OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Structural Biology 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Single-particle Cryo-EM and molecular dynamics simulations: A perfect match	168
Single-point mutations in disordered proteins: Linking sequence, ensemble, and function	144
In silico reconstitution of DNA replication. Lessons from single-molecule imaging and cryo-tomography applied to single-particle cryo-EM	123
How molecular modelling can better broaden the understanding of glycosylations	119
Editorial	118
Mutational fitness landscape and drug resistance	118
Raman spectroscopy and imaging of protein droplet formation and aggregation	104
Harnessing the 14-3-3 protein–protein interaction network	103
Advancing biomolecular simulation through exascale HPC, AI and quantum computing	102
Pump-like channelrhodopsins: Not just bridging the gap between ion pumps and ion channels	91
Catalysis and structure of nitrogenases	87
Access and utilization of long chain fatty acyl-CoA by zDHHC protein acyltransferases	82
Genome modeling: From chromatin fibers to genes	78
May the proton motive force be with you: A plant transporter review	78
Structure-based virtual screening of vast chemical space as a starting point for drug discovery	75
Computer-aided drug design, quantum-mechanical methods for biological problems	73
Editorial overview: Biophysical methods: Exploring structures in motions, from biomolecules to cells, and how to drug them	73
NMR tools to detect protein allostery	70
Quantitative characterization of O-GalNAc glycosylation	69
Conformational penalties: New insights into nucleic acid recognition	67
Advancing protein structure prediction beyond AlphaFold2	66
Editorial Board	65
Gut power: Modulation of human amyloid formation by amyloidogenic proteins in the gastrointestinal tract	64
Inner workings of RAG recombinase and its specialization for adaptive immunity	64
Mutually beneficial confluence of structure-based modeling of protein dynamics and machine learning methods	64

Structural insights into host–microbe glycointeractions	62
Markov field models: Scaling molecular kinetics approaches to large molecular machines	62
Mucin networks: Dynamic structural assemblies controlling mucus function	62
Molecular dynamics simulations for the study of chromatin biology	61
Structure-based analyses of gut microbiome-related proteins by neural networks and molecular dynamics simulations	58
Deep learning for intrinsically disordered proteins: From improved predictions to deciphering conformational ensembles	56
Proteins with alternative folds reveal blind spots in AlphaFold-based protein structure prediction	54
Modeling membranes in situ	54
Implications of disease-related mutations at protein–protein interfaces	54
Protein dynamics underlying allosteric regulation	53
Dynamics and interactions of intrinsically disordered proteins	53
The mannose receptor ligands and the macrophage glycome	52
Interpretable artificial intelligence and exascale molecular dynamics simulations to reveal kinetics: Applications to Alzheimer's disease	50
Principles of nucleosome recognition by chromatin factors and enzymes	50
Challenges and compromises: Predicting unbound antibody structures with deep learning	49
NMR of RNA - Structure and interactions	48
Structural insights into assembly of transcription preinitiation complex	48
Viral amyloids: New opportunities for antiviral therapeutic strategies	48
Probing protein–DNA interactions and compaction in nanochannels	47
Table of contents	47
Editorial Board	46
Table of contents	46