OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Kidney International is 59. 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
Journal Club	1540
Function follows form: the quest for the best prognostic imaging biomarker in ADPKD	1399
Editorial Board	738
A pig kidney supporting human physiology	586
Subscription Information	373
In this issue	351
Editorial Board	245
Editorial Board	206
Challenges in the development of novel methodologies for measuring glomerular filtration rate	190
Gene editing: a near future for the treatment of genetic kidney diseases	179
In This Issue	177
Table of Contents	157
Subscription Information	142
Taking the A(llorecognition) train: connecting passenger T cells to DSA	136
Misuse of the Cox proportional hazards model and alternative approaches in kidney outcome research	135
Endothelial but not systemic ferroptosis inhibition protects from antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody–induced crescentic glomerulonephritis	129
in this issue	126
Thirsty encounters of the third kind	123
Blood pressure adaptation in vertebrates: comparative biology	119
New advances in endocrine hypertension: from genes to biomarkers	116
Enhancing kidney organoid maturity with inducible vascularization: another step forward for in vitro modeling	113
Unlocking the full potential of human pluripotent stem cell–derived kidney organoids through bioengineering	103
Monoclonal immunoglobulin crystalline nephropathies	100
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	95
Identification of the gut microbial enzyme turning the urine yellow	86

Improving frozen section evaluation of procurement donor kidney biopsies and reducing the discard rate: a promising role for artificial intelligence	83
A single approach to targeting transferrin receptor 2 corrects iron and erythropoietic defects in murine models of anemia of inflammation and chronic kidney disease	82
Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin is elevated in children with acute kidney injury and sickle cell anemia, and predicts mortality	81
Antibody and T-cell response to a third dose of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA BNT162b2 vaccine in kidney transplant recipients	80
Unexpected metabolic effects of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors	79
Glomerular-tubular crosstalk via cold shock Y-box binding protein-1 in the kidney	79
Seeing through the density of dense deposit disease	77
Should we consider calcimimetics as a therapeutic option for nephrotic syndrome?	76
On the relevance of thrombomodulin variants in atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome	76
Rationale and design of the Nephrotic Syndrome Study Network (NEPTUNE) Match in glomerular diseases: designing the right trial for the right patient, today	75
Women and kidney health: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference	75
Including APOL1 alleles and ancestry adjustments improve a genome-wide polygenic CKD score	73
Trans-ethnic genome-wide association study of blood metabolites in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) study	73
Epigenetic alterations and memory: key players in the development/progression of chronic kidney disease promoted by acute kidney injury and diabetes	71
Ttc21b deficiency attenuates autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease in a kidney tubular- and maturation-dependent manner	71
A case of ANCA-associated vasculitis after AZD1222 (Oxford–AstraZeneca) SARS-CoV-2 vaccination: casualty or causality?	70
Kidney supportive care: every nephrologist’s business	69
Caloric restriction reduces the pro-inflammatory eicosanoid 20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid to protect from acute kidney injury	69
Kidney protective mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors: evidence for a hemodynamic effect	68
Multi-omics and imaging mass cytometry characterization of human kidneys to identify pathways and phenotypes associated with impaired kidney function	68
Dysfunction of the circadian clock in the kidney tubule leads to enhanced kidney gluconeogenesis and exacerbated hyperglycemia in diabetes	68
The authors reply	66
Response to the commentary “Modeling pulse wave velocity trajectories—challenges, opportunities, and pitfalls”	65
Cinacalcet in focal segmental glomerular sclerosis: a case report	65
Editorial Board	65
Editorial Board	63
In This Issue	63
in this issue	62
Subscription Information	62
Unexpected cause of vemurafenib-induced nephrotoxicity: ferrochelatase	60
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	60
Editorial Board	60
Hypoxia hits APOL1 in the kidney	59
A genomic deep field view of hypertension	59