OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Molecular Biology is 49. 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
Outside Front Cover	490
Outside Front Cover	280
Outside Front Cover	246
Outside Front Cover	196
Solution Structural Studies of Pre-amyloid Oligomer States of the Biofilm Protein Aap	143
An Alternative Role of RluD in the Fidelity of Translation Initiation in Escherichia coli	140
Structural Basis for Blocked Excited State Proton Transfer in a Fluorescent, Photoacidic Non-Canonical Amino Acid-Containing Antibody Fragment	123
Structural Model of the Human BTG2–PABPC1 Complex by Combining Mutagenesis, NMR Chemical Shift Perturbation Data and Molecular Docking	121
Respiratory Syncytial Virus NS1 Protein Targets the Transactivator Binding Domain of MED25	115
Unusual Guide-binding Pockets in RNA-targeting pAgo Nucleases	109
Outside Front Cover	103
MgCod: Gene Prediction in Phage Genomes with Multiple Genetic Codes	98
Step-by-Step Regulation of Productive and Abortive Transcription Initiation by Pyrophosphorolysis	93
Intein-based Design Expands Diversity of Selenocysteine Reporters	88
Mechanisms of PAS Domain Signalling, from Sensing Varied Small Molecules and Peptides to Approved Pharmaceuticals and Use in Optogenetics	85
Highly Performing Automatic Detection of Structural Chromosomal Abnormalities Using Siamese Architecture	83
In vivo Profiling of the Alk Proximitome in the Developing Drosophila Brain	83
Molecular Basis of Interchain Disulfide Bond Formation in BMP-9 and BMP-10	81
Kinetic Investigation of Resistance to Islatravir Conferred by Mutations in HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase	80
Structural Insight Into the Conversion of DhNik1, A Hybrid Histidine Kinase From Debaryomyces hansenii to a Cytotoxic Phosphatase Conformation for Novel Antifungal Agent	80
Single-molecule Tracking and Kinetic Analysis in Living Cells and Multicellular Organisms	80
ERK Allosteric Activation: The Importance of Two Ordered Phosphorylation Events	80
Site-specific Phosphorylation of Histone H3K36 Methyltransferase Set2p and Demethylase Jhd1p is Required for Stress Responses in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	78
Improving Signal and Transit Peptide Predictions Using AlphaFold2-predicted Protein Structures	77
Identification of Functional Spo0A Residues Critical for Sporulation in Clostridioides difficile	75

Gasdermin D and Beyond – Gasdermin-mediated Pyroptosis in Bacterial Infections	75
Amyloid Aggregation Is Potently Slowed Down by Osmolytes Due to Compaction of Partially Folded State	72
Misfolding-Associated Exposure of Natively Buried Residues in Mutant SOD1 Facilitates Binding to TRAF6	71
Coevolution-Guided Mapping of the Type VI Secretion Membrane Complex-Baseplate Interface	67
The Biofilm Regulatory Network from Bacillus subtilis: A Structure-Function Analysis	66
Extracellular uncoating of bacteriophage MS2	65
Biomolecular Condensates as Novel Antiviral Targets	65
The Disordered MAX N-terminus Modulates DNA Binding of the Transcription Factor MYC:MAX	64
IIFS2.0: An Improved Incremental Feature Selection Method for Protein Sequence Processing Based on a Caching Strategy	62
Ligand-mediated Structural Dynamics of a Mammalian Pancreatic KATP Channel	62
Membrane-associated mRNAs: A Post-transcriptional Pathway for Fine-turning Gene Expression	58
Free Energy Landscape of H2A-H2B Displacement From Nucleosome	57
HIV-Induced CPSF6 Condensates	56
Mechanisms of Translation-coupled Quality Control	55
NNDB: An Expanded Database of Nearest Neighbor Parameters for Predicting Stability of Nucleic Acid Secondary Structures	55
Ribosome-nascent Chain Interaction Regulates N-terminal Protein Modification	55
RiboVision2: A Web Server for Advanced Visualization of Ribosomal RNAs	55
Mechanisms of Gasdermin Recognition by Proteases	54
Decoding Allosteric Effects of Missense Variations in Drug Metabolism: Afrocentric CYP3A4 Alleles Explored	54
Minireview: What is Known about SUMOylation Among NR4A Family Members?	53
Structural Insights into Transporter-Mediated Drug Resistance in Infectious Diseases	53
Structural and Functional Characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Virulence Factor AaaA, an Autotransporter with Arginine-Specific Aminopeptidase Activity	51
Pyroptosis, and its Role in Central Nervous System Disease	51
Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation of Gasdermins	50
Editorial Board	49
Outside Front Cover	49
Editorial Board	49
Outside Front Cover	49