OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Autophagy is 56. 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
Reticulophagy mediated by the V-ATPase-ATG16L1-LC3C axis	451
A PRKN-independent mechanism regulating cardiac mitochondrial quality control	389
The hallmark domain of the oldest autophagy receptor family is a cargo-binding module	374
ER quality control through reticulophagy and protein secretion	317
A delicate decision between repair and degradation of damaged lysosomes	199
The autophagy pathway beyond model organisms: an evolutionary perspective	190
Autophagy regulates organelle reorganization during spermiogenesis in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha	184
Enhancing neuronal reticulophagy: a strategy for combating aging and APP toxicity	181
Targeting impaired autophagy as a therapeutic strategy for Koolen-de Vries syndrome	166
Reconsidering the selectivity of bulk autophagy: cargo hitchhiking specifies cargo for degradation	162
The active zone protein CLA-1 (Clarinet) bridges two subsynaptic domains to regulate presynaptic sorting of ATG-9	141
Correction	131
Should it stay or should it go: gap junction protein GJA1/Cx43 conveys damaged lysosomes to the cell periphery to potentiate exocytosis	128
Increased apoptosis of gingival epithelium is associated with impaired autophagic flux in medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw	128
Macrophage TRIM21 knockout inhibits septic acute lung injury by downregulating autophagy regulator protein ubiquitination	127
PGAM5 interacts with and maintains BNIP3 to license cancer-associated muscle wasting	121
PINK1-deficiency facilitates mitochondrial iron accumulation and colon tumorigenesis	120
TFEB-dependent autophagy is involved in scavenger receptor OLR1/LOX-1-mediated tumor progression	120
Neuronal antenna senses signals from the bone to sustain cognition by boosting autophagy	110
ALDOA maintains NLRP3 inflammasome activation by controlling AMPK activation	108
Emerging roles of ATG9/ATG9A in autophagy: implications for cell and neurobiology	102
LC3 and GABARAP independent autophagy of misfolded procollagen in mouse osteoblasts	92
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus degrades DDX10 via SQSTM1/p62-dependent selective autophagy to antagonize its antiviral activity	92
Mitochondrial import stress and PINK1-mediated mitophagy: the role of the PINK1-TOMM-TIMM23 supercomplex	92
Atg1-dependent phosphorylation of Vps34 is required for dynamic regulation of the phagophore assembly site and autophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	91

Burkholderia pseudomallei BipD initiates mitophagy to evade killing by hijacking host KLHL9-KLHL13-CUL3 E3 ligase to ubiquitinate IMMT	90
Endoplasmic reticulum tubule junctions are sites of autophagy	87
Corrigendum	84
TFEB- and TFE3-dependent autophagy activation supports cancer proliferation in the absence of centrosomes	81
Autophagy activates EGR1 via MAPK/ERK to induce FGF2 in renal tubular cells for fibroblast activation and fibrosis during maladaptive kidney repair	79
Tumor-derived CTF1 (cardiotrophin 1) is a critical mediator of stroma-assisted and autophagy-dependent breast cancer cell migration, invasion and metastasis	78
Sodium butyrate ameliorates high glucose-suppressed neuronal mitophagy by restoring PRKN expression via inhibiting the RELA-HDAC8 complex	76
Selective autophagic degradation of ACLY (ATP citrate lyase) maintains citrate homeostasis and promotes oocyte maturation	76
LAMP2 regulates autophagy in the thymic epithelium and thymic stroma-dependent CD4 T cell development	75
A plant nonenveloped double-stranded RNA virus activates and co-opts BNIP3-mediated mitophagy to promote persistent infection in its insect vector	75
Reticulophagy and viral infection	74
LYC inhibits the AKT signaling pathway to activate autophagy and ameliorate TGFB-induced renal fibrosis	72
Accurate automated segmentation of autophagic bodies in yeast vacuoles using cellpose 2.0	70
Starvation-inactivated MTOR triggers cell migration via a ULK1-SH3PXD2A/TKS5-MMP14 pathway in ovarian carcinoma	69
Deciphering melanophagy: role of the PTK2-ITCH-MLANA-OPTN cascade on melanophagy in melanocytes	68
CARM1 drives mitophagy and autophagy flux during fasting-induced skeletal muscle atrophy	67
Periplocin suppresses the growth of colorectal cancer cells by triggering LGALS3 (galectin 3)-mediated lysophagy	67
Epitranscriptomic turbo for autophagy boost: m⁶A reader YTHDF3	64
Automated quantification of vacuole fusion and lipophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae from fluorescence and cryo-soft X-ray microscopy data using deep learning	64
PRRSV utilizes MALT1-regulated autophagy flux to switch virus spread and reserve	64
GAK and PRKCD kinases regulate basal mitophagy	64
The PINK1 advantage: recycling mitochondria in times of trouble?	63
Identification of the YIPF3-YIPF4 heterodimer as a novel Golgiphagy receptor	63
Integrating bioengineering, super-resolution microscopy and mechanobiology in autophagy research: addendum to the guidelines (4th edition)	63
Excessive BNIP3- and BNIP3L-dependent mitophagy underlies the pathogenesis of FBXL4-mutated mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome	63
SKArred 2 death: neuroinflammatory breakdown of the hippocampus	61
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	58
MoOrp-mediated PtdIns4P transportation is essential for autophagy and pathogenicity in Magnaporthe oryzae	57
METTL3-dependent m ⁶ A modification of SNAP29 induces “autophagy-mitochondrial crisis” in the ischemic microenvironment after soft tissue transplantation	57
Taurine ameliorates viral encephalitis by restoring PRKN-mediated mitophagy	57
High-resolution visualization and assessment of basal and OXPHOS-induced mitophagy in H9c2 cardiomyoblasts	57