OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Biotechnology is 54. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Plant Microbiome Engineering: Expected Benefits for Improved Crop Growth and Resilience	250
Multiorgan-on-a-Chip: A Systemic Approach To Model and Decipher Inter-Organ Communication	202
Microbiome Engineering: Synthetic Biology of Plant-Associated Microbiomes in Sustainable Agriculture	200
Cold Plasma, a New Hope in the Field of Virus Inactivation	177
Grand Challenges for Industrializing Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs)	176
Enhancing Biopolymer Hydrogel Functionality through Interpenetrating Networks	176
Uncovering an Organ’s Molecular Architecture at Single-Cell Resolution by Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics	165
Enzyme discovery and engineering for sustainable plastic recycling	164
Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops	158
On-Site Therapeutic Drug Monitoring	151
Rolling Circle Replication for Biosensing, Bioimaging, and Biomedicine	147
In situ Biogas Upgrading by CO2-to-CH4 Bioconversion	130
Microbial Electrosynthesis: Where Do We Go from Here?	127
Textile Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Wearable Pulse Wave Monitoring	116
Emergence of the Stem Cell Secretome in Regenerative Engineering	114
Advances in the Fabrication of Biomaterials for Gradient Tissue Engineering	111
From Acetate to Bio-Based Products: Underexploited Potential for Industrial Biotechnology	111
Extracellular Matrix Mimics Using Hyaluronan-Based Biomaterials	107
Non-Hydrolyzable Plastics – An Interdisciplinary Look at Plastic Bio-Oxidation	104
New Twists in Detecting mRNA Modification Dynamics	102
Decellularized Extracellular Matrix for Bioengineering Physiomimetic 3D in Vitro Tumor Models	101
Gallium-Based Liquid Metal Particles for Therapeutics	95
Prospective Therapeutic Applications of Platelet Extracellular Vesicles	92
Animal Immunization, in Vitro Display Technologies, and Machine Learning for Antibody Discovery	90
Metabolic Engineering of Cupriavidus necator H16 for Sustainable Biofuels from CO2	86

Material–Microbe Interfaces for Solar-Driven CO2 Bioelectrosynthesis	82
THz medical imaging: from in vitro to in vivo	77
Multitechnology Biofabrication: A New Approach for the Manufacturing of Functional Tissue Structures?	74
Biotechnological Exploration of Transformed Root Culture for Value-Added Products	73
Creative biological lignin conversion routes toward lignin valorization	72
Hypes, hopes, and the way forward for microalgal biotechnology	70
The tremendous biomedical potential of bacterial extracellular vesicles	69
Enzyme Catalyst Engineering toward the Integration of Biocatalysis and Chemocatalysis	68
Engineered Living Materials: Taxonomies and Emerging Trends	67
Microalgae-based biotechnological sequestration of carbon dioxide for net zero emissions	66
Electron Storage in Electroactive Biofilms	64
Modeling the Human Body on Microfluidic Chips	64
Flexible Fungal Materials: Shaping the Future	64
Using Microbial Aggregates to Entrap Aqueous Phosphorus	63
Engineered Methanotrophy: A Sustainable Solution for Methane-Based Industrial Biomanufacturing	63
Intrinsically Conductive Microbial Nanowires for ‘Green’ Electronics with Novel Functions	62
Graphene for Biosensing Applications in Point-of-Care Testing	61
What makes Yarrowia lipolytica well suited for industry?	61
The Sustainable Path to a Circular Bioeconomy	61
Combining Environmental and Economic Performance for Bioprocess Optimization	60
Sustainable Seaweed Biotechnology Solutions for Carbon Capture, Composition, and Deconstruction	59
In Situ 3D Printing: Opportunities with Silk Inks	58
CRISPR/Cas-Based Epigenome Editing: Advances, Applications, and Clinical Utility	57
Can Bottom-Up Synthetic Biology Generate Advanced Drug-Delivery Systems?	57
Prime editing: advances and therapeutic applications	56
Enhanced Strategies for Antibiotic Removal from Swine Wastewater in Anaerobic Digestion	56
Host Systems for the Production of Recombinant Spider Silk	55
Oxygen-Releasing Biomaterials: Current Challenges and Future Applications	55
P450-driven plastic-degrading synthetic bacteria	55