OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Autophagy is 57. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Autophagy regulates organelle reorganization during spermiogenesis in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha	662
ER quality control through reticulophagy and protein secretion	597
The hallmark domain of the oldest autophagy receptor family is a cargo-binding module	563
Reconsidering the selectivity of bulk autophagy: cargo hitchhiking specifies cargo for degradation	526
Neuronal antenna senses signals from the bone to sustain cognition by boosting autophagy	370
A delicate decision between repair and degradation of damaged lysosomes	278
LC3 and GABARAP independent autophagy of misfolded procollagen in mouse osteoblasts	209
Correction	205
Corrigendum	187
Sodium butyrate ameliorates high glucose-suppressed neuronal mitophagy by restoring PRKN expression via inhibiting the RELA-HDAC8 complex	170
Macrophage TRIM21 knockout inhibits septic acute lung injury by downregulating autophagy regulator protein ubiquitination	168
Burkholderia pseudomallei BipD initiates mitophagy to evade killing by hijacking host KLHL9-KLHL13-CUL3 E3 ligase to ubiquitinate IMMT	155
Should it stay or should it go: gap junction protein GJA1/Cx43 conveys damaged lysosomes to the cell periphery to potentiate exocytosis	152
Enhancing neuronal reticulophagy: a strategy for combating aging and APP toxicity	150
Mitochondrial import stress and PINK1-mediated mitophagy: the role of the PINK1-TOMM-TIMM23 supercomplex	145
A plant nonenveloped double-stranded RNA virus activates and co-opts BNIP3-mediated mitophagy to promote persistent infection in its insect vector	137
The autophagy pathway beyond model organisms: an evolutionary perspective	120
A PRKN-independent mechanism regulating cardiac mitochondrial quality control	117
Reticulophagy mediated by the V-ATPase-ATG16L1-LC3C axis	108
The active zone protein CLA-1 (Clarinet) bridges two subsynaptic domains to regulate presynaptic sorting of ATG-9	107
Increased apoptosis of gingival epithelium is associated with impaired autophagic flux in medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw	106
PGAM5 interacts with and maintains BNIP3 to license cancer-associated muscle wasting	102
Endoplasmic reticulum tubule junctions are sites of autophagy	100
Tumor-derived CTF1 (cardiotrophin 1) is a critical mediator of stroma-assisted and autophagy-dependent breast cancer cell migration, invasion and metastasis	94
NK cell-derived GZMB (granzyme B) suppresses glioblastoma radioresistance by blocking SDC1-mediated autophagosome maturation	94

Atg1-dependent phosphorylation of Vps34 is required for dynamic regulation of the phagophore assembly site and autophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	92
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus degrades DDX10 via SQSTM1/p62-dependent selective autophagy to antagonize its antiviral activity	87
PINK1-deficiency facilitates mitochondrial iron accumulation and colon tumorigenesis	87
Reticulophagy and viral infection	87
LYC inhibits the AKT signaling pathway to activate autophagy and ameliorate TGFB-induced renal fibrosis	86
Emerging roles of ATG9/ATG9A in autophagy: implications for cell and neurobiology	86
Autophagy activates EGR1 via MAPK/ERK to induce FGF2 in renal tubular cells for fibroblast activation and fibrosis during maladaptive kidney repair	84
Integrating bioengineering, super-resolution microscopy and mechanobiology in autophagy research: addendum to the guidelines (4th edition)	83
The cocoon into a butterfly: why the HVA22 family proteins turned out to be the reticulophagy receptors in plants?	83
TRIM22 facilitates autophagosome-lysosome fusion by mediating the association of GABARAPs and PLEKHM1	82
Dual pathways of TFEB activation under lysosomal stress: ATG conjugation-dependent and -independent modes	77
Epitranscriptomic turbo for autophagy boost: m ⁶ A reader YTHDF3	74
SKArred 2 death: neuroinflammatory breakdown of the hippocampus	73
Lassa virus Z protein hijacks the autophagy machinery for efficient transportation by interrupting CCT2-mediated cytoskeleton network formation	72
CircRNA GRAMD4 induces NBR1 expression to promote autophagy and immune escape in renal cell carcinoma	71
PRRSV utilizes MALT1-regulated autophagy flux to switch virus spread and reserve	70
High-resolution visualization and assessment of basal and OXPHOS-induced mitophagy in H9c2 cardiomyoblasts	68
Starvation-inactivated MTOR triggers cell migration via a ULK1-SH3PXD2A/TKS5-MMP14 pathway in ovarian carcinoma	67
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	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	65
S- acylation of PNPLA2/ATGL: a necessity for triacylglycerol lipolysis and lipophagy in hepatocytes	64
Automated quantification of vacuole fusion and lipophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae from fluorescence and cryo-soft X-ray microscopy data using deep learning	64
UBE3C tunes autophagy via ATG4B ubiquitination	64
Identification of the YIPF3-YIPF4 heterodimer as a novel Golgiphagy receptor	63
Accurate automated segmentation of autophagic bodies in yeast vacuoles using cellpose 2.0	62
MoOrp-mediated PtdIns4P transportation is essential for autophagy and pathogenicity in Magnaporthe oryzae	61
Deciphering melanophagy: role of the PTK2-ITCH-MLANA-OPTN cascade on melanophagy in melanocytes	58
Excessive BNIP3- and BNIP3L-dependent mitophagy underlies the pathogenesis of FBXL4-mutated mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome	57
Autocrine SFRP2 (secreted frizzled related protein 2) enhances lung myofibroblast fibrogenic activity by suppressing PINK1-mediated mitophagy initiation	57
Taurine ameliorates viral encephalitis by restoring PRKN-mediated mitophagy	57
Periplocin suppresses the growth of colorectal cancer cells by triggering LGALS3 (galectin 3)-mediated lysophagy	57