OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Israel Journal of Chemistry is 2. 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
Functional Molecular Crystals in Biology	46
Electrodeposition of Poly‐3‐Methyl Thiophene using Pulsed Techniques: A Preliminary Study	40
The Chemical Bond – an Entrance Door of Chemistry to the Neighboring Sciences and to Philosophy	36
Efficient Synthesis of an Alkyne Fluorophosphonate Activity‐Based Probe and Applications in Dual Colour Serine Hydrolase Labelling	33
ZIF‐8‐Derived Dual Metal (Fe, Ni)‐Nitrogen‐Doped Porous Carbon for Superior ORR Performance in Universal Acid‐Base Properties Solutions	33
Strategies for Detecting Aminoacylation and Aminoacyl‐tRNA Editing In Vitro and In Cells	28
Strategies for Competitive Activity‐Based Protein Profiling in Small Molecule Inhibitor Discovery and Characterization	27
Recent Advance in the Study on 5‐Formylcytosine (f⁵C) RNA Modification	26
Recent Advances in Quasicrystal Research	25
Influence of Cation Size and Polarity on Charge Transport in Ionic Liquid Based Electrolytes	23
Peptide‐Based Inhibitors that Target the Docking Site of ERK2	23
A Beginner's Guide to Organic Semiconductor Photoelectrodes for the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide	22
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Special Issue: 2D Materials	21
A RaPID Response to SARS‐CoV‐2	20
Supramolecular Behaviour of N,N′‐Bridged Guanidinium Nitrates in the Crystalline State: Identification of Privileged Hydrogen Bond Networks	20
Glycine: The Gift that Keeps on Giving	20
Modulating the Acceptor Preference of His‐C‐Geranyltransferase LimF	19
Expanding the Scope of Ribosome‐Mediated Biosynthesis in vitro using tRNA‐Aminoacylating Ribozyme	18
Unraveling Complex MicroRNA Signaling Pathways with Activity‐Based Protein Profiling to Guide Therapeutic Discovery**	17
An Iraqi by Birth, an Israeli in Body, a Soul without Borders. Sason Shaik in His Own Words**	17
A Look at Real‐World Transition‐Metal Thermochemistry and Kinetics with Local Hybrid Functionals	17
Advancing the Understanding of Surface Science through Nonlinear Optics and Electrochemistry	16
Common Trends of Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity and Optical Dichroism with Varying Helix Pitch: A First‐Principles Study	16
Proteome‐Wide Fragment‐Based Ligand and Target Discovery	16

Chiral Resolution via Cocrystallization with Inorganic Salts	15
Cover Picture: (Isr. J. Chem. 1‐2/2024)	15
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Implications of Thermodynamic Control: Dynamic Equilibrium Under Ball Mill Grinding Conditions	15
Editorial: Advancement During Challenging Times	14
Shedding Light on Bacterial Physiology with Click Chemistry	14
Quantitative Analysis of Charge Dissociation by Selectively Characterizing Exciton Splitting Efficiencies in Single Component Materials	14
From Immunogenic Peptides to Intrinsically Disordered Proteins	13
Hybrid Nanostructure of Mixed Transition Metal Oxysulfides Supported by Porous PBA as Efficient Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction	13
Quorum Sensing from Two Engineers’ Perspectives	13
Synthesis and Chemiexcitation of a Distinct Chemiluminescent Luminophore based on a Curcumin Scaffold	13
Quasicrystal Structure Prediction: A Review	13
Cover Picture: Transparent, Conducting Self‐Assembled CuS Nanostructures at and beyond Liquid‐Liquid Interface and their Electrocatalytic Properties (Isr. J. Chem. 3/2022)	13
