OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology is 15. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Cis Interactions of Membrane Receptors and Ligands	304
Morphogenesis of the Vertebrate Intestine: From Form to Function	203
A Tale of Three Systems: Toward a Neuroimmunoendocrine Model of Obesity	179
Promoters and Antagonists of Phagocytosis: A Plastic and Tunable Response	141
What Makes Us Human: Insights from the Evolution and Development of the Human Neocortex	125
Exploring Mechanical Forces Shaping Self-Organization and Morphogenesis During Early Embryo Development	108
Evolution of Sensory Receptors	101
Biogenesis and Regulatory Roles of Circular RNAs	90
The Visual Opsin Gene Repertoires of Teleost Fishes: Evolution, Ecology, and Function	82
Tissue Homeostasis and Non-Homeostasis: From Cell Life Cycles to Organ States	70
Organoid Imaging: Seeing Development and Function	68
Calcium Signaling Mechanisms Across Kingdoms	61
Mitochondria as Cellular and Organismal Signaling Hubs	59
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When We Publish: Accuracy and Quality Control in the Time of Open Access	54
Mechanochemical Principles of Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Cells and Tissues	54
Recent Advances in Ciliate Biology	52
A New Infectious Unit: Extracellular Vesicles Carrying Virus Populations	47
Physiological Functions of Intracellular Protein Degradation	47
The Tubulin Code, from Molecules to Health and Disease	47
Neurobiology, Stem Cell Biology, and Immunology: An Emerging Triad for Understanding Tissue Homeostasis and Repair	44
Neofunctionalization of Toll Signaling in Insects: From Immunity to Dorsoventral Patterning	43
Components and Mechanisms of Nuclear Mechanotransduction	40
Mechanisms of Regeneration and Fibrosis in the Endometrium	39
Glycocalyx Curving the Membrane: Forces Emerging from the Cell Exterior	37

Getting to the Route: The Evolution of Nitrogen-Fixing Nodules	36
Surprises from Intravital Imaging of the Innate Immune Response	36
Filopodia In Vitro and In Vivo	33
The Genomics and Cell Biology of Host-Beneficial Intracellular Infections	33
Spatial Organization of Chromatin: Emergence of Chromatin Structure During Development	32
Morphogenetic Roles of Hydrostatic Pressure in Animal Development	31
Tissue Biology: In Search of a New Paradigm	31
The Logic of Transgenerational Inheritance: Timescales of Adaptation	30
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reaction Diffusion in Vertebrate Skin Color Patterning	27
The Archaeal Cell Cycle	26
Biophysical and Quantitative Principles of Centrosome Biogenesis and Structure	25
Self-Organization of Cellular Units	25
Dormancy, Quiescence, and Diapause: Savings Accounts for Life	23
Mitochondrial Structure, Dynamics, and Physiology: Light Microscopy to Disentangle the Network	22
Motor Cooperation During Mitosis and Ciliogenesis	22
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Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Bacterial Rod Shape Formation and Regulation	19
Fighting Enemies in Every Which Way	19
Functionalized Protein Binders in Developmental Biology	17
Following the Birth, Life, and Death of mRNAs in Single Cells	16
A Fish Eye View: Retinal Morphogenesis from Optic Cup to Neuronal Lamination	15
The Mexican Tetra, Astyanax mexicanus, as a Model System in Cell and Developmental Biology	15