OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology is 33. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Healing after COVID-19: are survivors at risk for pulmonary fibrosis?	159
Estrogen regulates the expression of SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 in differentiated airway epithelial cells	157
Heparin as a therapy for COVID-19: current evidence and future possibilities	146
Novel insights on the pulmonary vascular consequences of COVID-19	116
First contact: the role of respiratory cilia in host-pathogen interactions in the airways	103
The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein subunit S1 induces COVID-19-like acute lung injury in Κ18-hACE2 transgenic mice and barrier dysfunction in human endothelial cells	82
Thoughts on the alveolar phase of COVID-19	77
The Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Cell Atlas	71
Understanding the age divide in COVID-19: why are children overwhelmingly spared?	70
COPD 2020: changes and challenges	69
Disequilibrium between the classic renin-angiotensin system and its opposing arm in SARS-CoV-2-related lung injury	61
SARS-CoV-2 may regulate cellular responses through depletion of specific host miRNAs	59
Lung immune tone via gut-lung axis: gut-derived LPS and short-chain fatty acids’ immunometabolic regulation of lung IL-1β, FFAR2, and FFAR3 expression	58
Covid-19 infection and mortality: a physiologist’s perspective enlightening clinical features and plausible interventional strategies	54
Deregulated miRNA expression is associated with endothelial dysfunction in post-mortem lung biopsies of COVID-19 patients	54
Urgent reconsideration of lung edema as a preventable outcome in COVID-19: inhibition of TRPV4 represents a promising and feasible approach	49
Structural and functional variations in human bronchial epithelial cells cultured in air-liquid interface using different growth media	48
Sex steroids skew ACE2 expression in human airway: a contributing factor to sex differences in COVID-19?	46
Inflammasome activation in acute lung injury	44
Carrageenan-containing over-the-counter nasal and oral sprays inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection of airway epithelial cultures	42
Is there an association between the level of ambient air pollution and COVID-19?	41
The hallmarks of severe pulmonary arterial hypertension: the cancer hypothesis—ten years later	41
SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and cystic fibrosis	41
Neutrophil extracellular traps activate IL-8 and IL-1 expression in human bronchial epithelia	40
The rise of electronic nicotine delivery systems and the emergence of electronic-cigarette-driven disease	40

SARS-CoV-2 may hijack GPCR signaling pathways to dysregulate lung ion and fluid transport	39
E-cigarette constituents propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin decrease glucose uptake and its metabolism in airway epithelial cells in vitro	39
Link between increased cellular senescence and extracellular matrix changes in COPD	38
Human coronaviruses 229E and OC43 replicate and induce distinct antiviral responses in differentiated primary human bronchial epithelial cells	37
Hyperoxia and modulation of pulmonary vascular and immune responses in COVID-19	37
P-selectin blockade in COVID-19-related ARDS	36
The oxygen dissociation curve of blood in COVID-19	36
COPD 2020: new directions needed	34
The potential role of the carotid body in COVID-19	33
World Sepsis Day: a global agenda to target a leading cause of morbidity and mortality	33