OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Chemical Biology is 36. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Synthetic peptide scaffolds as ion channels and molecular carriers	187
Lipid probes to study ion channels	119
Chemical tools targeting readers of lysine methylation	98
New analytical methods focusing on polar metabolite analysis in mass spectrometry and NMR-based metabolomics	95
Role of conformational dynamics in pathogenic protein aggregation	94
Decoding the cellular effects of genetic variation through interaction proteomics	83
Direct visualization and profiling of protein misfolding and aggregation in live cells	80
New chemical processes to streamline carbohydrate synthesis	77
Editorial Board	73
Covalent labeling of immune cells	69
Editorial Board	66
Editorial overview: Imaging metal ions in biological systems	65
Synthesis and application of bacterial exopolysaccharides	59
Small molecule fluorescent probes for the study of protein phase separation	55
How are hydrogen peroxide messages relayed to affect cell signalling?	54
Editorial Board	54
MicroRNA:Siglec crosstalk in cancer progression	53
The chemical biology of NAD+ regulation in axon degeneration	52
Drugging the undruggable proteins in cancer: A systems biology approach	52
In silico, in vitro, and in vivo machine learning in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering	48
Recent advances in induced proximity modalities	48
Recent advances in developing degraders & inhibitors of lysine methyltransferases	48
Electrophilic metabolites targeting the KEAP1/NRF2 partnership	46
Microbial metabolite-receptor interactions in the gut microbiome	45
Sulfur-containing marine natural products as leads for drug discovery and development	45

Engineered metallobiocatalysts for energy–relevant reactions	44
From structure to application: Progress and opportunities in peptide materials development	44
Programmable tools for targeted analysis of epigenetic DNA modifications	44
NMR spectroscopy to study the fate of metallodrugs in cells	43
Corrigendum to “Shedding light on complexity of protein–protein interactions in cancer” [Curr Opin Chem Biol 53 (2019) 75-81]	42
Supramolecular coordination complexes as diagnostic and therapeutic agents	42
Peptides for disrupting and degrading amyloids	41
Recent advances in drug repurposing using machine learning	41
Imaging organelle membranes in live cells at the nanoscale with lipid-based fluorescent probes	40
Structural insights into auxiliary cofactor usage by radical S-adenosylmethionine enzymes	36
Emerging artificial metalloenzymes for asymmetric hydrogenation reactions	36