OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Plant Biology is 44. 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
Contents	640
Context-specific functions of transcription factors controlling plant development: From leaves to flowers	144
Looking at mechanobiology through an evolutionary lens	137
Peculiarities of the regulation of translation initiation in plants	134
The dynamics of maize leaf development: Patterned to grow while growing a pattern	120
β-Glucan-binding proteins are key modulators of immunity and symbiosis in mutualistic plant–microbe interactions	109
Phylogenetic and genomic mechanisms shaping glucosinolate innovation	105
Understanding signaling pathways governing the polar development of root hairs in low-temperature, nutrient-deficient environments	101
Beauty is more than epidermis deep: How cell division and expansion sculpt the leaf spongy mesophyll	90
Specialized metabolism in St John's wort	89
Developing for nutrient uptake: Induced organogenesis in parasitic plants and root nodule symbiosis	83
Steroidal compounds in Paris polyphylla:structure, biological activities, and biosynthesis	82
More than an on-and-off switch: Post-translational modifications of plant pattern recognition receptor complexes	82
Hormonal regulation of inflorescence and intercalary meristems in grasses	76
Transplastomic approaches for metabolic engineering	74
Tactics of host manipulation by intracellular effectors from plant pathogenic fungi	74
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	71
Maternal-filial transfer structures in endosperm: A nexus of nutritional dynamics and seed development	69
β-Glucosidases in specialized metabolism: Towards a new understanding of the gatekeepers of plant chemical arsenal	68
Microbiota-root-shoot-environment axis and stress tolerance in plants	65
Editorial overview: Plant metabolism without a border: The interface of primary and specialised metabolism	64
Editorial Board	60
Plant growth and development: Experimental diversity is essential for dissecting plant diversity	59
Chemical tools for unpicking plant specialised metabolic pathways	57
Something old, something new: Conservation of the ethylene precursor 1-amino-cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid as a signaling molecule	56

The parental contributions to early plant embryogenesis and the concept of maternal-to-zygotic transition in plants	56
Plant sphingolipids: Subcellular distributions and functions	54
NLR immune receptors and diverse types of non-NLR proteins control race-specific resistance in Triticeae	54
How transposable elements are recognized and epigenetically silenced in plants?	53
Plant-microbiome crosstalk and disease development	50
Protein polarization: Spatiotemporal precisions in cell division and differentiation	50
The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment	50
At the root of plant symbioses: Untangling the genetic mechanisms behind mutualistic associations	50
Contents	48
Polymorphisms in plants to restrict losses to pathogens: From gene family expansions to complex network evolution	48
Modes of secretion of plant lipophilic metabolites via ABCG transporter-dependent transport and vesicle-mediated trafficking	46
Biosynthesis of triterpenoids in plants: Pathways, regulation, and biological functions	46
Recent insights into air space formation in plant shoots	45
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines	45
The evolution of tropane alkaloids: Coca does it differently	45
Rapid systemic responses to herbivory	44
Unlocking diversity from wild relatives of perennial fruit crops in the pan-genomics era	44
Re-imagining crop domestication in the era of high throughput phenomics	44
Evolution of immunity networks across embryophytes	44