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Papers

(The median citation count of Progress in Lipid Research is 15. 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
Challenges and opportunities for prevention and removal of unwanted variation in lipidomic studies	415
Plant monounsaturated fatty acids: Diversity, biosynthesis, functions and uses	136
Editorial Board	133
Editorial Board	112
Impact of dietary n-6/n-3 fatty acid ratio of atherosclerosis risk: A review	101
The Niemann-Pick type diseases – A synopsis of inborn errors in sphingolipid and cholesterol metabolism	100
The heterogeneity and complexity of skin surface lipids in human skin health and disease	94
Targeting bacterial phospholipids and their synthesis pathways for antibiotic discovery	82
Using molecular simulation to understand the skin barrier	82
Editorial Board	72
The skin barrier: An extraordinary interface with an exceptional lipid organization	72
Endocannabinoid signaling in adult hippocampal neurogenesis: A mechanistic and integrated perspective	71
Making extra room for carotenoids in plant cells: New opportunities for biofortification	71
The constellation of cholesterol-dependent processes associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection	70
Systematic crosstalk in plasmalogen and diacyl lipid biosynthesis for their differential yet concerted molecular functions in the cell	68
Biophysical insights into modulating lipid digestion in food emulsions	67
Editorial Board	56
Understanding the nitrolipidome: From chemistry to mass spectrometry and biological significance of modified complex lipids	55
Multiscale lipid membrane dynamics as revealed by neutron spectroscopy	53
A novel regulatory facet for hypertriglyceridemia: The role of microRNAs in the regulation of triglyceride-rich lipoprotein biosynthesis	51
Mitochondrial phospholipid transport: Role of contact sites and lipid transport proteins	51
Endoplasmic reticulum stress and lipids in health and diseases	48
Oxylipin profiling for clinical research: Current status and future perspectives	47
Navigating the complexity of lipid oxidation and antioxidation: A review of evaluation methods and emerging approaches	46
Polyunsaturated fatty acids and fatty acid-derived lipid mediators: Recent advances in the understanding of their biosynthesis, structures, and functions	45

Comparative efficacy of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on major cardiovascular events: A network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	45
The imperative of arachidonic acid in early human development	44
Phospholipids and their metabolites as diagnostic biomarkers of human diseases	43
Editorial Board	43
Lipid dysregulation in triple negative breast cancer: Insights from mass spectrometry-based approaches	40
PARPs in lipid metabolism and related diseases	39
Lipid nutrition: “In silico” studies and undeveloped experiments	38
The functions of phospholipases and their hydrolysis products in plant growth, development and stress responses	37
Unraveling brain palmitic acid: Origin, levels and metabolic fate	37
Genetic variation and intestinal cholesterol absorption in humans: A systematic review and a gene network analysis	36
Sphingolipid control of cognitive functions in health and disease	36
Structural and functional roles of non-bilayer lipid phases of chloroplast thylakoid membranes and mitochondrial inner membranes	35
The endocannabinoid system & malignant hyperthermia: From molecular signaling towards clinical implications	33
To image or not to image: Use of imaging mass spectrometry in biomedical lipidomics	33
Plant terpenoid biosynthetic network and its multiple layers of regulation	31
The balancing act between lipid droplets and lysosomes for membrane functionality in age-related neurodegeneration and inflammation	30
Lipid-protein interactions regulating the canonical and the non-canonical NLRP3 inflammasome	28
A new update of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry in lipid research	26
Climate change and n-3 LC-PUFA availability	23
Lipid sensing by PPARα: Role in controlling hepatocyte gene regulatory networks and the metabolic response to fasting	23
Lipid oxidation in emulsions: New insights from the past two decades	23
The gut microbiota-artery axis: A bridge between dietary lipids and atherosclerosis?	22
Editorial Board	21
A comprehensive review on the lipid and pleiotropic effects of pitavastatin	21
Editorial Board	20
How fish consumption prevents the development of Major Depressive Disorder? A comprehensive review of the interplay between n-3 PUFAs, LTP and BDNF	19
Editorial Board	19
How active cholesterol coordinates cell cholesterol homeostasis: Test of a hypothesis	19
Sphingolipids and impaired hypoxic stress responses in Huntington disease	19
Corrigendum to “An update of isoprostanoid nomenclature” [Progress in Lipid Research 96 (2024) 101301–101310]	19
Very long chain fatty acids	18
Systematic review of brain and blood lipidomics in Alzheimer's disease mouse models	17
Monomethyl branched-chain fatty acids: Health effects and biological mechanisms	17
Phosphatidic acid signaling and function in nuclei	15
Oxylipin transport by lipoprotein particles and its functional implications for cardiometabolic and neurological disorders	15