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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Physical Principles Underlying the Complex Biology of Intracellular Phase Transitions	563
Biophysics of Notch Signaling	102
The Role of Conformational Dynamics and Allostery in Modulating Protein Evolution	101
RNA Droplets	100
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neurotransmitter Release	91
Insights into the Structure, Function, and Dynamics of the Bacterial Cytokinetic FtsZ-Ring	83
The Physics of Cellular Decision Making During Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition	83
Super-Resolution Microscopy for Structural Cell Biology	75
The Phasor Plot: A Universal Circle to Advance Fluorescence Lifetime Analysis and Interpretation	68
Temperature, Dynamics, and Enzyme-Catalyzed Reaction Rates	63
Recent Developments in the Field of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Intrinsic Disorder–Based Emergence in Cellular Biology in Light of the Physiological and Pathological Liquid–Liquid Phase Transit	60
Light Microscopy of Mitochondria at the Nanoscale	59
Macromolecular Crowding Is More than Hard-Core Repulsions	56
Structure and Mechanics of Dynein Motors	54
Mitochondria-Associated Proteostasis	51
Directed Evolution of Microbial Communities	51
Native Mass Spectrometry: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges	50
Gene Regulation in and out of Equilibrium	46
The Mechanosensory Transduction Machinery in Inner Ear Hair Cells	45
Enhanced Diffusion and Chemotaxis of Enzymes	44
Milestoning: An Efficient Approach for Atomically Detailed Simulations of Kinetics in Biophysics	44
Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity and Its Implications for Biological Functions	41
Protein Reconstitution Inside Giant Unilamellar Vesicles	38
Molecular Force Measurement with Tension Sensors	38
Advancing Biophysics Using DNA Origami	36

The Effects of Temperature on Cellular Physiology	35
How Physical Interactions Shape Bacterial Biofilms	34
Biophysics of Chromatin Remodeling	34
The Molecular Basis for Life in Extreme Environments	32
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics in Cell Biology: Extending Equilibrium Formalism to Cover Living Systems	31
Lipid–Protein Interactions in Plasma Membrane Organization and Function	31
Multifunctional Chaperone and Quality Control Complexes in Adaptive Immunity	31
Biomolecular Modeling and Simulation: A Prospering Multidisciplinary Field	29
Structure of Phycobilisomes	28
Rules of Physical Mathematics Govern Intrinsically Disordered Proteins	27
The Sliding Filament Theory Since Andrew Huxley: Multiscale and Multidisciplinary Muscle Research	27
Review of COVID-19 Antibody Therapies	27
Bringing Structure to Cell Biology with Cryo-Electron Tomography	26
Phospholipid Scrambling by G Protein–Coupled Receptors	25
Principles and Applications of Biological Membrane Organization	24
Structure and Mechanism of Human ABC Transporters	23
Learning to Model G-Quadruplexes: Current Methods and Perspectives	21
Waves in Embryonic Development	21
Protein Sequencing, One Molecule at a Time	20
Bayesian Inference: The Comprehensive Approach to Analyzing Single-Molecule Experiments	19
Structures and Functions of Chromatin Fibers	19
Variable-Temperature Native Mass Spectrometry for Studies of Protein Folding, Stabilities, Assembly, and Molecular Interactions	19
ATP-Independent Chaperones	19
Free Energy Methods for the Description of Molecular Processes	17
Critical Assessment of Methods for Predicting the 3D Structure of Proteins and Protein Complexes	17
Molecular Shape Solution for Mesoscopic Remodeling of Cellular Membranes	16
Mapping Enzyme Landscapes by Time-Resolved Crystallography with Synchrotron and X-Ray Free Electron Laser Light	16
Measuring Absolute Membrane Potential Across Space and Time	16
Orientation of Cell Polarity by Chemical Gradients	16
Chaperonin Mechanisms: Multiple and (Mis)Understood?	15
Assembly and Architecture of NLR Resistosomes and Inflammasomes	13