OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

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How a membrane transporter keeps melanocytes in the red	52
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Circadian clock protein BMAL1 regulates melanogenesis through MITF in melanoma cells	42
Cytoglobin functions as a redox regulator of melanogenesis in normal epidermal melanocytes	41
Retrospective review of outcomes associated with metastatic melanoma patients treated with 1st‐line BRAF‐targeted therapy	37
CD52 mRNA expression predicts prognosis and response to immune checkpoint blockade in melanoma	33
Let’s talk about sex: A biological variable in immune response against melanoma	32
Oral Melanoma in Older Adults: Epidemiology, Molecular Landscape, and Treatment Strategies	31
Molecular heterogeneity of quiescent melanocyte stem cells revealed by single‐cell RNA‐sequencing	25
Proceedings from the Melanoma Research Foundation Mucosal Melanoma Meeting (December 16, 2022, New York, USA)	25
The Melanocyte and Nerve Fiber Cross‐Talk, Facilitated Also by Semaphorin‐4A, Enhances UV‐B‐Induced Melanogenesis	23
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Modeling of pigmentation disorders associated with MITF mutation in Waardenburg syndrome revealed an impaired melanogenesis pathway in iPS‐derived melanocytes	18
25th International Pigment Cell Conference, Bilbao, Spain IPCC 2023	18
Progress in melanoma treatment: Patient's perspectives	17
Impact of a SLC24A5 variant on the retinal pigment epithelium of a Japanese patient with oculocutaneous albinism type 6	16
Single‐cell profiling of MC1R‐inhibited melanocytes	16
Celebrating the life of James J. Nordlund, MD, a larger‐than‐life scholar, mentor, and friend	16
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Corrigendum	14
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The AMP‐dependent kinase pathway is upregulated in BAP1 mutant uveal melanoma	13
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Neratinib kills B‐RAF V600E melanoma via ROS‐dependent autophagosome formation and death receptor signaling	13
Sex Differences in Acral Lentiginous Melanoma: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis of 3617 Cases From the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Database	13
PASPCR 2024 Annual Meeting, New York, NY	13
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BORIS/CTCFL‐mediated chromatin accessibility alterations promote a pro‐invasive transcriptional signature in melanoma cells	12
Association Between Melanoma Metastasis and Metabolic Syndrome: A Cross‐Sectional Study in a Chinese Population	11
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MetFinder: A Tool for Automated Quantitation of Metastatic Burden in Histological Sections From Preclinical Models	11
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Prognostic value of clinical and radiomic parameters in patients with liver metastases from uveal melanoma	10
Meeting Report From the 2023 Cure Ocular Melanoma (CURE OM) Global Science Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 2023	10
Mouse Tail‐Skin Dissociation and Preparation of Live Single‐Cell Suspension for Downstream Analysis of Melanocytes	10
Beyond the 5‐year milestone: Long‐term survivorship of melanoma patients treated off‐trial with anti‐PD‐1	9
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Two novel CreER^T2 transgenic mouse lines to study melanocytic cells in vivo	7
Dominant Negative Mitf Allele Impacts Melanophore and Xanthophore Development and Reveals Collaborative Interactions With Tfec in Zebrafish Chromatophore Lineages	7
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The delicate relation between melanocytes and skin immunity: A game of hide and seek	7
Immune signatures in cutaneous melanoma correlate with survival independently of immunotherapy treatment	6
Topical antibiotics limit depigmentation in a mouse model of vitiligo	6
Special issue: “Biology of skin pigmentation and pigmentary diseases”	6
The metabolism of melanin synthesis—From melanocytes to melanoma	6
Nicotinamide N‐methyltransferase gene silencing enhances chemosensitivity of melanoma cell lines	6
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Three‐dimensional imaging for the analysis of human epidermal melanocytes	5
