OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of World Journal of Stem Cells is 20. 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
Stem cells and pain	66
Clinical trials using dental stem cells: 2022 update	61
Regulation of the mesenchymal stem cell fate by interleukin-17: Implications in osteogenic differentiation	47
Combination of mesenchymal stem cells and three-dimensional collagen scaffold preserves ventricular remodeling in rat myocardial infarction model	43
Emerging role of mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomes in the repair of acute kidney injury	35
Dental mesenchymal stromal/stem cells in different microenvironments— implications in regenerative therapy	35
Stem cell-derived neural organoids as platforms to investigate glioblastoma invasion and migration: A systematic review	33
Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell therapy regulates gut microbiota to improve post-stroke neurological function recovery in rats	32
Effects of exosomes from mesenchymal stem cells on functional recovery of a patient with total radial nerve injury: A pilot study	30
Recombinant human thrombopoietin safety and efficacy in pediatric allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: A cohort study	29
Human retinal secretome: A cross-link between mesenchymal and retinal cells	27
Safety and efficiency of Wharton’s Jelly-derived mesenchymal stem cell administration in patients with traumatic brain injury: First results of a phase I study	26
MicroRNA-584-5p/RUNX family transcription factor 2 axis mediates hypoxia-induced osteogenic differentiation of periosteal stem cells	26
Wharton’s jelly mesenchymal stem cells: Future regenerative medicine for clinical applications in mitigation of radiation injury	26
Application and prospects of high-throughput screening for in vitro neurogenesis	23
Intercellular mitochondrial transfer as a means of revitalizing injured glomerular endothelial cells	23
Harnessing and honing mesenchymal stem/stromal cells for the amelioration of graft-versus-host disease	22
Mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles: Pioneering the next generation of biomedical applications	21
Priming strategies for controlling stem cell fate: Applications and challenges in dental tissue regeneration	21
Fibro-adipogenic progenitors prevent skeletal muscle degeneration at acute phase upon tendon rupture in a murine tibialis anterior tenotomy model	20
Gamma-aminobutyric acid enhances miR-21-5p loading into adipose-derived stem cell extracellular vesicles to alleviate myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury via TXNIP regulation	20
Comparison of therapeutic potential of macrophage- or mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomes in pancreatic cancer: An updated review	20
Post-translational modifications in osteogenic differentiation of oral-derived stem cells: Mechanisms and clinical implications	20
Collagen III combined with autologous adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells accelerates burn wound healing in a rat model	20
Gut microbiota modulating intestinal stem cell differentiation	20

MiR-21-5p-enriched exosomes from hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes exhibit superior cardiac repair efficacy compared to hiPSC-derived exosomes in a murine MI model