OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Catalysis is 106. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Greenwashed catalysis?	849
PASADENA NMR	669
Bioproduction from methanol	597
N-between the aryls	552
Enhancing the connection between computation and experiments in electrocatalysis	529
Red light is ‘Go!’ for protein labelling	510
Enzyme-like water preorganization in a synthetic molecular cleft for homogeneous water oxidation catalysis	500
Enantio- and diastereoselective construction of vicinal C(sp3) centres via nickel-catalysed hydroalkylation of alkenes	490
Localized thermal levering events drive spontaneous kinetic oscillations during CO oxidation on Rh/Al2O3	489
Electrocatalytic upcycling of high-pressure captured CO2 to ethylene	468
Imagine polypropylene	456
Double alkyl–alkyl bond construction across alkenes enabled by nickel electron-shuttle catalysis	450
Role of the human-in-the-loop in emerging self-driving laboratories for heterogeneous catalysis	366
An NAD⁺ analogue enables assembly of structurally diverse artificial photoenzymes for enantiodivergent [2 + 2] cycloadditions	352
Exploration of the bio-analogous asymmetric C–C coupling mechanism in tandem CO2 electroreduction	337
Electrosynthesis of amino acids from NO and α-keto acids using two decoupled flow reactors	336
Organic electrolyte cations promote non-aqueous CO2 reduction by mediating interfacial electric fields	323
Structure and mechanism of haem-dependent nitrogen–nitrogen bond formation in piperazate synthase	313
Zn2+-mediated catalysis for fast-charging aqueous Zn-ion batteries	310
Neither H2 nor O2 in hydrogenative oxidations with water	307
Silver linings	294
Methanotrophic catalysis for methane oxidation to formaldehyde	293
Density control	288
Electrochemistry-inspired design of thermocatalysts	286
The iron-catalysed Suzuki coupling of aryl chlorides	283

Room temperature photo-promoted iron-catalysed arene C–H alkenylation without Grignard reagents	278
Light-induced Pd catalyst enables C(sp2)–C(sp2) cross-electrophile coupling bypassing the demand for transmetalation	277
H2-reduced phosphomolybdate promotes room-temperature aerobic oxidation of methane to methanol	277
Symbiotic oxides in catalysts	276
Electrocatalytic hydrogenation of alkenes with Pd/carbon nanotubes at an oil–water interface	274
Identifying and avoiding dead ends in the characterization of heterogeneous catalysts at the gas–solid interface	273
Programmed exosome fusion for energy generation in living cells	271
RNA-catalysed guanosine methylation	268
The synchronized catalytic dance of CRISPR-Cas9	264
Author Correction: Epistasis arises from shifting the rate-limiting step during enzyme evolution of a β-lactamase	245
Motorized catalysis	238
Understanding the interplay between electrocatalytic C(sp3)‒C(sp3) fragmentation and oxygenation reactions	225
Behind the curtain	223
Pulsed away	218
Direct conversion of methane with O2 at room temperature over edge-rich MoS2	217
Unified mechanistic understanding of CO2 reduction to CO on transition metal and single atom catalysts	216
Valence oscillation and dynamic active sites in monolayer NiCo hydroxides for water oxidation	215
Ternary platinum–cobalt–indium nanoalloy on ceria as a highly efficient catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane using CO2	214
Peripheral-nitrogen effects on the Ru1 centre for highly efficient propane dehydrogenation	213
O2 so good	212
Choreography of a self-splicing ribozyme	212
Enzymatic catalysis favours eight-membered over five-membered ring closure in bicyclomycin biosynthesis	206
Optimizing iridium sites	205
Heavy labels from gas surrogates	202
Retro Hits	195
Pulsed electrolysis through neutron lenses	188
Active sites overcrowding	184
Metabolic network remodelling enhances yeast’s fitness on xylose using aerobic glycolysis	183
Iminium catalysis in natural Diels–Alderase	183
The rise of ab initio surface thermodynamics	182
Morphological and chemical state effects in pulsed CO2 electroreduction on Cu(100) unveiled by correlated spectro-microscopy	182
