Nature Protocols

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Protocols is 10. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Author Correction: Z-REX: shepherding reactive electrophiles to specific proteins expressed tissue specifically or ubiquitously, and recording the resultant functional electrophile-induced redox respo1108
Author Correction: cfSNV: a software tool for the sensitive detection of somatic mutations from cell-free DNA546
Open thoracic surgical implantation of cardiac pacemakers in rats428
Isoform-specific RNA structure determination using Nano-DMS-MaP392
ChromEMT: visualizing and reconstructing chromatin ultrastructure and 3D organization in situ381
Routine culture and study of adult human brain cells from neurosurgical specimens379
Design and application of the transformer base editor in mammalian cells and mice332
Analysis of combinatorial CRISPR screens with the Orthrus scoring pipeline324
Visualization of metabolites and microbes at high spatial resolution using MALDI mass spectrometry imaging and in situ fluorescence labeling272
Reproducible strategy for excisional skin-wound-healing studies in mice269
Spontaneous and experimental models of lymph node metastasis251
GLORI for absolute quantification of transcriptome-wide m6A at single-base resolution231
Purification and functional characterization of novel human skeletal stem cell lineages231
Generating human bone marrow organoids for disease modeling and drug discovery216
Expansion of human pluripotent stem cell–induced nephron progenitor cells (iNPCs) and the generation of nephron organoids from iNPCs213
Generation of heart-forming organoids from human pluripotent stem cells190
Open-vessel polymerization of N-carboxyanhydride (NCA) for polypeptide synthesis183
Quantitative molecular imaging using deep magnetic resonance fingerprinting180
Expansion and fluctuations-enhanced microscopy for nanoscale molecular profiling of cells and tissues170
High-throughput fabrication of antimicrobial phage microgels and example applications in food decontamination169
Fabrication of electron tunneling probes for measuring single-protein conductance169
Three-dimensional human neural culture on a chip recapitulating neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration166
Metabolomics using anion-exchange chromatography mass spectrometry for the analysis of cells, tissues and biofluids160
Generation and characterization of hair-bearing skin organoids from human pluripotent stem cells154
Rapid reaction optimization by robust and economical quantitative benchtop 19F NMR spectroscopy153
Author Correction: Reliable detection of somatic mutations in solid tissues by laser-capture microdissection and low-input DNA sequencing151
Head-mounted central venous access during optical recordings and manipulations of neural activity in mice145
Author Correction: Chromatin integration labeling for mapping DNA-binding proteins and modifications with low input144
Publisher Correction: Rapid reaction optimization by robust and economical quantitative benchtop 19F NMR spectroscopy132
How to isolate channel-forming membrane proteins using the E. coli expression system131
Publisher Correction: In vivo pulse labeling of isochronic cohorts of cells in the central nervous system using FlashTag131
Photoimmunotechnology as a powerful biological tool for molecular-based elimination of target cells and microbes, including bacteria, fungi and viruses131
Hyperosmolar blood–brain barrier opening using intra-arterial injection of hyperosmotic mannitol in mice under real-time MRI guidance130
Small RNA structural biochemistry in a post-sequencing era127
Stable isotope tracing to assess tumor metabolism in vivo117
Fabrication of thin-film electrodes and organic electrochemical transistors for neural implants113
Preparation and biomedical applications of single-metal atom catalysts105
Spatially resolved epigenome sequencing via Tn5 transposition and deterministic DNA barcoding in tissue103
Bioengineering human intestinal mucosal grafts using patient-derived organoids, fibroblasts and scaffolds101
SubCellBarCode: integrated workflow for robust spatial proteomics by mass spectrometry99
Establishment of human induced trophoblast stem cells via reprogramming of fibroblasts99
Chromatin accessibility profiling by ATAC-seq99
Precise tracking of nanoparticles in plant roots99
Large-scale growth of C. elegans and isolation of membrane protein complexes97
Sequential orthogonal assays for longitudinal and endpoint characterization of three-dimensional spheroids97
Collections from Nature Protocols96
Gene expression and chromatin state mapped in space95
A versatile tissue-rolling technique for spatial-omics analyses of the entire murine gastrointestinal tract94
Sonoafterglow nanoprobes for deep-tissue imaging of peroxynitrite92
Scalable growth of vertical graphene nanosheets by thermal chemical vapor deposition85
