OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Chemical Reviews is 113. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-03-01 to 2023-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Aggregation-Induced Emission: Together We Shine, United We Soar!	5371
Graphitic Carbon Nitride (g-C₃N₄)-Based Photocatalysts for Artificial Photosynthesis and Environmental Remediation: Are We a Step Closer To Achieving Sustainability?	4594
Electrospinning and Electrospun Nanofibers: Methods, Materials, and Applications	1943
Metal-Free Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction	1883
Synthetic Organic Electrochemical Methods Since 2000: On the Verge of a Renaissance	1833
Progress and Perspectives of Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction on Copper in Aqueous Electrolyte	1714
Degradable Controlled-Release Polymers and Polymeric Nanoparticles: Mechanisms of Controlling Drug Release	1639
Halide Perovskite Photovoltaics: Background, Status, and Future Prospects	1502
3d Transition Metals for C–H Activation	1360
Nanozymes: Classification, Catalytic Mechanisms, Activity Regulation, and Applications	1293
Cocatalysts for Selective Photoreduction of CO₂into Solar Fuels	1194
Recent Advances in Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Using Nanoparticles	1118
Light-Emitting Self-Assembled Materials Based on d⁸ and d¹⁰ Transition Metal Complexes	1102
Particulate Photocatalysts for Light-Driven Water Splitting: Mechanisms, Challenges, and Design Strategies	1077
Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)-Based Nanomedicine	1074
State of the Art and Prospects in Metal–Organic Framework (MOF)-Based and MOF-Derived Nanocatalysis	1017
Pharmaceuticals of Emerging Concern in Aquatic Systems: Chemistry, Occurrence, Effects, and Removal Methods	932
Supramolecular Catalysis in Metal–Ligand Cluster Hosts	899
Metal Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals: Synthesis, Post-Synthesis Modifications, and Their Optical Properties	895
Development of Biochar-Based Functional Materials: Toward a Sustainable Platform Carbon Material	890
Recent Advances in the Catalytic Oxidation of Volatile Organic Compounds: A Review Based on Pollutant Sorts and Sources	865
Understanding Degradation Mechanisms and Improving Stability of Perovskite Photovoltaics	836
Mitochondria-Targeted Triphenylphosphonium-Based Compounds: Syntheses, Mechanisms of Action, and Therapeutic and Diagnostic Applications	804
Nanocellulose, a Versatile Green Platform: From Biosources to Materials and Their Applications	749
Chemistry of MRI Contrast Agents: Current Challenges and New Frontiers	732
End-Point Binding Free Energy Calculation with MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA: Strategies and Applications in Drug Design	662
Selective Catalytic Reduction of NO_x with NH₃ by Using Novel Catalysts: State of the Art and Future Prospects	653
Transition Metal Complexes and Photodynamic Therapy from a Tumor-Centered Approach: Challenges, Opportunities, and Highlights from the Development of TLD1433	650
Bio-Integrated Wearable Systems: A Comprehensive Review	616
Coumarin-Based Small-Molecule Fluorescent Chemosensors	595
Atomically Precise Noble Metal Nanoclusters as Efficient Catalysts: A Bridge between Structure and Properties	595
Molecularly Imprinted Polymers	594
Enantioselective and Enantiospecific Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Organometallic Reagents To Construct C–C Bonds	582
Selective Hydrogenation over Supported Metal Catalysts: From Nanoparticles to Single Atoms	575
Lanthanide-Activated Phosphors Based on 4f-5d Optical Transitions: Theoretical and Experimental Aspects	574
DNA Nanotechnology-Enabled Drug Delivery Systems	574
Ionic-Liquid-Mediated Extraction and Separation Processes for Bioactive Compounds: Past, Present, and Future Trends	572
Mechanically Responsive Molecular Crystals	564
Insertion-Type Electrodes for Nonaqueous Li-Ion Capacitors	562
