OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Molecular Biology is 44. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Unusual Guide-binding Pockets in RNA-targeting pAgo Nucleases	311
Editorial Board	289
Single-molecule Tracking and Kinetic Analysis in Living Cells and Multicellular Organisms	209
Arkadia and Ark2C Promote Substrate Ubiquitylation with Multiple E2 Enzymes	150
Outside Front Cover	137
RiboVision2: A Web Server for Advanced Visualization of Ribosomal RNAs	119
Structural and Functional Characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Virulence Factor AaaA, an Autotransporter with Arginine-Specific Aminopeptidase Activity	115
ERK Allosteric Activation: The Importance of Two Ordered Phosphorylation Events	109
HIV-Induced CPSF6 Condensates	107
Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation of Gasdermins	95
NNDB: An Expanded Database of Nearest Neighbor Parameters for Predicting Stability of Nucleic Acid Secondary Structures	92
Misfolding-Associated Exposure of Natively Buried Residues in Mutant SOD1 Facilitates Binding to TRAF6	88
Improving Signal and Transit Peptide Predictions Using AlphaFold2-predicted Protein Structures	85
The Disordered MAX N-terminus Modulates DNA Binding of the Transcription Factor MYC:MAX	85
Intein-based Design Expands Diversity of Selenocysteine Reporters	83
Outside Front Cover	81
Structural Basis for Blocked Excited State Proton Transfer in a Fluorescent, Photoacidic Non-Canonical Amino Acid-Containing Antibody Fragment	81
Outside Front Cover	77
Outside Front Cover	72
Highly Performing Automatic Detection of Structural Chromosomal Abnormalities Using Siamese Architecture	71
Coevolution-Guided Mapping of the Type VI Secretion Membrane Complex-Baseplate Interface	71
Outside Front Cover	63
An Alternative Role of RluD in the Fidelity of Translation Initiation in Escherichia coli	62
Amyloid Aggregation Is Potently Slowed Down by Osmolytes Due to Compaction of Partially Folded State	60
Ribosome-nascent Chain Interaction Regulates N-terminal Protein Modification	59

Step-by-Step Regulation of Productive and Abortive Transcription Initiation by Pyrophosphorolysis	59
Structural Insight Into the Conversion of DhNik1, A Hybrid Histidine Kinase From Debaryomyces hansenii to a Cytotoxic Phosphatase Conformation for Novel Antifungal Agent	58
Molecular Basis of Interchain Disulfide Bond Formation in BMP-9 and BMP-10	58
Structural Model of the Human BTG2–PABPC1 Complex by Combining Mutagenesis, NMR Chemical Shift Perturbation Data and Molecular Docking	57
MgCod: Gene Prediction in Phage Genomes with Multiple Genetic Codes	57
Ligand-mediated Structural Dynamics of a Mammalian Pancreatic KATP Channel	56
Gasdermin D and Beyond – Gasdermin-mediated Pyroptosis in Bacterial Infections	56
Mechanisms of Gasdermin Recognition by Proteases	55
IIFS2.0: An Improved Incremental Feature Selection Method for Protein Sequence Processing Based on a Caching Strategy	55
Biomolecular Condensates as Novel Antiviral Targets	53
Membrane-associated mRNAs: A Post-transcriptional Pathway for Fine-turning Gene Expression	52
Identification of Functional Spo0A Residues Critical for Sporulation in Clostridioides difficile	52
Respiratory Syncytial Virus NS1 Protein Targets the Transactivator Binding Domain of MED25	51
In vivo Profiling of the Alk Proximitome in the Developing Drosophila Brain	51
Free Energy Landscape of H2A-H2B Displacement From Nucleosome	48
Pyroptosis, and its Role in Central Nervous System Disease	47
Mechanisms of PAS Domain Signalling, from Sensing Varied Small Molecules and Peptides to Approved Pharmaceuticals and Use in Optogenetics	46
Kinetic Investigation of Resistance to Islatravir Conferred by Mutations in HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase	44
Site-specific Phosphorylation of Histone H3K36 Methyltransferase Set2p and Demethylase Jhd1p is Required for Stress Responses in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	44