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Papers

(The median citation count of Progress in Lipid Research is 16. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Challenges and opportunities for prevention and removal of unwanted variation in lipidomic studies	430
Plant monounsaturated fatty acids: Diversity, biosynthesis, functions and uses	147
Editorial Board	140
Editorial Board	119
The heterogeneity and complexity of skin surface lipids in human skin health and disease	106
The Niemann-Pick type diseases – A synopsis of inborn errors in sphingolipid and cholesterol metabolism	103
Impact of dietary n-6/n-3 fatty acid ratio of atherosclerosis risk: A review	98
Targeting bacterial phospholipids and their synthesis pathways for antibiotic discovery	86
Using molecular simulation to understand the skin barrier	83
The skin barrier: An extraordinary interface with an exceptional lipid organization	75
Editorial Board	74
Making extra room for carotenoids in plant cells: New opportunities for biofortification	73
Systematic crosstalk in plasmalogen and diacyl lipid biosynthesis for their differential yet concerted molecular functions in the cell	72
The constellation of cholesterol-dependent processes associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection	71
Endocannabinoid signaling in adult hippocampal neurogenesis: A mechanistic and integrated perspective	71
Biophysical insights into modulating lipid digestion in food emulsions	67
Editorial Board	63
Understanding the nitrolipidome: From chemistry to mass spectrometry and biological significance of modified complex lipids	58
Multiscale lipid membrane dynamics as revealed by neutron spectroscopy	55
Endoplasmic reticulum stress and lipids in health and diseases	53
Oxylipin profiling for clinical research: Current status and future perspectives	53
Mitochondrial phospholipid transport: Role of contact sites and lipid transport proteins	52
Navigating the complexity of lipid oxidation and antioxidation: A review of evaluation methods and emerging approaches	52
A novel regulatory facet for hypertriglyceridemia: The role of microRNAs in the regulation of triglyceride-rich lipoprotein biosynthesis	50
Comparative efficacy of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on major cardiovascular events: A network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	49

The imperative of arachidonic acid in early human development	47
Polyunsaturated fatty acids and fatty acid-derived lipid mediators: Recent advances in the understanding of their biosynthesis, structures, and functions	46
Phospholipids and their metabolites as diagnostic biomarkers of human diseases	44
Editorial Board	44
Lipid dysregulation in triple negative breast cancer: Insights from mass spectrometry-based approaches	42
Lipid nutrition: “In silico” studies and undeveloped experiments	40
PARPs in lipid metabolism and related diseases	40
The functions of phospholipases and their hydrolysis products in plant growth, development and stress responses	39
Sphingolipid control of cognitive functions in health and disease	38
Unraveling brain palmitic acid: Origin, levels and metabolic fate	38
To image or not to image: Use of imaging mass spectrometry in biomedical lipidomics	37
Genetic variation and intestinal cholesterol absorption in humans: A systematic review and a gene network analysis	37
The endocannabinoid system & malignant hyperthermia: From molecular signaling towards clinical implications	35
The balancing act between lipid droplets and lysosomes for membrane functionality in age-related neurodegeneration and inflammation	33
Lipid-protein interactions regulating the canonical and the non-canonical NLRP3 inflammasome	31
Structural and functional roles of non-bilayer lipid phases of chloroplast thylakoid membranes and mitochondrial inner membranes	31
Plant terpenoid biosynthetic network and its multiple layers of regulation	30
A comprehensive review on the lipid and pleiotropic effects of pitavastatin	28
The gut microbiota-artery axis: A bridge between dietary lipids and atherosclerosis?	26
Lipid sensing by PPARα: Role in controlling hepatocyte gene regulatory networks and the metabolic response to fasting	26
Climate change and n-3 LC-PUFA availability	25
A new update of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry in lipid research	24
Editorial Board	23
Lipid oxidation in emulsions: New insights from the past two decades	23
Sphingolipids and impaired hypoxic stress responses in Huntington disease	22
Corrigendum to “An update of isoprostanoid nomenclature” [Progress in Lipid Research 96 (2024) 101301–101310]	20
How active cholesterol coordinates cell cholesterol homeostasis: Test of a hypothesis	20
How fish consumption prevents the development of Major Depressive Disorder? A comprehensive review of the interplay between n-3 PUFAs, LTP and BDNF	20
Editorial Board	20
Editorial Board	20
Very long chain fatty acids	19
Phosphatidic acid signaling and function in nuclei	18
Monomethyl branched-chain fatty acids: Health effects and biological mechanisms	17
Systematic review of brain and blood lipidomics in Alzheimer's disease mouse models	17
Oxylipin transport by lipoprotein particles and its functional implications for cardiometabolic and neurological disorders	16
Intestinal fatty acid binding protein: A rising therapeutic target in lipid metabolism	16
Mapping the myristoylome through a complete understanding of protein myristoylation biochemistry	16
Studies of the cardiolipin interactome	16
Triacylglycerol uptake and handling by macrophages: From fatty acids to lipoproteins	16