Fibrous polyisocyanide hydrogels for 3D cell culture applications84
Structural connectome construction using constrained spherical deconvolution in multi-shell diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging82
Achieving transient and reversible optical transparency in live mice with tartrazine80
mRNA lipid nanoparticle formulation, characterization and evaluation78
Controlling the polarity of human gastrointestinal organoids to investigate epithelial biology and infectious diseases77
Preparation and quantitative analysis of multicenter luminescence materials for sensing function76
Honey bee functional genomics using symbiont-mediated RNAi75
Preparation of selective organ-targeting (SORT) lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) using multiple technical methods for tissue-specific mRNA delivery74
Expansion of human hepatocytes and their application in three-dimensional culture and genetic manipulation74
A ‘print–pause–print’ protocol for 3D printing microfluidics using multimaterial stereolithography73
Generation of iPSC-derived human forebrain organoids assembling bilateral eye primordia70
Generation and long-term culture of human cerebellar organoids from pluripotent stem cells70
Mitochondrial single-cell ATAC-seq for high-throughput multi-omic detection of mitochondrial genotypes and chromatin accessibility68
Comprehensive synthesis of Ti3C2Tx from MAX phase to MXene67
Unraveling cell–cell communication with NicheNet by inferring active ligands from transcriptomics data65
A practical guide to identifying associations between tandem repeats and complex human traits using consensus genotypes from multiple tools64
Publisher Correction: A reconstituted cell-free assay for the evaluation of the intrinsic activity of purified human ribosomes63
A bifunctional molecule-assisted synthesis of mimics for use in probing the ubiquitination system62
Divergent synthesis of amino acid-linked O-GalNAc glycan core structures61
Integrating genome-wide CRISPR screens and in silico drug profiling for targeted antidote development59
Genome-wide quantification of transcription factor binding at single-DNA-molecule resolution using methyl-transferase footprinting59
Identification of immunogenic commensal antigens using phage display58
Plant sperm cell sequencing for genome phasing and determination of meiotic crossover points58
CONIPHER: a computational framework for scalable phylogenetic reconstruction with error correction57
All-optical interrogation of neural circuits in behaving mice57
Scalable tissue labeling and clearing of intact human organs57
Web-based multi-omics integration using the Analyst software suite56
Surface nanocoating of bacteria as a versatile platform to develop living therapeutics56
High-throughput single-cell transcriptomics of bacteria using combinatorial barcoding55
Electrochemical molecular intercalation and exfoliation of solution-processable two-dimensional crystals55
Chemometric analysis in Raman spectroscopy from experimental design to machine learning–based modeling55
Author Correction: Capture-C: a modular and flexible approach for high-resolution chromosome conformation capture54
In vitro reconstitution of COPII vesicles from Arabidopsis thaliana suspension-cultured cells54
Use of synthetic circular RNA spike-ins (SynCRS) for normalization of circular RNA sequencing data53
GlYcoLISA: antigen-specific and subclass-specific IgG Fc glycosylation analysis based on an immunosorbent assay with an LC–MS readout53
Enzyme-free targeted DNA demethylation using CRISPR–dCas9-based steric hindrance to identify DNA methylation marks causal to altered gene expression52
Identification and validation of microbial biomarkers from cross-cohort datasets using xMarkerFinder51
Sonication-assisted protein extraction improves proteomic detection of membrane-bound and DNA-binding proteins from tumor tissues51
Genome-wide analysis of the biophysical properties of chromatin and nuclear proteins in living cells with Hi-D50
Design and simulation of DNA, RNA and hybrid protein–nucleic acid nanostructures with oxView50
Enhancing consistency in brain imaging research for population neuroimaging50
A guide to precise measurements of isotope abundance by ESI-Orbitrap MS50
Easy and accurate protein structure prediction using ColabFold49
Integrating optical neuroscience tools into touchscreen operant systems49
Profiling native pulmonary basement membrane stiffness using atomic force microscopy49
A scalable protocol for the radiosynthesis of clinical grade lutetium-177-labeled theranostic agents49
A guide to building a low-cost centrifuge force microscope module for single-molecule force experiments49
Comprehensive microcrystal electron diffraction sample preparation for cryo-EM48
Seed amplification assay for the detection of pathologic alpha-synuclein aggregates in cerebrospinal fluid48
