OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of APMIS is 3. 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.)

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Routine use of MSI testing in colorectal cancer using a proposed algorithm	140
APMIS 2022 focus issue on human microbiome in disease and pathology	43
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Misleading mental models: Ceci n’est pas un biofilm	38
A metatranscriptomic approach to explore longitudinal tissue specimens from non‐healing diabetes related foot ulcers	30
Aquaporins in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma	29
Immune responses to mRNA‐based vaccines given as a third COVID‐19 vaccine dose in people living with HIV—a literature review	26
Performance of automated antimicrobial susceptibility testing for the detection of antimicrobial resistance in gram‐negative bacteria: a NordicAST study	26
Bacterial invasion of the submicron osteocyte lacuna–canaliculi network (OLCN): a part of osteomyelitis disease biology	25
Fast processing of gynecologic cancer tissue in Danish Cancer Biobank makes them well‐suited for biomarker studies	21
Risk of orthopaedic implant infection during bacteraemia	20
Toll‐like receptors 3, 7, 8, and 9 in gastric cancer	20
Short communication: dog bite and back pain	19
Automated assessment of Ki‐67 proliferation index in neuroendocrine tumors by deep learning	19
Anti‐PD‐L1 chimeric antigen receptor natural killer cell: Characterization and functional analysis	18
Association of Toll‐like receptor 2 rs111200466 polymorphism with low serum levels of IL‐33 in early childhood	16
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Bacterial aerobic respiration is a major consumer of oxygen in sputum from patients with acute lower respiratory tract infection	16
Aneurysmal bone cyst and osteoblastoma after neoadjuvant denosumab: histologic spectrum and potential diagnostic pitfalls	15
Dynamic distribution of systemically administered antibiotics in orthopeadically relevant target tissues and settings	14
Lactams Exhibit Potent Antifungal Activity Against Monospecies and Multispecies Interkingdom Biofilms on a Novel Hydrogel Skin Model	14
Effects of changes in SHP2 expression on liver fibrosis by influencing the apoptosis of hepatic stellate cells	14
Bacteriophage therapy and infective endocarditis – is it realistic?	13
Association of TLR4 polymorphisms (Asp299Gly and Thr399Ile) with sepsis: a meta‐analysis and trial sequence analysis	12
Estimated incidence of symptomatic Lyme borreliosis cases in five southern coastal counties in Norway, 2022	12

Tunneled Catheter‐Related Bloodstream Infections in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients: Frequency, Risk Factors, and Outcomes—A 10‐Year Analysis	11
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Injection site microflora in persons with diabetes: why needle reuse is not associated with increased infections?	11
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Characteristics of de novo cancer in liver transplant recipients	11
Prevalence, molecular markers, and outcome of bronchial squamous carcinoma in situ in high‐risk subjects	10
Biomarkers for iron metabolism among patients hospitalized with community‐acquired pneumonia caused by infection with SARS‐CoV‐2, bacteria, and influenza	10
Importance of C24:2 sulfatide	10
Understanding the biofilm development of Acinetobacter baumannii and novel strategies to combat infection	10
High seroprevalence of SARS‐CoV‐2 antibodies in healthcare workers in COVID‐19 wards indicates an occupational hazard—a prospective cohort study during the first year of the	10
Inhibition of miR‐222‐3p Alleviates Acute Pancreatitis by Negatively Regulating the Expression of SIRT1	10
Prevalence of paediatric hyperinflammatory conditions in paediatric and adolescent hospitalized COVID‐19 patients: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	10
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Exploring the immune‐modulating properties of boswellic acid in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis	10
The value of umbilical cord insertion site sampling in detecting maternal and/or fetal inflammatory response	9
Clinical characteristics and risk factors of connective tissue disease complicated with bronchiectasis and pulmonary infection	9
Our current clinical understanding of Candida biofilms: where are we two decades on?	9
