OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Virchows Archiv is 28. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Polarised light scanner for digital pathology	162
Non-small cell lung carcinoma with clear cell features: a clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular study of 31 cases	126
On delusional personalities in pathology	97
Well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumor of the urinary bladder expressing GATA 3	90
Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinomas: conceptual controversy and clinical impact	86
Follicular adenoma of the thyroid with hyalinizing trabecular tumor-like pattern	73
Primary mismatch repair–deficient prostate cancer can be identified prospectively in prostate biopsies and radical prostatectomies	73
SS18::POU5F1-fused sarcoma of the parotid with divergent ganglioneuromatous differentiation—a novel manifestation of a rare tumor	68
Neovascular prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) expression in bone and soft tissue sarcoma: a systematic analysis	66
Correction to: Programmed death-ligand 1 and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) – low TIL density may predict poorer long-term prognosis in T1 laryngeal cancer	63
Publisher Correction to: Distinct patterns of biomarker expression for atypical intraductal proliferations in prostate cancer	62
The shifting paradigm of programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) in anaplastic thyroid carcinoma: from pathology to clinical practice	59
Crypt abscesses, crypt distortion, and crypt rupture may help distinguish inflammatory bowel disease from segmental colitis associated with diverticulosis	54
Trichogerminoma with malignant transformation	52
Necrosis in lymph nodes and their differential diagnoses: application of reticulin staining	47
Assessment of spin within diagnostic accuracy meta-analyses published in top pathology journals: a cross-sectional study	47
Multicenter evaluation of the Idylla IDH1-2 Mutation Assay Kit for detection of IDH mutational status in glioma	46
Histopathological characteristics of screen-detected colorectal cancers	44
Correction to: ZC3H7A/B:BCOR fusion fbromyxoid sarcoma of soft tissue: an emerging aggressive sarcoma overlapping with malignant ossifying fbromyxoid tumors	43
Corded and hyalinized endometrioid endometrial carcinoma with high-grade features: a clinicopathological and TCGA-based molecular analysis	42
Mature and immature ovarian teratomas share methylation profiles of imprinted genes: a MS-MLPA analysis	36
The role of external quality assessment in detecting immunohistochemical analyses with inferior performance: focus on the anti-ER SP1 clone	35
Zonated quantification of immunohistochemistry in normal and steatotic livers	33
Novel concepts of cell-of origin in neuroendocrine neoplasms	32
Clinical, histopathological, and immunohistochemical spectrum of hepatolithiasis: a tertiary care center-based study from north India	30

Renal cell carcinoma with a novel RAB1A::ALK fusion: expanding the molecular spectrum of ALK-rearranged RCC	30
The consensus conference: pitfalls and problems	30
Salivary gland microsecretory adenocarcinoma: a case series study and literature review	29
Exploratory evidence maps for the WHO Classification of Tumours 5th edition for lung and thymus tumors	28