OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Pathology Clinical Research is 7. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Adult‐type granulosa cell tumor of the ovary: a FOXL2‐centric disease	30
DNA methylation‐based profiling of bone and soft tissue tumours: a validation study of the ‘DKFZ Sarcoma Classifier’	29
Higher prevalence of pulmonary macrothrombi in SARS‐CoV‐2 than in influenza A: autopsy results from ‘Spanish flu’ 1918/1919 in Switzerland to Coronavirus disease 2019	27
Characterisation of cardiac pathology in 23 autopsies of lethalCOVID‐19	26
Preoperative systemic chemotherapy alters the histopathological growth patterns of colorectal liver metastases	26
Inter‐observer agreement for the histological diagnosis of invasive lobular breast carcinoma	26
Spatial analysis of tumor‐infiltrating lymphocytes in histological sections using deep learning techniques predicts survival in colorectal carcinoma	25
Detection of tumor‐derived cell‐free DNA from colorectal cancer peritoneal metastases in plasma and peritoneal fluid	23
Relationship between immune checkpoint proteins, tumour microenvironment characteristics, and prognosis in primary operable colorectal cancer	23
Variability in grading of ductal carcinoma in situ among an international group of pathologists	22
Semantic annotation for computational pathology: multidisciplinary experience and best practice recommendations	22
Expression of proteins associated with the Warburg‐effect and survival in colorectal cancer	21
The epithelial–mesenchymal transition regulators Twist, Slug, and Snail are associated with aggressive tumour features and poor outcome in prostate cancer patients	21
Practical considerations for optimising homologous recombination repair mutation testing in patients with metastatic prostate cancer	21
Selection of endometrial carcinomas for p53 immunohistochemistry based on nuclear features	20
Identification of NTRK gene fusions in lung adenocarcinomas in the Chinese population	20
The ethical challenges of artificial intelligence‐driven digital pathology	19
Explainability and causability in digital pathology	19
Immune cell infiltrates as prognostic biomarkers in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	18
Homologous recombination deficiency is inversely correlated with microsatellite instability and identifies immunologically cold tumors in most cancer types	17
Quick Annotator: an open‐source digital pathology based rapid image annotation tool	16
More than just acral melanoma: the controversies of defining the disease	15
TFE3 activation in a TSC1‐altered malignant PEComa: challenging the dichotomy of the underlying pathogenic mechanisms	15
Reliable computational quantification of liver fibrosis is compromised by inherent staining variation	14
Dysbalance of ACE2 levels – a possible cause for severe COVID‐19 outcome in COPD	14

Analysis of a novel immune checkpoint, Siglec‐15, in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma	14
The prognostic marker elastin correlates with epithelial–mesenchymal transition and vimentin‐positive fibroblasts in gastric cancer	13
Prognostic value of patient‐derived xenograft engraftment in pediatric sarcomas	13
KLF2 inhibits colorectal cancer progression and metastasis by inducing ferroptosis via the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway	13
Tertiary lymphoid structures favor outcome in resected esophageal squamous cell carcinoma	13
PD‐L1 and PD‐L2 expression in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and their correlation with immune infiltrates and DNA damage response molecules	12
Pattern of placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) expression in human tumors: a tissue microarray study on 12,381 tumors	12
Diagnostic and prognostic implications of a three‐antibody molecular subtyping algorithm for non‐muscle invasive bladder cancer	12
MYC amplifications are common events in childhood osteosarcoma	12
Intra‐ and extra‐cranial BCOR‐ITD tumours are separate entities within the BCOR‐rearranged family	12
CD24 is a surrogate for ‘immune‐cold’ phenotype in aggressive large B‐cell lymphoma	12
Papillary thyroid carcinoma tall cell variant shares accumulation of mitochondria, mitochondrial DNA mutations, and loss of oxidative phosphorylation complex I integrity with oncocytic tumors	11
The presence of tumour‐infiltrating neutrophils is an independent adverse prognostic feature in clear cell renal cell carcinoma	11
Understanding the ethical and legal considerations of Digital Pathology	11
pTDP‐43 aggregates accumulate in non‐central nervous system tissues prior to symptom onset in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a case series linking archival surgical biopsies with clinical p	11
A combination of stromal PD‐L1 and tumoral nuclear β‐catenin expression as an indicator of colorectal carcinoma progression and resistance to chemoradiotherapy in locally advanced rectal ca	10
Malignant transformation of salivary gland pleomorphic adenoma: proof of principle	10
Prognostic value of absolute quantification of mutated KRAS in circulating tumour DNA in lung adenocarcinoma patients prior to therapy	10
Morphological, immunohistochemical, and genetic analyses of bronchiolar adenoma and its putative variants	10
KRAS mutations and endometriosis burden of disease	9
A distinct repertoire of cancer‐associated fibroblasts is enriched in cribriform prostate cancer	9
p53 and ovarian carcinoma survival: an Ovarian Tumor Tissue Analysis consortium study	9
Tumor‐associated lymphocytes and macrophages are related to stromal elastosis and vascular invasion in breast cancer	9
Colonic epithelial cathelicidin (LL‐37) expression intensity is associated with progression of colorectal cancer and presence of CD8⁺ T cell infiltrate	9
Tumor‐associated macrophages and risk of recurrence in stage III colorectal cancer	9
A series of COVID‐19 autopsies with clinical and pathologic comparisons to both seasonal and pandemic influenza	8
Characterizing the tumor microenvironment in rare renal cancer histological types	8
The prostate tissue‐based telomere biomarker as a prognostic tool for metastasis and death from prostate cancer after prostatectomy	8
STING pathway expression in low‐grade serous carcinoma of the ovary: an unexpected therapeutic opportunity?	8
Optimization of deep learning models for the prediction of gene mutations using unsupervised clustering	8
Deep learning‐based image analysis reveals significant differences in the number and distribution of mucosal CD3 and γδ T cells between Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis	7
Somatic intronic TP53 c.375+5G mutations are a recurrent but under‐recognized mode of TP53 inactivation	7
Overactivation of the IGF signalling pathway in osteosarcoma: a potential therapeutic target?	7
Clinicopathological characteristics of Epstein–Barr virus and microsatellite instability subtypes of early gastric neoplasms classified by the Japanese and the World Health Organization cri	7