OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Molecular Biology is 54. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Outside Front Cover	449
Coevolution-Guided Mapping of the Type VI Secretion Membrane Complex-Baseplate Interface	326
Gasdermin D and Beyond – Gasdermin-mediated Pyroptosis in Bacterial Infections	252
Outside Front Cover	209
Outside Front Cover	203
Outside Front Cover	186
Outside Front Cover	186
Structural Insights into Transporter-Mediated Drug Resistance in Infectious Diseases	166
Intein-based Design Expands Diversity of Selenocysteine Reporters	137
Solution Structural Studies of Pre-amyloid Oligomer States of the Biofilm Protein Aap	122
An Alternative Role of RluD in the Fidelity of Translation Initiation in Escherichia coli	110
Ribosome-nascent Chain Interaction Regulates N-terminal Protein Modification	108
Structural Basis for Blocked Excited State Proton Transfer in a Fluorescent, Photoacidic Non-Canonical Amino Acid-Containing Antibody Fragment	108
Identification of Functional Spo0A Residues Critical for Sporulation in Clostridioides difficile	108
MgCod: Gene Prediction in Phage Genomes with Multiple Genetic Codes	95
Amyloid Aggregation Is Potently Slowed Down by Osmolytes Due to Compaction of Partially Folded State	93
Structural Model of the Human BTG2–PABPC1 Complex by Combining Mutagenesis, NMR Chemical Shift Perturbation Data and Molecular Docking	90
Membrane-associated mRNAs: A Post-transcriptional Pathway for Fine-turning Gene Expression	87
Respiratory Syncytial Virus NS1 Protein Targets the Transactivator Binding Domain of MED25	87
Unusual Guide-binding Pockets in RNA-targeting pAgo Nucleases	86
In vivo Profiling of the Alk Proximitome in the Developing Drosophila Brain	82
Ligand-mediated Structural Dynamics of a Mammalian Pancreatic KATP Channel	81
Outside Front Cover	79
RiboVision2: A Web Server for Advanced Visualization of Ribosomal RNAs	79
Highly Performing Automatic Detection of Structural Chromosomal Abnormalities Using Siamese Architecture	78

HIV-Induced CPSF6 Condensates	78
IIFS2.0: An Improved Incremental Feature Selection Method for Protein Sequence Processing Based on a Caching Strategy	77
Mechanisms of PAS Domain Signalling, from Sensing Varied Small Molecules and Peptides to Approved Pharmaceuticals and Use in Optogenetics	76
Improving Signal and Transit Peptide Predictions Using AlphaFold2-predicted Protein Structures	74
Co-Translational Folding of the First Transmembrane Domain of ABC-Transporter CFTR is Supported by Assembly with the First Cytosolic Domain	74
Misfolding-Associated Exposure of Natively Buried Residues in Mutant SOD1 Facilitates Binding to TRAF6	74
Minireview: What is Known about SUMOylation Among NR4A Family Members?	74
Step-by-Step Regulation of Productive and Abortive Transcription Initiation by Pyrophosphorolysis	74
NNDB: An Expanded Database of Nearest Neighbor Parameters for Predicting Stability of Nucleic Acid Secondary Structures	73
Mechanisms of Transcription Elongation Factor DSIF (Spt4–Spt5)	69
Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation of Gasdermins	66
Molecular Basis of Interchain Disulfide Bond Formation in BMP-9 and BMP-10	66
The Inherent Dynamics and Interaction Sites of the SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid N-Terminal Region	66
Mechanisms of Gasdermin Recognition by Proteases	65
ERK Allosteric Activation: The Importance of Two Ordered Phosphorylation Events	63
The PHY Domain Dimer Interface of Bacteriophytochromes Mediates Cross-talk between Photosensory Modules and Output Domains	61
Mechanisms of Translation-coupled Quality Control	61
Site-specific Phosphorylation of Histone H3K36 Methyltransferase Set2p and Demethylase Jhd1p is Required for Stress Responses in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	60
Pyroptosis, and its Role in Central Nervous System Disease	60
Biomolecular Condensates as Novel Antiviral Targets	60
Free Energy Landscape of H2A-H2B Displacement From Nucleosome	59
Decoding Allosteric Effects of Missense Variations in Drug Metabolism: Afrocentric CYP3A4 Alleles Explored	58
The Biofilm Regulatory Network from Bacillus subtilis: A Structure-Function Analysis	57
RCSB Protein Data Bank: Architectural Advances Towards Integrated Searching and Efficient Access to Macromolecular Structure Data from the PDB Archive	57
Outside Front Cover	55
The Disordered MAX N-terminus Modulates DNA Binding of the Transcription Factor MYC:MAX	55
Editorial Board	54
Outside Front Cover	54
The PKA Signaling Pathway Regulates the Association of the Autophagy Initiation Complex With the Lipidation Machinery	54