OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Immunity & Ageing is 23. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Role of immune cells in the removal of deleterious senescent cells	178
Gut microbiota as the key controllers of “healthy” aging of elderly people	157
Obesity and COVID-19: what makes obese host so vulnerable?	118
The immune response to influenza in older humans: beyond immune senescence	93
The lethal sex gap: COVID-19	61
Differential immunogenicity of BNT162b2 or ChAdOx1 vaccines after extended-interval homologous dual vaccination in older people	60
Aging induces B cell defects and decreased antibody responses to influenza infection and vaccination	60
A public health perspective of aging: do hyper-inflammatory syndromes such as COVID-19, SARS, ARDS, cytokine storm syndrome, and post-ICU syndrome accelerate short- and long-term inflammaging?	59
The correlation between the Th17/Treg cell balance and bone health	54
“The ancient and the new”: is there an interaction between cytomegalovirus and SARS-CoV-2 infection?	49
SARS-CoV-2 disease severity and diabetes: why the connection and what is to be done?	47
Accelerated immunosenescence in rheumatoid arthritis: impact on clinical progression	45
SARS-CoV-2 and mitochondrial health: implications of lifestyle and ageing	43
Genetic and environmental determinants of human TCR repertoire diversity	41
Macrophage function in the elderly and impact on injury repair and cancer	38
Can an effective SARS-CoV-2 vaccine be developed for the older population?	38
Does reactivation of cytomegalovirus contribute to severe COVID-19 disease?	37
Autoimmune hemolytic anemia: current knowledge and perspectives	37
Functional conservation in genes and pathways linking ageing and immunity	36
Hyperactivation of monocytes and macrophages in MCI patients contributes to the progression of Alzheimer's disease	35
COVID-19: age, Interleukin-6, C-reactive protein, and lymphocytes as key clues from a multicentre retrospective study	33
Sex- and age‐dependent alterations of splenic immune cell profile and NK cell phenotypes and function in C57BL/6J mice	33
Aging, inflammaging and immunosenescence as risk factors of severe COVID-19	27