OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Disease Models & Mechanisms is 26. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
A chance to turn HIV treatment up a Notch	121
Pluripotent stem cell-derived neural progenitor cells can be used to model effects of IL-6 on human neurodevelopment	72
Interleukin-1 regulates myeloid cell trafficking and cerebral blood flow following intracerebral haemorrhage	66
Prostatic Escherichia coli infection drives CCR2-dependent recruitment of fibrocytes and collagen production	65
Drop the MYC: An expansion of triple-negative breast cancer driver genes	64
Let's talk about sex… obesity and melanoma	58
The role of Lrp6-mediated Wnt/β-catenin signaling in the development and intervention of spinal neural tube defects in mice	57
Vemurafenib improves muscle histopathology in a mouse model of LAMA2-related congenital muscular dystrophy	54
Building a framework for reproducibility: the case for standardized data reporting and metadata integration in zebrafish research	46
CIB2 function is distinct from that of whirlin in the organization of sterocilia architecture	44
Biological and therapeutic insights from animal modeling of fusion-driven pediatric soft tissue sarcomas	43
First person – Christian Gonzalez	42
Osteocyte lacunar:vascular microarchitecture is spatially heterogenous and VEGF dependent in male murine bone	40
Human organoid model of pontocerebellar hypoplasia 2a recapitulates brain region-specific size differences	39
Cancer cachexia: lessons from Drosophila	38
Increase in brain glycogen levels ameliorates Huntington's disease phenotype and rescues neurodegeneration in Drosophila	35
Lysosomal alterations and decreased electrophysiological activity in CLN3 disease patient-derived cortical neurons	35
Neurofibromin 1 mutations impair the function of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived microglia	33
RNA sequencing reveals molecular mechanisms of endometriosis lesion development in mice	33
Altered huntingtin−chromatin interactions predict transcriptional and epigenetic changes in Huntington's disease	32
Optimized methods to image hepatic lipid droplets in zebrafish larvae	32
Molecular functions of ANKLE2 and its implications in human disease	31
Pharmacological inhibition of the acetyltransferase Tip60 mitigates myocardial infarction injury	28
Joan Heath interviews Suzanne Cory and Joan Steitz: a female perspective of science in the swinging ‘60s	27
First person – Sheeza Mughal	26

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