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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Fluorogenic polymethine dyes by intramolecular cyclization	203
Noncytotoxic catalytic enzyme functional mimics including cyanide poisoning antidotes	132
Peptide-based molecules for the disruption of bacterial Hsp70 chaperones	130
Glycoengineering in antigen-specific immunotherapies	91
Glycosidase mechanisms: Sugar conformations and reactivity in endo- and exo-acting enzymes	87
Imaging of proteases using activity-based probes	71
Small-molecule modulators of protein–RNA interactions	70
Engineered metallobiocatalysts for energy–relevant reactions	67
Recent advances in the structural analysis of adenylation domains in natural product biosynthesis	62
Synthetic transporters for oxoanions	58
Extendable and explainable deep learning for pan-cancer radiogenomics research	57
Recent advances in proximity labeling for chemical proteomics: Paving the way for in vivo applications	56
Caged lipid probes for controlling lipid levels on subcellular scales	52
Recent advances in methods for quantifying the cell penetration of macromolecules	52
The Ramifications of synthetic biology	51
Characteristics of genetic tags for correlative light and electron microscopy	50
Activity-based protein profiling in microbes and the gut microbiome	49
Accessing and exploring the unusual chemistry by radical SAM-RiPP enzymes	47
Site-specific bioconjugation and nuclear imaging	46
New strategies for fluorescently labeling proteins in the study of amyloids	45
Chemical inhibitors of transcription-associated kinases	44
Blurred lines: Crossing the boundaries between the chemical exposome and the metabolome	43
Chemical engineering of bacterial effectors for regulating cell signaling and responses	43
Network biology bridges the gaps between quantitative genetics and multi-omics to map complex diseases	41
From the forest floor to the lab: Insights into the diversity and complexity of mushroom polyketide synthases	41

Genetically encoded fluorescent sensors for metals in biology	40
Multinuclear non-heme iron dependent oxidative enzymes (MNIOs) involved in unusual peptide modifications	40
Chemical probes for tagging mycobacterial lipids	39
Chemo- and opto-genetic tools for dissecting the role of membrane contact sites in living cells: Recent advances and limitations	39
Advances in the understanding and exploitation of carbohydrate-active enzymes	38
Highlighting the roles of transition metals and speciation in chemical biology	37
Selenium vitaminology: The connection between selenium, vitamin C, vitamin E, and ergothioneine	37
Critical considerations in N-glycoproteomics	37
Chemistry and biology of enzymes in protein glutathionylation	36
Editorial Board	36
Editorial Board	36