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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Noncytotoxic catalytic enzyme functional mimics including cyanide poisoning antidotes	190
Corrigendum to “Shedding light on complexity of protein–protein interactions in cancer” [Curr Opin Chem Biol 53 (2019) 75-81]	125
Fluorogenic polymethine dyes by intramolecular cyclization	111
Glycoengineering in antigen-specific immunotherapies	99
Engineered metallobiocatalysts for energy–relevant reactions	89
Imaging of proteases using activity-based probes	87
Peptide-based molecules for the disruption of bacterial Hsp70 chaperones	84
Small-molecule modulators of protein–RNA interactions	76
Glycosidase mechanisms: Sugar conformations and reactivity in endo- and exo-acting enzymes	70
Recent advances in the structural analysis of adenylation domains in natural product biosynthesis	69
Caged lipid probes for controlling lipid levels on subcellular scales	67
Extendable and explainable deep learning for pan-cancer radiogenomics research	60
Activity-based protein profiling in microbes and the gut microbiome	58
Synthetic transporters for oxoanions	56
New strategies for fluorescently labeling proteins in the study of amyloids	56
The Ramifications of synthetic biology	55
Recent advances in methods for quantifying the cell penetration of macromolecules	55
Characteristics of genetic tags for correlative light and electron microscopy	54
Blurred lines: Crossing the boundaries between the chemical exposome and the metabolome	53
Site-specific bioconjugation and nuclear imaging	51
Accessing and exploring the unusual chemistry by radical SAM-RiPP enzymes	50
Chemo- and opto-genetic tools for dissecting the role of membrane contact sites in living cells: Recent advances and limitations	48
Chemical inhibitors of transcription-associated kinases	48
Chemical engineering of bacterial effectors for regulating cell signaling and responses	44
Genetically encoded fluorescent sensors for metals in biology	44

From the forest floor to the lab: Insights into the diversity and complexity of mushroom polyketide synthases	44
Chemical probes for tagging mycobacterial lipids	43
Selenium vitaminology: The connection between selenium, vitamin C, vitamin E, and ergothioneine	42
Advances in the understanding and exploitation of carbohydrate-active enzymes	40
Opportunity knocks for uncovering the new function of an understudied nucleosome remodeling complex member, the bromodomain PHD finger transcription factor, BPTF	40
Past, present, and perspectives of protein N-terminal methylation	39
Chemistry and biology of enzymes in protein glutathionylation	39
Multinuclear non-heme iron dependent oxidative enzymes (MNIOs) involved in unusual peptide modifications	37
Critical considerations in N-glycoproteomics	37
Network biology bridges the gaps between quantitative genetics and multi-omics to map complex diseases	36
Highlighting the roles of transition metals and speciation in chemical biology	36
Editorial Board	36