OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology is 16. 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
Proteins of the Triadic Excitation–Contraction Coupling Complex in Skeletal Muscle	129
The Nodes of Ranvier: Mechanisms of Assembly and Maintenance	94
Fisher's Geometric Model as a Tool to Study Speciation	94
The Role of Membrane Lipids in the Formation and Function of Caveolae	92
Teaching School Genetics in the 2020s: Why “Naive” Mendelian Genetics Has to Go	90
Angiogenesis in Wound Repair: Too Much of a Good Thing?	88
Fibroblast Heterogeneity in Healthy and Wounded Skin	75
Post-Translational Regulation of HMG CoA Reductase	69
The Role of Microhomology-Mediated End Joining (MMEJ) at Dysfunctional Telomeres	61
Telomere Dynamics in Human Health and Disease	53
Lipids in Extracellular Vesicles: What Can Be Learned about Membrane Structure and Function?	52
Diversity of Fibroblasts and Their Roles in Wound Healing	51
Engineering Proteins Using Statistical Models of Coevolutionary Sequence Information	51
Petabase-Scale Homology Search for Structure Prediction	44
Seeing the Membrane from Both Sides Now: Lipid Asymmetry and Its Strange Consequences	43
A History of Cancer Research: Retroviral Insertional Mutagenesis	39
Regulation of Human Telomerase: from Molecular Interactions to Population Genetics	39
Modeling Normal and Abnormal Circuit Development with Recurrent Neural Networks	38
Toward Understanding Wound Immunology for High-Fidelity Skin Regeneration	37
Mapping the Retina onto the Brain	37
Maintaining Telomeres without Telomerase inDrosophila: Novel Mechanisms and Rapid Evolution to Save a Genus	37
Structural Diversity within the Endoplasmic Reticulum—From the Microscale to the Nanoscale	37
Blastocrithidia—A Genetic Alien from the Planet Earth	36
Endoplasmic Reticulum Membrane Contact Sites, Lipid Transport, and Neurodegeneration	34
Interneuron Diversity: How Form Becomes Function	33

The Biology of Lipids	31
Lipid Transport from Endoplasmic Reticulum to Autophagic Membranes	30
Good Neighbors: The Niche that Fine Tunes Mammalian Intestinal Regeneration	30
Neotropics as a Cradle for Adaptive Radiations	30
Building and Maintaining the Skin	30
A TAle of Two Pathways: Tail-Anchored Protein Insertion at the Endoplasmic Reticulum	29
Why Do Some Lineages Radiate While Others Do Not? Perspectives for Future Research on Adaptive Radiations	29
Machine Learning for Protein Science and Engineering	28
A History of Cancer Research: Oncogenic Transcription Factors	28
Glial Cell Development and Function in the Zebrafish Central Nervous System	28
Regulators of Oligodendrocyte Differentiation	27
Variability in Neural Circuit Formation	27
Combining Molecular, Macroevolutionary, and Macroecological Perspectives on the Generation of Diversity	27
Growth Factor and Cytokine Delivery Systems for Wound Healing	25
Glycerolipid Synthesis and Lipid Droplet Formation in the Endoplasmic Reticulum	25
Cancer Progression and the Calcium Signaling Toolkit: Expanding Dimensions and Perspectives	24
Niche Theory as an Underutilized Resource for the Study of Adaptive Radiations	22
Calcium Signaling and Metabolic Reprogramming in Cancer: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications	22
Quantitative Analyses of Coupling in Hybrid Zones	22
Sex Differences in Mast Cell–Associated Disorders: A Life Span Perspective	21
Lipid Metabolism	21
Mechanisms of Chromosome Folding and Nuclear Organization: Their Interplay and Open Questions	21
Transformation of Plantation Forestry Productivity for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation	21
Predictability, an Orrery, and a Speciation Machine: Quest for a Standard Model of Speciation	21
In the Loop: Unusual DNA Structures at Telomeric Repeats and Their Impact on Telomere Function	21
How Neuromembrane Lipids Modulate Membrane Proteins: Insights from G-Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) and Receptor Tyrosine Kinases (RTKs)	20
Beyond Fluidity: The Role of Lipid Unsaturation in Membrane Function	20
The Diverse Manifestations of Regeneration and Why We Need to Study Them	20
Developmental Control of Cell Cycle and Signaling	20
Caspases and Their Substrates	19
Glia at Transition Zones	19
Cholesterol, Eukaryotic Lipid Domains, and an Evolutionary Perspective of Transmembrane Signaling	19
Pancreatic β-Cell Development and Regeneration	18
The Sensory Ecology of Speciation	17
Hidden Treasures of the Genetic Systems in Yeast Mitochondria	17
Glia Development and Function in the NematodeCaenorhabditis elegans	17
All for One and One for All: Regenerating Skeletal Muscle	16
Lipid Sorting and Organelle Identity	16
Development of Prefrontal Circuits and Cognitive Abilities	16
Remyelination in the Central Nervous System	16
Synthesis and Scope of the Role of Postmating Prezygotic Isolation in Speciation	16
Microglia in Health and Diseases: Integrative Hubs of the Central Nervous System (CNS)	16