OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Development is 35. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The people behind the papers – Stanley Strawbridge	131
The people behind the papers – Ya Min, Stephanie Conway and Elena Kramer	103
The Excursion	95
Approaches to benchmark and characterize in vitro human model systems	93
Harnessing developmental cues for cardiomyocyte production	87
Shared cis-regulatory modules control expression of the tandem paralogs midline and H15 in the follicular epithelium	81
The functional specificity of ERECTA-family receptors in Arabidopsis stomatal development is ensured by molecular chaperones in the endoplasmic reticulum	79
Interplay of SHH, WNT and BMP4 signaling regulates the development of the lamina propria in the murine ureter	77
Frozen potential: embryo research at the crossroads of ethics, regulation and scientific opportunity	69
The people behind the papers – Kelsey Brooks and Shawn Chavez	64
Cdkn1c orchestrates a molecular network that regulates euploidy of male mouse germline stem cells	62
Ernest Arenas (1962-2024): a legacy of advancing dopaminergic neurogenesis research	54
In preprints: new insights into truncated radial glia	51
The people behind the papers – Jake Turley	49
Nup107 contributes to the maternal-to-zygotic transition by preventing the premature nuclear export of pri-miR427	47
Correction: Wt1 transcription factor impairs cardiomyocyte specification and drives a phenotypic switch from myocardium to epicardium	46
Normal cell cycle progression requires negative regulation of E2F1 by Groucho during S phase and its relief at G2 phase	45
In preprints: retinoic acid degradation and tissue stiffness coordinate axolotl limb regeneration	44
Csf1rb regulates definitive hematopoiesis in zebrafish	44
Developmental and evolutionary comparative analysis of a regulatory landscape in mouse and chicken	43
Pten inhibition dedifferentiates long-distance axon-regenerating intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells and upregulates mitochondria-associated Dynlt1a and Lars2	42
Adhesion strength, cell packing density and cell surface buckling in pericellular matrix-mediated tissue cohesion	41
HCR spectral imaging: 10-plex, quantitative, high-resolution RNA and protein imaging in highly autofluorescent samples	41
A low-sugar diet enhancesDrosophilabody size in males and females via sex-specific mechanisms	40
The people behind the papers – Yanmei Tao and Zhengdong Wei	40

An interview with Meritxell (Meri) Huch	40
MultiSite Assembly of Gateway Induced Clones (MAGIC): a flexible cloning toolbox for use in vertebrate model systems	39
Testosterone acts through the membrane protein GPRC6A to cause cardiac edema in zebrafish embryos	38
Patterning on the move: the effects of Hh morphogen source movement on signaling dynamics	37
Drosophila embryos spatially sort their nutrient stores to facilitate their utilization	36
A new cell culture resource for investigations of reptilian gene function	36
MIG-23 is involved in sperm migration by modulating extracellular ATP levels in Ascaris suum	36
The role of O-GlcNAcylation in development	35
The people behind the papers – Agnès Roure and Sébastien Darras	35
The AKT1-FOXO4 axis reciprocally regulates hemochorial placentation	35
Notch-dependent DNA cis -regulatory elements and their dose-dependent control of C. elegans stem cell self	35