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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Into the second decade	137
Class II transactivator induces expression of MHC-I and MHC-II in transmissible Tasmanian devil facial tumours	103
Decoding life's inner workings: advances in quantitative bioimaging	89
A short perinuclear amphipathic α-helix in Apq12 promotes nuclear pore complex biogenesis	88
Cosegregation of asymmetric features during cell division	70
Retraction: ‘HOXD-AS1 confers cisplatin resistance in gastric cancer through epigenetically silencing PDCD4 via recruiting EZH2’ (2019), by Ye et al.	67
Limitations of sequence dissimilarity as a predictor of prokaryotic lineage	67
MYH7 R453C induced cardiac remodelling via activating TGF-β/Smad2/3, ERK1/2 and Nox4/ROS/NF-κB signalling pathways	64
Conserved role of the urotensin II receptor 4 signalling pathway to control body straightness in a tetrapod	57
Comparative mitogenomic analysis and phylogeny of Veneridae with doubly uniparental inheritance	56
Nutrient-sensitive protein O-GlcNAcylation shapes daily biological rhythms	51
RNF4 and USP7 cooperate in ubiquitin-regulated steps of DNA replication	49
Visualization of sympathetic neural innervation in human white adipose tissue	44
Correction to: ‘Unravelling nicotinic receptor and ligand features underlying neonicotinoid knockdown actions on the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae ’ (2024),	42
Intrinsically disordered proteins: modes of binding with emphasis on disordered domains	42
Risk factors for severe COVID-19 disease increase SARS-CoV-2 infectivity of endothelial cells and pericytes	40
Palbociclib-mediated cell cycle arrest can occur in the absence of the CDK inhibitors p21 and p27	38
Integrative analysis of genomic and transcriptomic alterations of AGR2 and AGR3 in cancer	38
A new view of axon growth and guidance grounded in the stochastic dynamics of actin networks	38
Transiently restricting individual amino acids protects Drosophila melanogaster against multiple stressors	36
The tumour suppressor brain tumour (Brat) regulates linker histone dBigH1 expression in the Drosophila female germline and the early embryo	35
Essential roles of the nucleolus during early embryonic development: a regulatory hub for chromatin organization	35
Primary brain cell infection by Toxoplasma gondii reveals the extent and dynamics of parasite differentiation and its impact on neuron biology	34
Every good biologist deserves favour	33
Retraction: ‘Long non-coding RNA LINC00152 promotes gallbladder cancer metastasis and epithelial-mesenchymal transition by regulating HIF-1α via miR-138’	33

From the divergence of senescent cell fates to mechanisms and selectivity of senolytic drugs	33
Complement receptor 3-dependent engagement by Candida glabrata β-glucan modulates dendritic cells to induce regulatory T-cell expansion	32
The first genetic engineered system for ovothiol biosynthesis in diatoms reveals a mitochondrial localization for the sulfoxide synthase OvoA	32
Min oscillations in bacteria as real-time reporter of environmental challenges at the single-cell level	31
SID-2 is a conserved extracellular vesicle protein that is not associated with environmental RNAi in parasitic nematodes	31
NDUFS3 knockout cancer cells and molecular docking reveal specificity and mode of action of anti-cancer respiratory complex I inhibitors	30
Pleiotropic effects on proliferation and mineralization of primary human adipose tissue-derived stromal cells induced by simvastatin	30
Can calmodulin bind to lipids of the cytosolic leaflet of plasma membranes?	30