OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Kidney International is 62. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Journal Club	1276
Phosphate meeting cholesterol—consequences for cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease?	1099
Function follows form: the quest for the best prognostic imaging biomarker in ADPKD	647
Editorial Board	541
A pig kidney supporting human physiology	320
Subscription Information	310
In this issue	273
Editorial Board	217
Editorial Board	182
Challenges in the development of novel methodologies for measuring glomerular filtration rate	169
Gene editing: a near future for the treatment of genetic kidney diseases	159
In This Issue	156
Table of Contents	150
Subscription Information	145
Taking the A(llorecognition) train: connecting passenger T cells to DSA	134
Blood pressure adaptation in vertebrates: comparative biology	130
Misuse of the Cox proportional hazards model and alternative approaches in kidney outcome research	125
Kidney supportive care: every nephrologist’s business	123
New advances in endocrine hypertension: from genes to biomarkers	121
Proximal-tubule molecular relay from early Protein diaphanous homolog 1 to late Rho-associated protein kinase 1 regulates kidney function in obesity-induced kidney damage	121
Trans-ethnic genome-wide association study of blood metabolites in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) study	111
Including APOL1 alleles and ancestry adjustments improve a genome-wide polygenic CKD score	109
Enhancing kidney organoid maturity with inducible vascularization: another step forward for in vitro modeling	109
A case of ANCA-associated vasculitis after AZD1222 (Oxford–AstraZeneca) SARS-CoV-2 vaccination: casualty or causality?	107
Identification of the gut microbial enzyme turning the urine yellow	106

A single approach to targeting transferrin receptor 2 corrects iron and erythropoietic defects in murine models of anemia of inflammation and chronic kidney disease	103
Dysfunction of the circadian clock in the kidney tubule leads to enhanced kidney gluconeogenesis and exacerbated hyperglycemia in diabetes	102
Rationale and design of the Nephrotic Syndrome Study Network (NEPTUNE) Match in glomerular diseases: designing the right trial for the right patient, today	102
Unexpected metabolic effects of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors	100
Kidney protective mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors: evidence for a hemodynamic effect	94
Glomerular-tubular crosstalk via cold shock Y-box binding protein-1 in the kidney	94
Improving frozen section evaluation of procurement donor kidney biopsies and reducing the discard rate: a promising role for artificial intelligence	93
Seeing through the density of dense deposit disease	92
The Case \| Euglycemic ketoacidosis in a patient on continuous renal replacement therapy	87
On the relevance of thrombomodulin variants in atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome	86
Should we consider calcimimetics as a therapeutic option for nephrotic syndrome?	85
Monoclonal immunoglobulin crystalline nephropathies	78
Thirsty encounters of the third kind	76
Unlocking the full potential of human pluripotent stem cell–derived kidney organoids through bioengineering	75
Antibody and T-cell response to a third dose of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA BNT162b2 vaccine in kidney transplant recipients	75
Endothelial but not systemic ferroptosis inhibition protects from antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody–induced crescentic glomerulonephritis	75
Caloric restriction reduces the pro-inflammatory eicosanoid 20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid to protect from acute kidney injury	74
Women and kidney health: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference	72
Epigenetic alterations and memory: key players in the development/progression of chronic kidney disease promoted by acute kidney injury and diabetes	72
Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin is elevated in children with acute kidney injury and sickle cell anemia, and predicts mortality	72
Multi-omics and imaging mass cytometry characterization of human kidneys to identify pathways and phenotypes associated with impaired kidney function	72
Ttc21b deficiency attenuates autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease in a kidney tubular- and maturation-dependent manner	71
The authors reply	69
Cinacalcet in focal segmental glomerular sclerosis: a case report	69
Editorial Board	69
Response to the commentary “Modeling pulse wave velocity trajectories—challenges, opportunities, and pitfalls”	68
Editorial Board	68
Subscription Information	66
In This Issue	66
in this issue	65
Mutations in tumor suppressor genes Vhl and Rassf1a cause DNA damage, chromosomal instability and induce gene expression changes characteristic of clear cell renal cell carcinoma	64
Editorial Board	64
Unexpected cause of vemurafenib-induced nephrotoxicity: ferrochelatase	63
Mitochondrial ROS connects P2X7-mediated Ca2+ influx with IL-1α release by monocytes upon chronic tissue damage	63
AI applications in renal pathology	63
First do no harm: systemic glucocorticoids should not be used for the treatment of progressive IgA nephropathy	63
Urine: from waste to fertilizer	62
The Case \| A patient with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease with an atypical kidney magnetic resonance image	62
Immunoaging within the kidney via injury-associated tertiary lymphoid tissue	62