OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Basic Research in Cardiology is 27. 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
Correction to: Endothelial actions of atrial natriuretic peptide prevent pulmonary hypertension in mice	141
Endothelial ACKR3 drives atherosclerosis by promoting immune cell adhesion to vascular endothelium	109
Spinal cord astrocytes regulate myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury	93
Alkaline nucleoplasm facilitates contractile gene expression in the mammalian heart	90
Tachycardiomyopathy entails a dysfunctional pattern of interrelated mitochondrial functions	71
Erythrocytes from patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction induce cardioprotection through the purinergic P2Y13 receptor and nitric oxide signaling	71
Elevated platelet–leukocyte complexes are associated with, but dispensable for myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury	60
Development and characterization of anti-fibrotic natural compound similars with improved effectivity	59
Publisher Correction: Transcriptome-wide association study of coronary artery disease identifies novel susceptibility genes	50
Desmin intermediate filaments and tubulin detyrosination stabilize growing microtubules in the cardiomyocyte	44
New insights into cardioprotection, gained by adopting the CAESAR standards of rigor	44
Retraction Note to: Amphiregulin enhances cardiac fibrosis and aggravates cardiac dysfunction in mice with experimental myocardial infarction partly through activating EGFR‑dependent pathway	39
Cardiomyocyte Na+ and Ca2+ mishandling drives vicious cycle involving CaMKII, ROS, and ryanodine receptors	36
On the cellular origin of cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs)	36
Uncovering the molecular identity of cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs) by single-cell RNA sequencing	34
Mechanism of the switch from NO to H2O2 in endothelium-dependent vasodilation in diabetes	33
Reverse re-modelling chronic heart failure by reinstating heart rate variability	31
Distributed synthesis of sarcolemmal and sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane proteins in cardiac myocytes	30
Mitochondrial nucleoid in cardiac homeostasis: bidirectional signaling of mitochondria and nucleus in cardiac diseases	29
Resolving the intertwining of inflammation and fibrosis in human heart failure at single-cell level	28
Increased protein S-nitrosylation in mitochondria: a key mechanism of exercise-induced cardioprotection	27
Fibro-fatty remodelling in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	27