Catalysis with Two-Dimensional Materials Confining Single Atoms: Concept, Design, and Applications	562
Well-Defined Materials for Heterogeneous Catalysis: From Nanoparticles to Isolated Single-Atom Sites	557
Approaching Practically Accessible Solid-State Batteries: Stability Issues Related to Solid Electrolytes and Interfaces	555
Carbon Nanotube Chemical Sensors	552
Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Graphene–Nanoparticle Hybrid Materials for Bioapplications	544
Clinical Translation of Nanomedicine	537
Nonclassical Routes for Amide Bond Formation	536
The Optoelectronic Nose: Colorimetric and Fluorometric Sensor Arrays	528
Chemical Biology of H₂S Signaling through Persulfidation	507
Water: A Tale of Two Liquids	501
The Role of Ligands in the Chemical Synthesis and Applications of Inorganic Nanoparticles	498
Perovskites for Next-Generation Optical Sources	487
Computer Modeling of Halogen Bonds and Other σ-Hole Interactions	484
Amyloid β Protein and Alzheimer’s Disease: When Computer Simulations Complement Experimental Studies	474
Electro- and Solar-Driven Fuel Synthesis with First Row Transition Metal Complexes	473
Quantum Chemistry in the Age of Quantum Computing	461
3d-Metal Catalyzed N- and C-Alkylation Reactions via Borrowing Hydrogen or Hydrogen Autotransfer	456
First-Row Transition Metal (De)Hydrogenation Catalysis Based On Functional Pincer Ligands	451
Recent Advances, Design Guidelines, and Prospects of All-Polymer Solar Cells	450
Spin-Vibronic Mechanism for Intersystem Crossing	444
Recent Advances in Oxidative R¹-H/R²-H Cross-Coupling with Hydrogen Evolution via Photo-/Electrochemistry	426
Isocyanate-Free Routes to Polyurethanes and Poly(hydroxy Urethane)s	423
Iridium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Substitution Reactions	418
Tuning the Luminescence of Layered Halide Perovskites	412
Supramolecular Luminescent Sensors	409
Sodium Metal Anodes: Emerging Solutions to Dendrite Growth	406
Synthesis of Semiconductor Nanocrystals, Focusing on Nontoxic and Earth-Abundant Materials	404
Metal-Mediated and Metal-Catalyzed Reactions of Isocyanides	395
Crystal Facet Engineering of Photoelectrodes for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting	393
Bond-Forming and -Breaking Reactions at Sulfur(IV): Sulfoxides, Sulfonium Salts, Sulfur Ylides, and Sulfinate Salts	391
Electrically-Transduced Chemical Sensors Based on Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials	384
Gated Materials for On-Command Release of Guest Molecules	382
Quantum and Dielectric Confinement Effects in Lower-Dimensional Hybrid Perovskite Semiconductors	380
Turning the Page: Advancing Paper-Based Microfluidics for Broad Diagnostic Application	377
Computational Modeling of Realistic Cell Membranes	372
Reduction of Nitro Compounds Using 3d-Non-Noble Metal Catalysts	368
Synthetic Approaches for Halide Perovskite Thin Films	360
Toward Multi-Targeted Platinum and Ruthenium Drugs—A New Paradigm in Cancer Drug Treatment Regimens?	356
Principles and Applications of Nucleic Acid Strand Displacement Reactions	344
Stimuli-Responsive Therapeutic Metallodrugs	339
Chemistry, Structures, and Advanced Applications of Nanocomposites from Biorenewable Resources	335
Concepts of Artificial Intelligence for Computer-Assisted Drug Discovery	334
Functional Nanomaterials and Nanostructures Enhancing Electrochemical Biosensors and Lab-on-a-Chip Performances: Recent Progress, Applications, and Future Perspective	332
Controlling a Chemical Coupling Reaction on a Surface: Tools and Strategies for On-Surface Synthesis	328
Highly Oxygenated Organic Molecules (HOM) from Gas-Phase Autoxidation Involving Peroxy Radicals: A Key Contributor to Atmospheric Aerosol	328
Halide Perovskites: Is It All about the Interfaces?	326
Surface and Interface Control in Nanoparticle Catalysis	326
First-Row Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Carbonylative Transformations of Carbon Electrophiles	326
