OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Kidney International is 60. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Journal Club	1385
Function follows form: the quest for the best prognostic imaging biomarker in ADPKD	1360
Editorial Board	711
A pig kidney supporting human physiology	573
Subscription Information	354
In this issue	344
Editorial Board	234
Editorial Board	198
Challenges in the development of novel methodologies for measuring glomerular filtration rate	181
Gene editing: a near future for the treatment of genetic kidney diseases	171
In This Issue	160
Table of Contents	152
Subscription Information	138
Taking the A(llorecognition) train: connecting passenger T cells to DSA	134
Endothelial but not systemic ferroptosis inhibition protects from antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody–induced crescentic glomerulonephritis	133
in this issue	124
Thirsty encounters of the third kind	119
Misuse of the Cox proportional hazards model and alternative approaches in kidney outcome research	118
Blood pressure adaptation in vertebrates: comparative biology	116
A case of ANCA-associated vasculitis after AZD1222 (Oxford–AstraZeneca) SARS-CoV-2 vaccination: casualty or causality?	113
Improving frozen section evaluation of procurement donor kidney biopsies and reducing the discard rate: a promising role for artificial intelligence	111
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	104
Including APOL1 alleles and ancestry adjustments improve a genome-wide polygenic CKD score	103
Identification of the gut microbial enzyme turning the urine yellow	99
Epigenetic alterations and memory: key players in the development/progression of chronic kidney disease promoted by acute kidney injury and diabetes	97

Dysfunction of the circadian clock in the kidney tubule leads to enhanced kidney gluconeogenesis and exacerbated hyperglycemia in diabetes	94
Unlocking the full potential of human pluripotent stem cell–derived kidney organoids through bioengineering	88
Monoclonal immunoglobulin crystalline nephropathies	83
New advances in endocrine hypertension: from genes to biomarkers	82
Kidney protective mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors: evidence for a hemodynamic effect	79
Enhancing kidney organoid maturity with inducible vascularization: another step forward for in vitro modeling	79
Unexpected metabolic effects of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors	77
Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin is elevated in children with acute kidney injury and sickle cell anemia, and predicts mortality	77
Caloric restriction reduces the pro-inflammatory eicosanoid 20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid to protect from acute kidney injury	77
Glomerular-tubular crosstalk via cold shock Y-box binding protein-1 in the kidney	76
Seeing through the density of dense deposit disease	76
Should we consider calcimimetics as a therapeutic option for nephrotic syndrome?	75
Ttc21b deficiency attenuates autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease in a kidney tubular- and maturation-dependent manner	74
Multi-omics and imaging mass cytometry characterization of human kidneys to identify pathways and phenotypes associated with impaired kidney function	73
Rationale and design of the Nephrotic Syndrome Study Network (NEPTUNE) Match in glomerular diseases: designing the right trial for the right patient, today	73
On the relevance of thrombomodulin variants in atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome	70
A single approach to targeting transferrin receptor 2 corrects iron and erythropoietic defects in murine models of anemia of inflammation and chronic kidney disease	70
Women and kidney health: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference	70
Trans-ethnic genome-wide association study of blood metabolites in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) study	69
Kidney supportive care: every nephrologist’s business	68
Antibody and T-cell response to a third dose of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA BNT162b2 vaccine in kidney transplant recipients	68
Editorial Board	67
The authors reply	67
Cinacalcet in focal segmental glomerular sclerosis: a case report	66
Response to the commentary “Modeling pulse wave velocity trajectories—challenges, opportunities, and pitfalls”	64
In This Issue	63
Editorial Board	63
Subscription Information	63
Editorial Board	62
Unexpected cause of vemurafenib-induced nephrotoxicity: ferrochelatase	62
in this issue	62
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	62
First do no harm: systemic glucocorticoids should not be used for the treatment of progressive IgA nephropathy	61
Immunoaging within the kidney via injury-associated tertiary lymphoid tissue	60
The Case \| A patient with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease with an atypical kidney magnetic resonance image	60
A genomic deep field view of hypertension	60