Construction of complex bacteriogenic protocells from living material assembly48
Accurate determination of protein:ligand standard binding free energies from molecular dynamics simulations48
Capturing acyl–enzyme intermediates with genetically encoded 2,3-diaminopropionic acid for hydrolase substrate identification47
High-confidence and high-throughput quantification of synapse engulfment by oligodendrocyte precursor cells47
Analyzing somatic mutations by single-cell whole-genome sequencing46
Spatial analysis of tissue immunity and vascularity by light sheet fluorescence microscopy46
In vivo and ex vivo electrophysiological study of the mouse heart to characterize the cardiac conduction system, including atrial and ventricular vulnerability46
A graphic and command line protocol for quick and accurate comparisons of protein and nucleic acid structures with US-align45
An optimized culture system for efficient derivation of porcine expanded potential stem cells from preimplantation embryos and by reprogramming somatic cells45
Outcome devaluation as a method for identifying goal-directed behaviors in rats45
Constructing and interpreting volcano plots and activity maps to navigate homogeneous catalyst landscapes44
Optimal 13C NMR investigation of intrinsically disordered proteins at 1.2 GHz44
Preparation and use of wireless reprogrammable multilateral optogenetic devices for behavioral neuroscience43
Droplet-based functional CRISPR screening of cell–cell interactions by SPEAC-seq43
CellPhoneDB v5: inferring cell–cell communication from single-cell multiomics data42
Annotating genetic variants to target genes using H-MAGMA42
RNA sample optimization for cryo-EM analysis41
Author Correction: PepSeq: a fully in vitro platform for highly multiplexed serology using customizable DNA-barcoded peptide libraries41
Printed photonic crystal biochips for rapid and sensitive detection of biomarkers in various body fluids41
Stabilization and structure determination of integral membrane proteins by termini restraining40
Circular Vectors as an efficient, fully synthetic, cell-free approach for preparing small circular DNA as a plasmid substitute for guide RNA expression in CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing39
Applications of and considerations for using CRISPR–Cas9-mediated gene conversion systems in rodents39
Standardized production of hPSC-derived cardiomyocyte aggregates in stirred spinner flasks39
Capture of the newly transcribed RNA interactome using click chemistry39
High-resolution in situ structure determination by cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging using emClarity38
CRISPR-Combo–mediated orthogonal genome editing and transcriptional activation for plant breeding38
Fabrication of liquid cell for in situ transmission electron microscopy of electrochemical processes38
Physical dynamic double-network hydrogels as dressings to facilitate tissue repair38
Preparation of near-infrared AIEgen-active fluorescent probes for mapping amyloid-β plaques in brain tissues and living mice38
Surface photovoltage microscopy for mapping charge separation on photocatalyst particles37
Author Correction: Production and use of antigen tetramers to study antigen-specific B cells36
Addendum: Micro-CT acquisition and image processing to track and characterize pulmonary nodules in mice36
High-throughput multiplex voltage-clamp/current-clamp evaluation of acutely isolated neurons35
Visualizing epigenetic modifications and their spatial proximities in single cells using three DNA-encoded amplifying FISH imaging strategies: BEA-FISH, PPDA-FISH and Cell-TALKING34
Mapping T cell dynamics to molecular profiles through behavior-guided transcriptomics34
Synthesis of N-heterocycles through alcohol dehydrogenative coupling34
YCharOS protocol for antibody validation34
Spatially resolved genome-wide joint profiling of epigenome and transcriptome with spatial-ATAC-RNA-seq and spatial-CUT&Tag-RNA-seq34
Biomarker analysis from complex biofluids by an on-chip chemically modified light-controlled vertical nanopillar array device34
Co-fractionation–mass spectrometry to characterize native mitochondrial protein assemblies in mammalian neurons and brain34
Improving accuracy and reproducibility of mass spectrometry characterization of protein coronas on nanoparticles32
m6A-SAC-seq for quantitative whole transcriptome m6A profiling31
Direct analysis of biotransformations with mass spectrometry—DiBT-MS31
Activation of mechanoluminescent nanotransducers by focused ultrasound enables light delivery to deep-seated tissue in vivo31
A detailed guide to assessing genome assembly based on long-read sequencing data using Inspector30
Universal platform for the generation of thermostabilized GPCRs that crystallize in LCP30
A multi-glycomic platform for the analysis of food carbohydrates30
Purification of mammalian telomeric DNA for single-molecule analysis30
