OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Cancer Biology is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
YAP, TAZ, and Hippo-Dysregulating Fusion Proteins in Cancer	73
Distinct Essentiality of the Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain in Proliferating Cells In Vivo	52
Immune Cell Metabolism and Immuno-Oncology	30
Advances in Therapies Targeting Inhibitory Checkpoint Receptors: TIGIT, LAG-3, and Beyond	25
Targeting Solid Tumors with Bispecific T Cell Engager Immune Therapy	25
Allogeneic CAR T Cell Therapy for Cancer	24
Therapeutic Discovery for Chromatin Complexes: Where Do We Stand?	23
Cancer Genomic Rearrangements and Copy Number Alterations from Errors in Cell Division	22
Caught in a Web: Emerging Roles of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in Cancer	22
Stalled CARs: Mechanisms of Resistance to CAR T Cell Therapies	20
Road Map to Defeat Pancreatic Cancer	20
Gut Microbiota in Colorectal Cancer: Associations, Mechanisms, and Clinical Approaches	19
Cancer Dependency Map: Past and Present	19
An Erratic Path Toward Discovery	16
The Effects of Clonal Heterogeneity on Cancer Immunosurveillance	15
Rationales for Combining Therapies to Treat Cancer: Independent Action, Response Correlation, and Collateral Sensitivity Versus Synergy	15
Engineering the Immune Microenvironment into Organoid Models	14
Strategies for Heating Up Cold Tumors to Boost Immunotherapies	13
Reinventing Radiobiology in the Light of FLASH Radiotherapy	12
RB1, Cancer Lineage Plasticity, and Therapeutic Resistance	11
Extrachromosomal DNA: Biogenesis and Functions in Cancer	11
Targeting Minimal Residual Disease	11
Novel Mouse Models for Cancer Immunology	10
Mechanism of Action of PARP Inhibitors	10
Metabolic Rewiring During Metastasis: The Interplay Between the Environment and the Host	10

Not All Carcinogens Are Directly Mutagenic: A Holistic View of the Environmental Exposure–Cancer Connection	9
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Next-Generation Therapies for Multiple Myeloma	9
Emerging Mechanisms of Lactate Regulation of Biological Processes	8
Targeting BET Bromodomains in Cancer	8
Lineage-Specific Transcription Factors in Carcinogenesis	8
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Awakening the Genome: CRISPR Activation to Unravel the Origin and Vulnerabilities of Cancer	7
The Metabolic Relationship Between Viral Infection and Cancer	7
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Development of PROTAC Degrader Drugs for Cancer	6
Germline Predisposition to Hematopoietic Malignancies: An Overview	6
Complex Roles of PTPN11/SHP2 in Carcinogenesis and Prospect of Targeting SHP2 in Cancer Therapy	5
New Tools for Lineage Tracing in Cancer In Vivo	5
Chemical Proteomics–Guided Discovery of Covalent Ligands for Cancer Proteins	5