OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Chemical Biology is 63. 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
Say yes to the NOS	214
Peering into the cellular cycle	190
Preserving the barrier	183
Plasma membrane-associated ARAF condensates fuel RAS-related cancer drug resistance	180
Turning down the heat	177
Small molecules deliver big	171
An engineered trafficking biosensor reveals a role for DNAJC13 in DOR downregulation	163
Genes and crystals are not so separate	159
Avoiding arm contact	158
A versatile offense	141
Protecting with PROTAC	135
Cyclic signature	135
Seeing the retention	133
Spatiotemporally controlled generation of NTPs for single-molecule studies	130
Programming cell-surface signaling by phase-separation-controlled compartmentalization	128
Long-term super-resolution inner mitochondrial membrane imaging with a lipid probe	124
Small molecule probes for targeting autophagy	109
Converting non-neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 antibodies into broad-spectrum inhibitors	108
Linked to death	104
Metal to the pedal	102
Your gut on steroids	102
Cryptic enzymatic assembly of peptides armed with β-lactone warheads	98
Plasmodesmata mediate cell-to-cell transport of brassinosteroid hormones	97
Building light-activated synthetic cells that induce gene expression in bacteria via quorum sensing	96
Rolling toward circular solutions	95

Expanding the molecular grammar of polar residues and arginine in FUS phase separation	93
Persistent activation of TRPM4 triggers necrotic cell death characterized by sodium overload	89
Drugging viral factories	86
Go with the FLOE	86
A viscous switch	85
Identifying p53-independent apoptosis	85
Cutting the tail	85
A Wittig combination	85
A sulfate amuse-bouche	82
Development of cyclic peptides that can be administered orally to inhibit disease targets	79
A selective small-molecule STAT5 PROTAC degrader capable of achieving tumor regression in vivo	77
Degradable living plastics programmed by engineered spores	77
The ‘Big Bang’ of the chemical universe	77
Identification and mechanism of G protein-biased ligands for chemokine receptor CCR1	76
Anti-aggregate activity	75
Probiotic hat trick	75
Breaking down taurine	75
Ancient defensive terpene biosynthetic gene clusters in the soft corals	75
Catalysis under stress	75
Proximity-inducing pharmacology	74
The acyl carrier protein dance	74
Flipping the polarity switch	73
Altering the cap	72
A vicious cycle	72
Choosing the junk	71
Sensing the air	70
Bacteria lose a pep in their step	69
Accelerating enzyme evolution	68
Surviving salt stress	68
State of play	68
The first step of hypusination	67
The landscape of targets and lead molecules for remyelination	66
Ub or not Ub	66
Sterol homeostasis in yeast	66
Systematic identification of biomarker-driven drug combinations to overcome resistance	65
Author Correction: Hypercompact adenine base editors based on a Cas12f variant guided by engineered RNA	64
Monoterpene metabolism unmasked	64
Synergistic protection of nascent DNA at stalled forks by MSANTD4 and BRCA1/2–RAD51	63
Traffic control	63