OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Annual Review of Biochemistry is 41. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
RNA Splicing by the Spliceosome	350
Structural and Mechanistic Principles of ABC Transporters	253
Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Iron-Sulfur Protein Biogenesis	221
Mucins and the Microbiome	179
Long Noncoding RNAs: Molecular Modalities to Organismal Functions	178
Role of Mammalian DNA Methyltransferases in Development	178
Transcription in Living Cells: Molecular Mechanisms of Bursting	150
The Wnt Pathway: From Signaling Mechanisms to Synthetic Modulators	134
Mitochondrial Proteases: Multifaceted Regulators of Mitochondrial Plasticity	125
Single-Molecule Studies of Protein Folding with Optical Tweezers	122
Evaluating Enhancer Function and Transcription	121
Current Understanding of the Mechanism of Water Oxidation in Photosystem II and Its Relation to XFEL Data	119
Ribonucleotide Reductases: Structure, Chemistry, and Metabolism Suggest New Therapeutic Targets	118
Cullin-RING Ubiquitin Ligase Regulatory Circuits: A Quarter Century Beyond the F-Box Hypothesis	109
Structure and Mechanism of P-Type ATPase Ion Pumps	102
Checkpoint Responses to DNA Double-Strand Breaks	97
Anti-CRISPRs: Protein Inhibitors of CRISPR-Cas Systems	90
Dynamic Competition of Polycomb and Trithorax in Transcriptional Programming	88
Understanding the Function of Mammalian Sirtuins and Protein Lysine Acylation	73
Repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks by the Nonhomologous End Joining Pathway	73
Synonymous but Not Silent: The Codon Usage Code for Gene Expression and Protein Folding	73
The Initiation of Eukaryotic DNA Replication	70
Mechanisms of Vertebrate DNA Interstrand Cross-Link Repair	69
Molecular Mechanisms of Natural Rubber Biosynthesis	66
Chaperoning SNARE Folding and Assembly	66

How Is Precursor Messenger RNA Spliced by the Spliceosome?	64
The Form and Function of PIEZO2	62
Detection and Degradation of Stalled Nascent Chains via Ribosome-Associated Quality Control	60
A Natural Product Chemist's Guide to Unlocking Silent Biosynthetic Gene Clusters	53
Molecular Mechanisms of Facultative Heterochromatin Formation: An X-Chromosome Perspective	52
Mechanisms for Regulating and Organizing Receptor Signaling by Endocytosis	51
How Does the Ribosome Fold the Proteome?	50
HLAs, TCRs, and KIRs, a Triumvirate of Human Cell-Mediated Immunity	49
MAPK-Activated Protein Kinases: Servant or Partner?	49
Synthetic Genomes	47
Zona Pellucida Proteins, Fibrils, and Matrix	46
Tunnels for Protein Export from the Endoplasmic Reticulum	45
Better, Faster, Cheaper: Recent Advances in Cryo–Electron Microscopy	44
Repair of DNA Breaks by Break-Induced Replication	43
The Myosin Family of Mechanoenzymes: From Mechanisms to Therapeutic Approaches	42
Driving E3 Ligase Substrate Specificity for Targeted Protein Degradation: Lessons from Nature and the Laboratory	41
Quantifying Target Occupancy of Small Molecules Within Living Cells	41