OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Computer-Aided Drug Design is 4. 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
Study on the Effect of Pogostemon Cablin Benth on Skin Aging Based on Network Pharmacology	46
Study on the Mechanism of Action of the Traditional Chinese Medical Prescription Gushukang in Treating Osteoporosis Based on Network Pharmacology and Experimental Verification	26
Molecular Generation, QSAR, and Molecular Dynamic Simulation Studies for Virtual Screening of DNA Polymerase Theta Inhibitors	25
Qi-Gui-Jian-Gu Decoction Accelerates Osteogenesis and Fracture Healing by Activating the Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling Pathway	20
Exploring the Molecular Mechanism by which Kaempferol Attenuates Sepsis-related Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Based on Network Pharmacology and Experimental Verification	18
Rational Design of Dual Inhibitors for Alzheimer's Disease: Insights from Computational Screening of BACE1 and GSK-3β	15
In-silico Assessment of Polyherbal Oils as Anti-diabetic Therapeutics	13
In vivo, in vitro and Molecular Modelling Analysis of Isoquercetin, Roseoside, Coreximine, Anonaine, and Arianacin Molecules	11
Hedyotis diffusa Willd and Astragalus membranaceus May Exert Anti-colon Cancer Effects by Affecting AKTI Expression, as Determined by Network Pharmacology and Molecular Docking	11
Synthesis, Molecular Modeling and Biological Evaluation of Novel Trifluoromethyl Benzamides as Promising CETP Inhibitors	10
Integrated Bioinformatics Analysis and Target Drug Prediction of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Co-existent Diabetes Mellitus	10
Uncovering the Mechanisms of Cinnamic Acid Treating Diabetic Nephropathy based on Network Pharmacology, Molecular Docking, and Experimental Validation	9
Status and Prospects of Research on Deep Learning-based De Novo Generation of Drug Molecules	7
Designing and Evaluation of a Novel IL-1RA Fusion Cytokine to Enhancethe Pharmacokinetics and Receptor Affinity for Better TherapeuticIntervention in Inflammatory Disorders	7
Synthesis and in-silico Studies of 4-phenyl thiazol-2-amine Derivatives as Putative Anti-breast Cancer Agents	7
Discovery of Novel PTP1B Inhibitors by High-throughput Virtual Screening	7
Hybrid Class Balancing Approach for Chemical Compound Toxicity Prediction	7
Exploring the Mechanism of Qigesan in Treating Esophageal Carcinoma Based on Network Pharmacology, Molecular Docking, and Molecular Dynamics Simulation	7
Computational Evaluation of Punica granatum Leaf Phytochemicals against Multi-drug Resistant E. coli: Molecular Docking, ADMET, MD Simulation, and DFT Studies	7
Berberine Ameliorates High-fat-induced Insulin Resistance in HepG2 Cells by Modulating PPARs Signaling Pathway	7
Methodological Verification-based Screening of the Representative Ingredients for Traditional Chinese Medicine: Taking Astragalus as an Example for Interfering with Cervical Cancer	7
Structural Insight into the Binding Pattern and Interaction Mechanism of Antagonist MCC950 and Agonist BMS986299 with NLRP3 by Molecular Dynamics Simulation	6
Flavonoids and Organic Acids Affect Phase II Metabolism based on the Regulation of UGT1A1 Expression and Function	6
Exploring the Selective Potential Inhibitors for Homologous Protein BD1/BD2 with MD and AIDD Methods	6
MDO: A Computational Protocol for Prediction of Flexible Enzyme-ligand Binding Mode	6

Exploring Natural Compounds Targeting PD-L1 and STAT3: Toxicogenomic Analysis, Virtual Screening, Molecular Docking, ADMET Evaluation, and Biological Activity Prediction	6
Molecular Mechanism and Structure-activity Relationship of the Inhibition Effect between Monoamine Oxidase and Selegiline Analogues	6
Molecular Docking and ADMET Analysis Strategy-based Stability Indicating RP-HPLC-PDA Method Development and Validation of Toremifene	6
HOXC-AS1: A Key Biomarker for Prognosis and Immunotherapy in Lung Adenocarcinoma	6
Discovery of Polyphenolic Compounds from Mangifera indica as PotentTherapeutics for Strongyloides stercoralis Infection via Computer-aidedDrug Design	6
Efficacy and Safety of PARP Inhibitor Therapy in Advanced Ovarian Cancer: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials	6
Identification of Essential Genes and Drug Discovery in Bladder Cancer and Inflammatory Bowel Disease via Text Mining and Bioinformatics Analysis	6
Computer-aided Design of Wide-spectrum Coronavirus Helicase NSP13 Cage Inhibitors: A Molecular Modelling Approach	6
Antidepressant Properties of a Four-compound Cocktail Identified from Si-Ni-San by HIF-1 Pathway Modulation	5
3D-QSAR, Pharmacophore Modeling, ADMET and DFT Studies of Halogenated Conjugated Dienones as Potent MAO-B Inhibitors	5
Computer Simulation for Effective Pharmaceutical Kinetics and Dynamics: A Review	5
The Mechanism of Buqi Jianzhong Decoction in Treating Hepatocellular Carcinoma via AI-assisted Network Pharmacology and Experimentation	5
Tri_PTM_DAAM_CNN: Tripterygium wilfordii Post-translational Modification with Density Adaptive Attention Mechanism and Convolutional Neural Networks	5
