OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Retrospective review of outcomes associated with metastatic melanoma patients treated with 1st‐line BRAF‐targeted therapy	22
Molecular heterogeneity of quiescent melanocyte stem cells revealed by single‐cell RNA ‐sequencing	22
TRIM 63 Promotes the Malignant Behaviors of Melanoma Cells Through Ubiquitination of P 2 RY	20
SASH1 Mutations and Hereditary Disorders of Pigmentation: Review of Literature	18
CD52 mRNA expression predicts prognosis and response to immune checkpoint blockade in melanoma	18
Proceedings from the Melanoma Research Foundation Mucosal Melanoma Meeting (December 16, 2022, New York, USA)	17
Cytoglobin functions as a redox regulator of melanogenesis in normal epidermal melanocytes	17
Fusion Gene Detection in Driver Mutation‐Negative Melanomas Using RNA ‐Based Anchored Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction	15
Progress in melanoma treatment: Patient's perspectives	15
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Oral Melanoma in Older Adults: Epidemiology, Molecular Landscape, and Treatment Strategies	15
25th International Pigment Cell Conference, Bilbao, Spain IPCC 2023	15
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The Melanocyte and Nerve Fiber Cross‐Talk, Facilitated Also by Semaphorin‐4A, Enhances UV‐B‐Induced Melanogenesis	13
Microfluidic Characterization and Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells From Patients With Metastatic Melanoma	13
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Comprehensive Profiling of Acral Lentiginous Melanoma Reveals Downregulated Immune Activation Compared to Cutaneous Melanoma	12
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First Report of Oculocutaneous Albinism Type I Among Baka Pygmies From Cameroon	11
PASPCR 2024 Annual Meeting, New York, NY	11
Single‐cell profiling of MC1R‐inhibited melanocytes	11
Celebrating the life of James J. Nordlund, MD, a larger‐than‐life scholar, mentor, and friend	11

Modeling of pigmentation disorders associated with MITF mutation in Waardenburg syndrome revealed an impaired melanogenesis pathway in iPS‐derived melanocytes	11
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Prognostic value of clinical and radiomic parameters in patients with liver metastases from uveal melanoma	10
MetFinder: A Tool for Automated Quantitation of Metastatic Burden in Histological Sections From Preclinical Models	10
Sex Differences in Acral Lentiginous Melanoma: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis of 3617 Cases From the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Database	10
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BORIS / CTCFL ‐mediated chromatin accessibility alterations promote a pro‐invasive transcriptional signature in melano	9
Association Between Melanoma Metastasis and Metabolic Syndrome: A Cross‐Sectional Study in a Chinese Population	9
Rapid Diagnosis and Subtyping of Hermansky‐Pudlak Syndrome With Flow Cytometry Analysis	9
Mouse Tail‐Skin Dissociation and Preparation of Live Single‐Cell Suspension for Downstream Analysis of Melanocytes	9
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Meeting Report From the 2023 Cure Ocular Melanoma (CURE OM) Global Science Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 2023	8
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The Proposed Categorization of Vitiligo Lesions on the Hands	7
5,6‐Dihydroxyindole eumelanin content in human skin with varying degrees of constitutive pigmentation	7
Immune signatures in cutaneous melanoma correlate with survival independently of immunotherapy treatment	7
Beyond the 5‐year milestone: Long‐term survivorship of melanoma patients treated off‐trial with anti‐PD‐1	7
Rare Melanomas: An Area of Urgent Research and Clinical Need	7
Topical antibiotics limit depigmentation in a mouse model of vitiligo	7
Dominant Negative Mitf Allele Impacts Melanophore and Xanthophore Development and Reveals Collaborative Interactions With Tfec in Zebrafish Chromatophore Lineages	7
Two novel CreER^T2 transgenic mouse lines to study melanocytic cells in vivo	7
Three‐dimensional imaging for the analysis of human epidermal melanocytes	7
The metabolism of melanin synthesis—From melanocytes to melanoma	7
SASH1 Modulates Melanin Synthesis and Melanoma Cell Metastasis via Suppression of the TGF ‐β Signaling Pathway	7
Induced pluripotent stem cells reprogramming overcomes technical limitations for highly pigmented adult melanocyte amplification and integration in 3D skin model	6
Pigmentation and Retinal Pigment Epithelium Thickness: A Study of the Phenotypic and Genotypic Relationships Between Ocular and Extraocular Pigmented Tissues	6
ToF‐SIMS imaging reveals changes in tumor cell lipids during metastatic progression of melanoma	6
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Clinical and pathological characteristics of familial melanoma with germline TERT promoter variants	6
Connecting the dots: Melanoma cell of origin, tumor cell plasticity, trans‐differentiation, and drug resistance	6
Patient Education in the Eye of the Beholder: Assessing the Effect of Skin Color Representation in Melanoma Educational Materials	6
Prognostic and Predictive Value of ctDNA for Metastatic Uveal Melanoma: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis	6
Genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity of multiple lentigines and precise diagnosis in four Chinese families with multiple lentigines	6
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Unsuspected consequences of synonymous and missense variants in OCA2 can be detected in blood cell RNA samples of patients with albinism	6
UVA Irradiation Promotes Melanoma Cell Proliferation Mediated by OPN3 Independently of ROS Production	6
2‐Mercaptonicotinoyl glycine, a new potent melanogenesis inhibitor, exhibits a unique mode of action while preserving melanocyte integrity	6
The OSUMMER lines: A series of ultraviolet‐accelerated NRAS‐mutant mouse melanoma cell lines syngeneic to C57BL/6	6
Durable complete response in a patient with leptomeningeal melanoma after treatment with dabrafenib, trametinib, and nivolumab	6
Pathogenic Germline Variants in Uveal Melanoma Driver and BAP1‐Associated Genes in Finnish Patients with Uveal Melanoma	6
Primary cutaneous melanoma in Black patients: An analysis of 2464 cases from the National Cancer Database 2004–2018	5
Advancements in melanoma cancer metastasis models	5
Extreme Tumor Mutational Burden Predicts Near‐Curative Outcomes With Checkpoint Immunotherapy in Melanoma: Half the Eligible, Half the Cure	5
Comparison of Disease Progression Between Amelanotic Melanoma and Melanotic Melanoma	5
Segregation Between an Ornamental and a Disease Driver Gene Provides Insights Into Pigment Cell Regulation	5
Clinicopathological features, current status, and progress of primary central nervous system melanoma diagnosis and treatment	5
Interplay of Light, Melatonin, and Circadian Genes in Skin Pigmentation Regulation	5

Excimer 308‐Nm Light in the Combination Treatment of Vitiligo: A Systematic Review and Network Meta‐Analysis	5
Myron Gordon Award Lecture 2023: Painting the neural crest: How studying pigment cells illuminates neural crest cell biology	5
TFE3 promotes ferroptosis in melanoma	5
Causes of death and patterns of metastatic disease at the end of life for patients with advanced melanoma in the immunotherapy era	5
Chicken Shank Color Determined by Inhibition of Dermal Melanin ( ID ) is Mediated by a Structural	5
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Chemiexcitation in Ex Vivo Porcine Skin Model	5
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Cutaneous Pigment Cell Distributions and Skin Structure of Xenopus	5
Checkpoint kinase 1 inhibitor + low‐dose hydroxyurea efficiently kills BRAF inhibitor‐ and immune checkpoint inhibitor‐resistant melanomas	5
The role of dacarbazine and temozolomide therapy after treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors in malignant melanoma patients: A case series and meta‐analysis	5