OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Molecular Biology is 42. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	433
Outside Front Cover	263
Outside Front Cover	165
Outside Front Cover	128
Outside Front Cover	123
Mechanisms of PAS Domain Signalling, from Sensing Varied Small Molecules and Peptides to Approved Pharmaceuticals and Use in Optogenetics	112
Coevolution-Guided Mapping of the Type VI Secretion Membrane Complex-Baseplate Interface	108
Free Energy Landscape of H2A-H2B Displacement From Nucleosome	98
Molecular Basis of Interchain Disulfide Bond Formation in BMP-9 and BMP-10	88
Solution Structural Studies of Pre-amyloid Oligomer States of the Biofilm Protein Aap	88
Unusual Guide-binding Pockets in RNA-targeting pAgo Nucleases	86
Improving Signal and Transit Peptide Predictions Using AlphaFold2-predicted Protein Structures	80
Structural and Functional Characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Virulence Factor AaaA, an Autotransporter with Arginine-Specific Aminopeptidase Activity	78
Amyloid Aggregation Is Potently Slowed Down by Osmolytes Due to Compaction of Partially Folded State	73
Respiratory Syncytial Virus NS1 Protein Targets the Transactivator Binding Domain of MED25	70
IIFS2.0: An Improved Incremental Feature Selection Method for Protein Sequence Processing Based on a Caching Strategy	70
Editorial Board	70
Misfolding-Associated Exposure of Natively Buried Residues in Mutant SOD1 Facilitates Binding to TRAF6	64
Structural Insight Into the Conversion of DhNik1, A Hybrid Histidine Kinase From Debaryomyces hansenii to a Cytotoxic Phosphatase Conformation for Novel Antifungal Agent	63
Membrane-associated mRNAs: A Post-transcriptional Pathway for Fine-turning Gene Expression	59
Decoding Allosteric Effects of Missense Variations in Drug Metabolism: Afrocentric CYP3A4 Alleles Explored	59
MgCod: Gene Prediction in Phage Genomes with Multiple Genetic Codes	57
Single-molecule Tracking and Kinetic Analysis in Living Cells and Multicellular Organisms	57
19F NMR Strategy for Probing Site-specific RNA Dynamics in Large RNA-protein Complexes: Application to the Hfq RNA Chaperone	55
Doxorubicin Recognition and Transport by the MATE Multidrug Transporter NorM From Vibrio cholerae	54

NNDB: An Expanded Database of Nearest Neighbor Parameters for Predicting Stability of Nucleic Acid Secondary Structures	52
Distinct Cis-acting Elements Combinatorically Mediate Co-localization of mRNAs Encoding for Co-translational Interactors in Cytoplasmic Clusters in S. cerevisiae	52
ERK Allosteric Activation: The Importance of Two Ordered Phosphorylation Events	52
Arkadia and Ark2C Promote Substrate Ubiquitylation with Multiple E2 Enzymes	51
Biomolecular Condensates as Novel Antiviral Targets	49
Mechanisms of Translation-coupled Quality Control	48
Ligand-mediated Structural Dynamics of a Mammalian Pancreatic KATP Channel	48
Kinetic Investigation of Resistance to Islatravir Conferred by Mutations in HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase	48
Extracellular uncoating of bacteriophage MS2	46
Pioneers: Glucose Sensing and Control of Health-span and Lifespan	45
The Structure of a Thermostable Phage’s Portal Vertex and Neck Complex Illuminates the Headful Maturation Mechanism	45
The Disordered MAX N-terminus Modulates DNA Binding of the Transcription Factor MYC:MAX	44
HIV-Induced CPSF6 Condensates	43
The Biofilm Regulatory Network from Bacillus subtilis: A Structure-Function Analysis	43
RiboVision2: A Web Server for Advanced Visualization of Ribosomal RNAs	43
Highly Performing Automatic Detection of Structural Chromosomal Abnormalities Using Siamese Architecture	43
Editorial Board	42
EvoRator2: Predicting Site-specific Amino Acid Substitutions Based on Protein Structural Information Using Deep Learning	42
The PKA Signaling Pathway Regulates the Association of the Autophagy Initiation Complex With the Lipidation Machinery	42
AlphaFold and Structural Mass Spectrometry Enable Interrogations on the Intrinsically Disordered Regions in Cyanobacterial Light-harvesting Complex Phycobilisome	42