virus activates and co-opts BNIP3-mediated mitophagy to promote persistent infection in its insect vector	74
M. tuberculosis PknG manipulates host autophagy flux to promote pathogen intracellular survival	73
Increased apoptosis of gingival epithelium is associated with impaired autophagic flux in medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw	73
Selective autophagic degradation of ACLY (ATP citrate lyase) maintains citrate homeostasis and promotes oocyte maturation	71
LAMP2 regulates autophagy in the thymic epithelium and thymic stroma-dependent CD4 T cell development	71
Emerging roles of ATG9/ATG9A in autophagy: implications for cell and neurobiology	71
Sodium butyrate ameliorates high glucose-suppressed neuronal mitophagy by restoring PRKN expression via inhibiting the RELA-HDAC8 complex	71
LYC inhibits the AKT signaling pathway to activate autophagy and ameliorate TGFB-induced renal fibrosis	67
ESCRT III-mediated lysosomal repair improve renal tubular cell injury in cisplatin-induced AKI	67
Mitochondrial import stress and PINK1-mediated mitophagy: the role of the PINK1-TOMM-TIMM23 supercomplex	67
GAK and PRKCD kinases regulate basal mitophagy	66
Automated quantification of vacuole fusion and lipophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae from fluorescence and cryo-soft X-ray microscopy data using deep learning	66
Starvation-inactivated MTOR triggers cell migration via a ULK1-SH3PXD2A/TKS5-MMP14 pathway in ovarian carcinoma	66
METTL3-dependent m ⁶ A modification of SNAP29 induces “autophagy-mitochondrial crisis” in the ischemic microenvironment after soft tissue transplantation	66
CARM1 drives mitophagy and autophagy flux during fasting-induced skeletal muscle atrophy	64
Metabolic stress induces a double-positive feedback loop between AMPK and SQSTM1/p62 conferring dual activation of AMPK and NFE2L2/NRF2 to synergize antioxidant defense	64
Accurate automated segmentation of autophagic bodies in yeast vacuoles using cellpose 2.0	63
The cocoon into a butterfly: why the HVA22 family proteins turned out to be the reticulophagy receptors in plants?	63
Periplocin suppresses the growth of colorectal cancer cells by triggering LGALS3 (galectin 3)-mediated lysophagy	63
Epitranscriptomic turbo for autophagy boost: m⁶A reader YTHDF3	62
Deciphering melanophagy: role of the PTK2-ITCH-MLANA-OPTN cascade on melanophagy in melanocytes	62
S- acylation of PNPLA2/ATGL: a necessity for triacylglycerol lipolysis and lipophagy in hepatocytes	61
Integrating bioengineering, super-resolution microscopy and mechanobiology in autophagy research: addendum to the guidelines (4th edition)	61
Identification of the YIPF3-YIPF4 heterodimer as a novel Golgiphagy receptor	60
Autophagy deficiency activates rDNA transcription	58
Excessive BNIP3- and BNIP3L-dependent mitophagy underlies the pathogenesis of FBXL4-mutated mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome	58
SKArred 2 death: neuroinflammatory breakdown of the hippocampus	58
The PINK1 advantage: recycling mitochondria in times of trouble?	58
UBE3C tunes autophagy via ATG4B ubiquitination	58