OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Mutation Research-Reviews in Mutation Research is 4. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The potential role of COVID-19 in the induction of DNA damage	44
Editorial Board	43
Editorial Board	35
Empirical relationship between chromosomal damage and airborne particulate matter: A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies in exposed populations	34
HCN4 and arrhythmias: Insights into base mutations	34
Clonal evolution and expansion associated with therapy resistance and relapse of colorectal cancer	34
The landscape of FGFR-TACC fusion in adult glioblastoma: From bench to bedside	29
International Workshops on Genotoxicity Testing (IWGT): Origins, achievements and ambitions	29
Evaluation of DNA double-strand break repair capacity in human cells: Critical overview of current functional methods	27
Interplay of cGAS with micronuclei: Regulation and diseases	26
The cell transformation assay to assess potential carcinogenic properties of nanoparticles	22
Exposure to nanoplastic particles and DNA damage in mammalian cells	22
miRNAs: Regulators of immune system in diabetes	20
Editorial Board	19
Considerations on the scoring of telomere aberrations in vertebrate cells detected by telomere or telomere plus centromere PNA-FISH	18
Molecular characterization of hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase mutant T cells in human blood: The concept of surrogate selection for immunologically relevant cells	16
Mitochondria act as a key regulatory factor in cancer progression: Current concepts on mutations, mitochondrial dynamics, and therapeutic approach	15
State of art of micronuclei assay in exfoliative cytology as a clinical biomarker of genetic damage in oral carcinogenesis: A systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Genetic predisposition to lymphomas: Overview of rare syndromes and inherited familial variants	15
Circadian effects on UV-induced damage and mutations	14
Applications of advanced technologies for detecting genomic structural variation	13
Postzygotic mutations and where to find them – Recent advances and future implications in the field of non-neoplastic somatic mosaicism	13
Loss of Y chromosome: An emerging next-generation biomarker for disease prediction and early detection?	12
Emerging pollutants in the aquatic environments: A review of genotoxic impacts	12
Launching the “Projections” series in mutation research reviews with a special issue on next generation sequencing	12

Revisiting the structural features of the xeroderma pigmentosum proteins: Focus on mutations and knowledge gaps	11
Advances in base editing: A focus on base transversions	11
Cancer risk associated with low-dose ionizing radiation: A systematic review of epidemiological and biological evidence	10
“Micronuclei and Disease” special issue: Aims, scope, and synthesis of outcomes	9
Clonal expansion of cancer driver gene mutants investigated using advanced sequencing technologies	9
Congenital neutropenia: From lab bench to clinic bedside and back	8
Gastrointestinal tract exposure to particles and DNA damage in animals: A review of studies before, during and after the peak of nanotoxicology	8
Methodologies for the detection and sequencing of the epigenetic-like oxidative DNA modification, 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine	8
From pathology to therapy: A comprehensive review of ATRX mutation related molecular functions and disorders	8
Use of micronucleus cytome assays with buccal cells for the detection of genotoxic effects: A systematic review and meta-analysis of occupational exposures to metals	7
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	7
Variations in genomic regions encoding long non-coding RNA genes associated with increased prostate cancer risk	6
Inverse dose protraction effects of low-LET radiation: Evidence and significance	6
Next-generation sequencing methodologies to detect low-frequency mutations: “Catch me if you can”	6
XPC multifaceted roles beyond DNA damage repair: p53-dependent and p53-independent functions of XPC in cell fate decisions	5
Mechanistic insights into cisplatin response in breast tumors: Molecular determinants and drug/nanotechnology-based therapeutic opportunities	5
Genotoxicity of multi-walled carbon nanotube reference materials in mammalian cells and animals	5
Mutagenesis-based plant breeding approaches and genome engineering: A review focused on tomato	4
Systematic review of comparative transcriptomic studies of cellular resistance to genotoxic stress	4
Objectives and achievements of the HUMN project on its 26th anniversary	4
The contribution of whole-exome sequencing to intellectual disability diagnosis and knowledge of underlying molecular mechanisms: A systematic review and meta-analysis	4
WNT5A: a double-edged sword in colorectal cancer progression	4
DNA damage, DNA repair and carcinogenicity: Tobacco smoke versus electronic cigarette aerosol	4