OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Autophagy is 58. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Targeting impaired autophagy as a therapeutic strategy for Koolen-de Vries syndrome	498
Autophagy regulates organelle reorganization during spermiogenesis in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha	431
Enhancing neuronal reticulophagy: a strategy for combating aging and APP toxicity	429
Neuronal antenna senses signals from the bone to sustain cognition by boosting autophagy	361
ER quality control through reticulophagy and protein secretion	229
Reticulophagy mediated by the V-ATPase-ATG16L1-LC3C axis	211
The hallmark domain of the oldest autophagy receptor family is a cargo-binding module	198
Atg1-dependent phosphorylation of Vps34 is required for dynamic regulation of the phagophore assembly site and autophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	180
PGAM5 interacts with and maintains BNIP3 to license cancer-associated muscle wasting	169
Reticulophagy and viral infection	157
A PRKN-independent mechanism regulating cardiac mitochondrial quality control	143
Autophagy activates EGR1 via MAPK/ERK to induce FGF2 in renal tubular cells for fibroblast activation and fibrosis during maladaptive kidney repair	139
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus degrades DDX10 via SQSTM1/p62-dependent selective autophagy to antagonize its antiviral activity	135
LAMP2 regulates autophagy in the thymic epithelium and thymic stroma-dependent CD4 T cell development	133
Endoplasmic reticulum tubule junctions are sites of autophagy	131
LC3 and GABARAP independent autophagy of misfolded procollagen in mouse osteoblasts	121
Corrigendum	103
Increased apoptosis of gingival epithelium is associated with impaired autophagic flux in medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw	103
Emerging roles of ATG9/ATG9A in autophagy: implications for cell and neurobiology	102
Macrophage TRIM21 knockout inhibits septic acute lung injury by downregulating autophagy regulator protein ubiquitination	101
Reconsidering the selectivity of bulk autophagy: cargo hitchhiking specifies cargo for degradation	99
Should it stay or should it go: gap junction protein GJA1/Cx43 conveys damaged lysosomes to the cell periphery to potentiate exocytosis	97
A plant nonenveloped double-stranded RNA virus activates and co-opts BNIP3-mediated mitophagy to promote persistent infection in its insect vector	97
The active zone protein CLA-1 (Clarinet) bridges two subsynaptic domains to regulate presynaptic sorting of ATG-9	96
Burkholderia pseudomallei BipD initiates mitophagy to evade killing by hijacking host KLHL9-KLHL13-CUL3 E3 ligase to ubiquitinate IMMT	87

Correction	86
Sodium butyrate ameliorates high glucose-suppressed neuronal mitophagy by restoring PRKN expression via inhibiting the RELA-HDAC8 complex	85
ALDOA maintains NLRP3 inflammasome activation by controlling AMPK activation	82
Tumor-derived CTF1 (cardiotrophin 1) is a critical mediator of stroma-assisted and autophagy-dependent breast cancer cell migration, invasion and metastasis	79
A delicate decision between repair and degradation of damaged lysosomes	78
The autophagy pathway beyond model organisms: an evolutionary perspective	77
TFEB-dependent autophagy is involved in scavenger receptor OLR1/LOX-1-mediated tumor progression	77
Mitochondrial import stress and PINK1-mediated mitophagy: the role of the PINK1-TOMM-TIMM23 supercomplex	76
PINK1-deficiency facilitates mitochondrial iron accumulation and colon tumorigenesis	76
Selective autophagic degradation of ACLY (ATP citrate lyase) maintains citrate homeostasis and promotes oocyte maturation	75
LYC inhibits the AKT signaling pathway to activate autophagy and ameliorate TGFB-induced renal fibrosis	73
TFEB- and TFE3-dependent autophagy activation supports cancer proliferation in the absence of centrosomes	71
Integrating bioengineering, super-resolution microscopy and mechanobiology in autophagy research: addendum to the guidelines (4th edition)	71
The cocoon into a butterfly: why the HVA22 family proteins turned out to be the reticulophagy receptors in plants?	70
Lassa virus Z protein hijacks the autophagy machinery for efficient transportation by interrupting CCT2-mediated cytoskeleton network formation	70
Identification of the YIPF3-YIPF4 heterodimer as a novel Golgiphagy receptor	69
The PINK1 advantage: recycling mitochondria in times of trouble?	68
ATG2A-WDR45/WIPI4-ATG9A complex-mediated lipid transfer and equilibration during autophagosome formation	67
Accurate automated segmentation of autophagic bodies in yeast vacuoles using cellpose 2.0	67
S- acylation of PNPLA2/ATGL: a necessity for triacylglycerol lipolysis and lipophagy in hepatocytes	66
Deciphering melanophagy: role of the PTK2-ITCH-MLANA-OPTN cascade on melanophagy in melanocytes	66
SKArred 2 death: neuroinflammatory breakdown of the hippocampus	65
UBE3C tunes autophagy via ATG4B ubiquitination	65
PRRSV utilizes MALT1-regulated autophagy flux to switch virus spread and reserve	64
METTL3-dependent m ⁶ A modification of SNAP29 induces “autophagy-mitochondrial crisis” in the ischemic microenvironment after soft tissue transplantation	63
Epitranscriptomic turbo for autophagy boost: m⁶A reader YTHDF3	62
Automated quantification of vacuole fusion and lipophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae from fluorescence and cryo-soft X-ray microscopy data using deep learning	62
CircRNA GRAMD4 induces NBR1 expression to promote autophagy and immune escape in renal cell carcinoma	61
GAK and PRKCD kinases regulate basal mitophagy	59
High-resolution visualization and assessment of basal and OXPHOS-induced mitophagy in H9c2 cardiomyoblasts	59
Starvation-inactivated MTOR triggers cell migration via a ULK1-SH3PXD2A/TKS5-MMP14 pathway in ovarian carcinoma	58
Growth factor receptor signaling induces mitophagy through epitranscriptomic regulation	58
ESCRT III-mediated lysosomal repair improve renal tubular cell injury in cisplatin-induced AKI	58
CARM1 drives mitophagy and autophagy flux during fasting-induced skeletal muscle atrophy	58
Periplocin suppresses the growth of colorectal cancer cells by triggering LGALS3 (galectin 3)-mediated lysophagy	58