OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cell Stem Cell is 78. 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Releasing the brake on protein synthesis in hematopoietic stem cells	265
Know thy neighbor: Modeling spatiotemporal cell-fate patterns in a neural stem cell niche	234
Can’t touch this: Stromal-mediated ductal proliferation	216
Human blastoids 3.0	216
Early-career researchers in the time of COVID-19: Adapting to uncertainty	196
Advances and challenges toward developing kidney organoids for clinical applications	195
Breast cancer-on-chip for patient-specific efficacy and safety testing of CAR-T cells	195
New dog, old tricks: Developmental programs resurface in inflammation	189
Introductions to the community: Early-career researchers in the time of COVID-19	186
Cultivating mentorship, cooperation, and community during COVID-19 and beyond	175
Taking Heart Development to the Next Level	173
Successful organoid-mediated generation of iPSC-derived CAR-T cells	169
T cell immunotherapy for cardiac fibrosis: mRNA starts the CAR	169
Introductions to the Community: Early-Career Researchers in the Time of COVID-19	164
Uncovering the origins and lineage markers of human heart fields	150
Direct chemical reprogramming of human cord blood erythroblasts to induced megakaryocytes that produce platelets	148
Oscillation steers differentiation	147
Pancreatic acinar heterogeneity hijacks carcinogenesis and homeostasis	146
Regulation of advanced therapies in Europe: Are we on the right track?	140
Long-term expandable mouse and human-induced nephron progenitor cells enable kidney organoid maturation and modeling of plasticity and disease	139
Human 8-cell-like cells discovered	132
New guidelines for stem cell and embryo research from the ISSCR	132
Computational Stem Cell Biology: Open Questions and Guiding Principles	129
Having a blast(oid): Modeling human embryo peri-implantation development with blastoids	128
Age-dependent instability of mature neuronal fate in induced neurons from Alzheimer’s patients	122

Balancing Scientific Advice with Political Realities during the Campaign to Pass California’s Ballot Proposition 14	122
Human inducible pluripotent stem cells: Realization of initial promise in drug discovery	120
A scalable organoid model of human autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease for disease mechanism and drug discovery	119
Lymphatic endothelia stakeout cryptic stem cells	118
New York Stem Cell Foundation Robertson Investigators	117
Unlocking the secrets of cancer stem cells: Immune checkpoint inhibitors face their formidable foes	114
Alternative splicing of a chromatin modifier alters the transcriptional regulatory programs of stem cell maintenance and neuronal differentiation	113
Addressing challenges for repairing adult spinal cord with insights from neonates	109
Genetic and non-genetic mechanisms of inflammation may promote transformation in leukemia	108
Membrane Tension Locks In Pluripotency	107
Acetate to the rescue: Acetyl-CoA facilitates placental development	106
A deep learning platform to assess drug proarrhythmia risk	106
Incompatibility in cell adhesion constitutes a barrier to interspecies chimerism	105
hPSCs-derived Schwann cells serve for disease modeling and drug discovery	104
Stem cell-based islet replacement therapy in diabetes: A road trip that reached the clinic	104
Genetic reporter for live tracing fluid flow forces during cell fate segregation in mouse blastocyst development	101
Cut out that YAPping: Mechanisms to reduce scar formation	100
Subventricular zone stem cell niche injury is associated with intestinal perforation in preterm infants and predicts future motor impairment	99
The American stem cell sell in 2021: U.S. businesses selling unlicensed and unproven stem cell interventions	98
Development, maturation, and maintenance of human prostate inferred from somatic mutations	98
Regrowing the heart, one TREE at a time	97
Pervasive donor DNA integration defies precision gene editing of hematopoietic stem cells	95
Pandemic city: Village-in-a-dish unlocks dynamic genetic effects in the brain	94
Mobility mediates maturation: Synthetic substrates to enhance neural differentiation	94
Ensemble of old and new techniques escorts ESCs to bona fide embryo-like structures	94
Lamin B1 deletion in myeloid neoplasms causes nuclear anomaly and altered hematopoietic stem cell function	93
Brain organoids restore cortical damage	93
Extra (embryonic) dialogues: Keys to improved stem cell-based embryo models	92
CAR macrophages tuning the immune symphony of anti-cancer therapies	91
Growth Competition in Interspecies Chimeras: A New Paradigm for Blastocyst Complementation	91
Exercise-induced Musclin determines the fate of fibro-adipogenic progenitors to control muscle homeostasis	90
A cis-acting structural variation at the ZNF558 locus controls a gene regulatory network in human brain development	90
Declining lamin B1 expression mediates age-dependent decreases of hippocampal stem cell activity	90
A mechanical niche promotes the rejuvenation of blood stem cells	89
Generation of hypothalamic arcuate organoids from human induced pluripotent stem cells	89
Lysosomal Regulation of Metabolism in Quiescent Hematopoietic Stem Cells: More than Just Autophagy	87
New readers and writers of RNA modifications unique to leukemia stem cells	86
New monkey embryo models—it’s getting complicated	86
Generation of a humanized mesonephros in pigs from induced pluripotent stem cells via embryo complementation	86
TFEB-mediated endolysosomal activity controls human hematopoietic stem cell fate	85
Matters arising: Insufficient evidence that pancreatic β cells are derived from adult ductal Neurog3-expressing progenitors	85
Prolonged 3D culture unlocks black box of primate embryogenesis	85
Endothelium-derived stromal cells contribute to hematopoietic bone marrow niche formation	83
A distinct metabolic and epigenetic state drives trained immunity in HSC-derived macrophages from autoimmune mice	82
Synthetic immune checkpoint engagers protect HLA-deficient iPSCs and derivatives from innate immune cell cytotoxicity	82
Hematopoietic Stem Cell-Targeted Gene-Addition and Gene-Editing Strategies for β-hemoglobinopathies	82
A one-way street recognition approach to mediate allogeneic immune cell therapies	82
Bioengineered human colon organoids with in vivo-like cellular complexity and function	81
Integrated single-cell analysis defines the epigenetic basis of castration-resistant prostate luminal cells	79
Mini-colons predict drug toxicity in vitro	79

Lgr6 marks epidermal stem cells with a nerve-dependent role in wound re-epithelialization	78
Vascular architecture regulates mesenchymal stromal cell heterogeneity via P53-PDGF signaling in the mouse incisor	78
Microvessels support engraftment and functionality of human islets and hESC-derived pancreatic progenitors in diabetes models	78
Selective antisense oligonucleotide inhibition of human IRF4 prevents malignant myeloma regeneration via cell cycle disruption	78