OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Annual Review of Biophysics is 34. 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
Free Energy Methods for the Description of Molecular Processes	229
Enzymology and Dynamics by Cryogenic Electron Microscopy	206
Mapping Enzyme Landscapes by Time-Resolved Crystallography with Synchrotron and X-Ray Free Electron Laser Light	163
The Effects of Temperature on Cellular Physiology	163
Biophysical Modeling of Synaptic Plasticity	138
The Expanded Central Dogma: Genome Resynthesis, Orthogonal Biosystems, Synthetic Genetics	128
Mechanism of Activation of the Visual Receptor Rhodopsin	126
ATP-Independent Chaperones	92
Membrane Association of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins	85
Nanomechanics of Blood Clot and Thrombus Formation	81
Tethered Signaling Proteins	68
Next-Generation Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors Illuminate Cell Signaling and Metabolism	62
Structures of Photosynthetic Supramolecular Complexes	57
Collapse and Protein Folding: Should We Be Surprised That Biothermodynamics Works So Well?	56
From Nucleosomes to Compartments: Physicochemical Interactions Underlying Chromatin Organization	55
Chaperonin Mechanisms: Multiple and (Mis)Understood?	53
Molecular Shape Solution for Mesoscopic Remodeling of Cellular Membranes	50
Prospects and Limitations of High-Resolution Single-Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy	47
Structure and Mechanism of Human ABC Transporters	47
The Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore: Past, Present, and Future	46
Waves in Embryonic Development	45
Imaging Dynamic Subcellular Organization at High Spatiotemporal Resolution	45
Bacterial Electrophysiology	45
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neurotransmitter Release	44
Bringing Structure to Cell Biology with Cryo-Electron Tomography	41

Bioenergetics and the Evolution of Cellular Traits	41
Unveiling the Intricate Connection: Cell Volume as a Key Regulator of Mechanotransduction	41
Hopfield Networks as Models of Emergent Function in Biology	40
Mechanisms for DNA Interplay in Eukaryotic Transcription Factors	40
Cholesterol and Lipid Rafts in the Biogenesis of Amyloid-β Protein and Alzheimer's Disease	39
Statistical Thermodynamics of the Protein Ensemble: Mediating Function and Evolution	39
Coding From Binding? Molecular Interactions at the Heart of Translation	37
Information Processing in Biochemical Networks	36
Metabolic Engineering of Yeast	34