OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Catalysis is 108. 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
Red light is ‘Go!’ for protein labelling	933
Greenwashed catalysis?	733
Bioproduction from methanol	647
Localized thermal levering events drive spontaneous kinetic oscillations during CO oxidation on Rh/Al2O3	589
Double alkyl–alkyl bond construction across alkenes enabled by nickel electron-shuttle catalysis	556
Imagine polypropylene	540
Enhancing the connection between computation and experiments in electrocatalysis	538
Enzyme-like water preorganization in a synthetic molecular cleft for homogeneous water oxidation catalysis	532
Structure and mechanism of haem-dependent nitrogen–nitrogen bond formation in piperazate synthase	520
Role of the human-in-the-loop in emerging self-driving laboratories for heterogeneous catalysis	504
Electrocatalytic upcycling of high-pressure captured CO2 to ethylene	490
PASADENA NMR	485
N-between the aryls	385
Electrosynthesis of amino acids from NO and α-keto acids using two decoupled flow reactors	374
An NAD⁺ analogue enables assembly of structurally diverse artificial photoenzymes for enantiodivergent [2 + 2] cycloadditions	373
Enantio- and diastereoselective construction of vicinal C(sp3) centres via nickel-catalysed hydroalkylation of alkenes	353
Exploration of the bio-analogous asymmetric C–C coupling mechanism in tandem CO2 electroreduction	346
Organic electrolyte cations promote non-aqueous CO2 reduction by mediating interfacial electric fields	336
Zn2+-mediated catalysis for fast-charging aqueous Zn-ion batteries	336
Methanotrophic catalysis for methane oxidation to formaldehyde	327
Neither H2 nor O2 in hydrogenative oxidations with water	321
Motorized catalysis	314
Pulsed away	310
Quantum computing for faster enzyme discovery and engineering	309
Electrochemistry-inspired design of thermocatalysts	308

Density control	304
The synchronized catalytic dance of CRISPR-Cas9	302
Author Correction: Epistasis arises from shifting the rate-limiting step during enzyme evolution of a β-lactamase	301
Behind the curtain	295
Understanding the interplay between electrocatalytic C(sp3)‒C(sp3) fragmentation and oxygenation reactions	291
Identifying and avoiding dead ends in the characterization of heterogeneous catalysts at the gas–solid interface	290
Symbiotic oxides in catalysts	290
The iron-catalysed Suzuki coupling of aryl chlorides	276
Room temperature photo-promoted iron-catalysed arene C–H alkenylation without Grignard reagents	258
Light-induced Pd catalyst enables C(sp2)–C(sp2) cross-electrophile coupling bypassing the demand for transmetalation	253
Electrocatalytic hydrogenation of alkenes with Pd/carbon nanotubes at an oil–water interface	251
Peripheral-nitrogen effects on the Ru1 centre for highly efficient propane dehydrogenation	239
Unified mechanistic understanding of CO2 reduction to CO on transition metal and single atom catalysts	236
Valence oscillation and dynamic active sites in monolayer NiCo hydroxides for water oxidation	236
Ternary platinum–cobalt–indium nanoalloy on ceria as a highly efficient catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane using CO2	233
Direct conversion of methane with O2 at room temperature over edge-rich MoS2	231
H2-reduced phosphomolybdate promotes room-temperature aerobic oxidation of methane to methanol	231
O2 so good	229
Choreography of a self-splicing ribozyme	228
Heavy labels from gas surrogates	218
Optimizing iridium sites	217
Morphological and chemical state effects in pulsed CO2 electroreduction on Cu(100) unveiled by correlated spectro-microscopy	215
Electrolysis in tandem	214
Active sites overcrowding	209
Substrate promiscuity fuels biosynthesis success	209
Iminium catalysis in natural Diels–Alderase	204
Pulsed electrolysis through neutron lenses	199
Enzymatic catalysis favours eight-membered over five-membered ring closure in bicyclomycin biosynthesis	194
Photoelectrochemical asymmetric dehydrogenative [2 + 2] cycloaddition between C–C single and double bonds via the activation of two C(sp3)–H bonds	194
A non-carboxylative route for the efficient synthesis of central metabolite malonyl-CoA and its derived products	194
