OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Biophysics is 12. 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
Enzymology and Dynamics by Cryogenic Electron Microscopy	165
Free Energy Methods for the Description of Molecular Processes	146
Mapping Enzyme Landscapes by Time-Resolved Crystallography with Synchrotron and X-Ray Free Electron Laser Light	97
The Effects of Temperature on Cellular Physiology	92
Membrane Association of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins	91
Mechanism of Activation of the Visual Receptor Rhodopsin	91
Nanomechanics of Blood Clot and Thrombus Formation	80
Biophysical Modeling of Synaptic Plasticity	73
The Expanded Central Dogma: Genome Resynthesis, Orthogonal Biosystems, Synthetic Genetics	47
ATP-Independent Chaperones	45
Collapse and Protein Folding: Should We Be Surprised That Biothermodynamics Works So Well?	42
Molecular Shape Solution for Mesoscopic Remodeling of Cellular Membranes	39
From Nucleosomes to Compartments: Physicochemical Interactions Underlying Chromatin Organization	39
Next-Generation Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors Illuminate Cell Signaling and Metabolism	39
Prospects and Limitations of High-Resolution Single-Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy	38
Chaperonin Mechanisms: Multiple and (Mis)Understood?	35
Structure and Mechanism of Human ABC Transporters	33
Waves in Embryonic Development	31
Bioenergetics and the Evolution of Cellular Traits	31
Bacterial Electrophysiology	30
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neurotransmitter Release	30
Bringing Structure to Cell Biology with Cryo-Electron Tomography	30
Unveiling the Intricate Connection: Cell Volume as a Key Regulator of Mechanotransduction	28
Statistical Thermodynamics of the Protein Ensemble: Mediating Function and Evolution	27
Mechanisms for DNA Interplay in Eukaryotic Transcription Factors	27

Cholesterol and Lipid Rafts in the Biogenesis of Amyloid-β Protein and Alzheimer's Disease	26
Metabolic Engineering of Yeast	26
Information Processing in Biochemical Networks	26
Structure Function Studies of Photosystem II Using X-Ray Free Electron Lasers	24
Metabolomics and Microbial Metabolism: Toward a Systematic Understanding	23
Coding From Binding? Molecular Interactions at the Heart of Translation	23
Ancestral Reconstruction and the Evolution of Protein Energy Landscapes	22
Protein Modeling with DEER Spectroscopy	22
Morphology and Transport in Eukaryotic Cells	21
Quantitative Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy	20
Toward Principles of Brain Network Organization and Function	20
Emergent Spatiotemporal Organization in Stochastic Intracellular Transport Dynamics	19
Variable-Temperature Native Mass Spectrometry for Studies of Protein Folding, Stabilities, Assembly, and Molecular Interactions	16
Decoding and Recoding of mRNA Sequences by the Ribosome	16
Orientation of Cell Polarity by Chemical Gradients	15
Cryo-EM of Mitochondrial Complex I and ATP Synthase	15
Mitochondrial Dynamics at Different Levels: From Cristae Dynamics to Interorganellar Cross Talk	15
Single-Molecule Imaging of Integral Membrane Protein Dynamics and Function	14
Cryo-Electron Tomography: The Resolution Revolution and a Surge of In Situ Virological Discoveries	13
Insights into the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Amino-Acid Radicals in Proteins	13
Single-Cell Mechanics: Structural Determinants and Functional Relevance	12
Fifty Years of Biophysics at the Membrane Frontier	12
Fitness Landscapes and Evolution of Catalytic RNA	12
	12