OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Mucosal Immunology is 35. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Mucosal-associated invariant T cells have therapeutic potential against ocular autoimmunity	237
Memorial for Nils Lycke	206
CD8 tissue-resident memory T cells bridge the gap between humoral and cell-mediated immunity	191
Editorial Board	178
Pro-inflammatory NK-like T cells are expanded in the blood and inflamed intestine in Crohn’s disease	141
Mitochondrial damage-associated molecular patterns: New perspectives for mitochondria and inflammatory bowel diseases	138
TIFA renders intestinal epithelial cells responsive to microbial ADP-heptose and drives colonic inflammation in mice	122
Impact of gut fungal and bacterial communities on the outcome of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation	97
The bacterial lysate OM-85 engages Toll-like receptors 2 and 4 triggering an immunomodulatory gene signature in human myeloid cells	93
RIPK3 and caspase-8 interpret cytokine signals to regulate ILC3 survival in the gut	91
Distinct cell death pathways induced by granzymes collectively protect against intestinal Salmonella infection	89
Circadian clock component PER2 negatively regulates CD4+ T cell IFN-γ production in ulcerative colitis	89
Exposure to bacterial PAMPs before RSV infection exacerbates innate inflammation and disease via IL-1α and TNF-α	79
Dysregulated NOX1-NOS2 activity as hallmark of ileitis in mice	76
Neuromedin U promotes human type 2 immune responses	67
Molecular alterations in human milk in simulated maternal nasal mucosal infection with live attenuated influenza vaccination	67
Intestinal-derived ILCs migrating in lymph increase IFNγ production in response to Salmonella Typhimurium infection	61
Effects of helminths on the human immune response and the microbiome	61
Editorial Board	60
α4β7 expression guides B cells to front lines of defense in the gut	57
Heterogeneous Tfh cell populations that develop during enteric helminth infection predict the quality of type 2 protective response	54
Resistance is futile? Mucosal immune mechanisms in the context of microbial ecology and evolution	52
T-helper 22 cells develop as a distinct lineage from Th17 cells during bacterial infection and phenotypic stability is regulated by T-bet	51
Interleukin-10 regulates goblet cell numbers through Notch signaling in the developing zebrafish intestine	50
Orally desensitized mast cells form a regulatory network with Treg cells for the control of food allergy	50

Moving beyond descriptive studies: harnessing metabolomics to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underpinning host-microbiome phenotypes	49
Editorial Board	47
Response to Lauro and Zorzetti	47
Editorial Board	44
Extracellular vesicles of Bacteroides uniformis induce M1 macrophage polarization and aggravate gut inflammation during weaning	43
Macrophages and glia are the dominant P2X7-expressing cell types in the gut nervous system—No evidence for the role of neuronal P2X7 receptors in colitis	41
The IL-25-dependent tuft cell circuit driven by intestinal helminths requires macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF)	40
Herpes stromal keratitis erodes the establishment of tissue-resident memory T cell pool in HSV-1 infected corneas	39
HOIL1 regulates group 2 innate lymphoid cell numbers and type 2 inflammation in the small intestine	38
S100A4 exerts robust mucosal adjuvant activity for co-administered antigens in mice	37
Mucosal immunity to poliovirus	35
Human mucosal tissue-resident memory T cells in health and disease	35
The fellowship of regulatory and tissue-resident memory cells	35