OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Basic Research in Cardiology is 14. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Intravenous metoprolol during ongoing STEMI ameliorates markers of ischemic injury: a METOCARD-CNIC trial electrocardiographic study	140
Correction to: Endothelial actions of atrial natriuretic peptide prevent pulmonary hypertension in mice	107
Endothelial ACKR3 drives atherosclerosis by promoting immune cell adhesion to vascular endothelium	90
Alkaline nucleoplasm facilitates contractile gene expression in the mammalian heart	87
Spinal cord astrocytes regulate myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury	70
Erythrocytes from patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction induce cardioprotection through the purinergic P2Y13 receptor and nitric oxide signaling	68
Development and characterization of anti-fibrotic natural compound similars with improved effectivity	59
Tachycardiomyopathy entails a dysfunctional pattern of interrelated mitochondrial functions	57
Elevated platelet–leukocyte complexes are associated with, but dispensable for myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury	48
Publisher Correction: Transcriptome-wide association study of coronary artery disease identifies novel susceptibility genes	45
New insights into cardioprotection, gained by adopting the CAESAR standards of rigor	44
Desmin intermediate filaments and tubulin detyrosination stabilize growing microtubules in the cardiomyocyte	43
Thiol-based redox-active proteins as cardioprotective therapeutic agents in cardiovascular diseases	42
Retraction Note to: Amphiregulin enhances cardiac fibrosis and aggravates cardiac dysfunction in mice with experimental myocardial infarction partly through activating EGFR‑dependent pathway	39
On the cellular origin of cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs)	36
Regulatory B cells improve ventricular remodeling after myocardial infarction by modulating monocyte migration	34
Cardiomyocyte Na+ and Ca2+ mishandling drives vicious cycle involving CaMKII, ROS, and ryanodine receptors	34
Uncovering the molecular identity of cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs) by single-cell RNA sequencing	33
Mechanism of the switch from NO to H2O2 in endothelium-dependent vasodilation in diabetes	32
Reverse re-modelling chronic heart failure by reinstating heart rate variability	30
Distributed synthesis of sarcolemmal and sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane proteins in cardiac myocytes	29
Increased susceptibility of human endothelial cells to infections by SARS-CoV-2 variants	29
Mitochondrial nucleoid in cardiac homeostasis: bidirectional signaling of mitochondria and nucleus in cardiac diseases	28
Resolving the intertwining of inflammation and fibrosis in human heart failure at single-cell level	27
Increased protein S-nitrosylation in mitochondria: a key mechanism of exercise-induced cardioprotection	26

Forebrain corticosteroid receptors promote post-myocardial infarction depression and mortality	25
Fibro-fatty remodelling in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	25
Molecular imaging of the brain–heart axis provides insights into cardiac dysfunction after cerebral ischemia	24
Loss of NPPA-AS1 promotes heart regeneration by stabilizing SFPQ–NONO heteromer-induced DNA repair	23
Atg5 knockdown induces age-dependent cardiomyopathy which can be rescued by repeated remote ischemic conditioning	22
Reduction of A-to-I RNA editing in the failing human heart regulates formation of circular RNAs	22
Cardiomyocyte p38 MAPKα suppresses a heart–adipose tissue–neutrophil crosstalk in heart failure development	22
Osteopontin promotes infarct repair	22
IMproving Preclinical Assessment of Cardioprotective Therapies (IMPACT) criteria: guidelines of the EU-CARDIOPROTECTION COST Action	20
Coronary blood flow in heart failure: cause, consequence and bystander	20
RGS3L allows for an M2 muscarinic receptor-mediated RhoA-dependent inotropy in cardiomyocytes	19
Effect of remote ischaemic conditioning on infarct size and remodelling in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients: the CONDI-2/ERIC-PPCI CMR substudy	19
Non-responsiveness to cardioprotection by ischaemic preconditioning in Ossabaw minipigs with genetic predisposition to, but without the phenotype of the metabolic syndrome	19
Bone marrow-derived naïve B lymphocytes improve heart function after myocardial infarction: a novel cardioprotective mechanism for empagliflozin	18
Remote ischaemic conditioning: defining critical criteria for success—report from the 11th Hatter Cardiovascular Workshop	17
LncRNA LncHrt preserves cardiac metabolic homeostasis and heart function by modulating the LKB1-AMPK signaling pathway	16
Prolonged cardiac NR4A2 activation causes dilated cardiomyopathy in mice	15
Reduced nitric oxide bioavailability impairs myocardial oxygen balance during exercise in swine with multiple risk factors	15
Cardiac dysfunction from cancer and cancer therapy: new pathways for the prevention of late cardiotoxicity	14
Doxorubicin induces cardiotoxicity in a pluripotent stem cell model of aggressive B cell lymphoma cancer patients	14
Single-cell transcriptomic identified HIF1A as a target for attenuating acute rejection after heart transplantation	14
Innate immune cells in the pathophysiology of calcific aortic valve disease: lessons to be learned from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease?	14
Remote Ischemic Conditioning: more explanations and more expectations	14