OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering is 27. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
	137
Regenerative Approaches for Chronic Wounds	107
Medical Microrobots	101
Kidney Disease Modeling with Organoids and Organs-on-Chips	93
Therapeutic Ultrasound for Multimodal Cancer Treatment: A Spotlight on Breast Cancer	91
Thinking Beyond the Device: An Overview of Human- and Equity-Centered Approaches for Health Technology Design	80
3D Traction Force Microscopy in Biological Gels: From Single Cells to Multicellular Spheroids	78
Mechanical Control of Cell Differentiation: Insights from the Early Embryo	75
Multimodal Toxicity of Acrolein and Associated Therapeutic Strategies in Central Nervous System Trauma and Disease	74
Therapeutic Applications of Engineered Cell Death, Arrest, and Persistence	69
A Theoretical Approach in Applying High-Frequency Acoustic and Elasticity Microscopy to Assess Cells and Tissues	62
Biomaterials for Hemostasis	50
	46
Replicating Host–Microbiome Interactions: Harnessing Organ-on-a-Chip and Organoid Technologies to Model Vaginal and Lung Physiology	41
Cell-Instructive Biomaterials with Native-Like Biochemical Complexity	40
Direct Cardiac Compression Devices to Augment Heart Biomechanics and Function	37
Histotripsy: A Method for Mechanical Tissue Ablation with Ultrasound	37
Microvascularization in 3D Human Engineered Tissue and Organoids	35
Technologies to Assess Drug Response and Heterogeneity in Patient-Derived Cancer Organoids	35
Fly Me to the Micron: Microtechnologies for Drosophila Research	34
Recent Advancements in Electroporation Technologies: From Bench to Clinic	34
Noninvasive Monitoring to Detect Dehydration: Are We There Yet?	31
Recent Developments in Aerosol Pulmonary Drug Delivery: New Technologies, New Cargos, and New Targets	30
Recent Advances in mRNA Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines	29
Direct Electron Transfer–Type Oxidoreductases for Biomedical Applications	27

Federated Learning in Healthcare: From Research to Real-World Deployment	27
Label-Free Optical Metabolic Imaging in Cells and Tissues	27
A Hundred Ways to Encode Sound Signals for Cochlear Implants	27