OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Immunology is 24. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Interplay Between Innate Immunity and Nonimmune Cells in Lung Damage, Inflammation, and Repair	485
Central Nervous System Macrophages in Health and Disease	435
	435
Genetics of Pediatric Immune-Mediated Diseases and Human Immunity	349
Immune Regulation of Goblet Cell and Mucus Functions in Health and Disease	338
Immune System Investigation Using Parasitic Helminths	249
Neuroimmunology of the Lung	248
Systemic Immune Modulation by Gastrointestinal Nematodes	244
Poxvirus Immune Evasion	221
Kidney-Specific Interleukin-17 Responses During Infection and Injury	207
Ontogeny and Function of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells	200
Instructive Cues of Thymic T Cell Selection	173
Distinct Cellular Tropism and Immune Responses to Alphavirus Infection	129
Origins, Biology, and Diseases of Tissue Macrophages	124
Mitochondrial Metabolism Regulation of T Cell–Mediated Immunity	121
The Tuberculous Granuloma and Preexisting Immunity	117
Immune-Epithelial Cross Talk in Regeneration and Repair	115
Peeking Into the Black Box of T Cell Receptor Signaling	113
Complement in the Brain: Contributions to Neuroprotection, Neuronal Plasticity, and Neuroinflammation	100
IL-17 in the Pathogenesis of Disease: Good Intentions Gone Awry	100
The Antisocial Network: Cross Talk Between Cell Death Programs in Host Defense	99
Resistance Mechanisms to Anti-PD Cancer Immunotherapy	95
Inflammatory Caspases: Toward a Unified Model for Caspase Activation by Inflammasomes	94
Functional Hallmarks of Healthy Macrophage Responses: Their Regulatory Basis and Disease Relevance	93
Insights Gained from Single-Cell Analysis of Immune Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment	92

B Cell Function in the Tumor Microenvironment	92
Epigenetic Remodeling in Innate Immunity and Inflammation	91
Natural Killer Cells: From Innate to Adaptive Features	90
Systems Immunology Approaches to Metabolism	89
Emerging Paradigms in Type 2 Immunity	89
IL-4 and IL-13: Regulators and Effectors of Wound Repair	88
Host Recovery from Respiratory Viral Infection	87
Circadian Rhythms in Anticancer Immunity: Mechanisms and Treatment Opportunities	71
Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells: Team Players in Regulating Asthma	68
T Cell Responses to the Microbiota	65
IL-6 Revisited: From Rheumatoid Arthritis to CAR T Cell Therapy and COVID-19	62
Cytokine Regulation and Function in T Cells	62
Designing Cancer Immunotherapies That Engage T Cells and NK Cells	58
Immunology of Kidney Disease	56
Natural Killer Cells in the Human Uterine Mucosa	56
Evolutionary Landscapes of Host-Virus Arms Races	51
Effector-Triggered Immunity	49
The CD4 Versus CD8 T Cell Fate Decision: A Multiomics-Informed Perspective	46
T Cell Exhaustion	46
The Innate Immune Response toMycobacterium tuberculosisInfection	43
Germinal Centers	43
Production and Function of Immunoglobulin A	43
Immune Mechanisms in Inflammatory Anemia	38
The Gut Microbiome as a Regulator of the Neuroimmune Landscape	38
	38
RNA Modification in the Immune System	37
Biomaterials-Mediated Engineering of the Immune System	35
Extremely Differentiated T Cell Subsets Contribute to Tissue Deterioration During Aging	34
Multilayered Immunity by Tissue-Resident Lymphocytes in Cancer	33
Macrophage Differentiation and Metabolic Adaptation in Mycobacterial Infections	30
The Immunobiology and Treatment of Food Allergy	29
Tracing the Evolution of Human Immunity Through Ancient DNA	25
T Follicular Helper Cell Heterogeneity	25
SARS-CoV-2: The Interplay Between Evolution and Host Immunity	25
Immunity to Invasive Fungal Diseases	24
T Cell Development and Responses in Human Immune System Mice	24
IgE, IgE Receptors and Anti-IgE Biologics: Protein Structures and Mechanisms of Action	24