OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Biophysics is 15. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Enzymology and Dynamics by Cryogenic Electron Microscopy	188
Free Energy Methods for the Description of Molecular Processes	174
Mapping Enzyme Landscapes by Time-Resolved Crystallography with Synchrotron and X-Ray Free Electron Laser Light	121
The Effects of Temperature on Cellular Physiology	120
The Expanded Central Dogma: Genome Resynthesis, Orthogonal Biosystems, Synthetic Genetics	114
Membrane Association of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins	110
Biophysical Modeling of Synaptic Plasticity	100
Nanomechanics of Blood Clot and Thrombus Formation	81
ATP-Independent Chaperones	65
Mechanism of Activation of the Visual Receptor Rhodopsin	63
Collapse and Protein Folding: Should We Be Surprised That Biothermodynamics Works So Well?	49
From Nucleosomes to Compartments: Physicochemical Interactions Underlying Chromatin Organization	48
Next-Generation Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors Illuminate Cell Signaling and Metabolism	48
Molecular Shape Solution for Mesoscopic Remodeling of Cellular Membranes	47
Prospects and Limitations of High-Resolution Single-Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy	46
Structure and Mechanism of Human ABC Transporters	44
Chaperonin Mechanisms: Multiple and (Mis)Understood?	43
Bringing Structure to Cell Biology with Cryo-Electron Tomography	42
Bioenergetics and the Evolution of Cellular Traits	41
Waves in Embryonic Development	39
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neurotransmitter Release	38
Bacterial Electrophysiology	37
Mechanisms for DNA Interplay in Eukaryotic Transcription Factors	34
Unveiling the Intricate Connection: Cell Volume as a Key Regulator of Mechanotransduction	33
Metabolic Engineering of Yeast	32

Statistical Thermodynamics of the Protein Ensemble: Mediating Function and Evolution	32
Information Processing in Biochemical Networks	32
Cholesterol and Lipid Rafts in the Biogenesis of Amyloid-β Protein and Alzheimer's Disease	32
Ancestral Reconstruction and the Evolution of Protein Energy Landscapes	31
Coding From Binding? Molecular Interactions at the Heart of Translation	31
Structure Function Studies of Photosystem II Using X-Ray Free Electron Lasers	31
Metabolomics and Microbial Metabolism: Toward a Systematic Understanding	29
Protein Modeling with DEER Spectroscopy	29
Morphology and Transport in Eukaryotic Cells	28
Variable-Temperature Native Mass Spectrometry for Studies of Protein Folding, Stabilities, Assembly, and Molecular Interactions	25
Quantitative Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy	25
Toward Principles of Brain Network Organization and Function	25
Emergent Spatiotemporal Organization in Stochastic Intracellular Transport Dynamics	25
Single-Molecule Imaging of Integral Membrane Protein Dynamics and Function	24
Cryo-EM of Mitochondrial Complex I and ATP Synthase	23
Mitochondrial Dynamics at Different Levels: From Cristae Dynamics to Interorganellar Cross Talk	19
Decoding and Recoding of mRNA Sequences by the Ribosome	18
Orientation of Cell Polarity by Chemical Gradients	17
Fifty Years of Biophysics at the Membrane Frontier	17
Cryo-Electron Tomography: The Resolution Revolution and a Surge of In Situ Virological Discoveries	17
Insights into the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Amino-Acid Radicals in Proteins	16
	15
Single-Cell Mechanics: Structural Determinants and Functional Relevance	15
Molecular Level Super-Resolution Fluorescence Imaging	15