OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Chemistry is 70. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Proteins turn up the contrast	999
From hardship to scholarship	745
Pregnancy in the lab	563
Setting the zirconocene for radical selectivity	556
Watching RNA in action with a green lantern	429
Cracking the Z-scheme water-splitting puzzles	414
A story of chance and collaboration	386
Fabricating functionalized fibres	356
Rings make more room	356
Ni-catalysed remote C(sp3)–H functionalization using chain-walking strategies	326
Expanding the catalytic landscape of metalloenzymes with lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases	315
Room-temperature phosphorescent materials derived from natural resources	294
Weighing up solvent effects	292
Selenium chemistry for spatio-selective peptide and protein functionalization	272
Boosting band structure	263
Ultrafast spectroscopy of liquids using extreme-ultraviolet to soft-X-ray pulses	261
Boosting solid stability	256
A comparison of RAFT and ATRP methods for controlled radical polymerization	244
Spearheading a new era in complex colloid synthesis with TPM and other silanes	244
Miniaturizing chemistry and biology using droplets in open systems	234
CACHE (Critical Assessment of Computational Hit-finding Experiments): A public–private partnership benchmarking initiative to enable the development of computational methods for hit-finding	233
Omniphobic liquid-like surfaces	230
Advancing lithium-mediated ammonia synthesis	221
Is educational research science, superstition or confidence trick?	205
Hot electrodes, cool reduction	200

Improving the quantum cycle	194
Meditations on mentorship and legacy	193
The future of chemistry is language	190
The ideal recyclable solar cell	190
Synthetic molecular cage receptors for carbohydrate recognition	178
Understanding covalency in molecular f-block compounds from the synergy of spectroscopy and quantum chemistry	172
Mechanistic interpretation of orders in catalyst greater than one	171
Coupling experiment and theory to push the state-of-the-art in X-ray spectroscopy	167
The cosmochemistry of planetary systems	166
Charge-transfer dynamics in S-scheme photocatalyst	151
Cleaning up with catalysts	146
Plastics from proteins	138
You can judge a book by its spectra	136
Picking an inter-locked cage	135
Bugging out for jet fuel	133
Author Correction: Near ambient N2 fixation on solid electrodes versus enzymes and homogeneous catalysts	128
Supramolecular approaches for the treatment of hypoxic regions in tumours	126
Presenting the tactile periodic table	124
Prospects and challenges for nitrogen-atom transfer catalysis	119
Non-specificity as the sticky problem in therapeutic antibody development	116
The future of reviews writing in the AI era	115
Light-empowered contra-thermodynamic stereochemical editing	112
Light my fire	102
Inclusive teaching at your fingertips	101
Gender equity in funding	100
A life of leaving the door open	100
Microplastics that don’t come out in the wash	98
Examining actinides with X-ray spectroscopy	97
Direct air capture: fledgling technology or world saviour?	97
A new actinide sandwich on the menu	95
Accessing monomers from lignin through carbon–carbon bond cleavage	94
Halogen chemistry of solid electrolytes in all-solid-state batteries	94
Opening the flood gates	93
Solar utilization beyond photosynthesis	93
Look what the catenane dragged in	91
Staying alive	91
The need to normalize failure	85
Author Correction: Closing the loop with reactions at the N-terminus	83
Go with the flow for high-throughput electrochemistry	77
Unchained power	77
The role and structure of molecular glues in plant signalling networks	77
Studying protein structure and function by native separation–mass spectrometry	75
Scintillating observations	74
Fluorinated solvents for better batteries	71
Reviving antibiotic power	71