OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Open Biology is 30. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Development and repair of blood vessels in the zebrafish spinal cord	123
Killing the competition: a theoretical framework for liver-stage malaria	123
The role of KLF4 in human primordial germ cell development	89
Ghrelin octanoylation by ghrelinO-acyltransferase: protein acylation impacting metabolic and neuroendocrine signalling	80
Complex regulatory role of DNA methylation in caste- and age-specific expression of a termite	72
Exploring differential exon usage via short- and long-read RNA sequencing strategies	68
Visualization of sympathetic neural innervation in human white adipose tissue	57
Comparative transcriptome analysis and CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing reveal that E4BP4 mediates lithium upregulation of Per2 expression	57
ANGPTL8 in metabolic homeostasis: more friend than foe?	54
POU-M2 promotes juvenile hormone biosynthesis by directly activating the transcription of juvenile hormone synthetic enzyme genes in Bombyx mori	53
Structural and functional insights into the C-terminal signal domain of the Bacteroidetes type-IX secretion system	50
A centriole's subdistal appendages: contributions to cell division, ciliogenesis and differentiation	50
Recent progress in dendritic pruning of Drosophila C4da sensory neurons	46
A TOR (target of rapamycin) and nutritional phosphoproteome of fission yeast reveals novel targets in networks conserved in humans	45
The closest lineage of Archaeplastida is revealed by phylogenomics analyses that include Microheliella maris	44
Mapping of a N-terminal α-helix domain required for human PINK1 stabilization, Serine228 autophosphorylation and activation in cells	40
Daughter centrioles assemble preferentially towards the nuclear envelope in Drosophila syncytial embryos	38
Conserved role of the urotensin II receptor 4 signalling pathway to control body straightness in a tetrapod	37
Fly Fam161 is an essential centriole and cilium transition zone protein with unique and diverse cell type-specific localizations	37
Regulation of transforming growth factor-β signalling by SUMOylation and its role in fibrosis	34
Optogenetically engineered calcium oscillations promote autophagy-mediated cell death via AMPK activation	34
Structural insights into a regulatory mechanism of FIR RRM1–FUSE interaction	34
Into the second decade	34
Cosegregation of asymmetric features during cell division	34
Mapping combinatorial expression of non-clustered protocadherins in the developing brain identifies novel PCDH19-mediated cell adhesion properties	33

Spatial positioning of preimplantation mouse embryo cells is regulated by mTORC1 and m ⁷ G-cap-dependent translation at the 8- to 16-cell transition	33
A large panel of chicken cells are invaded in vivo by Salmonella Typhimurium even when depleted of all known invasion factors	31
The role of cilia during organogenesis in zebrafish	31
Differential gene expression underpinning the production of distinct sperm morphs in the wax moth Galleria mellonella	31
Decoding life's inner workings: advances in quantitative bioimaging	30