OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Biochemistry is 47. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Role of DEAD-Box ATPases in Gene Expression and the Regulation of RNA–Protein Condensates	343
Lipid Dynamics at Membrane Contact Sites	193
Emerging Approaches for Studying Lipid Dynamics, Metabolism, and Interactions in Cells	146
The Initiation of Eukaryotic DNA Replication	137
Moonlighting Enzymes at the Interface Between Metabolism and Epigenetics	114
DNA Damage and Replication Stress Checkpoints	105
The Purinosome: A Case Study for a Mammalian Metabolon	100
The Structural Dynamics of Translation	97
Mitochondrial DNA Release in Innate Immune Signaling	95
Mechanisms of General Anesthesia	86
The Inseparable Relationship Between Cholesterol and Hedgehog Signaling	82
Signaling from RAS to RAF: The Molecules and Their Mechanisms	81
High-Resolution Single-Molecule Magnetic Tweezers	73
Emerging Chemical Diversity and Potential Applications of Enzymes in the DMSO Reductase Superfamily	73
mRNA Regulation by RNA Modifications	72
Eukaryotic Ribosome Assembly	64
DNA–Protein Crosslinks and Their Resolution	63
Topoisomerase Regulation of Cancer Gene Expression	56
Validating Small Molecule Chemical Probes for Biological Discovery	52
Membrane Protein Complexity Revealed Through Native Mass Spectrometry	51
The Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor and Its Pentameric Homologs: Toward an Allosteric Mechanism of Signal Transduction at the Atomic Level	50
Essential Biology of Lipid Droplets	49
	47
Structural Biochemistry of Muscle Contraction	47