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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Fluorogenic polymethine dyes by intramolecular cyclization	173
Noncytotoxic catalytic enzyme functional mimics including cyanide poisoning antidotes	81
Engineered metallobiocatalysts for energy–relevant reactions	74
Imaging of proteases using activity-based probes	69
Small-molecule modulators of protein–RNA interactions	68
Peptide-based molecules for the disruption of bacterial Hsp70 chaperones	64
Glycoengineering in antigen-specific immunotherapies	61
Recent advances in the structural analysis of adenylation domains in natural product biosynthesis	61
Glycosidase mechanisms: Sugar conformations and reactivity in endo- and exo-acting enzymes	58
Activity-based protein profiling in microbes and the gut microbiome	56
Blurred lines: Crossing the boundaries between the chemical exposome and the metabolome	54
Editorial Board	54
Synthetic transporters for oxoanions	53
The Ramifications of synthetic biology	52
Recent advances in methods for quantifying the cell penetration of macromolecules	51
Recent advances in proximity labeling for chemical proteomics: Paving the way for in vivo applications	50
Caged lipid probes for controlling lipid levels on subcellular scales	49
Accessing and exploring the unusual chemistry by radical SAM-RiPP enzymes	47
Site-specific bioconjugation and nuclear imaging	43
Characteristics of genetic tags for correlative light and electron microscopy	43
Chemical inhibitors of transcription-associated kinases	42
Chemistry and biology of enzymes in protein glutathionylation	42
Editorial Board	42
Chemo- and opto-genetic tools for dissecting the role of membrane contact sites in living cells: Recent advances and limitations	42
Genetically encoded fluorescent sensors for metals in biology	41

From the forest floor to the lab: Insights into the diversity and complexity of mushroom polyketide synthases	40
Selenium vitaminology: The connection between selenium, vitamin C, vitamin E, and ergothioneine	40
Multinuclear non-heme iron dependent oxidative enzymes (MNIOs) involved in unusual peptide modifications	40
Highlighting the roles of transition metals and speciation in chemical biology	39
Advances in the understanding and exploitation of carbohydrate-active enzymes	39
Critical considerations in N-glycoproteomics	39
Editorial Board	38
Editorial Board	38
Towards chemoenzymatic labeling strategies for profiling protein glycosylation	37
How nature incorporates sulfur and selenium into bioactive natural products	37
Mechanism and inhibition of BRAF kinase	37