OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Catalysis is 105. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Greenwashed catalysis?	809
PASADENA NMR	684
N-between the aryls	636
Bioproduction from methanol	580
Localized thermal levering events drive spontaneous kinetic oscillations during CO oxidation on Rh/Al2O3	534
Double alkyl–alkyl bond construction across alkenes enabled by nickel electron-shuttle catalysis	516
Structure and mechanism of haem-dependent nitrogen–nitrogen bond formation in piperazate synthase	496
Red light is ‘Go!’ for protein labelling	480
Enhancing the connection between computation and experiments in electrocatalysis	475
Enzyme-like water preorganization in a synthetic molecular cleft for homogeneous water oxidation catalysis	461
Exploration of the bio-analogous asymmetric C–C coupling mechanism in tandem CO2 electroreduction	456
Electrosynthesis of amino acids from NO and α-keto acids using two decoupled flow reactors	444
Organic electrolyte cations promote non-aqueous CO2 reduction by mediating interfacial electric fields	435
Enantio- and diastereoselective construction of vicinal C(sp3) centres via nickel-catalysed hydroalkylation of alkenes	361
Imagine polypropylene	352
Zn2+-mediated catalysis for fast-charging aqueous Zn-ion batteries	340
Role of the human-in-the-loop in emerging self-driving laboratories for heterogeneous catalysis	320
Neither H2 nor O2 in hydrogenative oxidations with water	319
Silver linings	312
Methanotrophic catalysis for methane oxidation to formaldehyde	305
Density control	298
Electrochemistry-inspired design of thermocatalysts	291
Programmed exosome fusion for energy generation in living cells	287
Identifying and avoiding dead ends in the characterization of heterogeneous catalysts at the gas–solid interface	281
The iron-catalysed Suzuki coupling of aryl chlorides	279

RNA-catalysed guanosine methylation	277
The synchronized catalytic dance of CRISPR-Cas9	273
Motorized catalysis	271
Author Correction: Epistasis arises from shifting the rate-limiting step during enzyme evolution of a β-lactamase	271
Pulsed away	269
H2-reduced phosphomolybdate promotes room-temperature aerobic oxidation of methane to methanol	267
Behind the curtain	265
Ternary platinum–cobalt–indium nanoalloy on ceria as a highly efficient catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane using CO2	263
Unified mechanistic understanding of CO2 reduction to CO on transition metal and single atom catalysts	258
Valence oscillation and dynamic active sites in monolayer NiCo hydroxides for water oxidation	256
Electrocatalytic hydrogenation of alkenes with Pd/carbon nanotubes at an oil–water interface	253
Understanding the interplay between electrocatalytic C(sp3)‒C(sp3) fragmentation and oxygenation reactions	233
Direct conversion of methane with O2 at room temperature over edge-rich MoS2	230
Light-induced Pd catalyst enables C(sp2)–C(sp2) cross-electrophile coupling bypassing the demand for transmetalation	215
Symbiotic oxides in catalysts	215
Peripheral-nitrogen effects on the Ru1 centre for highly efficient propane dehydrogenation	214
Room temperature photo-promoted iron-catalysed arene C–H alkenylation without Grignard reagents	211
Choreography of a self-splicing ribozyme	209
O2 so good	208
Optimizing iridium sites	206
Heavy labels from gas surrogates	204
Retro Hits	202
Iminium catalysis in natural Diels–Alderase	201
Pulsed electrolysis through neutron lenses	197
Active sites overcrowding	194
Iron-catalysed cooperative redox mechanism for the simultaneous conversion of nitrous oxide and nitric oxide	193
Metabolic network remodelling enhances yeast’s fitness on xylose using aerobic glycolysis	189
A non-carboxylative route for the efficient synthesis of central metabolite malonyl-CoA and its derived products	186
Remote site-selective arene C–H functionalization enabled by N-heterocyclic carbene organocatalysis	181
Photoelectrochemical asymmetric dehydrogenative [2 + 2] cycloaddition between C–C single and double bonds via the activation of two C(sp3)–H bonds	180
