OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Plant Biology is 42. 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
Messenger and message: Uncovering the roles, rhythm and regulation of extracellular vesicles in plant biotic interactions	575
Detecting novel plant pathogen threats to food system security by integrating the Plant Reactome and remote sensing	122
Editorial overview: Advancing basic plant research and crop improvement through cutting-edge biotechnologies	118
Steroidal compounds in Paris polyphylla:structure, biological activities, and biosynthesis	114
Contents	106
New genomic approaches for enhancing maize genetic improvement	102
Tuber, or not tuber: Molecular and morphological basis of underground storage organ development	98
Editorial Board	97
Tracking the messengers: Emerging advances in mRNA-based plant communication	85
Beauty is more than epidermis deep: How cell division and expansion sculpt the leaf spongy mesophyll	81
Contents	79
Contents	77
Editorial Board	77
Editorial overview: Tapping into the secret life of small molecules: Addressing the “dark matter” of metabolomes	76
Editorial overview: Dynamics underlying plasticity and robustness	74
Editorial overview: Not everyone can become a cell biologist, but a great cell biologist can come from anywhere	72
Editorial Board	71
Genomic insights into the evolution of plant chemical defense	71
Editorial overview: Multifaceted dynamics and countless shades of green chromatin	71
Scaling-up to understand tree–pathogen interactions: A steep, tough climb or a walk in the park?	71
Proteasome and selective autophagy: Brothers-in-arms for organelle quality control	69
Understanding signaling pathways governing the polar development of root hairs in low-temperature, nutrient-deficient environments	64
Histone methylation in epigenetic regulation and temperature responses	63
How do plants reprogramme the fate of differentiated cells?	62
Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice: Utilization, coordination, and availability	62

Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	61
Dangerous sugars: Structural diversity and functional significance of acylsugar-like defense compounds in flowering plants	60
Better together: Protein partnerships for lineage-specific oil accumulation	59
Recent advances in local and systemic nitrate signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana	57
One hundred years into the study of ecotypes, new advances are being made through large-scale field experiments in perennial plant systems	53
Connecting the dots between cell surface- and intracellular-triggered immune pathways in plants	53
Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity	50
Conditioning plants for arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis through DWARF14-LIKE signalling	49
Looking at mechanobiology through an evolutionary lens	47
Crops of the future: building a climate-resilient plant immune system	46
Stories that can’t be told by SNPs; DNA methylation variation in plant populations	46
Engineering pest tolerance through plant-mediated RNA interference	45
Editorial overview: Toward deciphering the molecular basis of plant phenotypic plasticity	44
Coding of plant immune signals by surface receptors	44
Molecular mechanisms of reprogramming of differentiated cells into stem cells in the moss Physcomitrium patens	44
Potentials of single-cell genomics in deciphering cellular phenotypes	44
Plasmodesmata and their role in the regulation of phloem unloading during fruit development	43
Are we there yet? Driving the road to evolutionary graph-pangenomics	42