A proposed framework to evaluate the quality and reliability of targeted metabolomics assays from the UK Consortium on Metabolic Phenotyping (MAP/UK)29
Graphene–molecule–graphene single-molecule junctions to detect electronic reactions at the molecular scale29
A consensus platform for antibody characterization29
Protocols and risks: when less is more29
Nano3P-seq: charting the coding and noncoding transcriptome at single-molecule resolution29
Luciferase- and HaloTag-based reporter assays to measure small-molecule-induced degradation pathway in living cells28
Tutorial: a guide to diffusion MRI and structural connectomics28
Determining chromatin architecture with Micro Capture-C28
A clinically relevant model of focal embolic cerebral ischemia by thrombus and thrombolysis in rhesus monkeys28
DARLIN mouse for in vivo lineage tracing at high efficiency and clonal diversity28
The HADDOCK2.4 web server for integrative modeling of biomolecular complexes27
A new era begins at Nature Protocols27
Generation of ‘semi-guided’ cortical organoids with complex neural oscillations27
Fabrication and use of silicon hollow-needle arrays to achieve tissue nanotransfection in mouse tissue in vivo27
scGPT: end-to-end protocol for fine-tuned retinal cell type annotation26
Preparation, maintenance and propagation of synchronous cultures of photoactive Chlamydomonas cells26
Pan-evolutionary and regulatory genome architecture delineated by an integrated macro- and microsynteny approach26
The GFP thermal shift assay for screening ligand and lipid interactions to solute carrier transporters26
Inferring cellular and molecular processes in single-cell data with non-negative matrix factorization using Python, R and GenePattern Notebook implementations of CoGAPS26
Patient-derived and mouse endo-ectocervical organoid generation, genetic manipulation and applications to model infection26
The OBSERVE guidelines provide refinement criteria for rodent oncology models25
Solution-based self-assembly synthesis of two-dimensional-ordered mesoporous conducting polymer nanosheets with versatile properties25
Synthesis of ordered mesoporous metal oxides by solvent evaporation-induced cooperative assembly25
Generation of quality-controlled SARS-CoV-2 variant stocks25
A practical guide to large-scale docking25
Photothermal nanofiber-mediated photoporation for gentle and efficient intracellular delivery of macromolecules25
Facile synthesis of mesoporous TiO2 architectures with tunable configurations and nanometer precision25
A guide to reverse metabolomics—a framework for big data discovery strategy25
Designing and executing prime editing experiments in mammalian cells25
Bioconjugates of photon-upconversion nanoparticles for cancer biomarker detection and imaging25
Bio-orthogonal tuning of matrix properties during 3D cell culture to induce morphological and phenotypic changes24
Generation and characterization of vestibular inner ear organoids from human pluripotent stem cells24
Precise mutagenesis in zebrafish using cytosine base editors24
The use of methanol as a C1 building block24
Integration of diverse bioactivity data into the Chemical Checker compound universe24
Measuring key human carbohydrate digestive enzyme activities using high-performance anion-exchange chromatography with pulsed amperometric detection24
Molecular recording using DNA Typewriter24
A puromycin-dependent activity-based sensing probe for histochemical staining of hydrogen peroxide in cells and animal tissues23
Mapping protein–RNA binding in plants with individual-nucleotide-resolution UV cross-linking and immunoprecipitation (plant iCLIP2)23
Publisher Correction: Precision genome editing using cytosine and adenine base editors in mammalian cells23
A metabolic modeling platform for the computation of microbial ecosystems in time and space (COMETS)23
Author Correction: Constructing a cost-efficient, high-throughput and high-quality single-molecule localization microscope for super-resolution imaging23
Scanorama: integrating large and diverse single-cell transcriptomic datasets23
Ultra-fast supercritically solvothermal polymerization for large single-crystalline covalent organic frameworks23
Detection of intramolecular protein dynamics on nanosecond-to-microsecond timescales by nanoparticle-assisted NMR spin relaxation (NASR)22
Retina-specific laminin-based generation of photoreceptor progenitors from human pluripotent stem cells under xeno-free and chemically defined conditions22
In vivo identification of astrocyte and neuron subproteomes by proximity-dependent biotinylation22
Reply to: Byproducts in the synthesis of [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-1122
Correlative light and electron microscopy for human brain and other biological models22
Real-time imaging of axonal membrane protein life cycles22
Precise kilobase-scale genomic insertions in mammalian cells using PASTE22
