OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Protein & Cell is 27. 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
Ferroptosis, radiotherapy, and combination therapeutic strategies	231
The role of the gut microbiome and its metabolites in metabolic diseases	224
Targeting the alternative bile acid synthetic pathway for metabolic diseases	183
Crystal structure of SARS-CoV-2 main protease in complex with protease inhibitor PF-07321332	137
Unexpected guests in the tumor microenvironment: microbiome in cancer	132
High-throughput screening identifies established drugs as SARS-CoV-2 PLpro inhibitors	109
The potential of using blood circular RNA as liquid biopsy biomarker for human diseases	97
Nuclear m6A reader YTHDC1 regulates the scaffold function of LINE1 RNA in mouse ESCs and early embryos	95
RIP1-dependent linear and nonlinear recruitments of caspase-8 and RIP3 respectively to necrosome specify distinct cell death outcomes	89
Metformin activates chaperone-mediated autophagy and improves disease pathologies in an Alzheimer disease mouse model	78
The mini player with diverse functions: extracellular vesicles in cell biology, disease, and therapeutics	70
Potentiating CD8+ T cell antitumor activity by inhibiting PCSK9 to promote LDLR-mediated TCR recycling and signaling	69
Host metabolism dysregulation and cell tropism identification in human airway and alveolar organoids upon SARS-CoV-2 infection	69
Single-nucleus transcriptomic landscape of primate hippocampal aging	58
Lipids and membrane-associated proteins in autophagy	52
Cytochrome P450 reductase (POR) as a ferroptosis fuel	49
Exosomes from antler stem cells alleviate mesenchymal stem cell senescence and osteoarthritis	38
PINK1 kinase dysfunction triggers neurodegeneration in the primate brain without impacting mitochondrial homeostasis	37
The microbiota–gut–brain axis and neurodevelopmental disorders	36
A pair of transporters controls mitochondrial Zn2+ levels to maintain mitochondrial homeostasis	36
The best practice for microbiome analysis using R	34
Understanding the phase separation characteristics of nucleocapsid protein provides a new therapeutic opportunity against SARS-CoV-2	33
Nuclear cGAS: sequestration and beyond	33
Pan-coronavirus fusion inhibitors as the hope for today and tomorrow	31
Higher-order assemblies in immune signaling: supramolecular complexes and phase separation	31

The p21-activated kinases in neural cytoskeletal remodeling and related neurological disorders	29
3D chromatin architecture and epigenetic regulation in cancer stem cells	27
An ultrapotent pan-β-coronavirus lineage B (β-CoV-B) neutralizing antibody locks the receptor-binding domain in closed conformation by targeting its conserved epitope	27