Copper-catalysed enantioconvergent O-alkylation of alcohols with racemic α-tertiary haloamides to access enantioenriched hindered dialkyl ethers	181
Iron-catalysed cooperative redox mechanism for the simultaneous conversion of nitrous oxide and nitric oxide	175
Dinuclear Cu(I) molecular electrocatalyst for CO2-to-C3 product conversion	174
Remote site-selective arene C–H functionalization enabled by N-heterocyclic carbene organocatalysis	173
Exploring mesoscopic mass transport effects on electrocatalytic selectivity	168
A non-carboxylative route for the efficient synthesis of central metabolite malonyl-CoA and its derived products	164
Steam methane reforming using a regenerable antenna–reactor plasmonic photocatalyst	163
Current state and future prospects of liquid metal catalysis	163
Photoelectrochemical asymmetric dehydrogenative [2 + 2] cycloaddition between C–C single and double bonds via the activation of two C(sp3)–H bonds	160
Solution-based Cu+ transient species mediate the reconstruction of copper electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction	156
The role of Cu1–O3 species in single-atom Cu/ZrO2 catalyst for CO2 hydrogenation	156
Probing electrolyte effects on cation-enhanced CO2 reduction on copper in acidic media	153
One, two, three, four, five!	151
Organocatalytic acylation of remote arene C–H bonds	150
Catalysing rate and capacity	147
Modulation to probe the interface	144
Concerted methane fixation at ambient temperature and pressure mediated by an alcohol oxidase and Fe-ZSM-5 catalytic couple	144
In situ lysosomal proteomics enabled by bioorthogonal photocatalytic proximity labelling	141
Bubble trouble	141

Wireless potentiometry of thermochemical heterogeneous catalysis	134
Ligand binding to a Ni–Fe cluster orchestrates conformational changes of the CO-dehydrogenase–acetyl-CoA synthase complex	130
Organocatalytic olefin C–H functionalization for enantioselective synthesis of atropisomeric 1,3-dienes	129
Durable MnO2 electrocatalysts by stronger Mn–O bonds	129
Catalytic borylation of tertiary C–H bonds	128
Reassessment of the catalytic activity of bismuth for aqueous nitrogen electroreduction	127
Germanium-enriched double-four-membered-ring units inducing zeolite-confined subnanometric Pt clusters for efficient propane dehydrogenation	126
Author Correction: Stereoselective alkyl–alkyl cross-coupling	125
Lengthened by ethylene	125
CYP screening for a better terpenoid world	124
Tailored for semi-hydrogenation	124
Publisher Correction: Parahydrogen-enhanced magnetic resonance identification of intermediates in [Fe]-hydrogenase catalysis	123
A synthetic methylotrophic Escherichia coli as a chassis for bioproduction from methanol	123
Blowing in the tube	123
Synthesis of tri- and tetrasubstituted stereocentres by nickel-catalysed enantioselective olefin cross-couplings	122
Regioselective silyl installation for arene diversification	119
Understanding Mn-modulated restructuring of Fe-based catalysts for controlling selectivity in CO2 hydrogenation to olefins	119
Bridging catalysis	115
Ammonia synthesis via an engineered nitrogenase assembly pathway in Escherichia coli	113
Dissolved Fe species enable a cooperative solid–molecular mechanism for the oxygen evolution reaction on NiFe-based catalysts	113
A fine adjustment	113
Electrosynthesis of ethylene glycol from ethylene coupled with CO2 capture	113
Step bunching instability and its effects in electrocatalysis on platinum surfaces	112
Cobalt-catalysed alkene hydronitration enabled by anomeric nitroamide	111
Frustration-driven efficiency	111
High-purity carbon monoxide production via photothermal formic acid decomposition over fluorite ZrO2	110
Reactant-induced dynamics of lithium imide surfaces during the ammonia decomposition process	110
Enantioselective Chan–Lam S-arylation of sulfenamides	110
Uniting biological and chemical strategies for selective CO2 reduction	109
Active-site isolation in intermetallics enables precise identification of elementary reaction kinetics during olefin hydrogenation	107
Nickel-electrocatalysed C(sp3)–C(sp3) cross-coupling of unactivated alkyl halides	106