A workflow for the development of template-assisted membrane crystallization downstream processing for monoclonal antibody purification22
Reprogramming fibroblast into human iBlastoids22
Pooled genetic perturbation screens with image-based phenotypes22
Integrative structural modeling of macromolecular complexes using Assembline21
Preparation of AIEgen-based near-infrared afterglow luminescence nanoprobes for tumor imaging and image-guided tumor resection21
Versatile synthesis of uniform mesoporous superparticles from stable monomicelle units21
Scale-up approach for the preparation of magnetic ferrite nanocubes and other shapes with benchmark performance for magnetic hyperthermia applications21
Native MS-guided lipidomics to define endogenous lipid microenvironments of eukaryotic receptors and transporters21
Click chemistry: a transformative technology in nuclear medicine21
Tutorial: design, production and testing of oncolytic viruses for cancer immunotherapy21
A bioswitchable delivery system for microRNA therapeutics based on a tetrahedral DNA nanostructure20
Formulation of two lipid-based membrane–core nanoparticles for FOLFOX combination therapy20
Author Correction: Life-long functional regeneration of in vivo airway epithelium by the engraftment of airway basal stem cells20
Optimizing the Cell Painting assay for image-based profiling20
Engineered human blood–brain barrier microfluidic model for vascular permeability analyses20
Transcriptome-wide measurement of poly(A) tail length and composition at subnanogram total RNA sensitivity by PAIso-seq19
Publisher Correction: A practical guide to large-scale docking19
A multimodal imaging pipeline to decipher cell-specific metabolic functions and tissue microenvironment dynamics19
OptADMET: a web-based tool for substructure modifications to improve ADMET properties of lead compounds19
Transcriptomic profiling of individual bacteria by MATQ-seq19
Absolute quantification of prokaryotes in the microbiome by 16S rRNA qPCR or ddPCR19
Neural cell isolation from adult macaques for high-throughput analyses and neurosphere cultures19
Reconstructing phylogenetic trees from genome-wide somatic mutations in clonal samples19
Modeling heart rhythm using human engineered heart tissues19
Defining genome-wide CRISPR–Cas genome-editing nuclease activity with GUIDE-seq18
Comprehensive multiscale analysis of lactate metabolic dynamics in vitro and in vivo using highly responsive biosensors18
Induction of human trophoblast stem cells18
Assembly of a stem cell-derived human postimplantation embryo model18
Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience18
Subretinal injection in mice to study retinal physiology and disease18
Multiplexed chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing for quantitative study of histone modifications and chromatin factors18
Improved sampling and DNA extraction procedures for microbiome analysis in food-processing environments18
Isocyanide-based multi-component reactions for carrier-free and carrier-bound covalent immobilization of enzymes17
Controlled synthesis of noble metal aerogels mediated by salts17
Construction and use of an adaptive optics two-photon microscope with direct wavefront sensing17
Multiplexed single-cell analysis of organoid signaling networks17
Hierarchical imaging and computational analysis of three-dimensional vascular network architecture in the entire postnatal and adult mouse brain17
Author Correction: Fractionation of lignocellulosic biomass to produce uncondensed aldehyde-stabilized lignin17
A flow cytometry-based protocol for syngenic isolation of neurovascular unit cells from mouse and human tissues17
Streamlining spatial omics data analysis with Pysodb17
Peptide-enabled ribonucleoprotein delivery for CRISPR engineering (PERC) in primary human immune cells and hematopoietic stem cells17
Selective footprinting of 40S and 80S ribosome subpopulations (Sel-TCP-seq) to study translation and its control17
Human primordial germ cell-like cells specified from resetting precursors develop in human hindgut organoids17
High-resolution topographic surveying and change detection with the iPhone LiDAR17
Expression and characterization of SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins17
An inexpensive semi-automated sample processing pipeline for cell-free RNA extraction17
Metagenome-assembled genome extraction and analysis from microbiomes using KBase16
A practical guide to machine-learning scoring for structure-based virtual screening16
Simple, efficient and thorough shotgun proteomic analysis with PatternLab V16
Using clusterProfiler to characterize multiomics data16
Creating hierarchical pores in metal–organic frameworks via postsynthetic reactions16
A multiwell plate approach to increase the sample throughput during tissue clearing15
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