OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cell and Tissue Research is 21. 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
New developments in prion disease research	92
Expression of arylalkylamine n-acetyltransferase (AANAT) and acetylserotonin o-methyltransferase (ASMT) in the corpus luteum of pregnant sows and synthesis of melatonin in luteal cells	60
The heterogeneity of erythroid cells: insight at the single-cell transcriptome level	45
Expression and functional analysis of cytoplasmic dynein during spermatogenesis in Portunus trituberculatus	44
Ascl1-expressing cell differentiation in initially developed taste buds and taste organoids	42
Genetically engineered cellular models of prion propagation	38
Kidney organoid systems for studies of immune-mediated kidney diseases: challenges and opportunities	37
Prion assemblies: structural heterogeneity, mechanisms of formation, and role in species barrier	36
Nescient helix-loop-helix 1 (Nhlh1) is a novel activating transcription factor 5 (ATF5) target gene in olfactory and vomeronasal sensory neurons in mice	35
Orphan gene expressed in flame cone cells uniquely found in seahorse epithelium	33
Early inflammation precedes cardiac fibrosis and heart failure in desmoglein 2 murine model of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	31
An ultrastructural study of the deep pineal gland of the Sprague Dawley rat using transmission and serial block face scanning electron microscopy: cell types, barriers, and innervation	30
Cigarette smoke alters inflammatory genes and the extracellular matrix — investigations on viable sections of peripheral human lungs	30
Olfactory receptors and human diseases	30
Correction to: Microtubule organization and tubulin post‑translational modifications in intact tissues and during regeneration in calcareous sponges	28
Type 2 vomeronasal receptor expression in the olfactory organ of African lungfish, Protopterus annectens	25
Pituitary luteinizing hormone synthesis starts in aromatase (cyp19a1b)-positive cells expressing esr1 and esr2b at the onset of puberty in Takifugu rubripes (fugu)	25
Ontogenetic development of the water channel protein AQP5 in mouse salivary gland tissue	24
Simvastatin promotes rat Achilles tendon-bone interface healing by promoting osteogenesis and chondrogenic differentiation of stem cells	24
Comparative study on a novel lobule structure of the zebrafish liver and that of the mammalian liver	22
Protective effect of alogliptin against cyclophosphamide-induced lung toxicity in rats: Impact on PI3K/Akt/FoxO1 pathway and downstream inflammatory cascades	22
Screening for polystyrene nanoparticle toxicity on kidneys of adult male albino rats using histopathological, biochemical, and molecular examination results	21
Requirement for PINCH in skeletal myoblast differentiation	21
New insights into the role and origin of pituitary S100β-positive cells	21
The extracellular matrix protein Agrin is expressed by osteoblasts and contributes to their differentiation	21

Lactate-induced effects on bovine granulosa cells are mediated via PKA signaling	21
Activation of C–C motif chemokine receptor 2 modulates testicular macrophages number, steroidogenesis, and spermatogenesis progression	21
Roles of tetraspanins during trophoblast development: bioinformatics and new perspectives	21
Ultrastructure of dorsal root ganglia	21