OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Applied Physiology is 33. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
High-glycemic index meal acutely potentiates blood pressure response to static handgrip exercise in healthy humans	130
The effect of increasing work rate amplitudes from a common metabolic baseline on the kinetic response of V̇o_2p, blood flow, and muscle deoxygenation	126
Effect of acute heat exposure on the pressor response to a voluntary hypoxic apnea	95
Renal vascular conductance is unrelated to leg vascular conductance or muscle sympathetic nerve activity at rest and during stress in humans	87
Tramadol is a performance-enhancing drug in highly trained cyclists: a randomized controlled trial	73
Respiratory and chest wall mechanics in very preterm infants	67
Biological sex does not independently influence core temperature change and sweating of children exercising in uncompensable heat stress	63
The physiological effects of creatine supplementation in fetal sheep before, during, and after umbilical cord occlusion and global hypoxia	60
Comparison of analysis strategies to assess sex differences in microvascular reperfusion using near-infrared spectroscopy	60
Sex-specific maturation of muscle metabolites carnosine, creatine, and carnitine over puberty: a longitudinal follow-up study	59
GABA_A receptor activation modulates the muscle sympathetic nerve activity responses at the onset of static exercise in humans	55
Exercise effects on γ3-AMPK activity, Akt substrate of 160 kDa phosphorylation, and glucose uptake in muscle of normal and insulin-resistant female rats	54
CORP: Gene delivery into murine skeletal muscle using in vivo electroporation	54
Diaphragm muscle function in a mouse model of early-onset spasticity	50
The effect of trunk position and pain location on lumbar extensor muscle recruitment strategies	49
Proximal pulmonary arterial remodeling impairs right ventricular-arterial coupling in postcapillary pulmonary hypertension patients	47
Let’s talk about sex, let’s talk about pulsatility, let’s talk about all the good things and the bad things of MCAv	43
Influence of the fitting window on the O₂ uptake kinetics at the onset of moderate intensity exercise	42
Reply to Grassi and Quaresima	37
Commentaries on Viewpoint: Using V̇o_2max as a marker of training status in athletes – can we do better?	37
Fragile bones of elite cyclists: to treat or not to treat?	37
To grant you an edge. Part 3. Considerations for writing competitive research career development proposals in the biomedical sciences	37
Small airways vs large airways in asthma: time for a new perspective	36
Corrigendum for Rosenberg et al., volume 130, 2021, p. 1786–1797	36
Peripheral hypercapnic chemosensitivity at rest and progressive exercise intensities in males and females	35

A small (but interesting) “trans-Atlantic acid-base debate”	35
Structure-function in smokers: when a small airways test really reflects the small airways	35
Cognitive performance is lower among individuals with overlap syndrome than in individuals with COPD or obstructive sleep apnea alone: association with carotid artery stiffness	34
Short bouts of hypoxia improve insulin sensitivity in adults with type 2 diabetes	34
Blood pressure in human large cerebral arteries: a feasibility study	34
Ventilation-perfusion inequality in COVID-19 pneumonia	33
Intralaryngeal application of ATP evokes apneic response mainly via acting on P2X3 (P2X2/3) receptors of the superior laryngeal nerve in postnatal rats	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	33
Icing after eccentric contraction-induced muscle damage perturbs the disappearance of necrotic muscle fibers and phenotypic dynamics of macrophages in mice	33