OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Natural Product Reports is 42. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The molecular complexity of terpene biosynthesis in red algae: current state and future perspectives	203
Recent advances in the synthesis of insect pheromones: an overview from 2013 to 2022	170
Privileged natural product compound classes for anti-inflammatory drug development	126
Silybin and its congeners: from traditional medicine to molecular effects	125
Biosynthesis, regulation, and engineering of natural products from Lysobacter	120
Harnessing microbial co-culture to increase the production of known secondary metabolites	101
Estimating the extent of adulteration of the popular herbs black cohosh, echinacea, elder berry, ginkgo, and turmeric – its challenges and limitations	100
Chain release mechanisms in polyketide and non-ribosomal peptide biosynthesis	99
Front cover	95
Back cover	90
The pearl jubilee of microcin J25: thirty years of research on an exceptional lasso peptide	78
Inside front cover	78
Purine nucleoside antibiotics: recent synthetic advances harnessing chemistry and biology	78
Recent advances in the total synthesis of galantamine, a natural medicine for Alzheimer's disease	77
Medicinal plant resin natural products: structural diversity and biological activities	74
Streptomyces cell-free systems for natural product discovery and engineering	71
Discovery, bioactivity and biosynthesis of fungal piperazines	69
Introduction to engineering the biosynthesis of fungal natural products	67
Unusually cyclized triterpenoids: occurrence, biosynthesis and chemical synthesis	66
Recent advances in the biosynthetic studies of bacterial organoarsenic natural products	65
Inside front cover	64
Front cover	64
Maleidride biosynthesis – construction of dimeric anhydrides – more than just heads or tails	62
Correction: Dearomative logic in natural product total synthesis	62
Marine indole alkaloid diversity and bioactivity. What do we know and what are we missing?	58

Prenylated bacterial natural products: occurrence, chemical diversity, biosynthesis and bioactivity	58
Chemoenzymatic approaches to plant natural product inspired compounds	55
Toward a unified pipeline for natural product discovery: tools and strategies for NRPS and PKS pathway exploration and engineering	55
Marine natural products	54
Chemistry, bioactivity, biosynthesis, and total synthesis of stemmadenine alkaloids	50
Non-peptide secondary metabolites from poisonous mushrooms: overview of chemistry, bioactivity, and biosynthesis	49
Natural nematicidal metabolites and advances in their biocontrol capacity on plant parasitic nematodes	48
Front cover	47
Contents list	47
Enzymatic ester bond formation strategies in fungal macrolide skeletons	47
Contents list	47
Back cover	46
Contents list	45
Image to insight: exploring natural products through mass spectrometry imaging	44
Subterranean marvels: microbial communities in caves and underground mines and their promise for natural product discovery	44
Synthetic-bioinformatic natural product-inspired peptides	44
The role ofCaenorhabditis elegansin the discovery of natural products for healthy aging	43