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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)¹	1612
Mitochondria ROS and mitophagy in acute kidney injury	229
Ferritinophagy is involved in the zinc oxide nanoparticles-induced ferroptosis of vascular endothelial cells	215
Inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasome attenuates apoptosis in contrast-induced acute kidney injury through the upregulation of HIF1A and BNIP3-mediated mitophagy	188
How autophagy controls the intestinal epithelial barrier	170
Copper-dependent autophagic degradation of GPX4 drives ferroptosis	165
Copper metabolism in cell death and autophagy	151
The ménage à trois of autophagy, lipid droplets and liver disease	150
Tumor heterogeneity in autophagy-dependent ferroptosis	137
Autophagy in ovary and polycystic ovary syndrome: role, dispute and future perspective	133
Long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) EIF3J-DT induces chemoresistance of gastric cancer via autophagy activation	125
Ischemia-induced upregulation of autophagy preludes dysfunctional lysosomal storage and associated synaptic impairments in neurons	119
GPX4 in cell death, autophagy, and disease	118
PRDX1 activates autophagy via the PTEN-AKT signaling pathway to protect against cisplatin-induced spiral ganglion neuron damage	114
Acetylation in the regulation of autophagy	112
Full-coverage regulations of autophagy by ROS: from induction to maturation	111
Identification of novel lipid droplet factors that regulate lipophagy and cholesterol efflux in macrophage foam cells	108
MAPK1/3 kinase-dependent ULK1 degradation attenuates mitophagy and promotes breast cancer bone metastasis	106
HIF1A Alleviates compression-induced apoptosis of nucleus pulposus derived stem cells via upregulating autophagy	104
Regulation of PRKN-independent mitophagy	103
AMPK-dependent phosphorylation is required for transcriptional activation of TFEB and TFE3	102
Cannabidiol inhibits human glioma by induction of lethal mitophagy through activating TRPV4	98
TXNIP/VDUP1 attenuates steatohepatitis via autophagy and fatty acid oxidation	97
Targeting autophagy in disease: established and new strategies	96
Crocetin promotes clearance of amyloid-β by inducing autophagy via the STK11/LKB1-mediated AMPK pathway	92

CUL3 (cullin 3)-mediated ubiquitination and degradation of BECN1 (beclin 1) inhibit autophagy and promote tumor progression	89
m⁶A reader YTHDC1 modulates autophagy by targeting SQSTM1 in diabetic skin	88
Regulation and function of autophagy in pancreatic cancer	85
Autophagy and ALS: mechanistic insights and therapeutic implications	84
Autophagy in age-related macular degeneration	83
Autophagy alleviates hypoxia-induced blood-brain barrier injury via regulation of CLDN5 (claudin 5)	81
The multifaceted regulation of mitophagy by endogenous metabolites	81
CDK9 inhibition blocks the initiation of PINK1-PRKN-mediated mitophagy by regulating the SIRT1-FOXO3-BNIP3 axis and enhances the therapeutic effects involving mitochondrial dysfunction in hepatocellul	79
Electroacupuncture ameliorates beta-amyloid pathology and cognitive impairment in Alzheimer disease via a novel mechanism involving activation of TFEB (transcription factor EB)	78
Autophagy receptor OPTN (optineurin) regulates mesenchymal stem cell fate and bone-fat balance during aging by clearing FABP3	76
The role of mitophagy in the regulation of mitochondrial energetic status in neurons	73
Manipulation of autophagy by SARS-CoV-2 proteins	72
Mitochondrial autophagy and cell survival is regulated by the circadian Clock gene in cardiac myocytes during ischemic stress	71
DCN released from ferroptotic cells ignites AGER-dependent immune responses	71
Rapamycin prevents spontaneous abortion by triggering decidual stromal cell autophagy-mediated NK cell residence	71
FOXG1 promotes aging inner ear hair cell survival through activation of the autophagy pathway	69
Hydrogen peroxide mediates spermidine-induced autophagy to alleviate salt stress in cucumber	69
Newcastle disease virus degrades SIRT3 via PINK1-PRKN-dependent mitophagy to reprogram energy metabolism in infected cells	68
SIRT1 – a new mammalian substrate of nuclear autophagy	66
TMEM164 is a new determinant of autophagy-dependent ferroptosis	66
Tubular cells produce FGF2 via autophagy after acute kidney injury leading to fibroblast activation and renal fibrosis	66
Increased LCN2 (lipocalin 2) in the RPE decreases autophagy and activates inflammasome-ferroptosis processes in a mouse model of dry AMD	64
Vitamin D-VDR (vitamin D receptor) regulates defective autophagy in renal tubular epithelial cell in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice via the AMPK pathway	63
Alternative mitochondrial quality control mediated by extracellular release	62
Trehalose causes low-grade lysosomal stress to activate TFEB and the autophagy-lysosome biogenesis response	62
The role of autophagy in bone metabolism and clinical significance	61
C9orf72 ALS-FTD: recent evidence for dysregulation of the autophagy-lysosome pathway at multiple levels	61
Autophagy inhibition mediated by MCOLN1/TRPML1 suppresses cancer metastasis via regulating a ROS-driven TP53/p53 pathway	60
Combination of autophagy and NFE2L2/NRF2 activation as a treatment approach for neuropathic pain	60
Autophagy regulates differentiation of ovarian granulosa cells through degradation of WT1	59
AMPK protects against alcohol-induced liver injury through UQCRC2 to up-regulate mitophagy	58
USP5 attenuates NLRP3 inflammasome activation by promoting autophagic degradation of NLRP3	58