OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Metabolism is 48. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Insulin increases placental triglyceride as a potential mechanism for fetal adiposity in maternal obesity	874
Overexpression of ORMDL3 confers sexual dimorphism in diet-induced non-alcoholic steatohepatitis	360
Editorial Board, cover figure description and credits	247
10 years of Molecular Metabolism	209
Editorial Board, cover figure description and credits	208
Editorial Board, cover figure description and credits	195
Pancreatic beta-cell specific BAG3 knockout results in chronic hyperinsulinemia inducing insulin resistance	194
Editorial Board, cover figure description and credits	192
Timing of exercise differentially impacts adipose tissue gain in male adolescent rats	176
Corrigendum to “Timing of exercise differentially impacts adipose tissue gain in male adolescent rats” [Mol Metabol 93 (2025) 102100, 1–14]	149
Pre-operative DNA methylation marks as predictors of weight loss outcomes after sleeve gastrectomy	139
Nutrient control of splice site selection contributes to methionine addiction of cancer	139
Hypoxia-inducible factor 1α is required to establish the larval glycolytic program in Drosophila melanogaster	138
Hypoxia inducible factor-dependent upregulation of Agrp in glomus type I cells of the carotid body	137
High fructose rewires gut glucose sensing via glucagon-like peptide 2 to impair metabolic regulation in mice	134
Cannabinoid type-1 receptors in CaMKII neurons drive impulsivity in pathological eating behavior	134
ACC1 is a dual metabolic-epigenetic regulator of Treg stability and immune tolerance	133
GLIS3: A novel transcriptional regulator of mitochondrial functions and metabolic reprogramming in postnatal kidney and polycystic kidney disease	120
Atlas of exercise-induced brain activation in mice	110
Histone H3K9 butyrylation is regulated by dietary fat and stress via an Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase short chain-dependent mechanism	109
Imaging biomarkers of NAFLD, NASH, and fibrosis	99
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and steatohepatitis: State of the art on effective therapeutics based on the gold standard method for diagnosis	83
Ceramide synthase 6 (CerS6) is upregulated in alcohol-associated liver disease and exhibits sex-based differences in the regulation of energy homeostasis and lipid droplet accumulation	80
Hunger signalling in the olfactory bulb primes exploration, food-seeking and peripheral metabolism	79
Single-cell chromatin accessibility of developing murine pancreas identifies cell state-specific gene regulatory programs	79

BBSome ablation in SF1 neurons causes obesity without comorbidities	78
Contribution of the co-chaperone FKBP51 in the ventromedial hypothalamus to metabolic homeostasis in male and female mice	78
Transcription factor Creb3l1 maintains proteostasis in neuroendocrine cells	78
Genetic activation of α-cell glucokinase in mice causes enhanced glucose-suppression of glucagon secretion during normal and diabetic states	76
The MicroRNA miR-696 is regulated by SNARK and reduces mitochondrial activity in mouse skeletal muscle through Pgc1α inhibition	70
Adhesion receptor ADGRG2/GPR64 is in the GI-tract selectively expressed in mature intestinal tuft cells	66
Loss of mitochondrial aconitase promotes colorectal cancer progression via SCD1-mediated lipid remodeling	66
The miR-200–Zeb1 axis regulates key aspects of β-cell function and survival in vivo	63
Disrupting the ghrelin-growth hormone axis limits ghrelin's orexigenic but not glucoregulatory actions	63
Multicompartmental non-invasive sensing of postprandial lipemia in humans with multispectral optoacoustic tomography	63
The transcriptional co-regulator LDB1 is required for brown adipose function	62
Physiological impact of in vivo stable isotope tracing on cancer metabolism	60
Novel noncoding RNA CircPTK2 regulates lipolysis and adipogenesis in cachexia	57
An inhibitor-mediated beta-cell dedifferentiation model reveals distinct roles for FoxO1 in glucagon repression and insulin maturation	57
Ablation of glucokinase-expressing tanycytes impacts energy balance and increases adiposity in mice	56
Structural principles of insulin formulation and analog design: A century of innovation	55
High fat / high cholesterol diet does not provoke atherosclerosis in the ω3-and ω6-polyunsaturated fatty acid synthesis–inactivated Δ6-fatty acid desaturase–deficient mouse	53
Proteomic quantitative study of dorsal root ganglia and sciatic nerve in type 2 diabetic mice	52
The effects of housing density on mouse thermal physiology depend on sex and ambient temperature	52
Neuropeptide Y1 receptor antagonism protects β-cells and improves glycemic control in type 2 diabetes	50
Requirement of Cavin-2 for the expression and stability of IRβ in adequate adipocyte differentiation	50
Ablation of ORMDL3 impairs adipose tissue thermogenesis and insulin sensitivity by increasing ceramide generation	49
Insulin resistance per se drives early and reversible dysbiosis-mediated gut barrier impairment and bactericidal dysfunction	48
Neuronal miR-29a protects from obesity in adult mice	48
The minor allele of the CREBRF rs373863828 p.R457Q coding variant is associated with reduced levels of myostatin in males: Implications for body composition	48
Neurons undergo pathogenic metabolic reprogramming in models of familial ALS	48