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Computational Chemistry in the Undergraduate Classroom – Pedagogical Considerations and Teaching Challenges	12
Quantum Crystallography:N‐Representability Big and Small**	12
Design of Fe‐N_x/Tungsten Carbide for Efficient Electrocatalyst Oxygen Reduction in Acidic Media	12
The Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity Effect What It Is, What It Is Not, And Why It Matters	11
A High‐Valent Ru−PCP Pincer Catalyst for the Hydrogenation of Organic Carbonates	11
Adding a Chemical Biology Twist to CRISPR Screening	11
Spin‐Control in Electrocatalysis for Clean Energy	11
Properties of the Ammann–Beenker Tiling and its Square Periodic Approximants	10
On the Fibonacci Tiling and its Modern Ramifications	10
Copper(II)‐TEMPO Interaction	10
The Transthyretin Protein and Amyloidosis – An Extraordinary Chemical Biology Platform	10
Helical Chirality of Supramolecular Columns and Spheres Self‐Organizes Complex Liquid Crystals, Crystals, and Quasicrystals	10
Nanocrystals as Model Systems for Studying the Interplay Between Crystallization and Chirality	10
Regulatory Role of RNA N⁶‐Methyladenosine Modification in Plants	10
Cover Picture: (Isr. J. Chem. 6‐7/2025)	10
Reactivity of Cytosine with Alkylmercury Ions in the Gas Phase: The Critical Role of the Alkyl Chain	10
Understanding and Overcoming Biochemical Diversity in AL Amyloidosis	9
Mixed Germania‐Silica Films on Ru(0001): A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study	9
Collaborations Between Microbes and those who Love Them	9
Anodic Fluorination, Methoxylation, Acetoxylation, and Cyanation of Heteroatom Organic Compounds Using Boron‐Doped Diamond, GC, and Pt Electrodes	8
DFT Studies of Au(I) Catalysed Reactions: Anion Effects and Reaction Selectivity	8
The Systems Chemistry of Nucleic‐acid‐Peptide Networks	8
Crystalline Supramolecular Polymers: Dynamics, Chirality, and Function	8
Adaptive Encapsulation of 1,ω‐Amino‐Acids within the “Pyrene Box”	8
Quasicrystalline Antimony Thin Films	8
The 2021 ICS Prize Ceremony: July 1, 2021, The Open University, Ra'anana, Israel	7
Practical Aspects of Thermal Dissociation and Recombination Reactions: The Reaction Systems CF₃X(+M)↔CF₃+X (+M) with X=F, Cl, Br, and I	7
History of Chemical Notations from Alchemy to Psycho‐Chemistry	7
Multireference Methods are Realistic and Useful Tools for Modeling Catalysis	7
The Impact of Ionic Surfactants on the Crystallisation of Glycine Polymorphs	7
Computational Study on a Transfer Hydrogenation Catalysed by a Ru(II) Bis‐Pyrazolyl Pyridine Complex	7
Conductive Nanomaterials in Printed Electronics	7
Recent Advances in Non‐Standard Macrocyclic Peptide Ligand Discovery using mRNA Display	7
Effect of Molecular Structure on Interfacial Electron Transfer Kinetics in the Framework of Classical Marcus Theory	7
Porous Crystalline Organic Cages Made by Design	7
Counteracting Enantiospecific Behavior of Tailor‐Made Additives During Chiral Symmetry Breaking: Growth Inhibition versus Solid‐Solution Formation	7

Phosphorus Corroles: Tuning of their Photophysical and Redox Properties via Axial Ligation and Macrocycle Modification	6
Spatially and Single‐Cell Resolved Profiling of RNA Life Cycle and Epitranscriptomics	6
Asymmetric Autocatalysis as a Link Between Crystal Chirality and Highly Enantioenriched Organic Compounds	6
Quorum Sensing Facilitates Interpopulation Signaling by Vibrio fischeri within the Light Organ of Euprymna scolopes	6
High Yield Synthesis and Quadratic Nonlinearities of Gold Nanoprisms in Solution: The Role of Corner Sharpness	6
Organic π‐Conjugated Molecules: From Nature to Artificial Applications. Where are the Boundaries?	6
