OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Chemistry is 84. 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
A near-linear lanthanide complex that displays magnet-like behaviour	539
Not all catenanes with oriented rings are topologically chiral	385
Eric the AI research assistant for chemists	383
General strategy for the synthesis of N-monofluoromethyl amides	327
Supramolecular crystals for hydrogen storage	261
Using symmetry to drive new protein assemblies	246
Mass spectrometry captures biased signalling and allosteric modulation of a G-protein-coupled receptor	217
Pop-up rings to rule reactivity	212
The origin of translation	205
Digital skills in chemical education	199
DNA catch bonds demonstrate the art of getting stuck	196
Author Correction: Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution	183
In situ nonlinear optical spectroscopy for probing buried oxide–water interfaces	178
Protons undermine lithium-ion batteries with positively disastrous results	178
Corrole and squeezed coordination	163
Building enzymes from scratch	162
Iron–sulfur clusters as inhibitors and catalysts of viral replication	153
Sulfone cross-coupling outcompetes proton transfer	153
The numerous paths of ferrocene	152
Leveraging relaxation-optimized 1H–13CF correlations in 4-19F-phenylalanine as atomic beacons for probing structure and dynamics of large proteins	143
A pseudo-cubic metal–organic cage with conformationally switchable faces for dynamically adaptive guest encapsulation	139
Excited-state intermediates in a designer protein encoding a phototrigger caught by an X-ray free-electron laser	139
Tunable valence tautomerism in lanthanide–organic alloys	139
An air- and moisture-stable ruthenium precatalyst for diverse reactivity	134
Machine learning designs new GCGR/GLP-1R dual agonists with enhanced biological potency	134

Expanding the substrate scope of pyrrolysyl-transfer RNA synthetase enzymes to include non-α-amino acids in vitro and in vivo	133
A metalloenzyme platform for catalytic asymmetric radical dearomatization	130
The twists and turns of chiral chemistry	124
Discovery and synthesis of atropisomerically chiral acyl-substituted stable vinyl sulfoxonium ylides	123
A soil-inspired dynamically responsive chemical system for microbial modulation	123
Reaction-induced unsaturated Mo oxycarbides afford highly active CO2 conversion catalysts	123
Enantiospecific cross-coupling of cyclic alkyl sulfones	122
Baird’s rules at the tipping point	121
Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification	119
Amphoteric chalcogen-bonding and halogen-bonding rotaxanes for anion or cation recognition	116
Enantioselective fullerene functionalization through stereochemical information transfer from a self-assembled cage	116
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H2 and N2 activation for ammonia synthesis	116
O-GlcNAcylation modulates liquid–liquid phase separation of SynGAP/PSD-95	114
Single crystals of purely organic free-standing two-dimensional woven polymer networks	114
Beyond Hubble	113
Photomediated aliphatic C–H functionalization	113
D3+ formation through photoionization of the molecular D2–D2 dimer	113
A programmable biomimetic cytoskeleton	113
Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes	112
Low-valent tungsten redox catalysis enables controlled isomerization and carbonylative functionalization of alkenes	111
A template for artificial life	110
ATP hydrolysis captured in atomic detail	108
Aryl ortho methoxylation	108
The role of aromaticity in the cyclization and polymerization of alkyne-substituted porphyrins on Au(111)	107
Bottleable triplet nitrenes	105
Insights from an information thermodynamics analysis of a synthetic molecular motor	105
Combining biological and chemical diversity	105
A dynamic metal–organic framework photocatalyst	105
Synthesis and single-molecule imaging reveal stereospecific enhancement of binding kinetics by the antitumour eEF1A antagonist SR-A3	104
Constructing artificial gap junctions to mediate intercellular signal and mass transport	103
The ribosome stabilizes partially folded intermediates of a nascent multi-domain protein	103
Global profiling of functional histidines in live cells using small-molecule photosensitizer and chemical probe relay labelling	103
A bridged backbone strategy enables collective synthesis of strychnan alkaloids	102
Mass photometric detection and quantification of nanoscale α-synuclein phase separation	101
A catalytic asymmetric cross-coupling approach to the synthesis of cyclobutanes	101
Multilayer stacks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons	100
Growth of single-crystal imine-linked covalent organic frameworks using amphiphilic amino-acid derivatives in water	98
Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation	98
An electroaffinity labelling platform for chemoproteomic-based target identification	97
A C–H activation-based enantioselective synthesis of lower carbo[n]helicenes	97
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions	95
Aromaticity rules	94
Stepwise on-demand functionalization of multihydrosilanes enabled by a hydrogen-atom-transfer photocatalyst based on eosin Y	94
Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates	94
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen	93
A living library concept to capture the dynamics and reactivity of mixed-metal clusters for catalysis	93
Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers	93
Pluralistic teaching	92
Milking riboflavin for all it’s worth	91
Molecular contacts with an orthogonal π-skeleton induce amorphization to enhance perovskite solar cell performance	89

An open-shell molecule that exhibits conformational dynamics	89
4f-orbital covalency enables a single-crystal-to-single-crystal ring-opening isomerization in a CeIV–cyclopropenyl complex	89
Transient water wires mediate selective proton transport in designed channel proteins	87
A single diiron enzyme catalyses the oxidative rearrangement of tryptophan to indole nitrile	86
Molecular-scale dissipative chemistry drives the formation of nanoscale assemblies and their macroscale transport	85
Enabling nucleophilic reactivity in molecular calcium fluoride complexes	85
Protein semisynthesis reveals plasticity in HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase mechanisms	85
Designing artificial fluorescent proteins and biosensors by genetically encoding molecular rotor-based amino acids	85
Fast and facile synthesis of amidine-incorporated degradable lipids for versatile mRNA delivery in vivo	84
Small-molecule-catalysed deamination enables transcriptome-wide profiling of N6-methyladenosine in RNA	84
Deciphering functional roles of protein succinylation and glutarylation using genetic code expansion	84