OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Chem is 81. 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
In This Issue	716
Out-of-equilibrium chemical logic systems	414
From trash to treasure: Vanadium-catalyzed upcycling of non-biodegradable plastics	355
N-Heterocyclic carbene-derived second-period main-group radicals: Synthesis, fundamentals, and applications	337
Air-stable radical polycyclic aromatic hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks	315
Reaction: Harnessing reactive oxygen species (ROS) for water purification	260
Multi-omics profiling of a self-assembling bioactive hydrogel for immunomodulation and myogenesis in volumetric muscle loss	237
B(C6F5)3-catalyzed selective C–H chalcogenation of arenes and heteroarenes	236
Variable nanosheets for highly efficient oxygen evolution reaction	227
Experimentally modeling the emergence of prebiotically plausible phospholipid vesicles	223
2D covalent organic framework via catenation	215
Quasicrystal approximants in isoreticular metal-organic frameworks via Cairo pentagonal tiling	210
Click chemistry in polymer science	202
Harnessing plastic depolymerization products to upcycle mixed waste into high-value chemicals	198
A high-throughput workflow to analyze sequence-conformation relationships and explore hydrophobic patterning in disordered peptoids	195
In this issue	185
Probing enantioinduction in confined chiral spaces through asymmetric oxime reductions	177
Spatially resolved cell tagging and surfaceome labeling via targeted photocatalytic decaging	167
Nanocellulose: New horizons in organic chemistry and beyond	165
A Star of David [2]catenane of single handedness	165
Excited-state protonation and reduction enable the umpolung Birch reduction of naphthalenes	164
An M60L60 metal-peptide capsid with a 60-crossing woven network	160
Photoswitches and photochemical reactions for optically controlled phase transition and energy storage	156
Ion-dipole-interaction-manipulated bilateral interface chemistry for deep rechargeability and high redox activity of Zn-organic batteries	153
Lanthanide luminescence from supramolecular hydrogels consisting of bio-conjugated picolinic-acid-based guanosine quadruplexes	151

Nature-inspired synthetic oligourea foldamer channels allow water transport with high salt rejection	147
Recent research progress of all-polymer solar cells based on PSMA-type polymer acceptors	142
2D conjugated metal-organic framework as a proton-electron dual conductor	140
Swapping benches from chemistry PhD student to science advisor at law firm	137
Be your own star	135
Supramolecular boosted superexchange	135
From G-protein-coupled receptors to solute carriers—mass spectrometry informs dynamics, function, and regulation	131
In this issue	130
Reaction: Don’t hate the player in chemical AI; hate the game	130
Curved plane increases the d vacancy population of Pd for green production of cyclohexanone	129
In This Issue	128
Molecular freaky Friday: Polarity reversal and resorcin[4]arenes as chloride receptors	122
In this issue	122
para-Selective C–H alkylation of aroyl chlorides through organic photoredox-catalyzed radical tele-substitution	121
Ionic surface propensity controls pH in nanopores	120
Catalytic strategies for upvaluing plastic wastes	120
Two-in-one metallaphotoredox cross-couplings enabled by a photoactive ligand	119
Higher-order cycloadditions in the age of catalysis	118
Structure-performance relationships for catalysis-driven molecular machinery	117
An effective strategy to boost lattice-oxygen-mediated acidic oxygen evolution	117
Highly oxygenated organic molecules with high unsaturation formed upon photochemical aging of soot	117
The beauty of low symmetry: Non-statistical assembly of [Pd2(LA)(LB)(LC)(LD)]4+ cages	116
Switchable diversification of quaternary ammonium salts using photocatalysis	114
Observation of ultrafast electrons in pendant-embedded conducting two-dimensional polymers	113
Redox-couple-assisted CO2 capture on solid-electrolyte reactor	112
Molecular design strategy for realizing vectorial electron transfer in photoelectrodes	112
Atom swap in triple bonds via nitrogen-deletion coupling with gem-diborylalkanes	112
Stereodivergent asymmetric hydrogenation of quinoxalines	112
Transition metal-free difunctionalization of unactivated alkenes: Arylation/azidation, arylation/chlorination, and arylation/cyanation	112
Modular nucleic acid scaffolds for synthesizing monodisperse and sequence-encoded antibody oligomers	111
Phosphine oxide additives for perovskite light-emitting diodes and solar cells	109
Strong halide anion binding within the cavity of a conformation-adaptive phenazine-based Pd2L4 cage	108
Design of piezoelectric organic cage salts for energy harvesting	104
Battery detectives: Uncovering cathode impact on anode-free Li cell performance by operando NMR	101
Time-resolved fluorescence imaging with color-changing, “turn-on/turn-on” AIE nanoparticles	98
General and selective metal-free radical α-C–H borylation of aliphatic amines	98
Photo-assembling cyclic peptides for dynamic light-driven peptide nanotubes	98
Semiconducting ladder-type covalent organic frameworks	97
Cation-exchange-upgraded nanostructures for photocatalysts	97
Molecule-resolvable SERSome for metabolic profiling	96
Bioinspired chemical design to control interfacial wet adhesion	95
The role of concentration waves in synthesizing hollow multi-shelled structures	94
Colorless zinc colored by metal-metal orbital interaction	94
Selective palladium recovery by a highly porous polyisothiocyanurate	93
Enzymatic DNA orthogonal chemistry for multi-cancer diagnosis	93
Designing generative dissipative networks for programming complex temporal dynamics and functions	92
Chemical probes of redox enzymes by rational, reactivity-based design	91
Antigen spatial-matching polyaptamer nanostructure to block coronavirus infection and alleviate inflammation	90
A light-driven chloride anion transporter	89
Metal-free photocatalyzed cyanation enables access to carbon-11-radiolabeled aryl nitriles	87

The key of Zn2+ transfer kinetics in zinc metal batteries	87
Unexpected diastereoselective chemistry on a 2D protein surface	85
Catalyst: A step forward for PVC manufacture from natural gas	84
Challenges and perspectives for the perovskite module research	82
Revisiting the impacts of silica nanoparticles on endothelial cell junctions and tumor metastasis	82
The mechanical bond in biological systems	81