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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Reticulophagy mediated by the V-ATPase-ATG16L1-LC3C axis	385
A PRKN-independent mechanism regulating cardiac mitochondrial quality control	323
The hallmark domain of the oldest autophagy receptor family is a cargo-binding module	307
PGAM5 interacts with and maintains BNIP3 to license cancer-associated muscle wasting	255
TFEB- and TFE3-dependent autophagy activation supports cancer proliferation in the absence of centrosomes	173
ER quality control through reticulophagy and protein secretion	168
Burkholderia pseudomallei BipD initiates mitophagy to evade killing by hijacking host KLHL9-KLHL13-CUL3 E3 ligase to ubiquitinate IMMT	151
A delicate decision between repair and degradation of damaged lysosomes	146
The autophagy pathway beyond model organisms: an evolutionary perspective	137
Autophagy regulates organelle reorganization during spermiogenesis in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha	135
Enhancing neuronal reticulophagy: a strategy for combating aging and APP toxicity	132
Targeting impaired autophagy as a therapeutic strategy for Koolen-de Vries syndrome	122
Reconsidering the selectivity of bulk autophagy: cargo hitchhiking specifies cargo for degradation	121
Neuronal antenna senses signals from the bone to sustain cognition by boosting autophagy	116
The active zone protein CLA-1 (Clarinet) bridges two subsynaptic domains to regulate presynaptic sorting of ATG-9	113
A plant nonenveloped double-stranded RNA virus activates and co-opts BNIP3-mediated mitophagy to promote persistent infection in its insect vector	109
Emerging roles of ATG9/ATG9A in autophagy: implications for cell and neurobiology	106
ATG7 safeguards human neural integrity	102
Atg1-dependent phosphorylation of Vps34 is required for dynamic regulation of the phagophore assembly site and autophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	101
Reticulophagy and viral infection	99
Should it stay or should it go: gap junction protein GJA1/Cx43 conveys damaged lysosomes to the cell periphery to potentiate exocytosis	96
Tumor-derived CTF1 (cardiotrophin 1) is a critical mediator of stroma-assisted and autophagy-dependent breast cancer cell migration, invasion and metastasis	95
Endoplasmic reticulum tubule junctions are sites of autophagy	92
Sodium butyrate ameliorates high glucose-suppressed neuronal mitophagy by restoring PRKN expression via inhibiting the RELA-HDAC8 complex	90
TFEB-dependent autophagy is involved in scavenger receptor OLR1/LOX-1-mediated tumor progression	88

Mitochondrial import stress and PINK1-mediated mitophagy: the role of the PINK1-TOMM-TIMM23 supercomplex	87
Autophagy activates EGR1 via MAPK/ERK to induce FGF2 in renal tubular cells for fibroblast activation and fibrosis during maladaptive kidney repair	84
ALDOA maintains NLRP3 inflammasome activation by controlling AMPK activation	79
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus degrades DDX10 via SQSTM1/p62-dependent selective autophagy to antagonize its antiviral activity	78
Increased apoptosis of gingival epithelium is associated with impaired autophagic flux in medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw	75
PINK1-deficiency facilitates mitochondrial iron accumulation and colon tumorigenesis	72
M. tuberculosis PknG manipulates host autophagy flux to promote pathogen intracellular survival	71
LYC inhibits the AKT signaling pathway to activate autophagy and ameliorate TGFB-induced renal fibrosis	70
LAMP2 regulates autophagy in the thymic epithelium and thymic stroma-dependent CD4 T cell development	67
Selective autophagic degradation of ACLY (ATP citrate lyase) maintains citrate homeostasis and promotes oocyte maturation	67
ESCRT III-mediated lysosomal repair improve renal tubular cell injury in cisplatin-induced AKI	65
TRIM22 facilitates autophagosome-lysosome fusion by mediating the association of GABARAPs and PLEKHM1	65
CARM1 drives mitophagy and autophagy flux during fasting-induced skeletal muscle atrophy	64
GAK and PRKCD kinases regulate basal mitophagy	64
Automated quantification of vacuole fusion and lipophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae from fluorescence and cryo-soft X-ray microscopy data using deep learning	64
SKArred 2 death: neuroinflammatory breakdown of the hippocampus	63
METTL3-dependent m ⁶ A modification of SNAP29 induces “autophagy-mitochondrial crisis” in the ischemic microenvironment after soft tissue transplantation	63
Starvation-inactivated MTOR triggers cell migration via a ULK1-SH3PXD2A/TKS5-MMP14 pathway in ovarian carcinoma	62
Spermidine-induced hypusination preserves mitochondrial and cognitive function during aging	62
Integrating bioengineering, super-resolution microscopy and mechanobiology in autophagy research: addendum to the guidelines (4th edition)	60
Deciphering melanophagy: role of the PTK2-ITCH-MLANA-OPTN cascade on melanophagy in melanocytes	60
Epitranscriptomic turbo for autophagy boost: m⁶A reader YTHDF3	60
S- acylation of PNPLA2/ATGL: a necessity for triacylglycerol lipolysis and lipophagy in hepatocytes	59
Identification of the YIPF3-YIPF4 heterodimer as a novel Golgiphagy receptor	58
Accurate automated segmentation of autophagic bodies in yeast vacuoles using cellpose 2.0	58
The PINK1 advantage: recycling mitochondria in times of trouble?	58
Lassa virus Z protein hijacks the autophagy machinery for efficient transportation by interrupting CCT2-mediated cytoskeleton network formation	57
Excessive BNIP3- and BNIP3L-dependent mitophagy underlies the pathogenesis of FBXL4-mutated mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome	57
High-resolution visualization and assessment of basal and OXPHOS-induced mitophagy in H9c2 cardiomyoblasts	56
CircRNA GRAMD4 induces NBR1 expression to promote autophagy and immune escape in renal cell carcinoma	56
Autophagy deficiency activates rDNA transcription	56
PRRSV utilizes MALT1-regulated autophagy flux to switch virus spread and reserve	56
ATG2A-WDR45/WIPI4-ATG9A complex-mediated lipid transfer and equilibration during autophagosome formation	56