OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Molecular Biology is 47. 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
Outside Front Cover	503
Outside Front Cover	292
Outside Front Cover	262
Outside Front Cover	201
Solution Structural Studies of Pre-amyloid Oligomer States of the Biofilm Protein Aap	145
An Alternative Role of RluD in the Fidelity of Translation Initiation in Escherichia coli	142
Structural Basis for Blocked Excited State Proton Transfer in a Fluorescent, Photoacidic Non-Canonical Amino Acid-Containing Antibody Fragment	126
Unusual Guide-binding Pockets in RNA-targeting pAgo Nucleases	111
Outside Front Cover	106
Intein-based Design Expands Diversity of Selenocysteine Reporters	102
Step-by-Step Regulation of Productive and Abortive Transcription Initiation by Pyrophosphorolysis	98
Mechanisms of PAS Domain Signalling, from Sensing Varied Small Molecules and Peptides to Approved Pharmaceuticals and Use in Optogenetics	90
Site-specific Phosphorylation of Histone H3K36 Methyltransferase Set2p and Demethylase Jhd1p is Required for Stress Responses in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	88
Coevolution-Guided Mapping of the Type VI Secretion Membrane Complex-Baseplate Interface	83
Amyloid Aggregation Is Potently Slowed Down by Osmolytes Due to Compaction of Partially Folded State	83
Biomolecular Condensates as Novel Antiviral Targets	81
Misfolding-Associated Exposure of Natively Buried Residues in Mutant SOD1 Facilitates Binding to TRAF6	81
Kinetic Investigation of Resistance to Islatravir Conferred by Mutations in HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase	80
Molecular Basis of Interchain Disulfide Bond Formation in BMP-9 and BMP-10	80
Mechanisms of Translation-coupled Quality Control	78
Ribosome-nascent Chain Interaction Regulates N-terminal Protein Modification	77
Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation of Gasdermins	74
Ligand-mediated Structural Dynamics of a Mammalian Pancreatic KATP Channel	72
Editorial Board	68
Extracellular uncoating of bacteriophage MS2	67

Single-molecule Tracking and Kinetic Analysis in Living Cells and Multicellular Organisms	67
Minireview: What is Known about SUMOylation Among NR4A Family Members?	66
RiboVision2: A Web Server for Advanced Visualization of Ribosomal RNAs	65
Membrane-associated mRNAs: A Post-transcriptional Pathway for Fine-turning Gene Expression	61
IIFS2.0: An Improved Incremental Feature Selection Method for Protein Sequence Processing Based on a Caching Strategy	58
Free Energy Landscape of H2A-H2B Displacement From Nucleosome	58
NNDB: An Expanded Database of Nearest Neighbor Parameters for Predicting Stability of Nucleic Acid Secondary Structures	57
Identification of Functional Spo0A Residues Critical for Sporulation in Clostridioides difficile	56
Improving Signal and Transit Peptide Predictions Using AlphaFold2-predicted Protein Structures	55
Decoding Allosteric Effects of Missense Variations in Drug Metabolism: Afrocentric CYP3A4 Alleles Explored	55
In vivo Profiling of the Alk Proximitome in the Developing Drosophila Brain	55
The Disordered MAX N-terminus Modulates DNA Binding of the Transcription Factor MYC:MAX	54
The Biofilm Regulatory Network from Bacillus subtilis: A Structure-Function Analysis	54
Gasdermin D and Beyond – Gasdermin-mediated Pyroptosis in Bacterial Infections	54
Arkadia and Ark2C Promote Substrate Ubiquitylation with Multiple E2 Enzymes	53
ERK Allosteric Activation: The Importance of Two Ordered Phosphorylation Events	52
Mechanisms of Gasdermin Recognition by Proteases	52
MgCod: Gene Prediction in Phage Genomes with Multiple Genetic Codes	52
Highly Performing Automatic Detection of Structural Chromosomal Abnormalities Using Siamese Architecture	52
Structural Model of the Human BTG2–PABPC1 Complex by Combining Mutagenesis, NMR Chemical Shift Perturbation Data and Molecular Docking	52
Respiratory Syncytial Virus NS1 Protein Targets the Transactivator Binding Domain of MED25	50
HIV-Induced CPSF6 Condensates	47
Structural Insight Into the Conversion of DhNik1, A Hybrid Histidine Kinase From Debaryomyces hansenii to a Cytotoxic Phosphatase Conformation for Novel Antifungal Agent	47