5,6‐Dihydroxyindole eumelanin content in human skin with varying degrees of constitutive pigmentation	5
Pathogenic Germline Variants in Uveal Melanoma Driver and BAP1‐Associated Genes in Finnish Patients with Uveal Melanoma	5
The OSUMMER lines: A series of ultraviolet‐accelerated NRAS‐mutant mouse melanoma cell lines syngeneic to C57BL/6	5
Acral lentiginous melanoma—Population, treatment, and survival using the NCDB from 2004 to 2015	5
UVA Irradiation Promotes Melanoma Cell Proliferation Mediated by OPN3 Independently of ROS Production	5
Induced pluripotent stem cells reprogramming overcomes technical limitations for highly pigmented adult melanocyte amplification and integration in 3D skin model	5
2‐Mercaptonicotinoyl glycine, a new potent melanogenesis inhibitor, exhibits a unique mode of action while preserving melanocyte integrity	4
Unsuspected consequences of synonymous and missense variants in OCA2 can be detected in blood cell RNA samples of patients with albinism	4
Checkpoint kinase 1 inhibitor + low‐dose hydroxyurea efficiently kills BRAF inhibitor‐ and immune checkpoint inhibitor‐resistant melanomas	4
TFE3 promotes ferroptosis in melanoma	4
Clinical and pathological characteristics of familial melanoma with germline TERT promoter variants	4
ToF‐SIMS imaging reveals changes in tumor cell lipids during metastatic progression of melanoma	4
Segregation Between an Ornamental and a Disease Driver Gene Provides Insights Into Pigment Cell Regulation	4
Causes of death and patterns of metastatic disease at the end of life for patients with advanced melanoma in the immunotherapy era	4
Genetic predisposition to long telomeres is associated with increased mortality after melanoma: A study of 2101 melanoma patients from hospital clinics and the general population	4
Connecting the dots: Melanoma cell of origin, tumor cell plasticity, trans‐differentiation, and drug resistance	4
Genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity of multiple lentigines and precise diagnosis in four Chinese families with multiple lentigines	4
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Clinicopathological features, current status, and progress of primary central nervous system melanoma diagnosis and treatment	4
Neutrophil‐to‐eosinophil ratio as a biomarker for clinical outcomes in advanced stage melanoma patients treated with anti‐PD‐1 therapy	3
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Genetics of non‐syndromic and syndromic oculocutaneous albinism in human and mouse	3
A prospective observational study to sequentially determine the dermoscopic features of vitiligo and its association with disease activity in patients on medical treatment	3
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Durable complete response in a patient with leptomeningeal melanoma after treatment with dabrafenib, trametinib, and nivolumab	3
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New Dermoscopy Pattern in Nevus‐Associated Melanomas	3
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Primary cutaneous melanoma in Black patients: An analysis of 2464 cases from the National Cancer Database 2004–2018	3
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The role of dacarbazine and temozolomide therapy after treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors in malignant melanoma patients: A case series and meta‐analysis	3
Myron Gordon Award Lecture 2023: Painting the neural crest: How studying pigment cells illuminates neural crest cell biology	3
Xenopus as a model system for studying pigmentation and pigmentary disorders	3
Optimisation of skin phototype classification	3
The Lipid Droplet Protein DHRS3 Is a Regulator of Melanoma Cell State	3
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Advancements in melanoma cancer metastasis models	3
Interplay of Light, Melatonin, and Circadian Genes in Skin Pigmentation Regulation	3
An in vitro nevus explant model for studying the effects of ultraviolet radiation	2
Perspectives on the nanocarriers with miRNAs for targeting melanoma stemness through epigenetic regulation	2
Trained immunity in the pathogenesis of vitiligo	2
In Memoriam: Rajasekharan (Shyam) Somasundaram (1956–2021)	2
In Memoriam: Soldano Ferrone MD, PhD (1940–2023)	2
Low‐Dose Baricitinib Plus Narrow‐Band Ultraviolet B for the Treatment of Progressive Non‐Segmental Vitiligo: A Prospective, Controlled, Open‐Label Study	2
