OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Immunology is 51. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Pathogenesis	787
Neutralizing Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and Other Human Coronaviruses	605
Astrocyte Reactivity: Subtypes, States, and Functions in CNS Innate Immunity	363
The Role of Astrocytes in CNS Inflammation	275
A Potential Role of Interleukin 10 in COVID-19 Pathogenesis	220
Organoid Models of Tumor Immunology	213
Inflammation and Skeletal Muscle Regeneration: Leave It to the Macrophages!	202
Turning cold tumors hot: from molecular mechanisms to clinical applications	191
Macrophage diversity in cancer revisited in the era of single-cell omics	172
The ‘cytokine storm’: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic prospects	165
Coronaviruses: Innate Immunity, Inflammasome Activation, Inflammatory Cell Death, and Cytokines	150
Microglia and Astrocytes in Disease: Dynamic Duo or Partners in Crime?	148
Neutralizing Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and Other Human Coronaviruses	145
T Cells: Warriors of SARS-CoV-2 Infection	139
The Contribution of Epigenetics to Cancer Immunotherapy	137
NF-κB: blending metabolism, immunity, and inflammation	136
To Kill a Microglia: A Case for CSF1R Inhibitors	125
CRAC Channels and Calcium Signaling in T Cell-Mediated Immunity	120
Tolerogenic Dendritic Cells in Autoimmunity and Inflammatory Diseases	118
Tissue-Specific Features of Innate Lymphoid Cells	109
Cytokine-skewed Tfh cells: functional consequences for B cell help	98
VISTA: A Mediator of Quiescence and a Promising Target in Cancer Immunotherapy	96
Improving Vaccine-Induced Immunity: Can Baseline Predict Outcome?	95
AID in Antibody Diversification: There and Back Again	90
Bcl6-Mediated Transcriptional Regulation of Follicular Helper T cells (TFH)	87

Unraveling B cell trajectories at single cell resolution	86
Dual Nature of Type I Interferons in SARS-CoV-2-Induced Inflammation	85
Early clues regarding the pathogenesis of long-COVID	83
Tissue-resident macrophages: guardians of organ homeostasis	78
Opportunities for Small Molecules in Cancer Immunotherapy	78
How Neutrophils Meet Their End	77
Structural Basis of SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV Antibody Interactions	77
Immune imprinting and SARS-CoV-2 vaccine design	74
A20 and Cell Death-driven Inflammation	70
Polyamines and Kynurenines at the Intersection of Immune Modulation	70
Transcription Factor Bhlhe40 in Immunity and Autoimmunity	69
Decoding the Heterogeneity of Human Dendritic Cell Subsets	69
Monocyte Regulation in Homeostasis and Malignancy	68
Single B cell technologies for monoclonal antibody discovery	67
RORγt protein modifications and IL-17-mediated inflammation	64
The Role of TGFβ Signaling in Microglia Maturation and Activation	64
CD4+ T cells that help B cells – a proposal for uniform nomenclature	63
Predicting and Preventing Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Toxicity: Targeting Cytokines	62
The Speckled Protein (SP) Family: Immunity’s Chromatin Readers	57
Emerging mechanisms of immunocoagulation in sepsis and septic shock	57
The cholesterol pathway: impact on immunity and cancer	55
Harnessing IL-15 signaling to potentiate NK cell-mediated cancer immunotherapy	55
Lactic acid and lactate: revisiting the physiological roles in the tumor microenvironment	53
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks? The Plasticity of Lung Alveolar Macrophage Subsets	53
Cardiac Mast Cells: Underappreciated Immune Cells in Cardiovascular Homeostasis and Disease	51
Immunotherapeutic Potential of TGF-β Inhibition and Oncolytic Viruses	51