OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Natural Product Reports is 43. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The molecular complexity of terpene biosynthesis in red algae: current state and future perspectives	206
Recent advances in the synthesis of insect pheromones: an overview from 2013 to 2022	172
Harnessing microbial co-culture to increase the production of known secondary metabolites	131
Silybin and its congeners: from traditional medicine to molecular effects	131
Estimating the extent of adulteration of the popular herbs black cohosh, echinacea, elder berry, ginkgo, and turmeric – its challenges and limitations	124
Privileged natural product compound classes for anti-inflammatory drug development	105
Chain release mechanisms in polyketide and non-ribosomal peptide biosynthesis	104
Biosynthesis, regulation, and engineering of natural products from Lysobacter	103
Front cover	98
Back cover	97
Purine nucleoside antibiotics: recent synthetic advances harnessing chemistry and biology	82
Photo-/electro-chemical catalysis: a promising toolkit for late-stage functionalization of alkene-containing natural products	81
The pearl jubilee of microcin J25: thirty years of research on an exceptional lasso peptide	79
Introduction to engineering the biosynthesis of fungal natural products	78
Medicinal plant resin natural products: structural diversity and biological activities	76
Inside front cover	75
Streptomyces cell-free systems for natural product discovery and engineering	73
Recent advances in the total synthesis of galantamine, a natural medicine for Alzheimer's disease	72
Discovery, bioactivity and biosynthesis of fungal piperazines	67
Unusually cyclized triterpenoids: occurrence, biosynthesis and chemical synthesis	67
Front cover	66
Recent advances in the biosynthetic studies of bacterial organoarsenic natural products	66
Inside front cover	64
Maleidride biosynthesis – construction of dimeric anhydrides – more than just heads or tails	62
Marine indole alkaloid diversity and bioactivity. What do we know and what are we missing?	62

Correction: Dearomative logic in natural product total synthesis	61
Chemoenzymatic approaches to plant natural product inspired compounds	58
Enzymatic ester bond formation strategies in fungal macrolide skeletons	57
Toward a unified pipeline for natural product discovery: tools and strategies for NRPS and PKS pathway exploration and engineering	57
Natural nematicidal metabolites and advances in their biocontrol capacity on plant parasitic nematodes	51
Non-peptide secondary metabolites from poisonous mushrooms: overview of chemistry, bioactivity, and biosynthesis	50
Prenylated bacterial natural products: occurrence, chemical diversity, biosynthesis and bioactivity	50
Front cover	48
Contents list	48
Marine natural products	48
Contents list	48
Chemistry, bioactivity, biosynthesis, and total synthesis of stemmadenine alkaloids	48
Back cover	47
Subterranean marvels: microbial communities in caves and underground mines and their promise for natural product discovery	47
Contents list	47
Image to insight: exploring natural products through mass spectrometry imaging	45
Biosynthesis of fungal terpenoids	44
The role ofCaenorhabditis elegansin the discovery of natural products for healthy aging	43
Synthetic-bioinformatic natural product-inspired peptides	43