OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Natural Product Reports is 40. 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
The molecular complexity of terpene biosynthesis in red algae: current state and future perspectives	196
Recent advances in the synthesis of insect pheromones: an overview from 2013 to 2022	165
Harnessing microbial co-culture to increase the production of known secondary metabolites	122
Privileged natural product compound classes for anti-inflammatory drug development	120
Silybin and its congeners: from traditional medicine to molecular effects	101
Chain release mechanisms in polyketide and non-ribosomal peptide biosynthesis	96
Biosynthesis, regulation, and engineering of natural products from Lysobacter	95
Estimating the extent of adulteration of the popular herbs black cohosh, echinacea, elder berry, ginkgo, and turmeric – its challenges and limitations	93
Front cover	91
Back cover	77
The pearl jubilee of microcin J25: thirty years of research on an exceptional lasso peptide	75
Discovery, bioactivity and biosynthesis of fungal piperazines	74
Inside front cover	74
Recent advances in the total synthesis of galantamine, a natural medicine for Alzheimer's disease	71
Medicinal plant resin natural products: structural diversity and biological activities	69
Purine nucleoside antibiotics: recent synthetic advances harnessing chemistry and biology	66
Introduction to engineering the biosynthesis of fungal natural products	65
Streptomyces cell-free systems for natural product discovery and engineering	61
Unusually cyclized triterpenoids: occurrence, biosynthesis and chemical synthesis	61
Recent advances in the biosynthetic studies of bacterial organoarsenic natural products	60
Front cover	56
Enzymatic ester bond formation strategies in fungal macrolide skeletons	56
Inside front cover	56
Marine indole alkaloid diversity and bioactivity. What do we know and what are we missing?	55
Prenylated bacterial natural products: occurrence, chemical diversity, biosynthesis and bioactivity	54

Natural nematicidal metabolites and advances in their biocontrol capacity on plant parasitic nematodes	53
Correction: Dearomative logic in natural product total synthesis	52
Chemoenzymatic approaches to plant natural product inspired compounds	52
Maleidride biosynthesis – construction of dimeric anhydrides – more than just heads or tails	49
Non-peptide secondary metabolites from poisonous mushrooms: overview of chemistry, bioactivity, and biosynthesis	47
Marine natural products	46
Contents list	46
Chemistry, bioactivity, biosynthesis, and total synthesis of stemmadenine alkaloids	46
Front cover	46
Contents list	43
Contents list	42
Back cover	42
Subterranean marvels: microbial communities in caves and underground mines and their promise for natural product discovery	41
The role ofCaenorhabditis elegansin the discovery of natural products for healthy aging	41
Synthetic-bioinformatic natural product-inspired peptides	41
Image to insight: exploring natural products through mass spectrometry imaging	40
Biosynthesis of fungal terpenoids	40