Steam methane reforming using a regenerable antenna–reactor plasmonic photocatalyst	177
Probing electrolyte effects on cation-enhanced CO2 reduction on copper in acidic media	172
The rise of ab initio surface thermodynamics	172
Dinuclear Cu(I) molecular electrocatalyst for CO2-to-C3 product conversion	171
Current state and future prospects of liquid metal catalysis	170
Exploring mesoscopic mass transport effects on electrocatalytic selectivity	170
Enzymatic catalysis favours eight-membered over five-membered ring closure in bicyclomycin biosynthesis	168
Solution-based Cu+ transient species mediate the reconstruction of copper electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction	166
The role of Cu1–O3 species in single-atom Cu/ZrO2 catalyst for CO2 hydrogenation	160
One, two, three, four, five!	158
Organocatalytic acylation of remote arene C–H bonds	157
Catalysing rate and capacity	157
Bubble trouble	152
Wireless potentiometry of thermochemical heterogeneous catalysis	149
Reassessment of the catalytic activity of bismuth for aqueous nitrogen electroreduction	147
Concerted methane fixation at ambient temperature and pressure mediated by an alcohol oxidase and Fe-ZSM-5 catalytic couple	146
Modulation to probe the interface	141
In situ lysosomal proteomics enabled by bioorthogonal photocatalytic proximity labelling	139
Catalytic borylation of tertiary C–H bonds	138
Ligand binding to a Ni–Fe cluster orchestrates conformational changes of the CO-dehydrogenase–acetyl-CoA synthase complex	136

Organocatalytic olefin C–H functionalization for enantioselective synthesis of atropisomeric 1,3-dienes	134
Durable MnO2 electrocatalysts by stronger Mn–O bonds	132
Germanium-enriched double-four-membered-ring units inducing zeolite-confined subnanometric Pt clusters for efficient propane dehydrogenation	130
Lengthened by ethylene	128
Frustration-driven efficiency	127
Author Correction: Stereoselective alkyl–alkyl cross-coupling	126
CYP screening for a better terpenoid world	125
Tailored for semi-hydrogenation	122
Dissolved Fe species enable a cooperative solid–molecular mechanism for the oxygen evolution reaction on NiFe-based catalysts	121
Blowing in the tube	120
High-purity carbon monoxide production via photothermal formic acid decomposition over fluorite ZrO2	120
Publisher Correction: Parahydrogen-enhanced magnetic resonance identification of intermediates in [Fe]-hydrogenase catalysis	118
Bridging catalysis	118
Understanding Mn-modulated restructuring of Fe-based catalysts for controlling selectivity in CO2 hydrogenation to olefins	118
Regioselective silyl installation for arene diversification	118
A fine adjustment	117
Cobalt-catalysed alkene hydronitration enabled by anomeric nitroamide	116
Ammonia synthesis via an engineered nitrogenase assembly pathway in Escherichia coli	115
Active-site isolation in intermetallics enables precise identification of elementary reaction kinetics during olefin hydrogenation	114
A synthetic methylotrophic Escherichia coli as a chassis for bioproduction from methanol	112
Nickel-electrocatalysed C(sp3)–C(sp3) cross-coupling of unactivated alkyl halides	112
Step bunching instability and its effects in electrocatalysis on platinum surfaces	110
Reactant-induced dynamics of lithium imide surfaces during the ammonia decomposition process	110
The role of ruthenium in improving the kinetics of hydrogen oxidation and evolution reactions of platinum	109
Enantioselective Chan–Lam S-arylation of sulfenamides	109
Uniting biological and chemical strategies for selective CO2 reduction	109
Synthesis of tri- and tetrasubstituted stereocentres by nickel-catalysed enantioselective olefin cross-couplings	108
An efficient Morita–Baylis–Hillmanase	107
Cationic-group-functionalized electrocatalysts enable stable acidic CO2 electrolysis	107
A hydrogenative oxidation strategy for the single-step synthesis of lactams from N-heteroarenes using water	106