OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Annual Review of Biochemistry is 41. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Preparing Better Samples for Cryo–Electron Microscopy: Biochemical Challenges Do Not End with Isolation and Purification	305
Mechanisms for Regulating and Organizing Receptor Signaling by Endocytosis	191
Repair of DNA Breaks by Break-Induced Replication	177
The Role of DEAD-Box ATPases in Gene Expression and the Regulation of RNA–Protein Condensates	136
Emerging Approaches for Studying Lipid Dynamics, Metabolism, and Interactions in Cells	134
Lipid Dynamics at Membrane Contact Sites	116
The Initiation of Eukaryotic DNA Replication	115
Chaperoning SNARE Folding and Assembly	102
Moonlighting Enzymes at the Interface Between Metabolism and Epigenetics	100
The Structural Dynamics of Translation	97
The Purinosome: A Case Study for a Mammalian Metabolon	92
Mitochondrial DNA Release in Innate Immune Signaling	90
Synonymous but Not Silent: The Codon Usage Code for Gene Expression and Protein Folding	89
Mechanisms of General Anesthesia	88
Posttranslational Regulation of HMG CoA Reductase, the Rate-Limiting Enzyme in Synthesis of Cholesterol	87
Membrane Exporters of Fluoride Ion	87
The Form and Function of PIEZO2	86
The Inseparable Relationship Between Cholesterol and Hedgehog Signaling	84
Signaling from RAS to RAF: The Molecules and Their Mechanisms	77
Emerging Chemical Diversity and Potential Applications of Enzymes in the DMSO Reductase Superfamily	71
Mechanisms of Vertebrate DNA Interstrand Cross-Link Repair	71
From Bioorganic Models to Cells	69
Short- and Long-Term Adaptation to Altered Levels of Glucose: Fifty Years of Scientific Adventure	66
Eukaryotic Ribosome Assembly	64
High-Resolution Single-Molecule Magnetic Tweezers	59

Understanding the Function of Mammalian Sirtuins and Protein Lysine Acylation	59
mRNA Regulation by RNA Modifications	57
Topoisomerase Regulation of Cancer Gene Expression	56
DNA–Protein Crosslinks and Their Resolution	54
Validating Small Molecule Chemical Probes for Biological Discovery	52
Essential Biology of Lipid Droplets	51
Membrane Protein Complexity Revealed Through Native Mass Spectrometry	49
Cullin-RING Ubiquitin Ligase Regulatory Circuits: A Quarter Century Beyond the F-Box Hypothesis	47
The Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor and Its Pentameric Homologs: Toward an Allosteric Mechanism of Signal Transduction at the Atomic Level	47
Structural Biochemistry of Muscle Contraction	47
The Long Road to Understanding RNAPII Transcription Initiation and Related Syndromes	45
Introduction to the Theme on Membrane Channels	44
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Natural and Engineered Guide RNA–Directed Transposition with CRISPR-Associated Tn7-Like Transposons	42
Influence of Nonspecific Interactions on Protein Associations: Implications for Biochemistry In Vivo	42
Molecular Epigenetics: Chemical Biology Tools Come of Age	42