OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Essays in Biochemistry is 32. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
CRISPR screening in cancer stem cells	447
Ligands and DNA in the allosteric control of retinoid receptors function	126
Phase separation of the microtubule-associated protein tau	120
Butyrate-producing colonic clostridia: picky glycan utilization specialists	117
How viral proteins bind short linear motifs and intrinsically disordered domains	98
Use of electroconductive biomaterials for engineering tissues by 3D printing and 3D bioprinting	91
CaMKK2: bridging the gap between Ca2+ signaling and energy-sensing	90
3D Bioprinting for fabrication of tissue models of COVID-19 infection	85
Salicylic acid and jasmonic acid crosstalk in plant immunity	72
Plant long non-coding RNAs in the regulation of transcription	65
Malate dehydrogenase: a story of diverse evolutionary radiation	57
Perspective on pros and cons of microlearning in health education	52
Mineralocorticoid receptor actions in cardiovascular development and disease	51
The role of methionine synthases in fungal metabolism and virulence	49
Astrocytes in memory formation and maintenance	47
Comparative genomics in the search for conserved long noncoding RNAs	44
Can changes in 3D genome architecture create new regulatory landscapes that contribute to phenotypic evolution?	43
DNA sensing in cancer: Pro-tumour and anti-tumour functions of cGAS–STING signalling	43
Apoplastic and vascular defences	42
Mass spectrometric insights into protein aggregation	40
A special issue of Essays in Biochemistry on evolutionary developmental biology	40
Branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis in fungi	40
O-Mucin-degrading carbohydrate-active enzymes and their possible implication in inflammatory bowel diseases	37
Shapeshifting proteins: the role of structural disorder and conformational plasticity in physiology and disease	36
The cGAS-STING pathway in cancer immunity: dual roles, therapeutic strategies, and clinical challenges	36

Plant peroxisome proteostasis—establishing, renovating, and dismantling the peroxisomal proteome	36
SINEUPs: a novel toolbox for RNA therapeutics	34
Systemic acquired resistance-associated transport and metabolic regulation of salicylic acid and glycerol-3-phosphate	33
Nitrification in acidic and alkaline environments	32
Functional amyloid in a lipid-like environment: a merry dance of many steps	32
Astrocytes regulate inhibitory neurotransmission through GABA uptake, metabolism, and recycling	32
Prostate cancer as a dedifferentiated organ: androgen receptor, cancer stem cells, and cancer stemness	32