Exploring the Mechanism of Centipeda minima in Treating Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Based on Network Pharmacology	5
Study on the Mechanism of Action of Qi Zhu Formula in the Treatment of Metabolic-associated Fatty Liver Disease based on Network Pharmacology and Experimental Validation	5
An In silico Study on B-cell Epitope Mapping of Acinetobacter baumannii Outer Membrane Protein K	5
In silico Analysis of Natural Inhibitors against HPV E6 Protein	5
Amalgamated Pharmacoinformatics Study to Investigate the Mechanism of Xiao Jianzhong Tang against Chronic Atrophic Gastritis	5
Exploration of Pharmacological Mechanisms of Dapagliflozin against Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus through PI3K-Akt Signaling Pathway based on Network Pharmacology Analysis and Deep Learning Technology	5
The Diagnostic Features of Peripheral Blood Biomarkers in Identifying Osteoarthritis Individuals: Machine Learning Strategies and Clinical Evidence	5
Discovery of a Potential Allosteric Site in the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein and Targeting Allosteric Inhibitor to Stabilize the RBD Down State using a Computational Approach	5
A Rationalized Approach to Design and Discover Novel Non-steroidal Derivatives through Computational Aid for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer	4
Designing Drug Delivery Vehicles based on N-(2-Hydroxypropyl) Methacrylamide	4
Synthesis, Docking Study of Some Novel Chromeno[4',3'-b]Pyrano [6,5-d]Pyrimidine Derivatives Against COVID-19 Main Protease (Mpro) (6LU7, 6M03)	4
Graph Convolutional Capsule Regression (GCCR): A Model for Accelerated Filtering of Novel Potential Candidates for SARS-CoV-2 based on Binding Affinity	4
In silico Study on Natural Chemical Compounds from Citric Essential Oils as Potential Inhibitors of an Omicron (BA.1) SARS-CoV-2 Mutants’ Spike Glycoprotein	4
Potential Aromatase Inhibitors from Centella asiatica with Non-synonymous SNPS - A Computational Approach	4
Graph-DTI: A New Model for Drug-target Interaction Prediction Based on Heterogenous Network Graph Embedding	4
Network Pharmacology and In Vivo Experimental Verification of the Mechanism of the Qing'e Pill for Treating Intervertebral Disc Degeneration	4
Advances in Computational Approaches for Drug Discovery and Design	4
Insights to Design New Drugs against Human African Trypanosomiasis Targeting Rhodesain using Covalent Docking, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, and MM-PBSA Calculations	4
A Comparative Analytical Review on Machine Learning Methods in Drugtarget Interactions Prediction	4
Preface	4
Mechanism of Shenfu Injection in Treating Ischemic Stroke Elucidated using Network Pharmacology and Experimental Validation	4
Prediction of the Molecular Mechanism of Corni Fructus-Epimedii Folium- Rehmanniae Radix Praeparata in the Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis based on Network Pharmacology and Molecular Docking	4
Acknowledgements to Reviewers	4
TOP-BIOCom: A Feature Fusion-based Prediction of Protein Complexes from PPI Networks	4
Design, In silico Screening, Synthesis, Characterisation and DFT-based Electronic Properties of Dihydropyridine-based Molecule as L-type Calcium Channel Blocker	4
Banxia Xiexin Decoction Prevents HT22 Cells from High Glucose-induced Neurotoxicity via JNK/SIRT1/Foxo3a Signaling Pathway	4
Acknowledgements to Reviewers	4
Designing a Novel di-epitope Diphtheria Vaccine: A Rational Structural Immunoinformatics Approach	4
Molecular Mechanism of Caulis Spatholobi in the Treatment of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia based on Network Pharmacology and Experimental Verification	4
Integrating Network Pharmacology, Molecular Dynamics, Machine Learning, and Animal Experiments to Decipher the Anti-fibrotic Mechanism of BI 1015550 in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis	4
Optimizing the Extraction of Polyphenols from the Bark of Terminalia arjuna and an In-silico Investigation on its Activity in Colorectal Cancer	4
Exploring the Molecular Mechanism of HongTeng Decoction against Inflammation based on Network Analysis and Experiments Validation	4
The Therapeutic Effect and Potential Pharmacological Mechanisms of Ding-Zhi-Xiao-Wan on Depression were Investigated by Meta-analysis, Network Pharmacology and Molecular Docking	4
The Determination of Molecular and Toxicological Mechanisms of Cucurbitacin E in Model Organism Drosophila melanogaster and Various Cancer Cell Lines: Molecular Modelling, Docking and Dynamic Simulati	4
Insights into the Molecular Mechanisms of Bushen Huoxue Decoction in Breast Cancer via Network Pharmacology and in vitro experiments	4
Design, Synthesis, Biological and in silico Evaluation of Novel Indazole-pyridine Hybrids for the Treatment of Breast Cancer	4
Chemical Composition, In vitro and In silico Evaluation of Essential Oil from Ocimum tenuiflorum and Coriandrum sativum Linn for Lung Cancer	4

Identification of a ceRNA Network Regulating Malignant Transformation of Isocitrate Dehydrogenase Mutant Astrocytoma: An Integrated Bioinformatics Study