OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Virchows Archiv is 30. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Programmed death-ligand 1 and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) – low TIL density may predict poorer long-term prognosis in T1 laryngeal cancer	139
Clinical, histopathological, and immunohistochemical spectrum of hepatolithiasis: a tertiary care center-based study from north India	91
Clinicopathological characteristics and prognostic significance of HER2 status evaluation in patients with urothelial carcinoma: a retrospective single-center experience in China	83
Trichogerminoma with malignant transformation	76
Publisher Correction to: Distinct patterns of biomarker expression for atypical intraductal proliferations in prostate cancer	56
Polarised light scanner for digital pathology	53
Primary mismatch repair–deficient prostate cancer can be identified prospectively in prostate biopsies and radical prostatectomies	53
Non-small cell lung carcinoma with clear cell features: a clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular study of 31 cases	51
Exploratory evidence maps for the WHO Classification of Tumours 5th edition for lung and thymus tumors	50
Gene expression profiling using targeted RNA-sequencing to elucidate the progression from histologically normal lung tissues to non-invasive lesions in invasive lung adenocarcinoma	50
Seed storage cell granuloma: a nostalgic look back on pseudotuberculosis	48
Mature and immature ovarian teratomas share methylation profiles of imprinted genes: a MS-MLPA analysis	46
On delusional personalities in pathology	42
Neovascular prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) expression in bone and soft tissue sarcoma: a systematic analysis	40
Claudin-18 expression in small bowel adenocarcinoma: a clinico-pathologic study	39
Application of the Milan system for reporting salivary gland cytopathology using cell blocks	38
Corded and hyalinized endometrioid endometrial carcinoma with high-grade features: a clinicopathological and TCGA-based molecular analysis	38
Well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumor of the urinary bladder expressing GATA 3	37
Cause of death and the autopsy rate in an elderly population	37
SMARCB1-deficient sinonasal adenocarcinoma: a rare variant of SWI/SNF-deficient malignancy often misclassified as high-grade non-intestinal-type sinonasal adenocarcinoma or myoepithelial carcinoma	36
Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinomas: conceptual controversy and clinical impact	35
Crypt abscesses, crypt distortion, and crypt rupture may help distinguish inflammatory bowel disease from segmental colitis associated with diverticulosis	34
Development of head and neck pathology in Europe	33
SS18::POU5F1-fused sarcoma of the parotid with divergent ganglioneuromatous differentiation—a novel manifestation of a rare tumor	33
Sentinel lymph node assessment in breast cancer—an update on current recommendations	32

YAP1::TFE3 fusion in a case of malignant TFE3-rearranged PEComa of the lung: expanding the spectrum of pulmonary PEComa-like mesenchymal neoplasms	32
Necrosis in lymph nodes and their differential diagnoses: application of reticulin staining	31
Zonated quantification of immunohistochemistry in normal and steatotic livers	31
Clinicopathological analysis of thyroid carcinomas with the RET and NTRK fusion genes: characterization for genetic analysis	30
Cutting-edge technology and automation in the pathology laboratory	30
Organ manifestations of COVID-19: what have we learned so far (not only) from autopsies?	30
International Consensus Classification of myeloid and lymphoid neoplasms: myeloproliferative neoplasms	30