OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Molecular Biology is 47. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Unusual Guide-binding Pockets in RNA-targeting pAgo Nucleases	520
NNDB: An Expanded Database of Nearest Neighbor Parameters for Predicting Stability of Nucleic Acid Secondary Structures	302
Structural and Functional Characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Virulence Factor AaaA, an Autotransporter with Arginine-Specific Aminopeptidase Activity	273
Arkadia and Ark2C Promote Substrate Ubiquitylation with Multiple E2 Enzymes	206
Outside Front Cover	147
Ligand-mediated Structural Dynamics of a Mammalian Pancreatic KATP Channel	143
Mechanisms of PAS Domain Signalling, from Sensing Varied Small Molecules and Peptides to Approved Pharmaceuticals and Use in Optogenetics	130
Mechanisms of Gasdermin Recognition by Proteases	117
Minireview: What is Known about SUMOylation Among NR4A Family Members?	112
RiboVision2: A Web Server for Advanced Visualization of Ribosomal RNAs	106
Mechanisms of Translation-coupled Quality Control	101
Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation of Gasdermins	93
Biomolecular Condensates as Novel Antiviral Targets	91
Kinetic Investigation of Resistance to Islatravir Conferred by Mutations in HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase	89
Molecular Basis of Interchain Disulfide Bond Formation in BMP-9 and BMP-10	85
Decoding Allosteric Effects of Missense Variations in Drug Metabolism: Afrocentric CYP3A4 Alleles Explored	84
MgCod: Gene Prediction in Phage Genomes with Multiple Genetic Codes	83
Site-specific Phosphorylation of Histone H3K36 Methyltransferase Set2p and Demethylase Jhd1p is Required for Stress Responses in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	83
Structural Model of the Human BTG2–PABPC1 Complex by Combining Mutagenesis, NMR Chemical Shift Perturbation Data and Molecular Docking	82
ERK Allosteric Activation: The Importance of Two Ordered Phosphorylation Events	78
Improving Signal and Transit Peptide Predictions Using AlphaFold2-predicted Protein Structures	78
The Biofilm Regulatory Network from Bacillus subtilis: A Structure-Function Analysis	76
Editorial Board	75
Extracellular uncoating of bacteriophage MS2	70
Single-molecule Tracking and Kinetic Analysis in Living Cells and Multicellular Organisms	70

Membrane-associated mRNAs: A Post-transcriptional Pathway for Fine-turning Gene Expression	69
IIFS2.0: An Improved Incremental Feature Selection Method for Protein Sequence Processing Based on a Caching Strategy	66
Outside Front Cover	65
Outside Front Cover	60
Respiratory Syncytial Virus NS1 Protein Targets the Transactivator Binding Domain of MED25	60
Solution Structural Studies of Pre-amyloid Oligomer States of the Biofilm Protein Aap	59
Amyloid Aggregation Is Potently Slowed Down by Osmolytes Due to Compaction of Partially Folded State	58
Outside Front Cover	58
Misfolding-Associated Exposure of Natively Buried Residues in Mutant SOD1 Facilitates Binding to TRAF6	57
An Alternative Role of RluD in the Fidelity of Translation Initiation in Escherichia coli	57
Identification of Functional Spo0A Residues Critical for Sporulation in Clostridioides difficile	56
Coevolution-Guided Mapping of the Type VI Secretion Membrane Complex-Baseplate Interface	56
Highly Performing Automatic Detection of Structural Chromosomal Abnormalities Using Siamese Architecture	56
Outside Front Cover	56
Free Energy Landscape of H2A-H2B Displacement From Nucleosome	55
HIV-Induced CPSF6 Condensates	53
Structural Basis for Blocked Excited State Proton Transfer in a Fluorescent, Photoacidic Non-Canonical Amino Acid-Containing Antibody Fragment	53
Gasdermin D and Beyond – Gasdermin-mediated Pyroptosis in Bacterial Infections	53
Intein-based Design Expands Diversity of Selenocysteine Reporters	52
Ribosome-nascent Chain Interaction Regulates N-terminal Protein Modification	51
Step-by-Step Regulation of Productive and Abortive Transcription Initiation by Pyrophosphorolysis	50
Structural Insight Into the Conversion of DhNik1, A Hybrid Histidine Kinase From Debaryomyces hansenii to a Cytotoxic Phosphatase Conformation for Novel Antifungal Agent	50
In vivo Profiling of the Alk Proximitome in the Developing Drosophila Brain	47
The Disordered MAX N-terminus Modulates DNA Binding of the Transcription Factor MYC:MAX	47