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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Ball-and-Chain Inactivation in Potassium Channels	155
Fitness Landscapes and Evolution of Catalytic RNA	148
Bacterial Electrophysiology	132
A Life of Biophysics	104
Biomolecular Systems Engineering: Unlocking the Potential of Engineered Allostery via the Lactose Repressor Topology	99
Next-Gen Biophysics: Look to the Forest, Beyond the Trees	92
Toward Principles of Brain Network Organization and Function	85
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Molecular Level Super-Resolution Fluorescence Imaging	78
Kinetics of Amyloid Oligomer Formation	72
Mechanics of Single Cytoskeletal Filaments	68
Protein Diffusion Along Protein and DNA Lattices: Role of Electrostatics and Disordered Regions	66
Enzymology and Dynamics by Cryogenic Electron Microscopy	63
Review of COVID-19 Antibody Therapies	58
Mechanisms of Inheritance of Chromatin States: From Yeast to Human	57
Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity and Its Implications for Biological Functions	53
Free Energy Methods for the Description of Molecular Processes	51
Waves in Embryonic Development	48
Emerging Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction Approaches for Protein Dynamics	46
NMR and Single-Molecule FRET Insights into Fast Protein Motions and Their Relation to Function	43
Quantitative Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy	42
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neurotransmitter Release	41
Directed Evolution of Microbial Communities	41
Bringing Structure to Cell Biology with Cryo-Electron Tomography	41
Lipid–Protein Interactions in Plasma Membrane Organization and Function	39

Structure and Mechanics of Dynein Motors	38
HX and Me: Understanding Allostery, Folding, and Protein Machines	36
Unveiling the Intricate Connection: Cell Volume as a Key Regulator of Mechanotransduction	35
Emergent Spatiotemporal Organization in Stochastic Intracellular Transport Dynamics	33
Large Chaperone Complexes Through the Lens of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy	32
When Force Met Fluorescence: Single-Molecule Manipulation and Visualization of Protein–DNA Interactions	32
Variable-Temperature Native Mass Spectrometry for Studies of Protein Folding, Stabilities, Assembly, and Molecular Interactions	30
Mechanisms for DNA Interplay in Eukaryotic Transcription Factors	29
Assembly and Architecture of NLR Resistosomes and Inflammasomes	28
The Phasor Plot: A Universal Circle to Advance Fluorescence Lifetime Analysis and Interpretation	28
Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Multienzyme Organization and Encapsulation	27
Protein Sequencing, One Molecule at a Time	27
Critical Assessment of Methods for Predicting the 3D Structure of Proteins and Protein Complexes	27
The Sliding Filament Theory Since Andrew Huxley: Multiscale and Multidisciplinary Muscle Research	26
Macromolecular Crowding Is More than Hard-Core Repulsions	25
Orientation of Cell Polarity by Chemical Gradients	25
Mapping Enzyme Landscapes by Time-Resolved Crystallography with Synchrotron and X-Ray Free Electron Laser Light	25
Statistical Thermodynamics of the Protein Ensemble: Mediating Function and Evolution	25
Phospholipid Scrambling by G Protein–Coupled Receptors	24
Hybrid Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Methods For Studying Energy Transduction in Biomolecular Machines	24
Cholesterol and Lipid Rafts in the Biogenesis of Amyloid-β Protein and Alzheimer's Disease	23
Biophysical Principles Emerging from Experiments on Protein–Protein Association and Aggregation	23
Decoding and Recoding of mRNA Sequences by the Ribosome	21
Measuring Absolute Membrane Potential Across Space and Time	21
Structure of Phycobilisomes	21
Super-Resolution Microscopy for Structural Cell Biology	20
Mitochondrial Dynamics at Different Levels: From Cristae Dynamics to Interorganellar Cross Talk	16
Biomolecular Condensates in Contact with Membranes	15
The Effects of Temperature on Cellular Physiology	14
Native Mass Spectrometry: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges	14
Information Processing in Biochemical Networks	13
Analysis of Tandem Repeat Protein Folding Using Nearest-Neighbor Models	13
Membrane Association of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins	13
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Single-Molecule Imaging of Integral Membrane Protein Dynamics and Function	13
Metabolic Engineering of Yeast	13
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	13