OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Biophysics is 13. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Enzymology and Dynamics by Cryogenic Electron Microscopy	176
Free Energy Methods for the Description of Molecular Processes	160
Mapping Enzyme Landscapes by Time-Resolved Crystallography with Synchrotron and X-Ray Free Electron Laser Light	106
The Effects of Temperature on Cellular Physiology	104
Biophysical Modeling of Synaptic Plasticity	103
Nanomechanics of Blood Clot and Thrombus Formation	102
ATP-Independent Chaperones	90
Membrane Association of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins	74
The Expanded Central Dogma: Genome Resynthesis, Orthogonal Biosystems, Synthetic Genetics	56
Mechanism of Activation of the Visual Receptor Rhodopsin	48
Next-Generation Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors Illuminate Cell Signaling and Metabolism	44
Collapse and Protein Folding: Should We Be Surprised That Biothermodynamics Works So Well?	43
Molecular Shape Solution for Mesoscopic Remodeling of Cellular Membranes	41
From Nucleosomes to Compartments: Physicochemical Interactions Underlying Chromatin Organization	41
Chaperonin Mechanisms: Multiple and (Mis)Understood?	41
Prospects and Limitations of High-Resolution Single-Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy	39
Structure and Mechanism of Human ABC Transporters	37
Bacterial Electrophysiology	37
Bioenergetics and the Evolution of Cellular Traits	36
Waves in Embryonic Development	35
Bringing Structure to Cell Biology with Cryo-Electron Tomography	32
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neurotransmitter Release	32
Unveiling the Intricate Connection: Cell Volume as a Key Regulator of Mechanotransduction	31
Cholesterol and Lipid Rafts in the Biogenesis of Amyloid-β Protein and Alzheimer's Disease	30
Mechanisms for DNA Interplay in Eukaryotic Transcription Factors	30

Metabolic Engineering of Yeast	27
Statistical Thermodynamics of the Protein Ensemble: Mediating Function and Evolution	27
Structure Function Studies of Photosystem II Using X-Ray Free Electron Lasers	27
Information Processing in Biochemical Networks	27
Coding From Binding? Molecular Interactions at the Heart of Translation	27
Protein Modeling with DEER Spectroscopy	26
Metabolomics and Microbial Metabolism: Toward a Systematic Understanding	25
Ancestral Reconstruction and the Evolution of Protein Energy Landscapes	25
Morphology and Transport in Eukaryotic Cells	23
Quantitative Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy	23
Toward Principles of Brain Network Organization and Function	22
Emergent Spatiotemporal Organization in Stochastic Intracellular Transport Dynamics	21
Variable-Temperature Native Mass Spectrometry for Studies of Protein Folding, Stabilities, Assembly, and Molecular Interactions	21
Orientation of Cell Polarity by Chemical Gradients	19
Mitochondrial Dynamics at Different Levels: From Cristae Dynamics to Interorganellar Cross Talk	18
Cryo-EM of Mitochondrial Complex I and ATP Synthase	17
Decoding and Recoding of mRNA Sequences by the Ribosome	16
Single-Molecule Imaging of Integral Membrane Protein Dynamics and Function	15
Cryo-Electron Tomography: The Resolution Revolution and a Surge of In Situ Virological Discoveries	15
Insights into the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Amino-Acid Radicals in Proteins	14
Fifty Years of Biophysics at the Membrane Frontier	13
Molecular Level Super-Resolution Fluorescence Imaging	13
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Single-Cell Mechanics: Structural Determinants and Functional Relevance	13