OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Biology of the Cell is 23. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
You are the most valuable reagent in the lab: mental health before and during the pandemic	58
Sequestration of the exocytic SNARE Psy1 into multiprotein nodes reinforces polarized morphogenesis in fission yeast	52
Improved imaging and preservation of lysosome dynamics using silver nanoparticle-enhanced fluorescence	42
Image-based discrimination of the early stages of mesenchymal stem cell differentiation	40
After wounding, a G-protein coupled receptor promotes the restoration of tension in epithelial cells	37
Load adaptation by endocytic actin networks	37
Mitotic spindle membranes	36
Preprint Highlight: Multiplexed bioluminescence microscopy via phasor analysis	35
STMND1 is a phylogenetically ancient stathmin which localizes to motile cilia and exhibits nuclear translocation that is inhibited when soluble tubulin concentration increases	34
Landmarks in the discovery of a role for actin in cell locomotion	33
The outer kinetochore components KNL-1 and Ndc80 complex regulate axon and neuronal cell body positioning in the C. elegans nervous system	32
Preprint Highlight: Mitotic clustering of pulverized chromosomes from micronuclei	31
Sec18 binds the tethering/SM complex HOPS to engage the Qc-SNARE for membrane fusion	29
Dynamics of intracellular neonatal Fc receptor–ligand interactions in primary macrophages using biophysical fluorescence techniques	29
Analysis of the roles of phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate and individual subunits in assembly, localization, and function of Saccharomyces cerevisiae target of rapamycin complex 2	29
p97/VCP Promotes the Recycling of Endocytic Cargo	28
Suppression of cofilin-1 promotes invasion in 3D hyaluronic acid matrices by promoting actin-based protrusions	26
Interactions between TULP3 tubby domain and ARL13B amphipathic helix promote lipidated protein transport to cilia	26
Actin contraction controls nuclear blebbing and rupture independent of actin confinement	25
Non-muscle Myosin IIA (NMIIA) regulates anisotropic cell tension to maintain the hexagonal packing of mouse lens meridional row cells	25
The ARF GAPs ELMOD1 and ELMOD3 act at the Golgi and cilia to regulate ciliogenesis and ciliary protein traffic	25
LYSET facilitates integration of both the N- and C-terminal transmembrane helices/cytoplasmic domains of GlcNAc-1-phosphotransferase	24
Negative-sense RNA viruses: An underexplored platform for examining virus–host lipid interactions	24
Phosphorylation of the small heat shock protein HspB1 regulates cytoskeletal recruitment and cell motility	23
SUMO paralogue–specific functions revealed through systematic analysis of human knockout cell lines and gene expression data	23

Nir1 constitutively localizes at ER–PM junctions and promotes Nir2 recruitment for PIP₂ homeostasis	23
Scaling of biosynthesis and metabolism with cell size	23