Recent Advances and Perspectives on Nonadiabatic Mixed Quantum–Classical Dynamics	322
N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Materials Chemistry	319
Structurally Constrained Boron-, Nitrogen-, Silicon-, and Phosphorus-Centered Polycyclic π-Conjugated Systems	315
Functional Supramolecular Polymeric Networks: The Marriage of Covalent Polymers and Macrocycle-Based Host–Guest Interactions	314
Theoretical Insights into Heterogeneous (Photo)electrochemical CO₂ Reduction	311
A Theory/Experience Description of Support Effects in Carbon-Supported Catalysts	309
Development of Multifunctional Molecules as Potential Therapeutic Candidates for Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in the Last Decade	299
Tetrazoles via Multicomponent Reactions	298
Atmospheric Chemistry of Oxygenated Volatile Organic Compounds: Impacts on Air Quality and Climate	296
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ionic Liquids and Electrolytes Using Polarizable Force Fields	289
Singlet Molecular Oxygen Reactions with Nucleic Acids, Lipids, and Proteins	286
Stabilization of Silver and Gold Nanoparticles: Preservation and Improvement of Plasmonic Functionalities	285
Importance of Size and Contact Structure of Gold Nanoparticles for the Genesis of Unique Catalytic Processes	283
Metal–Organic Frameworks for Food Safety	281
N-Heterocyclic Carbene Adducts of Main Group Elements and Their Use as Ligands in Transition Metal Chemistry	278
Nanocarbons for Biology and Medicine: Sensing, Imaging, and Drug Delivery	278
Natural Terphenyls: Developments since 1877	276
Metallaphotoredox: The Merger of Photoredox and Transition Metal Catalysis	273
Iron Catalysis in Reduction and Hydrometalation Reactions	269
Enantioenriched Helicenes and Helicenoids Containing Main-Group Elements (B, Si, N, P)	267
Native Chemical Ligation and Extended Methods: Mechanisms, Catalysis, Scope, and Limitations	266
Reductive Amination in the Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals	265
Palladium/Norbornene Cooperative Catalysis	259
N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Copper, Nickel, and Cobalt	256
Photo- and Redox-Driven Artificial Molecular Motors	255
Synthetic Polymers from Sugar-Based Monomers	251
Tackling the Challenges of Enzymatic (Bio)Fuel Cells	248
Catalytic Applications of Vanadium: A Mechanistic Perspective	248
Soft Materials by Design: Unconventional Polymer Networks Give Extreme Properties	247
Chemical and Biomolecule Sensing with Organic Field-Effect Transistors	247
Revisiting Fluorescent Calixarenes: From Molecular Sensors to Smart Materials	243
Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic Framework Materials: Synthesis, Structures, Properties and Applications	243
Hydride Transfer Reactions Catalyzed by Cobalt Complexes	242
Versatile Types of Organic/Inorganic Nanohybrids: From Strategic Design to Biomedical Applications	240
Plasmonic Heating of Nanostructures	237
Applications of Plasmon-Enhanced Nanocatalysis to Organic Transformations	237
Design of Collective Motions from Synthetic Molecular Switches, Rotors, and Motors	237
Solar Energy on Demand: A Review on High Temperature Thermochemical Heat Storage Systems and Materials	236
Emerging Diversity in Lipid–Protein Interactions	235
Asymmetric Synthesis of Isoquinoline Alkaloids: 2004–2015	233
Chemistries for DNA Nanotechnology	232
Amyloid Oligomers: A Joint Experimental/Computational Perspective on Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Type II Diabetes, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis	232
Utility of B-Factors in Protein Science: Interpreting Rigidity, Flexibility, and Internal Motion and Engineering Thermostability	227
Review of Methods for the Catalytic Hydrogenation of Carboxamides	225
Nanowires for Electrochemical Energy Storage	225
Understanding Cell Penetration of Cyclic Peptides	224
Multireference Approaches for Excited States of Molecules	221
