OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Natural Product Reports is 39. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The molecular complexity of terpene biosynthesis in red algae: current state and future perspectives	195
Privileged natural product compound classes for anti-inflammatory drug development	159
Estimating the extent of adulteration of the popular herbs black cohosh, echinacea, elder berry, ginkgo, and turmeric – its challenges and limitations	119
Recent advances in the synthesis of insect pheromones: an overview from 2013 to 2022	117
Biosynthesis, regulation, and engineering of natural products from Lysobacter	93
Harnessing microbial co-culture to increase the production of known secondary metabolites	92
Silybin and its congeners: from traditional medicine to molecular effects	91
Chain release mechanisms in polyketide and non-ribosomal peptide biosynthesis	90
Front cover	87
Back cover	75
Unusually cyclized triterpenoids: occurrence, biosynthesis and chemical synthesis	73
Purine nucleoside antibiotics: recent synthetic advances harnessing chemistry and biology	72
The pearl jubilee of microcin J25: thirty years of research on an exceptional lasso peptide	68
Discovery, bioactivity and biosynthesis of fungal piperazines	68
Streptomyces cell-free systems for natural product discovery and engineering	63
Medicinal plant resin natural products: structural diversity and biological activities	63
Introduction to engineering the biosynthesis of fungal natural products	63
Inside front cover	59
Recent advances in the total synthesis of galantamine, a natural medicine for Alzheimer's disease	58
Correction: Dearomative logic in natural product total synthesis	58
Natural nematicidal metabolites and advances in their biocontrol capacity on plant parasitic nematodes	54
Recent advances in the biosynthetic studies of bacterial organoarsenic natural products	52
Front cover	52
Marine indole alkaloid diversity and bioactivity. What do we know and what are we missing?	51
Chemoenzymatic approaches to plant natural product inspired compounds	49

Chemistry, bioactivity, biosynthesis, and total synthesis of stemmadenine alkaloids	49
Maleidride biosynthesis – construction of dimeric anhydrides – more than just heads or tails	48
Marine natural products	48
Enzymatic ester bond formation strategies in fungal macrolide skeletons	47
Inside front cover	47
Non-peptide secondary metabolites from poisonous mushrooms: overview of chemistry, bioactivity, and biosynthesis	45
Front cover	44
Contents list	43
Contents list	43
Back cover	42
Subterranean marvels: microbial communities in caves and underground mines and their promise for natural product discovery	41
Contents list	41
Synthetic-bioinformatic natural product-inspired peptides	39
Image to insight: exploring natural products through mass spectrometry imaging	39