OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Natural Product Reports is 38. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
New developments in RiPP discovery, enzymology and engineering	392
Marine natural products	241
Marine natural products	137
The scaffold-forming steps of plant alkaloid biosynthesis	95
Natural products in agarwood andAquilariaplants: chemistry, biological activities and biosynthesis	84
A critical review on the use of DP4+ in the structural elucidation of natural products: the good, the bad and the ugly. A practical guide	80
Cytochrome P450 enzymes in fungal natural product biosynthesis	78
A roadmap for metagenomic enzyme discovery	76
Advances in decomposing complex metabolite mixtures using substructure- and network-based computational metabolomics approaches	74
Secondary metabolites from mangrove-associated fungi: source, chemistry and bioactivities	72
Bacterial terpenome	71
Triptolide: reflections on two decades of research and prospects for the future	68
Marine natural products	65
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as a source of new anticancer drugs	64
Genome mining methods to discover bioactive natural products	57
Metabolomics and genomics in natural products research: complementary tools for targeting new chemical entities	55
Terpenoids from the medicinal mushroomAntrodia camphorata: chemistry and medicinal potential	55
Machine learning approaches for elucidating the biological effects of natural products	53
Mind the mushroom: natural product biosynthetic genes and enzymes of Basidiomycota	53
Phytostilbenes as agrochemicals: biosynthesis, bioactivity, metabolic engineering and biotechnology	53
Chain release mechanisms in polyketide and non-ribosomal peptide biosynthesis	53
Challenges and potential for improving the druggability of podophyllotoxin-derived drugs in cancer chemotherapy	52
Microbial natural product databases: moving forward in the multi-omics era	50
Advances and challenges in ginseng research from 2011 to 2020: the phytochemistry, quality control, metabolism, and biosynthesis	50
Structure, synthesis, biosynthesis, and activity of the characteristic compounds fromGinkgo bilobaL.	49

Solanum steroidal glycoalkaloids: structural diversity, biological activities, and biosynthesis	45
The iboga enigma: the chemistry and neuropharmacology of iboga alkaloids and related analogs	44
Regio- and stereoselective intermolecular phenol coupling enzymes in secondary metabolite biosynthesis	44
The year 2020 in natural product bioinformatics: an overview of the latest tools and databases	43
Recent advances in the biosynthesis strategies of nitrogen heterocyclic natural products	43
Anthracyclines: biosynthesis, engineering and clinical applications	42
Metabolic engineering for plant natural products biosynthesis: new procedures, concrete achievements and remaining limits	42
Enzymatic dimerization in the biosynthetic pathway of microbial natural products	42
Metabolomics and complementary techniques to investigate the plant phytochemical cosmos	42
How different are marine microbial natural products compared to their terrestrial counterparts?	40
Biosynthesis of azaphilones: a review	39
Beyond peptide bond formation: the versatile role of condensation domains in natural product biosynthesis	39
Natural product C-glycosyltransferases – a scarcely characterised enzymatic activity with biotechnological potential	38
Biosynthesis, evolution and ecology of microbial terpenoids	38