OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Applied Physiology 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
High-glycemic index meal acutely potentiates blood pressure response to static handgrip exercise in healthy humans	143
Effect of acute heat exposure on the pressor response to a voluntary hypoxic apnea	108
Tramadol is a performance-enhancing drug in highly trained cyclists: a randomized controlled trial	89
GABA_A receptor activation modulates the muscle sympathetic nerve activity responses at the onset of static exercise in humans	75
Biological sex does not independently influence core temperature change and sweating of children exercising in uncompensable heat stress	75
Commentaries on Viewpoint: Using V̇o_2max as a marker of training status in athletes – can we do better?	72
Corrigendum for Rosenberg et al., volume 130, 2021, p. 1786–1797	61
Blood pressure in human large cerebral arteries: a feasibility study	57
Respiratory and chest wall mechanics in very preterm infants	48
The effect of trunk position and pain location on lumbar extensor muscle recruitment strategies	47
The effect of increasing work rate amplitudes from a common metabolic baseline on the kinetic response of V̇o_2p, blood flow, and muscle deoxygenation	44
Comparison of analysis strategies to assess sex differences in microvascular reperfusion using near-infrared spectroscopy	44
Short bouts of hypoxia improve insulin sensitivity in adults with type 2 diabetes	42
A small (but interesting) “trans-Atlantic acid-base debate”	41
Proximal pulmonary arterial remodeling impairs right ventricular-arterial coupling in postcapillary pulmonary hypertension patients	40
Reply to Grassi and Quaresima	38
Structure-function in smokers: when a small airways test really reflects the small airways	37
Influence of the fitting window on the O₂ uptake kinetics at the onset of moderate intensity exercise	37
To grant you an edge. Part 3. Considerations for writing competitive research career development proposals in the biomedical sciences	36
The physiological effects of creatine supplementation in fetal sheep before, during, and after umbilical cord occlusion and global hypoxia	36
Renal vascular conductance is unrelated to leg vascular conductance or muscle sympathetic nerve activity at rest and during stress in humans	35
Sex-specific maturation of muscle metabolites carnosine, creatine, and carnitine over puberty: a longitudinal follow-up study	33
Muscle stretching induces the mechanoreflex response in human arterial blood pressure	33
Physiological impacts of computed tomography airway dysanapsis, fractal dimension, and branch count in asymptomatic never smokers	32
CORP: Gene delivery into murine skeletal muscle using in vivo electroporation	31

Small airways vs large airways in asthma: time for a new perspective	30
Intralaryngeal application of ATP evokes apneic response mainly via acting on P2X3 (P2X2/3) receptors of the superior laryngeal nerve in postnatal rats	30
Exercise effects on γ3-AMPK activity, Akt substrate of 160 kDa phosphorylation, and glucose uptake in muscle of normal and insulin-resistant female rats	30
Peripheral hypercapnic chemosensitivity at rest and progressive exercise intensities in males and females	29
Diaphragm muscle function in a mouse model of early-onset spasticity	29