OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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Retrospective review of outcomes associated with metastatic melanoma patients treated with 1st‐line BRAF‐targeted therapy	29
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Cytoglobin functions as a redox regulator of melanogenesis in normal epidermal melanocytes	28
Proceedings from the Melanoma Research Foundation Mucosal Melanoma Meeting (December 16, 2022, New York, USA)	27
Oral Melanoma in Older Adults: Epidemiology, Molecular Landscape, and Treatment Strategies	26
CD52 mRNA expression predicts prognosis and response to immune checkpoint blockade in melanoma	20
SASH1 Mutations and Hereditary Disorders of Pigmentation: Review of Literature	20
Molecular heterogeneity of quiescent melanocyte stem cells revealed by single‐cell RNA‐sequencing	19
Let’s talk about sex: A biological variable in immune response against melanoma	19
Modeling of pigmentation disorders associated with MITF mutation in Waardenburg syndrome revealed an impaired melanogenesis pathway in iPS‐derived melanocytes	18
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Progress in melanoma treatment: Patient's perspectives	14
Impact of a SLC24A5 variant on the retinal pigment epithelium of a Japanese patient with oculocutaneous albinism type 6	14
Microfluidic Characterization and Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells From Patients With Metastatic Melanoma	14
25th International Pigment Cell Conference, Bilbao, Spain IPCC 2023	14
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Comprehensive Profiling of Acral Lentiginous Melanoma Reveals Downregulated Immune Activation Compared to Cutaneous Melanoma	13
The Melanocyte and Nerve Fiber Cross‐Talk, Facilitated Also by Semaphorin‐4A, Enhances UV‐B‐Induced Melanogenesis	12
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PASPCR 2024 Annual Meeting, New York, NY	9
Neratinib kills B‐RAF V600E melanoma via ROS‐dependent autophagosome formation and death receptor signaling	9
Corrigendum	9
Celebrating the life of James J. Nordlund, MD, a larger‐than‐life scholar, mentor, and friend	8
Sex Differences in Acral Lentiginous Melanoma: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis of 3617 Cases From the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Database	8
Single‐cell profiling of MC1R‐inhibited melanocytes	7
MetFinder: A Tool for Automated Quantitation of Metastatic Burden in Histological Sections From Preclinical Models	7
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Association Between Melanoma Metastasis and Metabolic Syndrome: A Cross‐Sectional Study in a Chinese Population	7
Prognostic value of clinical and radiomic parameters in patients with liver metastases from uveal melanoma	7
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Mouse Tail‐Skin Dissociation and Preparation of Live Single‐Cell Suspension for Downstream Analysis of Melanocytes	7
BORIS/CTCFL‐mediated chromatin accessibility alterations promote a pro‐invasive transcriptional signature in melanoma cells	7
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Meeting Report From the 2023 Cure Ocular Melanoma (CURE OM) Global Science Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 2023	6
Beyond the 5‐year milestone: Long‐term survivorship of melanoma patients treated off‐trial with anti‐PD‐1	6
The delicate relation between melanocytes and skin immunity: A game of hide and seek	6
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Dominant Negative Mitf Allele Impacts Melanophore and Xanthophore Development and Reveals Collaborative Interactions With Tfec in Zebrafish Chromatophore Lineages	6
Two novel CreER^T2 transgenic mouse lines to study melanocytic cells in vivo	5
The Proposed Categorization of Vitiligo Lesions on the Hands	5
UVA Irradiation Promotes Melanoma Cell Proliferation Mediated by OPN3 Independently of ROS Production	5
Induced pluripotent stem cells reprogramming overcomes technical limitations for highly pigmented adult melanocyte amplification and integration in 3D skin model	5
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Immune signatures in cutaneous melanoma correlate with survival independently of immunotherapy treatment	5
The metabolism of melanin synthesis—From melanocytes to melanoma	5
Connecting the dots: Melanoma cell of origin, tumor cell plasticity, trans‐differentiation, and drug resistance	5
2‐Mercaptonicotinoyl glycine, a new potent melanogenesis inhibitor, exhibits a unique mode of action while preserving melanocyte integrity	5
5,6‐Dihydroxyindole eumelanin content in human skin with varying degrees of constitutive pigmentation	5
Topical antibiotics limit depigmentation in a mouse model of vitiligo	5
The OSUMMER lines: A series of ultraviolet‐accelerated NRAS‐mutant mouse melanoma cell lines syngeneic to C57BL/6	5
Three‐dimensional imaging for the analysis of human epidermal melanocytes	5
Clinicopathological features, current status, and progress of primary central nervous system melanoma diagnosis and treatment	4
Pigmentation and Retinal Pigment Epithelium Thickness: A Study of the Phenotypic and Genotypic Relationships Between Ocular and Extraocular Pigmented Tissues	4
Unsuspected consequences of synonymous and missense variants in OCA2 can be detected in blood cell RNA samples of patients with albinism	4
Genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity of multiple lentigines and precise diagnosis in four Chinese families with multiple lentigines	4
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Durable complete response in a patient with leptomeningeal melanoma after treatment with dabrafenib, trametinib, and nivolumab	4
Pathogenic Germline Variants in Uveal Melanoma Driver and BAP1‐Associated Genes in Finnish Patients with Uveal Melanoma	4
Clinical and pathological characteristics of familial melanoma with germline TERT promoter variants	4
ToF‐SIMS imaging reveals changes in tumor cell lipids during metastatic progression of melanoma	4
Causes of death and patterns of metastatic disease at the end of life for patients with advanced melanoma in the immunotherapy era	4
Patient Education in the Eye of the Beholder: Assessing the Effect of Skin Color Representation in Melanoma Educational Materials	4
Prognostic and Predictive Value of ctDNA for Metastatic Uveal Melanoma: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis	4