Discrete Cationic Complexes for Ring-Opening Polymerization Catalysis of Cyclic Esters and Epoxides	217
Triplet Pair States in Singlet Fission	217
O₂ Reduction in Enzymatic Biofuel Cells	216
Advances in Stereoconvergent Catalysis from 2005 to 2015: Transition-Metal-Mediated Stereoablative Reactions, Dynamic Kinetic Resolutions, and Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Transformations	215
Peptide-Based Vaccines: Current Progress and Future Challenges	215
Radioactive Main Group and Rare Earth Metals for Imaging and Therapy	214
Nanometer-Scale Surface Modification Using the Scanning Probe Microscope: Progress since 1991	213
Biomedicine Meets Fenton Chemistry	213
Metal–Organic Framework-Based Enzyme Biocomposites	211
DNA Quadruple Helices in Nanotechnology	210
Progress in the Chemistry of Tetrahydroquinolines	210
Photophysics Modulation in Photoswitchable Metal–Organic Frameworks	208
Computational Approach to Molecular Catalysis by 3d Transition Metals: Challenges and Opportunities	207
One-Dimensional Metal Nanostructures: From Colloidal Syntheses to Applications	197
Isocoumarins. Developments Since 1950	196
Alkaline Anion-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: Challenges in Electrocatalysis and Interfacial Charge Transfer	195
Multicomponent Plasmonic Nanoparticles: From Heterostructured Nanoparticles to Colloidal Composite Nanostructures	194
Computational Ligand Descriptors for Catalyst Design	192
Role of the Support in Gold-Containing Nanoparticles as Heterogeneous Catalysts	189
Metal Drugs and the Anticancer Immune Response	185
Disease Detection with Molecular Biomarkers: From Chemistry of Body Fluids to Nature-Inspired Chemical Sensors	181
Antifungal Drug Resistance: Molecular Mechanisms in Candida albicans and Beyond	180
Small Molecule as Fluorescent Probes for Monitoring Intracellular Enzymatic Transformations	179
Understanding Glass through Differential Scanning Calorimetry	178
Chemical Bonding and Bonding Models of Main-Group Compounds	178
Mechanistic Development and Recent Applications of the Chan–Lam Amination	177
Rational Design of Flexible Two-Dimensional MXenes with Multiple Functionalities	177
Nonclassical Applications of closo-Carborane Anions: From Main Group Chemistry and Catalysis to Energy Storage	175
Photoinduced Chemistry in Fluorescent Proteins: Curse or Blessing?	171
Macrocycles as Ion Pair Receptors	171
Rationally Engineered Nucleic Acid Architectures for Biosensing Applications	166
Multiscale Simulations of Biological Membranes: The Challenge To Understand Biological Phenomena in a Living Substance	163
Boosting Rechargeable Batteries R&D by Multiscale Modeling: Myth or Reality?	163
The Comparison between Single Atom Catalysis and Surface Organometallic Catalysis	159
Metallomimetic Chemistry of Boron	158
Photoredox-Catalyzed C–H Functionalization Reactions	157
Information Retrieval and Text Mining Technologies for Chemistry	157
Achievements, Challenges, and Prospects of Calcium Batteries	157
A Megatrend Challenging Analytical Chemistry: Biosensor and Chemosensor Concepts Ready for the Internet of Things	155
Copper-Promoted Functionalization of Organic Molecules: from Biologically Relevant Cu/O₂Model Systems to Organometallic Transformations	155
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Membrane Permeability	154
Do Diradicals Behave Like Radicals?	154
Impedance-Based Detection of Bacteria	154
Multicomponent Reaction Toolbox for Peptide Macrocyclization and Stapling	153
Single Molecule Photocatalysis on TiO₂ Surfaces	150
Solvation Thermodynamics of Organic Molecules by the Molecular Integral Equation Theory: Approaching Chemical Accuracy	149
Natural Taxanes: Developments Since 1828	148
Recent Advances in Enantioselective Pd-Catalyzed Allylic Substitution: From Design to Applications	147
Cosensitization in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells	147