Cover Picture: (Isr. J. Chem. 5/2024)	6
Mentoring Doctoral Students in the Chemical Sciences	6
Magnetic Field Effects of Charge Transfer Excitons in Organic Semiconductor Devices	6
Solid Phase Synthesis of Fluorosulfate Containing Macrocycles for Chemoproteomic Workflows	6
Deamination‐ or N‐Nitrosation‐Based Methods for m⁶A Profiling	6
Superconducting Quasicrystals	6
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Spin‐Filtering in a p‐Orbital Helical Atomic Chain	6
Emerging Trends in Chiral Inorganic Nanostructures	5
Functions and Pathological Dysfunctions of RNA and Proteins: ICS Symposium Honoring Wolf Prize Laureates Chuan He, Jeffrey W. Kelly, and Hiroaki Suga: June 14, 2023, The Weizmann Institute of Science,	5
Cover Picture: (Isr. J. Chem. 10‐11/2024)	5
Saturnenes Like Th@Au₆D_6h: Ring‐Current Evidence for Au−Au Bonding Along the Gold Ring	5
Cover Picture: (Isr. J. Chem. 4‐5/2025)	5
Research Advances Through Activity‐Based Lipid Hydrolase Profiling	5
Charge Transfer Processes in Solar Energy Conversion	5
Recent Advances in Electrochemical Reductive Transformation of C−C and C−O Multiple Bonds	5
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Dynamical Nature of Exciton‐Polariton Coupling in WS₂ Nanoparticles	5
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Benjamin F. Cravatt III – Chemical Proteomics Trailblazer	5
Topological Quantum Numbers in Quasicrystals	5
Ethnic Variation and Structure‐Function Analysis of Tauopathy‐Associated PERK Alleles	5
The Chemistry of [1,1′‐bis(o‐Carboranyl)]Borane η²‐σ‐Silane Adduct	5
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Experimental Investigation of an Oxidative C−C Coupling Reaction Catalyzed by HAuCl₄	4
Activity‐Based Protein Profiling – Celebrating the Groundbreaking Contributions of Benjamin Cravatt	4
2021 Wolf Prize and Synchrotron X‐Ray Radiation – How it Started	4
The Queen of Quorum Sensing: Scientist, Bacterial Linguist, Professor, Mentor	4
Cover Picture: (Isr. J. Chem. 11‐12/2021)	4
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Anionic Calixarenes in Biomembrane Transport of Peptides	4
Nature's Blueprint: Chelation‐Assisted C−H Functionalization for Selective and Efficient Reactions in Aqueous Media	4
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Protein Glycosylation Patterns Shaped by the IRE1‐XBP1s Arm of the Unfolded Protein Response	4
Substrate Dependent Charge Transfer Kinetics at the Solid/Liquid Interface of Carbon‐Based Electrodes with Potential Application for Organic Na‐Ion Batteries	4
Bulk and Surface‐Mediated Polymorphs of Bio‐Inspired Dyes Organic Semiconductors: The Role of Lattice Phonons in their Investigation	4
5‐Sulfurated Imidazo[1,5‐a]Pyridin‐3‐ylidenes: Ligands for π‐Acidic Catalysts	4
Off/on Switching of Electric Current as a Strategy for One‐Pot Synthesis of Bromoarylpyridines by Cross‐Coupling/ C−H Bromination	4
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Hexagonal and Trigonal Quasiperiodic Tilings	4
Mind from Matter: The Chemical Connection	4
The 87^th Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society: April 3, 2024, Smolarz Auditorium, Tel Aviv University	4
Serine Hydrolase Activity‐Based Probes for Use in Chemical Proteomics	4
Design of MOFs with Absolute Structures: A Case Study	4
Stereochemistry and Twisted Crystals	4
Enantiomer Adsorption in an Applied Magnetic Field: D‐ and L‐Aspartic Acid on Ni(100)	4
Symmetry and Chirality: Where Physics Shakes Hands with Chemistry and Biology	4
