OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Autophagy is 56. 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
Reticulophagy mediated by the V-ATPase-ATG16L1-LC3C axis	426
A PRKN-independent mechanism regulating cardiac mitochondrial quality control	362
The hallmark domain of the oldest autophagy receptor family is a cargo-binding module	350
TFEB- and TFE3-dependent autophagy activation supports cancer proliferation in the absence of centrosomes	291
ER quality control through reticulophagy and protein secretion	194
A delicate decision between repair and degradation of damaged lysosomes	171
The autophagy pathway beyond model organisms: an evolutionary perspective	168
Autophagy regulates organelle reorganization during spermiogenesis in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha	163
Enhancing neuronal reticulophagy: a strategy for combating aging and APP toxicity	154
Targeting impaired autophagy as a therapeutic strategy for Koolen-de Vries syndrome	151
A plant nonenveloped double-stranded RNA virus activates and co-opts BNIP3-mediated mitophagy to promote persistent infection in its insect vector	134
Reconsidering the selectivity of bulk autophagy: cargo hitchhiking specifies cargo for degradation	128
The active zone protein CLA-1 (Clarinet) bridges two subsynaptic domains to regulate presynaptic sorting of ATG-9	122
Sodium butyrate ameliorates high glucose-suppressed neuronal mitophagy by restoring PRKN expression via inhibiting the RELA-HDAC8 complex	121
Correction	118
Increased apoptosis of gingival epithelium is associated with impaired autophagic flux in medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw	115
ALDOA maintains NLRP3 inflammasome activation by controlling AMPK activation	114
Burkholderia pseudomallei BipD initiates mitophagy to evade killing by hijacking host KLHL9-KLHL13-CUL3 E3 ligase to ubiquitinate IMMT	113
Atg1-dependent phosphorylation of Vps34 is required for dynamic regulation of the phagophore assembly site and autophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	107
Should it stay or should it go: gap junction protein GJA1/Cx43 conveys damaged lysosomes to the cell periphery to potentiate exocytosis	106
Endoplasmic reticulum tubule junctions are sites of autophagy	102
Macrophage TRIM21 knockout inhibits septic acute lung injury by downregulating autophagy regulator protein ubiquitination	97
Neuronal antenna senses signals from the bone to sustain cognition by boosting autophagy	91
Corrigendum	91
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus degrades DDX10 via SQSTM1/p62-dependent selective autophagy to antagonize its antiviral activity	90

Emerging roles of ATG9/ATG9A in autophagy: implications for cell and neurobiology	87
LAMP2 regulates autophagy in the thymic epithelium and thymic stroma-dependent CD4 T cell development	83
Autophagy activates EGR1 via MAPK/ERK to induce FGF2 in renal tubular cells for fibroblast activation and fibrosis during maladaptive kidney repair	83
PGAM5 interacts with and maintains BNIP3 to license cancer-associated muscle wasting	80
TFEB-dependent autophagy is involved in scavenger receptor OLR1/LOX-1-mediated tumor progression	77
Selective autophagic degradation of ACLY (ATP citrate lyase) maintains citrate homeostasis and promotes oocyte maturation	76
Mitochondrial import stress and PINK1-mediated mitophagy: the role of the PINK1-TOMM-TIMM23 supercomplex	75
LYC inhibits the AKT signaling pathway to activate autophagy and ameliorate TGFB-induced renal fibrosis	75
PINK1-deficiency facilitates mitochondrial iron accumulation and colon tumorigenesis	75
Tumor-derived CTF1 (cardiotrophin 1) is a critical mediator of stroma-assisted and autophagy-dependent breast cancer cell migration, invasion and metastasis	73
Reticulophagy and viral infection	73
ESCRT III-mediated lysosomal repair improve renal tubular cell injury in cisplatin-induced AKI	73
The cocoon into a butterfly: why the HVA22 family proteins turned out to be the reticulophagy receptors in plants?	71
Accurate automated segmentation of autophagic bodies in yeast vacuoles using cellpose 2.0	70
PRRSV utilizes MALT1-regulated autophagy flux to switch virus spread and reserve	70
Epitranscriptomic turbo for autophagy boost: m⁶A reader YTHDF3	68
Automated quantification of vacuole fusion and lipophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae from fluorescence and cryo-soft X-ray microscopy data using deep learning	68
Integrating bioengineering, super-resolution microscopy and mechanobiology in autophagy research: addendum to the guidelines (4th edition)	67
Deciphering melanophagy: role of the PTK2-ITCH-MLANA-OPTN cascade on melanophagy in melanocytes	67
S- acylation of PNPLA2/ATGL: a necessity for triacylglycerol lipolysis and lipophagy in hepatocytes	66
Identification of the YIPF3-YIPF4 heterodimer as a novel Golgiphagy receptor	65
The PINK1 advantage: recycling mitochondria in times of trouble?	64
Excessive BNIP3- and BNIP3L-dependent mitophagy underlies the pathogenesis of FBXL4-mutated mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome	64
CircRNA GRAMD4 induces NBR1 expression to promote autophagy and immune escape in renal cell carcinoma	63
SKArred 2 death: neuroinflammatory breakdown of the hippocampus	63
Growth factor receptor signaling induces mitophagy through epitranscriptomic regulation	62
Lassa virus Z protein hijacks the autophagy machinery for efficient transportation by interrupting CCT2-mediated cytoskeleton network formation	61
ATG2A-WDR45/WIPI4-ATG9A complex-mediated lipid transfer and equilibration during autophagosome formation	60
UBE3C tunes autophagy via ATG4B ubiquitination	60
Starvation-inactivated MTOR triggers cell migration via a ULK1-SH3PXD2A/TKS5-MMP14 pathway in ovarian carcinoma	60
GAK and PRKCD kinases regulate basal mitophagy	59
Periplocin suppresses the growth of colorectal cancer cells by triggering LGALS3 (galectin 3)-mediated lysophagy	56
MoOrp-mediated PtdIns4P transportation is essential for autophagy and pathogenicity in Magnaporthe oryzae	56