OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Natural Product Reports is 46. 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
Privileged natural product compound classes for anti-inflammatory drug development	218
Recent advances in the synthesis of insect pheromones: an overview from 2013 to 2022	194
Ryanodane diterpenes: occurrence, structural diversity, bioactivities, and synthesis	156
Silybin and its congeners: from traditional medicine to molecular effects	147
Estimating the extent of adulteration of the popular herbs black cohosh, echinacea, elder berry, ginkgo, and turmeric – its challenges and limitations	141
The molecular complexity of terpene biosynthesis in red algae: current state and future perspectives	118
Chain release mechanisms in polyketide and non-ribosomal peptide biosynthesis	117
Harnessing microbial co-culture to increase the production of known secondary metabolites	117
Biosynthesis, regulation, and engineering of natural products from Lysobacter	111
Inside front cover	111
Front cover	108
Back cover	96
Introduction to engineering the biosynthesis of fungal natural products	94
Photo-/electro-chemical catalysis: a promising toolkit for late-stage functionalization of alkene-containing natural products	92
The pearl jubilee of microcin J25: thirty years of research on an exceptional lasso peptide	88
Medicinal plant resin natural products: structural diversity and biological activities	87
Unusually cyclized triterpenoids: occurrence, biosynthesis and chemical synthesis	85
Streptomyces cell-free systems for natural product discovery and engineering	82
Purine nucleoside antibiotics: recent synthetic advances harnessing chemistry and biology	82
Recent advances in the total synthesis of galantamine, a natural medicine for Alzheimer's disease	81
Recent advances in the biosynthetic studies of bacterial organoarsenic natural products	77
Discovery, bioactivity and biosynthesis of fungal piperazines	77
Front cover	74
Inside front cover	72
Correction: Dearomative logic in natural product total synthesis	69

Streptomyces as a versatile host platform for heterologous production of microbial natural products	68
Chemistry, bioactivity, biosynthesis, and total synthesis of stemmadenine alkaloids	67
Toward a unified pipeline for natural product discovery: tools and strategies for NRPS and PKS pathway exploration and engineering	67
Natural nematicidal metabolites and advances in their biocontrol capacity on plant parasitic nematodes	65
Prenylated bacterial natural products: occurrence, chemical diversity, biosynthesis and bioactivity	65
Non-peptide secondary metabolites from poisonous mushrooms: overview of chemistry, bioactivity, and biosynthesis	63
Marine indole alkaloid diversity and bioactivity. What do we know and what are we missing?	60
Maleidride biosynthesis – construction of dimeric anhydrides – more than just heads or tails	59
Contents list	56
Enzymatic ester bond formation strategies in fungal macrolide skeletons	56
Marine natural products	55
Back cover	53
Chemoenzymatic approaches to plant natural product inspired compounds	53
Front cover	52
Contents list	52
Contents list	51
Contents list	49
The role ofCaenorhabditis elegansin the discovery of natural products for healthy aging	48
Image to insight: exploring natural products through mass spectrometry imaging	47
Synthetic-bioinformatic natural product-inspired peptides	46
Biosynthesis of fungal terpenoids	46
Inside front cover	46
Subterranean marvels: microbial communities in caves and underground mines and their promise for natural product discovery	46