OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Essays in Biochemistry is 30. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
CRISPR screening in cancer stem cells	145
How viral proteins bind short linear motifs and intrinsically disordered domains	125
Butyrate-producing colonic clostridia: picky glycan utilization specialists	124
Salicylic acid and jasmonic acid crosstalk in plant immunity	84
Phase separation of the microtubule-associated protein tau	62
CaMKK2: bridging the gap between Ca2+ signaling and energy-sensing	55
The role of methionine synthases in fungal metabolism and virulence	54
Can changes in 3D genome architecture create new regulatory landscapes that contribute to phenotypic evolution?	54
Astrocytes in memory formation and maintenance	51
Perspective on pros and cons of microlearning in health education	51
Malate dehydrogenase: a story of diverse evolutionary radiation	46
The dual role of the ubiquitin–proteasome system in photomorphogenesis	46
Apoplastic and vascular defences	45
DNA sensing in cancer: Pro-tumour and anti-tumour functions of cGAS–STING signalling	45
Plant peroxisome proteostasis—establishing, renovating, and dismantling the peroxisomal proteome	44
O-Mucin-degrading carbohydrate-active enzymes and their possible implication in inflammatory bowel diseases	43
The cGAS-STING pathway in cancer immunity: dual roles, therapeutic strategies, and clinical challenges	43
A special issue of Essays in Biochemistry on evolutionary developmental biology	43
Mass spectrometric insights into protein aggregation	42
Branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis in fungi	42
Shapeshifting proteins: the role of structural disorder and conformational plasticity in physiology and disease	40
Prostate cancer as a dedifferentiated organ: androgen receptor, cancer stem cells, and cancer stemness	38
Systemic acquired resistance-associated transport and metabolic regulation of salicylic acid and glycerol-3-phosphate	37
Functional amyloid in a lipid-like environment: a merry dance of many steps	37
Harnessing extremophilic carboxylesterases for applications in polyester depolymerisation and plastic waste recycling	36

Hemicellulolytic enzymes in lignocellulose processing	34
Modulating immune cells within pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma via nanomedicine	34
Astrocytes regulate inhibitory neurotransmission through GABA uptake, metabolism, and recycling	34
Nitrification in acidic and alkaline environments	33
Phase separation and other forms of α-Synuclein self-assemblies	30