OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Cell Biology is 13. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Self-organized protein patterns: The MinCDE and ParABS systems	190
Outside Front Cover	146
The recent advances and implications in cancer therapy for the hippo pathway	112
Regulation of actin dynamics by Twinfilin	112
Editorial overview: Fresh views on nuclear structure, function, and dynamics	71
Characterizing intracellular mechanics via optical tweezers-based microrheology	70
Topological epigenetics: The biophysics of DNA supercoiling and its relation to transcription and genome instability	65
Cellularization across eukaryotes: Conserved mechanisms and novel strategies	62
Outside Back Cover	56
Editorial Board	55
Editorial Board	54
Cytoskeletal form and function in mammalian oocytes and zygotes	54
Editorial overview – Differentiation: the driver of development	52
Outside Back Cover	48
Editorial Board	48
Outside Front Cover	47
Outside Back Cover - Graphical abstract TOC/TOC in double column/Cover image legend if applicable, Bar code, Abstracting and Indexing information	47
Editorial Board	46
Don't forget to be picky – selective autophagy of protein aggregates in neurodegenerative diseases	43
Mechanisms controlling the mechanical properties of the nuclei	42
Myosin motors in sensory hair bundle assembly	42
Discretizing the cellular bases of plant morphogenesis: Emerging properties from subcellular and noisy patterning	41
Outside Front Cover	40
How to wrinkle a cell: Emerging mechanisms of microridge morphogenesis	40
Fidelity of organellar protein targeting	39

Spatiotemporal regulation of switching front–rear cell polarity	36
Editorial: Emerging concepts and tools in genome organization and chromatin function in eukaryotes	35
Macropinocytosis at the crossroad between nutrient scavenging and metabolism in cancer	35
Attach and stretch: Emerging roles for genome–lamina contacts in shaping the 3D genome	34
Cytoskeletal control of the secretory immune synapse	33
The role of cellular active stresses in shaping the zebrafish body axis	33
Interorganelle communication and membrane shaping in the early secretory pathway	33
Sending out molecules from the TGN	33
Understanding membrane traffic from molecular ensemble, energetics, and the cell biology of participant components	32
Moving beyond disease to function: Physiological roles for polyglutamine-rich sequences in cell decisions	32
Cell memory of epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity in cancer	32
You can go your own way: SNX-BAR coat complexes direct traffic at late endosomes	32
Cell competition and the regulation of protein homeostasis	31
Jagged-mediated development and disease: Mechanistic insights and therapeutic implications for Alagille syndrome	31
Lipid nanodomains and receptor signaling: From actin-based organization to membrane mechanics	30
Waves of change: Dynamic actomyosin networks in embryonic development	30
Organelle morphology and positioning orchestrate physiological and disease-associated processes	29
Biogenesis of extracellular vesicles from the pathogen perspective: Transkingdom strategies for delivering messages	29
Outside Back Cover	28
Mechanisms and functions of multiciliary coordination	28
The interplay of nuclear pores and lipids	28
TERRA long noncoding RNA: At the interphase of telomere damage, rescue and signaling	28
Lamins: The backbone of the nucleocytoskeleton interface	27
Emerging mechanisms and dynamics of three-dimensional genome organisation at zygotic genome activation	27
Highly conserved, but highly specific: Somatic cell–cell fusion in filamentous fungi	27
Biophysics of endocytic vesicle formation: A focus on liquid–liquid phase separation	26
Coupling axonal mRNA transport and local translation to organelle maintenance and function	26
Tunneling nanotubes: Reshaping connectivity	26
Phosphorylation-dependent regulation of messenger RNA transcription, processing and translation within biomolecular condensates	25
Sculpting the heart: Cellular mechanisms shaping valves and trabeculae	25
New directions for the clathrin adaptor AP-1 in cell biology and human disease	24
Memorizing environmental signals through feedback and feedforward loops	24
Beyond static snapshots: Mitochondria in action	23
Development of a multiciliated cell	23
Extracellular matrix dynamics: A key regulator of cell migration across length-scales and systems	23
The DNA damage response in the chromatin context: A coordinated process	23
ER and Golgi trafficking in axons, dendrites, and glial processes	22
Aligned forces: Origins and mechanisms of cancer dissemination guided by extracellular matrix architecture	22
Macromolecular crowding: Sensing without a sensor	22
Editorial Board	21
Nuclear deformations, from signaling to perturbation and damage	21
Outside Back Cover	21
Chromatin remodeling and spatial concerns in DNA double-strand break repair	21
Outside Front Cover	20
Editorial Board	20
Evolution and diversification of mitochondrial protein import systems	20
Lessons on the force-form-function connection in cell biology from modeling a syncytial germline	20
Outside Back Cover	20
The unconventional role of vimentin intermediate filaments	20
Editorial Board	19

Ligand-induced degrons for studying nuclear functions	19
Outside Back Cover	19
Mitotic memories of gene activity	19
Editorial Board	19
Live-cell imaging in the deep learning era	19
Organogenesis in vitro	18
Editorial Board	18
Editorial Board	18
Barotaxis: How cells live and move under pressure	18
Functional organization of RNA polymerase II in nuclear subcompartments	17
Roads and hubs of unconventional protein secretion	17
Outside Front Cover	17
Outside Front Cover	17
Recent developments in membrane traffic and lipid dynamics	17
Mechanotransduction pathways in regulating epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity	17
How nuclear envelope dynamics can direct laminopathy phenotypes	17
Calcium wave propagation during cell extrusion	17
Regulatory mechanisms governing chromatin organization and function	16
The impact of altered lamin B1 levels on nuclear lamina structure and function in aging and human diseases	16
Multiscale modelling of chromatin organisation: Resolving nucleosomes at near-atomistic resolution inside genes	16
Exploring the dynamic behavior of leukocytes with zebrafish	16
In silico labeling in cell biology: Potential and limitations	16
Lamins as structural nuclear elements through evolution	16
Posttranslational modifications of keratins and their associated proteins as therapeutic targets in keratin diseases	15
Microtubule control of migration: Coordination in confinement	15
De novo hematopoietic (stem) cell generation — A differentiation or stochastic process?	15
Canonical and noncanonical regulators of centromere assembly and maintenance	15
Interplay of dynamic genome organization and biomolecular condensates	15
Astrocyte signaling and interactions in Multiple Sclerosis	15
Septin dynamics and organization in mammalian cells	14
Regulation of biomolecular condensate dynamics by signaling	14
Breaking the barrier: In vitro models to study choroid plexus development	14
Chromatin plasticity in mechanotransduction	14
Nucleocytoplasmic partitioning as a mechanism to regulate Arabidopsis signaling events	14
Receptors, enzymes and self-attraction as autocrine generators and amplifiers of chemotaxis and cell steering	13
Quantifying and visualising the nuances of cellular dynamics in vivo using intravital imaging	13
Demixing the cell: how cells channel and store signaling information	13
Beyond SAHF: An integrative view of chromatin compartmentalization during senescence	13
Collective behaviours in organoids	13
Cadherins and the cortex: A matter of time?	13
Value of models for membrane budding	13
Protein self-assembly: A new frontier in cell signaling	13
Mechanisms of selective G protein–coupled receptor localization and trafficking	13