OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Chem is 82. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Out-of-equilibrium chemical logic systems	461
In this issue	458
From trash to treasure: Vanadium-catalyzed upcycling of non-biodegradable plastics	447
Reaction: Harnessing reactive oxygen species (ROS) for water purification	369
Harnessing plastic depolymerization products to upcycle mixed waste into high-value chemicals	363
A high-throughput workflow to analyze sequence-conformation relationships and explore hydrophobic patterning in disordered peptoids	326
Probing enantioinduction in confined chiral spaces through asymmetric oxime reductions	268
Photoswitches and photochemical reactions for optically controlled phase transition and energy storage	239
A Star of David [2]catenane of single handedness	237
Selective recognition of quaternary ammonium cations	226
Variable nanosheets for highly efficient oxygen evolution reaction	215
Highly selective and efficient uranium recovery by size-sieving porous aromatic frameworks with rigidly functionalized windows	202
ElectroChemputer with integrated monitoring for programmable electrochemistry	196
An M60L60 metal-peptide capsid with a 60-crossing woven network	194
N-Heterocyclic carbene-derived second-period main-group radicals: Synthesis, fundamentals, and applications	179
Quasicrystal approximants in isoreticular metal-organic frameworks via Cairo pentagonal tiling	176
2D conjugated metal-organic framework as a proton-electron dual conductor	168
Ion-dipole-interaction-manipulated bilateral interface chemistry for deep rechargeability and high redox activity of Zn-organic batteries	163
Air-stable radical polycyclic aromatic hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks	162
Nanocellulose: New horizons in organic chemistry and beyond	161
Programming extracellular protein fate with peptide chimeras	159
Click chemistry in polymer science	155
Recent research progress of all-polymer solar cells based on PSMA-type polymer acceptors	154
Experimentally modeling the emergence of prebiotically plausible phospholipid vesicles	153
Transitioning aliphatic C–H functionalization from bench to plant: Is decatungstate photocatalysis ready for the leap yet?	152

Chem at 10: Ben Zhong Tang	152
Chem at 10: Jonathan L. Sessler	151
Catalysis, replication, and non-equilibrium behavior: Key determinants for life-like complexity realized using short peptides	150
B(C6F5)3-catalyzed selective C–H chalcogenation of arenes and heteroarenes	149
2D covalent organic framework via catenation	147
Multi-omics profiling of a self-assembling bioactive hydrogel for immunomodulation and myogenesis in volumetric muscle loss	143
Spatially resolved cell tagging and surfaceome labeling via targeted photocatalytic decaging	142
Excited-state protonation and reduction enable the umpolung Birch reduction of naphthalenes	138
Nature-inspired synthetic oligourea foldamer channels allow water transport with high salt rejection	137
Atom swap in triple bonds via nitrogen-deletion coupling with gem-diborylalkanes	136
The beauty of low symmetry: Non-statistical assembly of [Pd2(LA)(LB)(LC)(LD)]4+ cages	134
Redox-couple-assisted CO2 capture on solid-electrolyte reactor	133
Catalytic strategies for upvaluing plastic wastes	133
Be your own star	133
Swapping benches from chemistry PhD student to science advisor at law firm	127
Molecular freaky Friday: Polarity reversal and resorcin[4]arenes as chloride receptors	127
In this issue	125
para-Selective C–H alkylation of aroyl chlorides through organic photoredox-catalyzed radical tele-substitution	123
Iridium-mediated methane dehydrogenation and methylidene (=CH2) transfer	122
Improving productivity and stability for CO2 hydrogenation by using pincer-ligated Mn complexes with hemilabile ligands	122
Time-resolved fluorescence imaging with color-changing, “turn-on/turn-on” AIE nanoparticles	120
Reaction: Don’t hate the player in chemical AI; hate the game	119
An effective strategy to boost lattice-oxygen-mediated acidic oxygen evolution	118
Semiconducting ladder-type covalent organic frameworks	116
In this issue	114
Battery detectives: Uncovering cathode impact on anode-free Li cell performance by operando NMR	114
Supramolecular boosted superexchange	113
Photo-assembling cyclic peptides for dynamic light-driven peptide nanotubes	108
Observation of ultrafast electrons in pendant-embedded conducting two-dimensional polymers	107
Highly oxygenated organic molecules with high unsaturation formed upon photochemical aging of soot	107
Structure-performance relationships for catalysis-driven molecular machinery	107
From G-protein-coupled receptors to solute carriers—mass spectrometry informs dynamics, function, and regulation	105
Ionic surface propensity controls pH in nanopores	104
In This Issue	102
Breaking ampere-level current density limitations in multi-carbon products through crystal facet engineering	102
Transition metal-free difunctionalization of unactivated alkenes: Arylation/azidation, arylation/chlorination, and arylation/cyanation	99
General and selective metal-free radical α-C–H borylation of aliphatic amines	99
Modular nucleic acid scaffolds for synthesizing monodisperse and sequence-encoded antibody oligomers	97
Bioinspired chemical design to control interfacial wet adhesion	95
Switchable diversification of quaternary ammonium salts using photocatalysis	95
Strong halide anion binding within the cavity of a conformation-adaptive phenazine-based Pd2L4 cage	94
A radical–polar crossover approach to complex nitrogen heterocycles via the triplet state	93
Oxygen reduction active-site regulation enables reverse photocurrent in photoelectrochemical sensing	93
Solvent-mediated electrochemical acetylene semihydrogenation for continuous production of polymer-grade ethylene	89
Stereodivergent asymmetric hydrogenation of quinoxalines	89
Cation-exchange-upgraded nanostructures for photocatalysts	89
Two-in-one metallaphotoredox cross-couplings enabled by a photoactive ligand	88
Curved plane increases the d vacancy population of Pd for green production of cyclohexanone	88
Design of piezoelectric organic cage salts for energy harvesting	86
Phosphine oxide additives for perovskite light-emitting diodes and solar cells	86

Molecule-resolvable SERSome for metabolic profiling	86
Pilot-scale reductive catalytic depolymerization of lignin: Challenges and guidelines	85
Advances in polymer chemistry enabled by transition metal catalysis	84
Antigen spatial-matching polyaptamer nanostructure to block coronavirus infection and alleviate inflammation	83
A light-driven chloride anion transporter	83
Revisiting the impacts of silica nanoparticles on endothelial cell junctions and tumor metastasis	83
Potent antimicrobial effect induced by disruption of chloride homeostasis	83
Ice quenching for sustained nucleate boiling at large superheats	82