OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Organism as the Niche: Physiological States Crack the Code of Adult Neural Stem Cell Heterogeneity	269
The Tubulin Code, from Molecules to Health and Disease	169
When We Publish: Accuracy and Quality Control in the Time of Open Access	156
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How Microtubules Build the Spindle Branch by Branch	105
The Logic of Transgenerational Inheritance: Timescales of Adaptation	87
Molecular Mechanisms of Sexually Dimorphic Nervous System Patterning in Flies and Worms	87
Cis Interactions of Membrane Receptors and Ligands	80
From Cell Types to an Integrated Understanding of Brain Evolution: The Case of the Cerebral Cortex	65
Recent Advances in Ciliate Biology	60
Physiological Functions of Intracellular Protein Degradation	58
Structural Biology of Cilia and Intraflagellar Transport	51
Control of Tissue Development by Morphogens	49
Organ Evolution: Emergence of Multicellular Function	47
Components and Mechanisms of Nuclear Mechanotransduction	44
A Pandemic Year: Perils and Possibilities	44
Promoters and Antagonists of Phagocytosis: A Plastic and Tunable Response	43
Neurobiology, Stem Cell Biology, and Immunology: An Emerging Triad for Understanding Tissue Homeostasis and Repair	42
Lipid Droplets Big and Small: Basic Mechanisms That Make Them All	42
Regulation of TORC2 Function and Localization in Yeast	37
Mechanisms of Regeneration and Fibrosis in the Endometrium	37
Thymic Mimetic Cells: Ontogeny as Immunology	33