OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Essays in Biochemistry is 32. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
CRISPR screening in cancer stem cells	178
How viral proteins bind short linear motifs and intrinsically disordered domains	146
Inter-species horizontal transfer of biosynthetic gene clusters: an evolutionary driver for chemical diversity in bacterial communities	142
Salicylic acid and jasmonic acid crosstalk in plant immunity	101
Butyrate-producing colonic clostridia: picky glycan utilization specialists	71
Phase separation of the microtubule-associated protein tau	68
CaMKK2: bridging the gap between Ca2+ signaling and energy-sensing	66
The role of methionine synthases in fungal metabolism and virulence	63
Can changes in 3D genome architecture create new regulatory landscapes that contribute to phenotypic evolution?	61
Astrocytes in memory formation and maintenance	61
Malate dehydrogenase: a story of diverse evolutionary radiation	60
Versatile roles of inositol hexakisphosphate in the ubiquitin-proteasome system	59
DNA sensing in cancer: Pro-tumour and anti-tumour functions of cGAS–STING signalling	55
Apoplastic and vascular defences	53
The dual role of the ubiquitin–proteasome system in photomorphogenesis	51
Plant peroxisome proteostasis—establishing, renovating, and dismantling the peroxisomal proteome	50
A special issue of Essays in Biochemistry on evolutionary developmental biology	49
Mass spectrometric insights into protein aggregation	48
Branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis in fungi	47
O-Mucin-degrading carbohydrate-active enzymes and their possible implication in inflammatory bowel diseases	47
Harnessing extremophilic carboxylesterases for applications in polyester depolymerisation and plastic waste recycling	46
Shapeshifting proteins: the role of structural disorder and conformational plasticity in physiology and disease	46
The cGAS-STING pathway in cancer immunity: dual roles, therapeutic strategies, and clinical challenges	46
Functional amyloid in a lipid-like environment: a merry dance of many steps	45
Modulating immune cells within pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma via nanomedicine	40

Astrocytes regulate inhibitory neurotransmission through GABA uptake, metabolism, and recycling	39
Prostate cancer as a dedifferentiated organ: androgen receptor, cancer stem cells, and cancer stemness	39
Systemic acquired resistance-associated transport and metabolic regulation of salicylic acid and glycerol-3-phosphate	38
Hemicellulolytic enzymes in lignocellulose processing	38
Nitrification in acidic and alkaline environments	38
Phase separation and other forms of α-Synuclein self-assemblies	35
Insight into the structure and molecular mode of action of plant paired NLR immune receptors	32
Regulation of R-loops by nucleic acid and protein modifications	32
Lipids and the cancer stemness regulatory system in acute myeloid leukemia	32