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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Conserved role of the urotensin II receptor 4 signalling pathway to control body straightness in a tetrapod	133
A short perinuclear amphipathic α-helix in Apq12 promotes nuclear pore complex biogenesis	101
MYH7 R453C induced cardiac remodelling via activating TGF-β/Smad2/3, ERK1/2 and Nox4/ROS/NF-κB signalling pathways	99
Cosegregation of asymmetric features during cell division	77
Nutrient-sensitive protein O-GlcNAcylation shapes daily biological rhythms	73
Correction to: ‘Unravelling nicotinic receptor and ligand features underlying neonicotinoid knockdown actions on the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae ’ (2024),	69
Visualization of sympathetic neural innervation in human white adipose tissue	63
Into the second decade	48
Decoding life's inner workings: advances in quantitative bioimaging	47
Retraction: ‘HOXD-AS1 confers cisplatin resistance in gastric cancer through epigenetically silencing PDCD4 via recruiting EZH2’ (2019), by Ye et al.	47
Comparative mitogenomic analysis and phylogeny of Veneridae with doubly uniparental inheritance	44
Limitations of sequence dissimilarity as a predictor of prokaryotic lineage	43
Intrinsically disordered proteins: modes of binding with emphasis on disordered domains	41
RNF4 and USP7 cooperate in ubiquitin-regulated steps of DNA replication	41
Oxidized phospholipid damage signals as modulators of immunity	40
Class II transactivator induces expression of MHC-I and MHC-II in transmissible Tasmanian devil facial tumours	39
Risk factors for severe COVID-19 disease increase SARS-CoV-2 infectivity of endothelial cells and pericytes	38
Can calmodulin bind to lipids of the cytosolic leaflet of plasma membranes?	37
SID-2 is a conserved extracellular vesicle protein that is not associated with environmental RNAi in parasitic nematodes	36
From the divergence of senescent cell fates to mechanisms and selectivity of senolytic drugs	36
Integrative analysis of genomic and transcriptomic alterations of AGR2 and AGR3 in cancer	36
Pleiotropic effects on proliferation and mineralization of primary human adipose tissue-derived stromal cells induced by simvastatin	35
Primary brain cell infection by Toxoplasma gondii reveals the extent and dynamics of parasite differentiation and its impact on neuron biology	35
Transiently restricting individual amino acids protects Drosophila melanogaster against multiple stressors	34
SLMAP3 is crucial for organogenesis through mechanisms involving primary cilia formation	33

Identification and characterization of host miRNAs that target the mouse mammary tumour virus (MMTV) genome	32
Modelling T-cell immunity against hepatitis C virus with liver organoids in a microfluidic coculture system	32
NDUFS3 knockout cancer cells and molecular docking reveal specificity and mode of action of anti-cancer respiratory complex I inhibitors	31
Complement receptor 3-dependent engagement by Candida glabrata β-glucan modulates dendritic cells to induce regulatory T-cell expansion	31
The first genetic engineered system for ovothiol biosynthesis in diatoms reveals a mitochondrial localization for the sulfoxide synthase OvoA	31
Every good biologist deserves favour	30
Min oscillations in bacteria as real-time reporter of environmental challenges at the single-cell level	30
Essential roles of the nucleolus during early embryonic development: a regulatory hub for chromatin organization	30