OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Chemistry is 71. 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
From hardship to scholarship	1078
Pregnancy in the lab	600
Setting the zirconocene for radical selectivity	474
Proteins turn up the contrast	442
Watching RNA in action with a green lantern	438
Cracking the Z-scheme water-splitting puzzles	392
Fabricating functionalized fibres	390
Rings make more room	377
A story of chance and collaboration	353
Expanding the catalytic landscape of metalloenzymes with lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases	309
Ni-catalysed remote C(sp3)–H functionalization using chain-walking strategies	300
Room-temperature phosphorescent materials derived from natural resources	295
Weighing up solvent effects	294
Boosting band structure	283
Boosting solid stability	271
Selenium chemistry for spatio-selective peptide and protein functionalization	266
Ultrafast spectroscopy of liquids using extreme-ultraviolet to soft-X-ray pulses	255
CACHE (Critical Assessment of Computational Hit-finding Experiments): A public–private partnership benchmarking initiative to enable the development of computational methods for hit-finding	242
Spearheading a new era in complex colloid synthesis with TPM and other silanes	233
Miniaturizing chemistry and biology using droplets in open systems	222
Advancing lithium-mediated ammonia synthesis	212
Omniphobic liquid-like surfaces	211
Meditations on mentorship and legacy	210
Improving the quantum cycle	209
Is educational research science, superstition or confidence trick?	202

Hot electrodes, cool reduction	193
The ideal recyclable solar cell	192
Coupling experiment and theory to push the state-of-the-art in X-ray spectroscopy	191
The cosmochemistry of planetary systems	176
Mechanistic interpretation of orders in catalyst greater than one	175
The future of chemistry is language	170
Understanding covalency in molecular f-block compounds from the synergy of spectroscopy and quantum chemistry	167
Synthetic molecular cage receptors for carbohydrate recognition	166
Charge-transfer dynamics in S-scheme photocatalyst	155
Cleaning up with catalysts	147
You can judge a book by its spectra	145
Bugging out for jet fuel	142
Author Correction: Near ambient N2 fixation on solid electrodes versus enzymes and homogeneous catalysts	141
Picking an inter-locked cage	141
Plastics from proteins	129
Presenting the tactile periodic table	126
The future of reviews writing in the AI era	121
Prospects and challenges for nitrogen-atom transfer catalysis	118
Light-empowered contra-thermodynamic stereochemical editing	115
Supramolecular approaches for the treatment of hypoxic regions in tumours	108
Non-specificity as the sticky problem in therapeutic antibody development	108
Gender equity in funding	107
A life of leaving the door open	107
Light my fire	107
A new actinide sandwich on the menu	106
Solar utilization beyond photosynthesis	104
Direct air capture: fledgling technology or world saviour?	103
Microplastics that don’t come out in the wash	102
Examining actinides with X-ray spectroscopy	100
The impact of supramolecular self-association of organocatalysts on catalytic performance	96
Inclusive teaching at your fingertips	96
Halogen chemistry of solid electrolytes in all-solid-state batteries	94
Accessing monomers from lignin through carbon–carbon bond cleavage	91
Staying alive	84
Opening the flood gates	82
Look what the catenane dragged in	80
The need to normalize failure	80
Go with the flow for high-throughput electrochemistry	79
Author Correction: Closing the loop with reactions at the N-terminus	78
The role and structure of molecular glues in plant signalling networks	75
Scientific collaboration to rid the world of chemical weapons	75
Chemical approaches to cryopreservation	74
Studying protein structure and function by native separation–mass spectrometry	72
Continuous monitoring of chemical signals in plants under stress	72
Sulfonyl fluorides as targets and substrates in the development of new synthetic methods	72
Fluorinated solvents for better batteries	71