OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Chemistry is 39. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Proteins turn up the contrast	960
From hardship to scholarship	830
Pregnancy in the lab	726
Setting the zirconocene for radical selectivity	553
Watching RNA in action with a green lantern	532
Cracking the Z-scheme water-splitting puzzles	407
A story of chance and collaboration	402
Rings make more room	365
Fabricating functionalized fibres	351
Room-temperature phosphorescent materials derived from natural resources	345
Expanding the catalytic landscape of metalloenzymes with lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases	317
Ni-catalysed remote C(sp3)–H functionalization using chain-walking strategies	290
Weighing up solvent effects	283
Boosting band structure	268
Ultrafast spectroscopy of liquids using extreme-ultraviolet to soft-X-ray pulses	263
Spearheading a new era in complex colloid synthesis with TPM and other silanes	249
Boosting solid stability	242
Advancing lithium-mediated ammonia synthesis	240
CACHE (Critical Assessment of Computational Hit-finding Experiments): A public–private partnership benchmarking initiative to enable the development of computational methods for hit-finding	234
Omniphobic liquid-like surfaces	227
Miniaturizing chemistry and biology using droplets in open systems	226
A comparison of RAFT and ATRP methods for controlled radical polymerization	225
Selenium chemistry for spatio-selective peptide and protein functionalization	221
Is educational research science, superstition or confidence trick?	215
Hot electrodes, cool reduction	195

Improving the quantum cycle	195
Meditations on mentorship and legacy	189
Understanding covalency in molecular f-block compounds from the synergy of spectroscopy and quantum chemistry	186
The cosmochemistry of planetary systems	182
The future of chemistry is language	181
The ideal recyclable solar cell	175
Coupling experiment and theory to push the state-of-the-art in X-ray spectroscopy	165
Mechanistic interpretation of orders in catalyst greater than one	163
Synthetic molecular cage receptors for carbohydrate recognition	163
Charge-transfer dynamics in S-scheme photocatalyst	156
Cleaning up with catalysts	147
Plastics from proteins	141
You can judge a book by its spectra	130
Picking an inter-locked cage	129
Bugging out for jet fuel	128
Author Correction: Near ambient N2 fixation on solid electrodes versus enzymes and homogeneous catalysts	126
Presenting the tactile periodic table	122
Supramolecular approaches for the treatment of hypoxic regions in tumours	119
The future of reviews writing in the AI era	119
Non-specificity as the sticky problem in therapeutic antibody development	117
Light-empowered contra-thermodynamic stereochemical editing	112
Prospects and challenges for nitrogen-atom transfer catalysis	110
Light my fire	109
Inclusive teaching at your fingertips	105
Gender equity in funding	100
A life of leaving the door open	98
Microplastics that don’t come out in the wash	95
Direct air capture: fledgling technology or world saviour?	93
Examining actinides with X-ray spectroscopy	93
Accessing monomers from lignin through carbon–carbon bond cleavage	91
A new actinide sandwich on the menu	91
Halogen chemistry of solid electrolytes in all-solid-state batteries	91
Opening the flood gates	89
Solar utilization beyond photosynthesis	89
Staying alive	86
Look what the catenane dragged in	84
The need to normalize failure	82
Author Correction: Closing the loop with reactions at the N-terminus	80
Go with the flow for high-throughput electrochemistry	79
Reviving antibiotic power	75
The role and structure of molecular glues in plant signalling networks	74
Unchained power	72
Studying protein structure and function by native separation–mass spectrometry	71
Strategies to improve hydrogen activation on gold catalysts	71
Scintillating observations	69
Continuous monitoring of chemical signals in plants under stress	68
Sulfonyl fluorides as targets and substrates in the development of new synthetic methods	66
Chemical approaches to cryopreservation	65
Wearable chemical sensors for biomarker discovery in the omics era	64
Fluorinated solvents for better batteries	64

Stabilization of photoactive phases for perovskite photovoltaics	63
Cap and release	61
Holding your nerve in academia whilst managing multiple sclerosis	60
An algorithmic looking glass for transitions	59
Element sets for schools	58
A career in pursuit of the fundamentals	58
The synthesis behind the 2023 Nobel Prize	58
Intercalation in 2D materials and in situ studies	57
Radical C(sp3)–H functionalization and cross-coupling reactions	57
Metals to combat antimicrobial resistance	57
Unveiling the final nitrogenase	57
Complementary probes for the electrochemical interface	56
Molecular chameleons in drug discovery	54
Super on-surface synthesis	54
Hierarchical pore assembly	53
Photochemistry of interstellar ice forming complex organic molecules	51
Graphene oxide for photonics, electronics and optoelectronics	50
How to drink like a liposome	50
A silicon solution	49
Threading career skills into classrooms	49
Making and breaking cages	48
Pump up the ultrasound	48
Chiral and magnetic butterflies	47
Reflections on the pigments of life	46
Radically new reactivity	46
Another side of side chains	45
Developing a tool for teaching chemistry to people with visual impairments	44
Snooping on the conical intersection	44
Reconfigurable microfluidics	43
Recent advances in visible light-induced C(sp3)–N bond formation	40
Optimizing the semiconductor–metal-single-atom interaction for photocatalytic reactivity	40
Motile behaviour of droplets in lipid systems	39
Secrets from a spin-out success story	39