OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Essays in Biochemistry is 33. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
CRISPR screening in cancer stem cells	183
How viral proteins bind short linear motifs and intrinsically disordered domains	149
CaMKK2: bridging the gap between Ca2+ signaling and energy-sensing	147
Phase separation of the microtubule-associated protein tau	104
Butyrate-producing colonic clostridia: picky glycan utilization specialists	78
Inter-species horizontal transfer of biosynthetic gene clusters: an evolutionary driver for chemical diversity in bacterial communities	70
Salicylic acid and jasmonic acid crosstalk in plant immunity	68
Heterologous expression of NRPS and PKS pathways in Escherichia coli : from bottlenecks to biosynthetic platforms	65
Apoplastic and vascular defences	65
Can changes in 3D genome architecture create new regulatory landscapes that contribute to phenotypic evolution?	62
DNA sensing in cancer: Pro-tumour and anti-tumour functions of cGAS–STING signalling	61
Versatile roles of inositol hexakisphosphate in the ubiquitin-proteasome system	60
The dual role of the ubiquitin–proteasome system in photomorphogenesis	56
The role of methionine synthases in fungal metabolism and virulence	54
Astrocytes in memory formation and maintenance	53
Malate dehydrogenase: a story of diverse evolutionary radiation	52
A special issue of Essays in Biochemistry on evolutionary developmental biology	50
Expanding perspectives on specialized metabolism in Streptomyces bacteria	50
O-Mucin-degrading carbohydrate-active enzymes and their possible implication in inflammatory bowel diseases	49
Mass spectrometric insights into protein aggregation	48
Branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis in fungi	48
Colony politics to chemical warfare: phenotypic plasticity in Streptomyces	47
The cGAS-STING pathway in cancer immunity: dual roles, therapeutic strategies, and clinical challenges	46
Shapeshifting proteins: the role of structural disorder and conformational plasticity in physiology and disease	45
Harnessing extremophilic carboxylesterases for applications in polyester depolymerisation and plastic waste recycling	42

Functional amyloid in a lipid-like environment: a merry dance of many steps	41
Modulating immune cells within pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma via nanomedicine	40
Hemicellulolytic enzymes in lignocellulose processing	39
Prostate cancer as a dedifferentiated organ: androgen receptor, cancer stem cells, and cancer stemness	38
Systemic acquired resistance-associated transport and metabolic regulation of salicylic acid and glycerol-3-phosphate	38
Astrocytes regulate inhibitory neurotransmission through GABA uptake, metabolism, and recycling	36
Nitrification in acidic and alkaline environments	35
Imaging of biofilms using cryo-scanning electron microscopy	35