Clinical Characteristics and Laboratory Diagnoses of Pediatric Patients Hospitalized During an Outbreak of Mycoplasma pneumoniae	9
Performance of PCR‐based syndromic testing compared to bacterial culture in patients with suspected pneumonia applying microscopy for quality assessment	9
Detection of Anti‐CMV TCR CDR3s via Blood and Tumor Exome Files Correlates With Increased Survival for Stomach Adenocarcinoma and Soft Tissue Sarcoma	9
New contributions on chronic low back pain: disc infection or contaminated cultures?	9
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bone and joint pathogens using isothermal microcalorimetry	9
Pan‐Cancer Analysis Reveals SKA3 as a Potential Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarker	8
No Bacterial Biomass Detected in Tissue From Patients With Ovarian Cancer and Serous Tubal Intraepithelial Carcinomas Using 16S rDNA Sequencing	8
Inflammatory mediators in bacterial vaginosis: The role of cytokines	8
Prognostic Significance of Immunohistochemical Surrogate Molecular Sub‐Typing of Small Cell Lung Carcinoma	8
Growth factor expression is enhanced, and extracellular matrix proteins are depressed in healing skin wounds in septic patients compared with healthy controls	8
Immunohistochemical detection of double‐stranded RNA in formalin‐fixed paraffin‐embedded tissue	8
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Evaluating the Efficacy of Capreomycin and Levofloxacin Combination Therapy in Multidrug‐Resistant Tuberculosis Patients	7
Gene polymorphisms of TLR10: effects on bacterial meningitis outcomes in Angolan children	7
The use of core genome multilocus sequence typing to determine the duration of vancomycin‐resistant Enterococcus faecium outbreaks	7
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Microbiological Analysis of Lower Airway Samples: Does It Influence the Outcome in Patients With Community‐Acquired Pneumonia?	7
STK11 mutation affects the killing effect of NK cells to promote the progression of lung adenocarcinoma	7
Dynamics of endemic human coronavirus and SARS‐CoV‐2 in a hospital of Madrid, Spain. Retrospective study from June 2020 to July 2023	7
Aquaporin‐1 in breast cancer	7
Undifferentiated–dedifferentiated endometrial carcinoma; the reappearance of an old friend with insights into the new data	7
RETRACTION: Molecular Diversity of the Planctomycetes in the Human Gut Microbiota in France and Senegal	7
Forssman and the staphylococcal hemolysins	7
Molecular epidemiology of community‐ and hospital‐associated Clostridioides difficile infections in Jönköping, Sweden, October 2017 – March 2018	6
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Fungal positivity and other laboratory parameters in HIV‐ and non‐HIV‐related cryptococcal meningitis patients upon antifungal treatment	6
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Prevalence and Co‐Detection Rates of SARS‐CoV‐2, Influenza, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus: A Retrospective Analysis	6
Pathophysiological microenvironments in oral candidiasis	6
Viral intruders in the heart: A review of RNA viruses and their role in cardiac disorders	6
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Impact of Subcarinal Angle on Parenchymal Involvement and Disease Severity in COVID‐19 Pneumonia: A Retrospective Analysis	6
Inter‐observer agreement of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in primary HER2‐positive breast cancer and correlation between tissue microarray and full tumor‐sections	6
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Staining pattern of specific and cross‐reacting Melan‐A antibodies: A comparative study on 15,840 samples from 133 human tumor types	6
Prevalence and characteristics of 11 potentially diarrhoeagenic microbes in asymptomatic individuals in Norway, 2015–2020	6
Mapping bacterial biofilm on explanted orthopedic hardware: An analysis of 14 consecutive cases	5
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How to Write a Pathology Research Paper—Basic Principles and Beyond—A Primer for Residents	5
Antibiotic resistances of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii in urine cultures: experience in a hospital of Southeast Spain	5
PD‐L1 and PD‐1 expression in thyroid follicular epithelial dysplasia: Hashimoto thyroiditis related atypia and potential papillary carcinoma precursor	5
