OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Development is 36. 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
The people behind the papers – Ya Min, Stephanie Conway and Elena Kramer	115
Harnessing developmental cues for cardiomyocyte production	105
Zasp52 strengthens whole embryo tissue integrity through supracellular actomyosin networks	95
Abscisic acid biosynthesis is necessary for full auxin effects on hypocotyl elongation	77
The Forest of Biologists – for biologists, for biology	73
MIG-23 is involved in sperm migration by modulating extracellular ATP levels in Ascaris suum	73
Patterning on the move: the effects of Hh morphogen source movement on signaling dynamics	72
The people behind the papers – Jake Turley	71
The Excursion	70
Developmental and evolutionary comparative analysis of a regulatory landscape in mouse and chicken	67
The functional specificity of ERECTA-family receptors in Arabidopsis stomatal development is ensured by molecular chaperones in the endoplasmic reticulum	66
Normal cell cycle progression requires negative regulation of E2F1 by Groucho during S phase and its relief at G2 phase	62
Biased precursor ingression underlies the center-to-pole pattern of male sex determination in mouse	61
The people behind the papers – Kelsey Brooks and Shawn Chavez	60
Correction: Wt1 transcription factor impairs cardiomyocyte specification and drives a phenotypic switch from myocardium to epicardium	59
In preprints: new insights into truncated radial glia	58
PHLPP1 regulates CFTR activity and lumen expansion through AMPK	57
Cdkn1c orchestrates a molecular network that regulates euploidy of male mouse germline stem cells	54
Cadherin adhesion complexes direct cell aggregation in the epithelial transition of Wnt-induced nephron progenitor cells	52
Shared cis-regulatory modules control expression of the tandem paralogs midline and H15 in the follicular epithelium	52
Destabilisation of bam transcripts terminates the mitotic phase of Drosophila female germline differentiation	51
Nup107 contributes to the maternal-to-zygotic transition by preventing the premature nuclear export of pri-miR427	51
FOXC1 and FOXC2 regulate growth plate chondrocyte maturation towards hypertrophy in the embryonic mouse limb skeleton	50
Approaches to benchmark and characterize in vitro human model systems	44
Notch-dependent DNAcis-regulatory elements and their dose-dependent control ofC. elegansstem cell self-renewal	42

Testosterone acts through the membrane protein GPRC6A to cause cardiac edema in zebrafish embryos	42
The combined action of Esrrb and Nr5a2 is essential for murine naïve pluripotency	39
Quantitative videomicroscopy reveals latent control of cell-pair rotations in vivo	39
Aberrant centrosome biogenesis disrupts nephron and collecting duct progenitor growth and fate resulting in fibrocystic kidney disease	39
Single-cell transcriptional and functional analysis of dopaminergic neurons in organoid-like cultures derived from human fetal midbrain	39
Ernest Arenas (1962-2024): a legacy of advancing dopaminergic neurogenesis research	39
Nutritional control of developmental processes	38
Pten inhibition dedifferentiates long-distance axon-regenerating intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells and upregulates mitochondria-associated Dynlt1a and Lars2	38
A new cell culture resource for investigations of reptilian gene function	37
HCR spectral imaging: 10-plex, quantitative, high-resolution RNA and protein imaging in highly autofluorescent samples	37
Ccn2a-FGFR1-SHH signaling is necessary for intervertebral disc homeostasis and regeneration in adult zebrafish	36
A low-sugar diet enhancesDrosophilabody size in males and females via sex-specific mechanisms	36