OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Applied Physiology is 28. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Muscle stretching induces the mechanoreflex response in human arterial blood pressure	119
Supporting evidence for an “arterial pump” venous return mechanism in humans	103
Sex-specific maturation of muscle metabolites carnosine, creatine, and carnitine over puberty: a longitudinal follow-up study	86
Fragile bones of elite cyclists: to treat or not to treat?	77
Recruitment order of motor neurons promoted by epidural stimulation in individuals with spinal cord injury	74
Elevations in sweat sodium concentration following ischemia-reperfusion injury during passive heat stress	68
Intravital assessment of precapillary pulmonary arterioles of type 1 diabetic mice shows oxidative damage and increased tone in response to NOS inhibition	60
Remote Ischemic Preconditioning Attenuates Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury Induced Reductions in Vascular Function through Release of Endogenous Opioids	51
The extraction of neural strategies from the surface EMG: 2004–2024	49
Respiratory muscle strength pre- and post-maximal apneas in a world champion breath-hold diver	49
New evidence for baroreflex and respiratory chemoreflex-mediated cerebral sympathetic activation in humans	48
Case Studies in Physiology: Cardiopulmonary exercise testing and inspiratory muscle training in a 59-year-old, 4 years after an extrapleural pneumonectomy	47
Proximal pulmonary arterial remodeling impairs right ventricular-arterial coupling in postcapillary pulmonary hypertension patients	45
Brief exposure to intermittent hypoxia increases erythropoietin levels in older adults	45
Depolarized mitochondrial membrane potential and protection with duroquinone in isolated perfused lungs from rats exposed to hyperoxia	45
Understanding exercise (in)tolerance in sickle cell disease: impacts of hemolysis and exercise training on skeletal muscle oxygen delivery	44
Critical environmental limits for young, healthy adults (PSU HEAT Project)	42
Examining the benefits of cold exposure as a therapeutic strategy for obesity and type 2 diabetes	42
Hemodynamic modeling of the circle of Willis reveals unanticipated functions during cardiovascular stress	39
Reply to Myers and Leprêtre	35
Biomarkers to measure respiratory muscle damage following inspiratory pressure threshold loading in healthy young men	34
Icing after eccentric contraction-induced muscle damage perturbs the disappearance of necrotic muscle fibers and phenotypic dynamics of macrophages in mice	32
Case Studies in Physiology: Is blackout in breath-hold diving related to cardiac arrhythmias?	32
Reproducibility and diurnal variation of the directional sensitivity of the cerebral pressure-flow relationship in men and women	32
Effect of acute heat exposure on the pressor response to a voluntary hypoxic apnea	31

Last Word on Viewpoint: Small airways vs. large airways in asthma: time for a new perspective—Size does not matter: airway interactions determine respiratory dys(function)	30
Complementing sparse vascular imaging data by physiological adaptation rules	29
ATP and acetylcholine interact to modulate vascular tone and α₁-adrenergic vasoconstriction in humans	29
Inspiratory and leg muscle blood flows during inspiratory muscle metaboreflex activation in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction	28
Further theoretical and practical experimentation required for implementing new approaches in cardiac efficiency estimation	28