OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Open Biology is 29. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Oxidized phospholipid damage signals as modulators of immunity	166
Autophagy: a novel target in order to overcome drug resistance in pancreatic adenocarcinoma	114
A short perinuclear amphipathic α-helix in Apq12 promotes nuclear pore complex biogenesis	79
Retraction: ‘HOXD-AS1 confers cisplatin resistance in gastric cancer through epigenetically silencing PDCD4 via recruiting EZH2’ (2019), by Ye et al.	71
Decoding life's inner workings: advances in quantitative bioimaging	55
Limitations of sequence dissimilarity as a predictor of prokaryotic lineage	50
Into the second decade	47
Correction to: ‘Unravelling nicotinic receptor and ligand features underlying neonicotinoid knockdown actions on the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae ’ (2024),	44
Comparative mitogenomic analysis and phylogeny of Veneridae with doubly uniparental inheritance	43
Visualization of sympathetic neural innervation in human white adipose tissue	43
MYH7 R453C induced cardiac remodelling via activating TGF-β/Smad2/3, ERK1/2 and Nox4/ROS/NF-κB signalling pathways	43
RNF4 and USP7 cooperate in ubiquitin-regulated steps of DNA replication	42
Nutrient-sensitive protein O-GlcNAcylation shapes daily biological rhythms	39
Can calmodulin bind to lipids of the cytosolic leaflet of plasma membranes?	38
Class II transactivator induces expression of MHC-I and MHC-II in transmissible Tasmanian devil facial tumours	38
Integrative analysis of genomic and transcriptomic alterations of AGR2 and AGR3 in cancer	37
Identification and characterization of host miRNAs that target the mouse mammary tumour virus (MMTV) genome	36
SLMAP3 is crucial for organogenesis through mechanisms involving primary cilia formation	36
Risk factors for severe COVID-19 disease increase SARS-CoV-2 infectivity of endothelial cells and pericytes	36
A new view of axon growth and guidance grounded in the stochastic dynamics of actin networks	35
Retraction: ‘Long non-coding RNA LINC00152 promotes gallbladder cancer metastasis and epithelial-mesenchymal transition by regulating HIF-1α via miR-138’	35
Every good biologist deserves favour	35
Min oscillations in bacteria as real-time reporter of environmental challenges at the single-cell level	34
NDUFS3 knockout cancer cells and molecular docking reveal specificity and mode of action of anti-cancer respiratory complex I inhibitors	33
Transiently restricting individual amino acids protects Drosophila melanogaster against multiple stressors	33

From the divergence of senescent cell fates to mechanisms and selectivity of senolytic drugs	33
The first genetic engineered system for ovothiol biosynthesis in diatoms reveals a mitochondrial localization for the sulfoxide synthase OvoA	32
Essential roles of the nucleolus during early embryonic development: a regulatory hub for chromatin organization	31
Complement receptor 3-dependent engagement by Candida glabrata β-glucan modulates dendritic cells to induce regulatory T-cell expansion	30
SID-2 is a conserved extracellular vesicle protein that is not associated with environmental RNAi in parasitic nematodes	29