Richard Lerner and the Birth of Antibody Libraries	4
Cover Picture: Interactions Between Peptide Assemblies and Proteins for Medicine (Isr. J. Chem. 9‐10/2022)	4
Special Issue on Synthetic Host Molecules	3
Microbial Communication via Pyrazine Signaling: A New Class of Signaling Molecules Identified in Vibrio cholerae	3
Incorporating Nb into MoSe₂ Nanoflowers for Overall Electrocatalytic Water Splitting	3
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Heroes of Stereochemistry and Crystals	3
30 Years of Quantum Dot Research – My Personal Journey	3
Metal‐Organic Frameworks with Rod Yttrium Secondary Building Units	3
Cytokine Mimetics with Various Modalities	3
Generation of Self‐Assembled Structures Composed of Amphipathic, Charged Tripeptides for Intracellular Delivery of Pro‐Apoptotic Chemotherapeutics	3
Single Entity Electrochemistry and Its Application to Nanomaterial Synthesis	3
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Engineering Glyco‐Enzymes for Substrate Identification and Targeting	3
Charge Transfer in Ternary Solar Cells Employing Two Fullerene Derivatives: Where do Electrons Go?	3
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Special Issue on Electrochemically‐Driven Organic Synthesis	3
A Fluorescent Unnatural Mannosamine Derivative with Enhanced Emission Upon Complexation with Cucurbit[7]uril	3
The Influence of Supersaturation and the Presence of Biuret on the Nucleation, Growth and Morphology of Urea Crystallised from Ethanolic Solutions	3
Recent Advances in Electrochemical, Ni‐Catalyzed C−C Bond Formation	3
Beyond Thresholds: Quorum‐Sensing as Quantitatively Varying Reaction Norms to Multiple Environmental Dimensions	3
Chiral Ligands for Au(I), Au(III), and Au(I)/Au(III) Redox Catalysis	3
On the Definition of Chirality and Enantioselective Fields	3
Activity‐Based Protein Profiling – Finding General Solutions to Specific Problems	3
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Activity‐based Tools for Interrogating Host Biology During Infection	3
Graphene Acid: A Versatile 2D Platform for Catalysis	3

Catalytic Main‐Group Metal Complexes of Phosphine‐Based Pincer Ligands	3
Mechanical Characterization and Single‐Cell Imaging of Bacterial Biofilms	3
Electrical Properties of LaS‐TaS₂ Misfit Layered Compound Nanotubes	3
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Cationic Complexes with Au→Ge Bonds – Synthesis and Carbophilic Reactivity	3
Probing Intermediates of Ion/Molecule Reactions by their Independent Gas‐Phase Synthesis and Fragmentation – The Thiomethoxymethyl Complexes [(bipy)M(CH₂SCH₃)]⁺ (M=Pt,	3
A Personal Journey in Nanoscience via Developing and Applying Liquid Phase TEM	3
Bond Energies of UO⁺ and UC⁺: Guided Ion Beam and Quantum Chemical Studies of the Reactions of Uranium Cation with O₂ and CO	3
The Crystal Structure of 5‐Aminouracil and the Ambiguity of Alternative Polymorphs	3
How to Identify the Crystal Growth Unit	2
From the Felkin‐Anh Rule to the Grignard Reaction: an Almost Circular 50 Year Adventure in the World of Molecular Structures and Reaction Mechanisms with Computational Chemistry**	2
Engineered RNA‐Binding Proteins: Studying and Controlling RNA Regulation	2
Plastic Scintillators and Radiation Detectors Based on Triphenyl Pyrazoline Derivatives	2
C−H Bond Activation in Ru‐Catalyzed Reactions of Arenes with Olefins: Theoretical Insights into Hydroarylation and Oxidative Coupling Mechanisms	2
Advanced Sequencing Techniques to Map RNA Methylation	2
Re‐Imagining Drug Discovery using Mass Spectrometry	2
Quantitative Chemoproteomic Methods for Reactive Cysteinome Profiling	2
