OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Communications Chemistry is 36. 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
The road to the electroreduction of CO2	141
Q&A with Editorial Board Member Professor Wei Zhang	136
Spatiotemporal control of translation in live zebrafish embryos via photoprotected mRNAs	111
London dispersion forces and steric effects within nanocomposites tune interaction energies and chain conformation	106
Proteome-wide non-cleavable crosslink identification with MS Annika 3.0 reveals the structure of the C. elegans Box C/D complex	101
Rapid peptide synthesis using a methylimidazolium sulfinyl fluoride salt	96
High-pressure synthesis and crystal structure of iron sp3-carbonate (Fe2[C4O10]) featuring pyramidal [C4O10]4- anions	85
Isoaspartate-containing galanin in rat hypothalamus	84
C(sp3)–heteroatom bond formation by iron-catalyzed soft couplings	81
Directed synthesis of N1/N3-histidine modified by 2-hydroxyethylthioethyl and identification in sulfur mustard-exposed plasma	79
Liquid-liquid crystalline phase separation of spider silk proteins	72
Mechanism of activation and autophosphorylation of a histidine kinase	67
Control of nuclear dynamics in the benzene cation by electronic wavepacket composition	66
Radical hydrodifluoromethylation of unsaturated C−C bonds via an electroreductively triggered two-pronged approach	65
Carbonyl-nitrogen multi-resonance emitters for efficient OLEDs with high color purity	63
Vastly different energy landscapes of the membrane insertions of monomeric gasdermin D and A3	62
How journal editors can support women in chemistry	61
On-surface synthesis of planar π-extended [12]cycloparaphenylene	61
A genetically encoded BRET-based SARS-CoV-2 Mpro protease activity sensor	59
The ability of trimethylamine N-oxide to resist pressure induced perturbations to water structure	55
Binary combinatorial scanning reveals potent poly-alanine-substituted inhibitors of protein-protein interactions	51
Ion-specific binding of cations to the carboxylate and of anions to the amide of alanylalanine	50
Women in chemistry: Q&A with Dr. Stefanie Flohr	50
Search for a Grotthuss mechanism through the observation of proton transfer	50
Catenane organocatalyst breaks the linear scaling limitation through conformational selection	48

Celebrating 5 years of Communications Chemistry	46
Thermally-assisted photosensitized emission in a trivalent terbium complex	45
Queer in Chem: Q&A with Professor Polly Arnold	43
Queer in Chem: Q&A with Professor Nancy Williams	42
Discovery of bicyclic borane molecule B14H26	41
Biosynthesis of lactacystin as a proteasome inhibitor	41
Women in chemistry: Q&A with Dr Qi Hao	40
Narrowing the gap between machine learning scoring functions and free energy perturbation using augmented data	40
Oxygen transfer reaction of haloalkyl amides catalyzed by phenylboronic acid	39
Enabling systemic identification and functionality profiling for Cdc42 homeostatic modulators	38
Modulating self-assembly and polymorph transitions in bisdendronized squaramides	37
Angular orientation between the cores of iron oxide nanoclusters controls their magneto–optical properties and magnetic heating functions	36