Landscape of mutations in early stage primary cutaneous melanoma: An InterMEL study	2
Conjunctival Melanoma: A Narrative Review of Current Knowledge	2
Establishment and characterization of an immortalized human giant congenital melanocytic nevi cell line	2
Epigenetic and pharmacological control of pigmentation via Bromodomain Protein 9 (BRD9)	2
Protein‐based classification of melanoma differentiation subtypes	2
Characterization of PRAME immunohistochemistry reveals lower expression in pediatric melanoma compared to adult melanoma	2
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RASGRF2 gene fusions identified in a variety of melanocytic lesions with distinct morphological features	2
Piceatannol—Can It Be Used to Treat Hyperpigmentation of the Skin?	2
RNA M6A modification shaping cutaneous melanoma tumor microenvironment and predicting immunotherapy response	2
The classification of melanocytic gene signatures	2
The Role of Two Tyrosinase‐Like Glycoenzymes in Defining the Final Hue of Parrot Plumage	2
The Skin Microbiome: A New Key Player in Melanoma, From Onset to Metastatic Stage	2
Identification and functional assays of single‐nucleotide variants of opsins genes in melanocytic tumors	2
Leptomeningeal disease in melanoma: An update on the developments in pathophysiology and clinical care	2
Cholinergic Signaling Mediated by Muscarinic Receptors Triggers the Ultraviolet‐Induced Release of Melanosome in Cultured Melanoma Cells	1
X and Y Differences in Melanoma Survival Between the Sexes	1
Melanoma and Matrimony: Retrospective Study of Demographics, Marital Status, and Clinical Features of Patients With Acral Melanoma at a Single Academic Center	1
The Incorporation of Melanosomes by Senescent Keratinocytes Causes the Accumulation of Melanin due to Decreased Energy Metabolism	1
Uric acid is a major chemical constituent for the whitish coloration in the medaka leucophores	1
Epilogue	1
List of Reviewers for PCMR	1
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Oncogenic properties via MAPK signaling of the SOX5‐RAF1 fusion gene identified in a wild‐typeNRAS/BRAF giant congenital nevus	1
Genetic Landscape of Mucosal Melanoma: Identifying Pathogenic Germline Variants	1
Clinicopathological features and associations in a series of South African acral melanomas	1
AP‐3 complex subunit delta gene, ap3d1, regulates melanogenesis and melanophore survival via autophagy in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	1
The Yucatan miniature swine as a model for post‐inflammatory hyperpigmentation	1
B7‐H3 drives immunosuppression and Co‐targeting with CD47 is a new therapeutic strategy in β‐catenin activated melanomas	1
Molecular characterization of biphenotypic epithelioid and plexiform melanoma with deep penetrating nevus‐like features	1
Non‐Steroidal Anti‐Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) sensitize melanoma cells to MEK inhibition and inhibit metastasis and relapse by inducing degradation of AXL	1
Genotypic spectrum of albinism in Mali	1
Seasonal variation of anti‐PD‐1 outcome in melanoma—Results from a Dutch patient cohort	1
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The 21st International Congress of the Society for Melanoma Research	1
Volar location and degree of pigmentation are associated with poor survival and first metastasis pattern in acral melanoma	1
Detection of cell‐free tumor DNA in cerebrospinal fluid as a diagnostic biomarker for leptomeningeal melanoma metastasis: A case series	1
Melanoma central nervous system metastases: An update to approaches, challenges, and opportunities	1
Emerging therapeutic strategies for metastatic uveal melanoma: Targeting driver mutations	1
Melanoma and subcutaneous adipose tissue: Role of peritumoral adipokines in disease characterization and prognosis	1
Cancer‐Associated Fibroblast Signature Can Predict Prognosis and Therapeutic Responses in Skin Cutaneous Melanoma	1
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YAP facilitates melanoma migration through regulation of actin‐related protein 2/3 complex subunit 5 (ARPC5)	1
B6‐Dct‐H2BGFP bitransgenic mice: A standardized mouse model for in vivo characterization of melanocyte development and stem cell differentiation	1
List of reviewers for PCMR (01.01.2023–30.09.2023)	1
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