OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Biotechnology is 56. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Technologies and Standardization in Research on Extracellular Vesicles	244
Metabolic Engineering of Escherichia coli for Natural Product Biosynthesis	218
Plant Microbiome Engineering: Expected Benefits for Improved Crop Growth and Resilience	214
3D Printing in Suspension Baths: Keeping the Promises of Bioprinting Afloat	181
High-Throughput Screening Technology in Industrial Biotechnology	166
Microbiome Engineering: Synthetic Biology of Plant-Associated Microbiomes in Sustainable Agriculture	166
Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for Cell Recognition	164
Multiorgan-on-a-Chip: A Systemic Approach To Model and Decipher Inter-Organ Communication	164
Cold Plasma, a New Hope in the Field of Virus Inactivation	163
Enabling Technologies for Personalized and Precision Medicine	160
Grand Challenges for Industrializing Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs)	147
Integrative Methods and Practical Challenges for Single-Cell Multi-omics	146
Uncovering an Organ’s Molecular Architecture at Single-Cell Resolution by Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics	140
Enhancing Biopolymer Hydrogel Functionality through Interpenetrating Networks	137
Injectable Cryogels for Biomedical Applications	137
Rolling Circle Replication for Biosensing, Bioimaging, and Biomedicine	128
Enzyme discovery and engineering for sustainable plastic recycling	128
On-Site Therapeutic Drug Monitoring	127
Phaeodactylum tricornutum: A Diatom Cell Factory	127
Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops	125
In situ Biogas Upgrading by CO2-to-CH4 Bioconversion	113
Protein Engineering for Improving and Diversifying Natural Product Biosynthesis	112
The Business of Cultured Meat	105
Microbial Electrosynthesis: Where Do We Go from Here?	101
Textile Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Wearable Pulse Wave Monitoring	97

Ultrafast Photonic PCR Based on Photothermal Nanomaterials	97
Advances in the Fabrication of Biomaterials for Gradient Tissue Engineering	96
From Acetate to Bio-Based Products: Underexploited Potential for Industrial Biotechnology	95
Synthetic Biochemistry: The Bio-inspired Cell-Free Approach to Commodity Chemical Production	92
New Twists in Detecting mRNA Modification Dynamics	89
Non-Hydrolyzable Plastics – An Interdisciplinary Look at Plastic Bio-Oxidation	89
Emergence of the Stem Cell Secretome in Regenerative Engineering	87
Gallium-Based Liquid Metal Particles for Therapeutics	86
Extracellular Matrix Mimics Using Hyaluronan-Based Biomaterials	86
Burkholderia: An Untapped but Promising Bacterial Genus for the Conversion of Aromatic Compounds	85
Natural Medicinal Compounds in Bone Tissue Engineering	84
Intravesical Hydrogels as Drug Reservoirs	82
Decellularized Extracellular Matrix for Bioengineering Physiomimetic 3D in Vitro Tumor Models	82
Microbial Chassis Development for Natural Product Biosynthesis	82
Genetic Biosensor Design for Natural Product Biosynthesis in Microorganisms	79
Prospective Therapeutic Applications of Platelet Extracellular Vesicles	78
Metabolic Engineering of Cupriavidus necator H16 for Sustainable Biofuels from CO2	77
Synthetic Biology and Genome-Editing Tools for Improving PHA Metabolic Engineering	76
Animal Immunization, in Vitro Display Technologies, and Machine Learning for Antibody Discovery	74
Bacterial Inclusion Bodies: A Treasure Trove of Bioactive Proteins	74
Controlling Voltage Reversal in Microbial Fuel Cells	70
Material–Microbe Interfaces for Solar-Driven CO2 Bioelectrosynthesis	70
Biotechnological Exploration of Transformed Root Culture for Value-Added Products	68
Toward an Optimized Process for Clinical Manufacturing of CAR-Treg Cell Therapy	67
Multitechnology Biofabrication: A New Approach for the Manufacturing of Functional Tissue Structures?	64
Towards a Digital Bioprocess Replica: Computational Approaches in Biopharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing	63
Intraoperative Bioprinting: Repairing Tissues and Organs in a Surgical Setting	62
Bioengineered 3D Models to Recapitulate Tissue Fibrosis	59
Enzyme Catalyst Engineering toward the Integration of Biocatalysis and Chemocatalysis	59
Electron Storage in Electroactive Biofilms	57
Developing a Computational Framework To Advance Bioprocess Scale-Up	57
Synthetic Methylotrophy: A Practical Solution for Methanol-Based Biomanufacturing	56
Intrinsically Conductive Microbial Nanowires for ‘Green’ Electronics with Novel Functions	56
Engineered Living Materials: Taxonomies and Emerging Trends	56
Microalgal Torrefaction for Solid Biofuel Production	56
THz medical imaging: from in vitro to in vivo	56