OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Essays in Biochemistry is 33. 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
CRISPR screening in cancer stem cells	404
Ligands and DNA in the allosteric control of retinoid receptors function	120
Harnessing the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the production of fungal secondary metabolites	109
Phase separation of the microtubule-associated protein tau	106
3D Bioprinting for fabrication of tissue models of COVID-19 infection	91
How viral proteins bind short linear motifs and intrinsically disordered domains	89
Use of electroconductive biomaterials for engineering tissues by 3D printing and 3D bioprinting	82
Butyrate-producing colonic clostridia: picky glycan utilization specialists	81
CaMKK2: bridging the gap between Ca2+ signaling and energy-sensing	80
Salicylic acid and jasmonic acid crosstalk in plant immunity	68
DNA sensing in cancer: Pro-tumour and anti-tumour functions of cGAS–STING signalling	63
Plant long non-coding RNAs in the regulation of transcription	59
Comparative genomics in the search for conserved long noncoding RNAs	59
Apoplastic and vascular defences	58
Can changes in 3D genome architecture create new regulatory landscapes that contribute to phenotypic evolution?	57
Mineralocorticoid receptor actions in cardiovascular development and disease	54
The role of methionine synthases in fungal metabolism and virulence	50
Malate dehydrogenase: a story of diverse evolutionary radiation	49
Astrocytes in memory formation and maintenance	49
Perspective on pros and cons of microlearning in health education	46
Advances in metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum to produce high-value active ingredients for food, feed, human health, and well-being	43
The cGAS-STING pathway in cancer immunity: dual roles, therapeutic strategies, and clinical challenges	42
Plant peroxisome proteostasis—establishing, renovating, and dismantling the peroxisomal proteome	41
A special issue of Essays in Biochemistry on evolutionary developmental biology	40
Branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis in fungi	39

Mass spectrometric insights into protein aggregation	39
O-Mucin-degrading carbohydrate-active enzymes and their possible implication in inflammatory bowel diseases	39
Hemicellulolytic enzymes in lignocellulose processing	36
Shapeshifting proteins: the role of structural disorder and conformational plasticity in physiology and disease	36
Harnessing extremophilic carboxylesterases for applications in polyester depolymerisation and plastic waste recycling	36
SINEUPs: a novel toolbox for RNA therapeutics	35
Functional amyloid in a lipid-like environment: a merry dance of many steps	33
Prostate cancer as a dedifferentiated organ: androgen receptor, cancer stem cells, and cancer stemness	33