Nanowire Electronics: From Nanoscale to Macroscale	146
Approaches to Obtaining Fluorinated α-Amino Acids	146
Targeting Metalloenzymes for Therapeutic Intervention	144
X-ray and Neutron Scattering of Water	142
Synthesis and Applications of III–V Nanowires	142
Charge-Carrier Recombination in Halide Perovskites	142
A Million Crystal Structures: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts	141
Piezotronics and Piezo-phototronics of Third Generation Semiconductor Nanowires	140
The Life of Pi Star: Exploring the Exciting and Forbidden Worlds of the Benzophenone Photophore	139
Folding and Misfolding of Human Membrane Proteins in Health and Disease: From Single Molecules to Cellular Proteostasis	138
Radioactive Transition Metals for Imaging and Therapy	136
Highly Sensitive and Multiplexed Protein Measurements	136
Distortion Pathways of Transition Metal Coordination Polyhedra Induced by Chelating Topology	135
Main-Group-Based Electro- and Photoactive Chiral Materials	133
Main Group Chemistry at the Interface with Molecular Magnetism	133
Vapor Phase Growth of Semiconductor Nanowires: Key Developments and Open Questions	132
Conotoxins: Chemistry and Biology	131
Alkali-Metal-Mediated Synergistic Effects in Polar Main Group Organometallic Chemistry	130
Polytetrafluoroethylene: Synthesis and Characterization of the Original Extreme Polymer	130
Asymmetric Catalysis Using Chiral Salen–Metal Complexes: Recent Advances	128
Proteolytic Cleavage—Mechanisms, Function, and “Omic” Approaches for a Near-Ubiquitous Posttranslational Modification	128
Mechanistic Landscape of Membrane-Permeabilizing Peptides	126
Nanowires for Photonics	126
Combining Machine Learning and Computational Chemistry for Predictive Insights Into Chemical Systems	126
Transition Metal Vinylidene- and Allenylidene-Mediated Catalysis in Organic Synthesis	125
Synthesis and Transformations of Nitrones for Organic Synthesis	124
Interrogating Amyloid Aggregates using Fluorescent Probes	124
Accuracy and Interpretability: The Devil and the Holy Grail. New Routes across Old Boundaries in Computational Spectroscopy	124
Characterization of Lipid–Protein Interactions and Lipid-Mediated Modulation of Membrane Protein Function through Molecular Simulation	124
Cancer Metabolism: Current Understanding and Therapies	122
Column Characterization and Selection Systems in Reversed-Phase High-Performance Liquid Chromatography	122
Nanowire Photoelectrochemistry	122
α-Keto Acids: Acylating Agents in Organic Synthesis	122
Recent Advances in Heterocyclic Nanographenes and Other Polycyclic Heteroaromatic Compounds	122
Role of Polymer Structures in Catalysis by Transition Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticle Composites	121
Perturbations of Native Membrane Protein Structure in Alkyl Phosphocholine Detergents: A Critical Assessment of NMR and Biophysical Studies	120
Conducting Nanomaterial Sensor Using Natural Receptors	119
Pressure Induced Nanoparticle Phase Behavior, Property, and Applications	119
Intracellular Catalysis with Selected Metal Complexes and Metallic Nanoparticles: Advances toward the Development of Catalytic Metallodrugs	117
Reactivity and Synthetic Applications of Multicomponent Petasis Reactions	117
New Horizon of Nanoparticle and Cluster Catalysis with Dendrimers	117
Seven Coordinated Molecular Ruthenium–Water Oxidation Catalysts: A Coordination Chemistry Journey	116
Structural Simplification of Natural Products	115
Mechanistic Aspects and Synthetic Applications of Radical Additions to Allenes	114
SO₃H-Containing Functional Carbon Materials: Synthesis, Structure, and Acid Catalysis	113
Recent Progress in Electrochemical pH-Sensing Materials and Configurations for Biomedical Applications	113
Evolution and Diversity of Assembly-Line Polyketide Synthases	113
Palladium Nanoparticles in Polyols: Synthesis, Catalytic Couplings, and Hydrogenations	113
RNA Display Methods for the Discovery of Bioactive Macrocycles	113