OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Biochemistry is 44. 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
Preparing Better Samples for Cryo–Electron Microscopy: Biochemical Challenges Do Not End with Isolation and Purification	281
Short- and Long-Term Adaptation to Altered Levels of Glucose: Fifty Years of Scientific Adventure	176
From Bioorganic Models to Cells	165
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Thiolase: A Versatile Biocatalyst Employing Coenzyme A–Thioester Chemistry for Making and Breaking C–C Bonds	118
Quality Control of Procollagen in Cells	109
Managing the Steady State Chromatin Landscape by Nucleosome Dynamics	98
Glycyl Radical Enzymes and Sulfonate Metabolism in the Microbiome	97
The Role of DEAD-Box ATPases in Gene Expression and the Regulation of RNA–Protein Condensates	93
The Roots of Genetic Coding in Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Duality	92
Molecules from the Microbiome	88
Mechanisms for Regulating and Organizing Receptor Signaling by Endocytosis	86
mRNA Regulation by RNA Modifications	84
A Lipid-Raft Theory of Alzheimer's Disease	83
Biochemistry, Cell Biology, and Pathophysiology of the Innate Immune cGAS–cGAMP–STING Pathway	80
High-Resolution Single-Molecule Magnetic Tweezers	78
Eukaryotic Ribosome Assembly	75
The Proteins of mRNA Modification: Writers, Readers, and Erasers	72
Repair of DNA Breaks by Break-Induced Replication	67
Metalloproteomics for Biomedical Research: Methodology and Applications	65
Understanding the Function of Mammalian Sirtuins and Protein Lysine Acylation	61
It's Better To Be Lucky Than Smart	60
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Lipid Dynamics at Membrane Contact Sites	57
DNA Fragility and Repair: Some Personal Recollections	55

Influenza Virus RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase and the Host Transcriptional Apparatus	55
Structure and Mechanism of the Lipid Flippase MurJ	53
Macrocyclization and Backbone Modification in RiPP Biosynthesis	52
Topoisomerase Regulation of Cancer Gene Expression	49
Emerging Approaches for Studying Lipid Dynamics, Metabolism, and Interactions in Cells	45
DNA–Protein Crosslinks and Their Resolution	44
3′-End Processing of Eukaryotic mRNA: Machinery, Regulation, and Impact on Gene Expression	44