OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Chem is 79. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Lanthanide luminescence from supramolecular hydrogels consisting of bio-conjugated picolinic-acid-based guanosine quadruplexes	747
In this issue	445
Reaction: Harnessing reactive oxygen species (ROS) for water purification	387
Out-of-equilibrium chemical logic systems	354
From trash to treasure: Vanadium-catalyzed upcycling of non-biodegradable plastics	332
A Star of David [2]catenane of single handedness	288
Highly selective and efficient uranium recovery by size-sieving porous aromatic frameworks with rigidly functionalized windows	269
N-Heterocyclic carbene-derived second-period main-group radicals: Synthesis, fundamentals, and applications	259
A high-throughput workflow to analyze sequence-conformation relationships and explore hydrophobic patterning in disordered peptoids	248
Excited-state protonation and reduction enable the umpolung Birch reduction of naphthalenes	230
Spatially resolved cell tagging and surfaceome labeling via targeted photocatalytic decaging	223
Air-stable radical polycyclic aromatic hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks	214
Multi-omics profiling of a self-assembling bioactive hydrogel for immunomodulation and myogenesis in volumetric muscle loss	209
Nanocellulose: New horizons in organic chemistry and beyond	194
Probing enantioinduction in confined chiral spaces through asymmetric oxime reductions	189
An M60L60 metal-peptide capsid with a 60-crossing woven network	176
Nature-inspired synthetic oligourea foldamer channels allow water transport with high salt rejection	171
Quasicrystal approximants in isoreticular metal-organic frameworks via Cairo pentagonal tiling	169
2D covalent organic framework via catenation	168
Harnessing plastic depolymerization products to upcycle mixed waste into high-value chemicals	162
Variable nanosheets for highly efficient oxygen evolution reaction	157
Recent research progress of all-polymer solar cells based on PSMA-type polymer acceptors	153
B(C6F5)3-catalyzed selective C–H chalcogenation of arenes and heteroarenes	151
2D conjugated metal-organic framework as a proton-electron dual conductor	142
Photoswitches and photochemical reactions for optically controlled phase transition and energy storage	138

Experimentally modeling the emergence of prebiotically plausible phospholipid vesicles	138
Click chemistry in polymer science	135
Ion-dipole-interaction-manipulated bilateral interface chemistry for deep rechargeability and high redox activity of Zn-organic batteries	132
Supramolecular boosted superexchange	132
From G-protein-coupled receptors to solute carriers—mass spectrometry informs dynamics, function, and regulation	131
Observation of ultrafast electrons in pendant-embedded conducting two-dimensional polymers	130
Reaction: Don’t hate the player in chemical AI; hate the game	129
Switchable diversification of quaternary ammonium salts using photocatalysis	127
In This Issue	127
In this issue	126
Molecular freaky Friday: Polarity reversal and resorcin[4]arenes as chloride receptors	126
para-Selective C–H alkylation of aroyl chlorides through organic photoredox-catalyzed radical tele-substitution	126
An effective strategy to boost lattice-oxygen-mediated acidic oxygen evolution	125
Ionic surface propensity controls pH in nanopores	124
Swapping benches from chemistry PhD student to science advisor at law firm	123
Structure-performance relationships for catalysis-driven molecular machinery	123
Highly oxygenated organic molecules with high unsaturation formed upon photochemical aging of soot	117
Be your own star	117
Modular nucleic acid scaffolds for synthesizing monodisperse and sequence-encoded antibody oligomers	116
Oxygen reduction active site regulation enabled reverse photocurrent in photoelectrochemical sensing	114
Catalytic strategies for upvaluing plastic wastes	114
Breaking ampere-level current density limitations in multi-carbon products through crystal facet engineering	114
Redox-couple-assisted CO2 capture on solid-electrolyte reactor	113
Semiconducting ladder-type covalent organic frameworks	111
The beauty of low symmetry: Non-statistical assembly of [Pd2(LA)(LB)(LC)(LD)]4+ cages	109
Higher-order cycloadditions in the age of catalysis	106
Atom swap in triple bonds via nitrogen-deletion coupling with gem-diborylalkanes	105
Design of piezoelectric organic cage salts for energy harvesting	105
Curved plane increases the d vacancy population of Pd for green production of cyclohexanone	104
Time-resolved fluorescence imaging with color-changing, “turn-on/turn-on” AIE nanoparticles	104
In this issue	102
Photo-assembling cyclic peptides for dynamic light-driven peptide nanotubes	102
Stereodivergent asymmetric hydrogenation of quinoxalines	100
Phosphine oxide additives for perovskite light-emitting diodes and solar cells	99
Battery detectives: Uncovering cathode impact on anode-free Li cell performance by operando NMR	99
General and selective metal-free radical α-C–H borylation of aliphatic amines	98
Molecular design strategy for realizing vectorial electron transfer in photoelectrodes	98
Two-in-one metallaphotoredox cross-couplings enabled by a photoactive ligand	97
Strong halide anion binding within the cavity of a conformation-adaptive phenazine-based Pd2L4 cage	95
Bioinspired chemical design to control interfacial wet adhesion	93
Cation-exchange-upgraded nanostructures for photocatalysts	92
Transition metal-free difunctionalization of unactivated alkenes: Arylation/azidation, arylation/chlorination, and arylation/cyanation	91
Molecule-resolvable SERSome for metabolic profiling	91
A light-driven chloride anion transporter	91
The role of concentration waves in synthesizing hollow multi-shelled structures	88
Upcycling waste PET and CO2 to useful chemicals: Multi-functional catalysis at its best	88
Metal-free photocatalyzed cyanation enables access to carbon-11-radiolabeled aryl nitriles	88
The key of Zn2+ transfer kinetics in zinc metal batteries	88
Chemical probes of redox enzymes by rational, reactivity-based design	88
Ice quenching for sustained nucleate boiling at large superheats	85

Pilot-scale reductive catalytic depolymerization of lignin: Challenges and guidelines	82
Colorless zinc colored by metal-metal orbital interaction	82
Development of tumor-evolution-targeted anticancer therapeutic nanomedicineEVT	82
Revisiting the impacts of silica nanoparticles on endothelial cell junctions and tumor metastasis	81
The mechanical bond in biological systems	79