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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
CRISPR screening in cancer stem cells	134
CaMKK2: bridging the gap between Ca2+ signaling and energy-sensing	131
Ligands and DNA in the allosteric control of retinoid receptors function	130
How viral proteins bind short linear motifs and intrinsically disordered domains	112
Butyrate-producing colonic clostridia: picky glycan utilization specialists	109
Phase separation of the microtubule-associated protein tau	106
Salicylic acid and jasmonic acid crosstalk in plant immunity	100
Astrocytes in memory formation and maintenance	76
DNA sensing in cancer: Pro-tumour and anti-tumour functions of cGAS–STING signalling	69
The role of methionine synthases in fungal metabolism and virulence	57
Apoplastic and vascular defences	57
Can changes in 3D genome architecture create new regulatory landscapes that contribute to phenotypic evolution?	54
Mineralocorticoid receptor actions in cardiovascular development and disease	52
The dual role of the ubiquitin–proteasome system in photomorphogenesis	51
Perspective on pros and cons of microlearning in health education	47
Plant peroxisome proteostasis—establishing, renovating, and dismantling the peroxisomal proteome	46
Malate dehydrogenase: a story of diverse evolutionary radiation	46
A special issue of Essays in Biochemistry on evolutionary developmental biology	44
Branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis in fungi	42
The cGAS-STING pathway in cancer immunity: dual roles, therapeutic strategies, and clinical challenges	42
Mass spectrometric insights into protein aggregation	41
O-Mucin-degrading carbohydrate-active enzymes and their possible implication in inflammatory bowel diseases	41
Shapeshifting proteins: the role of structural disorder and conformational plasticity in physiology and disease	40
Systemic acquired resistance-associated transport and metabolic regulation of salicylic acid and glycerol-3-phosphate	40
Harnessing extremophilic carboxylesterases for applications in polyester depolymerisation and plastic waste recycling	37

Nitrification in acidic and alkaline environments	36
Functional amyloid in a lipid-like environment: a merry dance of many steps	36
Prostate cancer as a dedifferentiated organ: androgen receptor, cancer stem cells, and cancer stemness	36
Astrocytes regulate inhibitory neurotransmission through GABA uptake, metabolism, and recycling	35
Hemicellulolytic enzymes in lignocellulose processing	35
Modulating immune cells within pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma via nanomedicine	35
Lipids and the cancer stemness regulatory system in acute myeloid leukemia	34
The molecular basis of cereal grain proteostasis	33