OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Immunology 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
Gene: environment interactions in immune and inflammatory responses to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	273
Inflammasome activation by SARS-CoV-2 and its participation in COVID-19 exacerbation	210
Oncogenic viruses, cancer biology, and innate immunity	152
AP-1 transcription factors in cytotoxic lymphocyte development and antitumor immunity	86
The future of vaccination in Latin America: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic	85
Ebola virus disease: current vaccine solutions	82
An easy pill to swallow: oral recombinant vaccines for the 21st century	73
Revisiting the role of MRGPRX2 on hypersensitivity reactions to neuromuscular blocking drugs	71
A critical review of measures of childhood vaccine confidence	67
Principles and practical applications of structure-based vaccine design	66
Better living through chemistry: CRISPR/Cas engineered T cells for cancer immunotherapy	65
TAP-ing into the cross-presentation secrets of dendritic cells	63
Mycobacterial diseases in patients with inborn errors of immunity	59
COVID-19 vaccines	59
Commander-in-chief: monocytes rally the troops for defense against aspergillosis	58
Innate antiviral immunity and immunometabolism in hepatocytes	58
Metabolism and macrophages in the tumor microenvironment	57
Immunological lessons from genome-wide association studies of infections	57
Host genetics of innate immune system in infection	53
Necroptosis in immunity, tissue homeostasis, and cancer	52
Beyond the gastric epithelium — the paradox of Helicobacter pylori-induced immune responses	51
Pharmacotherapeutic strategies to promote regulatory T cell function in autoimmunity	48
Some thoughts about what non-mammalian jawed vertebrates are telling us about antigen processing and peptide loading of MHC molecules	47
Increasing hepatitis B vaccination coverage of healthcare workers — global lessons for South Africa	46
Nutritional modulation of antitumor immunity	44

Regulation of MHC class II and CD86 expression by March-I in immunity and disease	44
Safety switches for adoptive cell therapy	42
Immunological scars after cure of hepatitis C virus infection: Long‐HepC?	41
Bioinspired vaccines to enhance MHC class-I antigen cross-presentation	40
Conformational sensing of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules by immune receptors and intracellular assembly factors	40
Mapping and modelling human B cell maturation in the germinal centre	39
Human MALT1 deficiency and predisposition to infections	38
Monogenic autoimmunity and infectious diseases: the double-edged sword of immune dysregulation	38
Patterns of bacterial viability governing noncanonical inflammasome activation	38
Signals governing monocyte differentiation during inflammation	37
Antibody glycosylation directs innate and adaptive immune collaboration	36
Editorial Board	36
T follicular helper cells and their impact on humoral responses during pathogen and vaccine challenge	36