Iron-catalysed cooperative redox mechanism for the simultaneous conversion of nitrous oxide and nitric oxide	191
Enantioselective radical dearomative conjugate amination enabled by Co(II)-based metalloradical catalysis	187
Electrolyte effects in proton–electron transfer reactions and implications for renewable fuels and chemicals synthesis	181
Solution-based Cu+ transient species mediate the reconstruction of copper electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction	180
Remote site-selective arene C–H functionalization enabled by N-heterocyclic carbene organocatalysis	174
Steam methane reforming using a regenerable antenna–reactor plasmonic photocatalyst	174
The rise of ab initio surface thermodynamics	173
Current state and future prospects of liquid metal catalysis	171
Copper-catalysed enantioconvergent O-alkylation of alcohols with racemic α-tertiary haloamides to access enantioenriched hindered dialkyl ethers	168
Dinuclear Cu(I) molecular electrocatalyst for CO2-to-C3 product conversion	167
The role of Cu1–O3 species in single-atom Cu/ZrO2 catalyst for CO2 hydrogenation	163
Exploring mesoscopic mass transport effects on electrocatalytic selectivity	159
Probing electrolyte effects on cation-enhanced CO2 reduction on copper in acidic media	158
Organocatalytic acylation of remote arene C–H bonds	154
One, two, three, four, five!	154
Ligand binding to a Ni–Fe cluster orchestrates conformational changes of the CO-dehydrogenase–acetyl-CoA synthase complex	150
Bubble trouble	146
Modulation to probe the interface	140
Wireless potentiometry of thermochemical heterogeneous catalysis	139
Catalysing rate and capacity	138

Reassessment of the catalytic activity of bismuth for aqueous nitrogen electroreduction	137
In situ lysosomal proteomics enabled by bioorthogonal photocatalytic proximity labelling	136
Durable MnO2 electrocatalysts by stronger Mn–O bonds	136
Organocatalytic olefin C–H functionalization for enantioselective synthesis of atropisomeric 1,3-dienes	136
Concerted methane fixation at ambient temperature and pressure mediated by an alcohol oxidase and Fe-ZSM-5 catalytic couple	135
Determining CO adsorption free energies on CO2 electroreduction active sites through kinetic analysis	132
Germanium-enriched double-four-membered-ring units inducing zeolite-confined subnanometric Pt clusters for efficient propane dehydrogenation	132
Catalytic borylation of tertiary C–H bonds	131
Blowing in the tube	130
Lengthened by ethylene	130
Author Correction: Stereoselective alkyl–alkyl cross-coupling	129
CYP screening for a better terpenoid world	128
Tailored for semi-hydrogenation	127
Publisher Correction: Parahydrogen-enhanced magnetic resonance identification of intermediates in [Fe]-hydrogenase catalysis	127
Enantioselective Chan–Lam S-arylation of sulfenamides	126
Frustration-driven efficiency	123
Active-site isolation in intermetallics enables precise identification of elementary reaction kinetics during olefin hydrogenation	121
A fine adjustment	119
Reactant-induced dynamics of lithium imide surfaces during the ammonia decomposition process	118
A synthetic methylotrophic Escherichia coli as a chassis for bioproduction from methanol	118
Uniting biological and chemical strategies for selective CO2 reduction	116
Synthesis of tri- and tetrasubstituted stereocentres by nickel-catalysed enantioselective olefin cross-couplings	116
Electrosynthesis of ethylene glycol from ethylene coupled with CO2 capture	116
Silicon frustrated Lewis pairs catalyse α-deuteration of amides and esters	116
Bridging catalysis	115
Regioselective silyl installation for arene diversification	115
Cobalt-catalysed alkene hydronitration enabled by anomeric nitroamide	114
Ammonia synthesis via an engineered nitrogenase assembly pathway in Escherichia coli	114
Step bunching instability and its effects in electrocatalysis on platinum surfaces	114
Dissolved Fe species enable a cooperative solid–molecular mechanism for the oxygen evolution reaction on NiFe-based catalysts	111
Nickel-electrocatalysed C(sp3)–C(sp3) cross-coupling of unactivated alkyl halides	110
High-purity carbon monoxide production via photothermal formic acid decomposition over fluorite ZrO2	110
Cationic-group-functionalized electrocatalysts enable stable acidic CO2 electrolysis	109