Intestinal metaplasia is a precursor lesion for sinonasal intestinal‐type adenocarcinoma: genomic investigation of a case proving this hypothesis	5
Azole resistance in Candida auris: mechanisms and combinatorial therapy	5
Antifungal drug resistance in Candida: a special emphasis on amphotericin B	5
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A novel fully human recombinant antibody neutralizing α‐hemolysin of Staphylococcus aureus	5
Tertiary lymphoid structures and gastric cancer prognosis	4
Circ_0006873 suppresses the osteogenic differentiation of human‐derived mesenchymal stem cells through mediating miR‐20a/SMURF2 axis in vitro	4
Infectious native aortic aneurysm with negative blood cultures: do not forget the pneumococcal urinary antigen test!	4
Editorial for PMI Journal 100‐Years Anniversary Focus Issue	4
Patients with tinea pedis and onychomycosis are more likely to use disinfectants when washing textiles than controls	4
Prognostic implications of the tumor immune microenvironment and immune checkpoint pathway in primary central nervous system diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma in the North Indian population	4
An insight on the eye bacterial microbiota and its role on dry eye disease	4
Mucosal microbiotas and their role in stem cell transplantation	4
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Emergence and fixation of SARS‐CoV‐2 minority variants in a chronically infected patient receiving therapy in Denmark	4
Systematic Morphological Assesment of the Ascending Aorta Dissection: Application of Cardiovascular Pathology Consensus Statement in Tertiary Care Hospital in Finland	4
Diarrhoea‐causing microorganisms are rare in adult patients undergoing diagnostic laparoscopy for suspected appendicitis: a prospective observational cohort study	4
Humoral immune response of Galleria mellonella after mono‐ and co‐injection with Hypericum perforatum extract and Candida albicans	4
Peer‐to‐peer validation of Ki‐67 scoring in a pathology quality circle as a tool to assess interobserver variability: are we better than we thought?	4
Early Human Neutrophil Response to Different Morphotypes of Candida albicans Compared to Bacterial Pathogens	4
Antimicrobial resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a cystic fibrosis population after introduction of a novel cephalosporin/β‐lactamase inhibitor combination	4
Differences in gene expression despite identical histomorphology in sinonasal intestinal‐type adenocarcinoma and metastases from colorectal adenocarcinoma	4
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A unique case of Fusobacterium nucleatum spondylodiscitis communicating with a pleural empyema through a fistula	4
Rhinoviral Infection of the Human Lung Vascular Endothelium May Protect From the Secondary Infection With Rhinovirus RV‐16	4
RE: Aetiological profile of acute encephalitis syndrome in Assam, India, during a 4‐year period from 2019 to 2022	4
Highly sensitive duplex MSI test and BAT40 germline polymorphism	3
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Historical concepts and contemporary perspectives of dental caries—a tribute to Henrik Dam (1895–1976)	3
Screening the Tocriscreen™ bioactive compound library in search for inhibitors of Candida biofilm formation	3
Nanomaterials and Candida auris: A Systematic Review of Emerging Strategies	3
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The microbiome in the pathogenesis of lung cancer	3
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Detection methods targeting the positive‐ and negative‐sense RNA transcripts from plus‐stranded RNA viruses	3
The expression and prognostic relevance of CDH3 in tongue squamous cell carcinoma	3
Do mast cells contribute to the continued survival of vertebrates?	3
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Corrigendum	3
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In Vitro Activity of Antifungals in Combination With Meropenem or Daptomycin Against Dual Candida albicans–Bacterial Biofilms	3
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No evidence of increased anti‐M3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor autoantibodies in SSA‐positive connective tissue disease patients	3
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Correction to “The relevance of ERG immunoexpression intensity for prostatic adenocarcinoma in radical prostatectomy of 635 samples”	3