Benzoporphyrin‐Based Nanocomposites for Photoelectrochemical O₂ Reduction	2
Silicone Wristband Spray Ionization Mass Spectrometry for Combined Exposome and Metabolome Profiling	2
Exploring Membrane‐tethering Technology for Proteins as a Versatile Tool for Uncovering Novel Disease Targets and Advancing Biotherapeutic Development	2
Chemical Tools to Study Bacterial Glycans: A Tale from Discovery of Glycoproteins to Disruption of Their Function	2
How to Break the Law: trans‐Hydroboration and gem‐Hydroboration of Alkynes	2
Activity‐Based Protein Profiling – Enabling Phenotyping of Host‐Associated and Environmental Microbiomes	2
Metal‐Organic Frameworks as a New Platform for Enantioselective Separations	2
Balancing from FRET to SET and Further to Photochemistry	2
A Tribute to Richard Lerner (1938–2021) who Encouraged a Glycobiology Approach to a Broad‐Spectrum Antiviral	2
Profiling the Misfolded Proteome in Human Disease	2
Catalytic Peptides: the Challenge between Simplicity and Functionality	2
Crystal Structures of Diaryl Hydrazone and Sulfone Stabilizers in Complex with an Amyloidogenic Light Chain Reveal an Alternate Ligand‐Binding Cavity	2
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Fabricating Quasiperiodic Tilings with Thermal‐Scanning Probe Lithography	2
Pathogenicity Prediction of GABA_A Receptor Missense Variants	2
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Molecule‐Specific Uncertainty Quantification in Quantum Chemical Studies	2
Transparent, Conducting Self‐Assembled CuS Nanostructures at and beyond Liquid‐Liquid Interface and their Electrocatalytic Properties	2
Artificial Siderophores with a Trihydroxamate‐DOTAM Scaffold Deliver Iron and Antibiotic Cargo into the Bacterial Pathogen Escherichia coli	2
Richard Lerner – Mentor, Colleague, and Friend	2
Hierarchical Membranes Self‐Assembled at the Interface between Peptides and Polymer Aqueous Solutions	2
Ferrocene as a Redox Catalyst for Organic Electrosynthesis	2
Radiative Recombination in Bulk‐Heterojunction Solar Cells	2
The 4^th Bowei Research Conference (BRC‐4), January 3–5, 2024, Teachers′ Hostel, Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan	2
Recent Progress in the Synthesis and Potential Applications of Two‐Dimensional Tungsten (Sub)oxides	2
Dyotropic Rearrangements in Organic Solvents, in the Gas Phase, and in Enzyme Catalysis	2
Inverse Bonding – Backbonding: Metal to Ligand σ and Ligand to Metal π Dative Interactions between Bismuth and Boron	2
Cover Picture: (Isr. J. Chem. 5‐6/2022)	2
Photoaffinity Labeling Chemistries Used to Map Biomolecular Interactions	2
Canonical‐Cell Tilings and their Atomic Decorations	2
Breaking the Degeneracy of Sense Codons – How Far Can We Go?	2
Redox‐Responsive Macrocyclic Hosts Based on Calix[4]arene and Calix[4]resorcinarene Scaffolds	2
Surface Pyroelectricity and Piezoelectricity of Centrosymmetric Crystals	2
Cover Picture: (Isr. J. Chem. 11‐12/2022)	2
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DPP8/9 are not Required to Cleave Most Proline‐Containing Peptides	2
Synthesis and Potential of Autoinducer‐2 and Analogs to Manipulate Inter‐Species Quorum Sensing	2
Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity Studies of Bis(β‐diketiminate) Zinc(II) Complexes	2
Bacterial Quorum Sensing Signals at the Interdomain Interface	2
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Cover Picture: (Isr. J. Chem. 6‐7/2024)	2
Indium Selenide (In₂Se₃) – An Emerging Van‐der‐Waals Material for Photodetection and Non‐Volatile Memory Applications	2