OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Stem Cell Reports is 35. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
A versatile in vivo platform for reversible control of transgene expression in adult tissues	204
Genome-wide analyses reveal the detrimental impacts of SARS-CoV-2 viral gene Orf9c on human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes	114
Deriving waveform parameters from calcium transients in human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes to predict cardiac activity with machine learning	106
Ribosomal proteins regulate 2-cell-stage transcriptome in mouse embryonic stem cells	86
Pen-2 regulates glial homeostasis by coordinating self-renewal and transdifferentiation programs in oligodendrocyte precursor cells	76
Expanding homogeneous culture of human primordial germ cell-like cells maintaining germline features without serum or feeder layers	74
Effect of Notch1 signaling on muscle engraftment and maturation from pluripotent stem cells	66
MSCohi-O lenses for long-term retention of mesenchymal stem cells on ocular surface as a therapeutic approach for chronic ocular graft-versus-host disease	63
USP7 inactivation suppresses APC-mutant intestinal hyperproliferation and tumor development	63
Familial Alzheimer’s disease-associated PSEN1 mutations affect neurodevelopment through increased Notch signaling	56
Reconstruction of dynamic regulatory networks reveals signaling-induced topology changes associated with germ layer specification	56
Dissecting the impact of differentiation stage, replicative history, and cell type composition on epigenetic clocks	55
Silencing of p53 and CDKN1A establishes sustainable immortalized megakaryocyte progenitor cells from human iPSCs	55
Stem cells in your YouTube feed: The complex landscape and unexpected mediators of online information	52
YAP signaling in horizontal basal cells promotes the regeneration of olfactory epithelium after injury	51
Human iPSC-Derived Hippocampal Spheroids: An Innovative Tool for Stratifying Alzheimer Disease Patient-Specific Cellular Phenotypes and Developing Therapies	49
Connie Eaves (1944–2024)	48
IL-18R-mediated HSC quiescence and MLKL-dependent cell death limit hematopoiesis during infection-induced shock	43
Differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells to authentic macrophages using a defined, serum-free, open-source medium	42
Complex haploinsufficiency in pluripotent cells yields somatic cells with DNA methylation abnormalities and pluripotency induction defects	42
H1FOO-DD promotes efficiency and uniformity in reprogramming to naive pluripotency	42
Functionally redundant roles of ID family proteins in spermatogonial stem cells	42
In and out: Benchmarking in vitro, in vivo, ex vivo, and xenografting approaches for an integrative brain disease modeling pipeline	41
Differentiation success of reprogrammed cells is heterogeneous in vivo and modulated by somatic cell identity memory	40
Discovery of NANOG enhancers and their essential roles in self-renewal and differentiation in human embryonic stem cells	40

Human spinal GABA neurons survive and mature in the injured nonhuman primate spinal cord	39
Single-cell characterization of neovascularization using hiPSC-derived endothelial cells in a 3D microenvironment	39
Single-cell approaches define two groups of mammalian oligodendrocyte precursor cells and their evolution over developmental time	39
A novel paradigm for single-cell annotation in stem cell research	38
Bone morphogenetic protein 4 induces hematopoietic stem cell development from murine hemogenic endothelial cells in culture	37
Stabilization of cell-cell adhesions prevents symmetry breaking and locks in pluripotency in 3D gastruloids	37
Plasticity of ocular surface epithelia: Using a murine model of limbal stem cell deficiency to delineate metaplasia and transdifferentiation	37
GP2-enriched pancreatic progenitors give rise to functional beta cells in vivo and eliminate the risk of teratoma formation	37
Single-cell transcriptomics reveals correct developmental dynamics and high-quality midbrain cell types by improved hESC differentiation	36
DOT1L regulates lung developmental epithelial cell fate and adult alveolar stem cell differentiation after acute injury	35
Gains of 20q11.21 in human pluripotent stem cells: Insights from cancer research	35
Upregulation of the JAK-STAT pathway promotes maturation of human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes	35