OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Natural Product Reports is 17. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Natural products with atypical atoms: unveiling structures, biosynthetic pathways, and bioactivities	226
Ryanodane diterpenes: occurrence, structural diversity, bioactivities, and synthesis	220
Contents list	188
Harnessing microbial co-culture to increase the production of known secondary metabolites	161
The golden decade of eburnamine–vincamine alkaloid synthesis: 2015 to present	116
The molecular complexity of terpene biosynthesis in red algae: current state and future perspectives	114
Syntheses of furan natural products	113
Recent advances in the synthesis of insect pheromones: an overview from 2013 to 2022	91
Privileged natural product compound classes for anti-inflammatory drug development	82
Medicinal plant resin natural products: structural diversity and biological activities	79
Estimating the extent of adulteration of the popular herbs black cohosh, echinacea, elder berry, ginkgo, and turmeric – its challenges and limitations	79
The pearl jubilee of microcin J25: thirty years of research on an exceptional lasso peptide	75
Introduction to engineering the biosynthesis of fungal natural products	72
Discovery, bioactivity and biosynthesis of fungal piperazines	66
Inside front cover	64
Streptomyces cell-free systems for natural product discovery and engineering	64
Purine nucleoside antibiotics: recent synthetic advances harnessing chemistry and biology	63
Recent advances in the total synthesis of galantamine, a natural medicine for Alzheimer's disease	61
Unusually cyclized triterpenoids: occurrence, biosynthesis and chemical synthesis	60
Photo-/electro-chemical catalysis: a promising toolkit for late-stage functionalization of alkene-containing natural products	59
Toward a unified pipeline for natural product discovery: tools and strategies for NRPS and PKS pathway exploration and engineering	58
Front cover	57
Marine indole alkaloid diversity and bioactivity. What do we know and what are we missing?	57
Recent advances in the biosynthetic studies of bacterial organoarsenic natural products	56
Chemistry, bioactivity, biosynthesis, and total synthesis of stemmadenine alkaloids	56

Charting the path for l -tyrosine derivatives: from engineering strategies to microbial cell factories	56
Maleidride biosynthesis – construction of dimeric anhydrides – more than just heads or tails	52
Enzymatic ester bond formation strategies in fungal macrolide skeletons	52
Contents list	52
Inside front cover	51
Highlights of cyanobacterial metabolites reported between 2021–2024	51
Marine natural products	49
Natural nematicidal metabolites and advances in their biocontrol capacity on plant parasitic nematodes	47
Prenylated bacterial natural products: occurrence, chemical diversity, biosynthesis and bioactivity	47
Streptomyces as a versatile host platform for heterologous production of microbial natural products	47
Back cover	46
Contents list	45
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Editorial: Microbial host and metabolic engineering for natural product discovery and production	44
Biosynthesis of fungal terpenoids	44
Recent advances in decoding biosynthetic pathways and synthetic biology approaches for plant alkaloids	43
The role of Caenorhabditis elegans in the discovery of natural products for healthy aging	42
Synthetic-bioinformatic natural product-inspired peptides	42
Front cover	42
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Contents list	40
Subterranean marvels: microbial communities in caves and underground mines and their promise for natural product discovery	40
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Hot off the Press	38
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Terpene synthases and pathways in animals: enzymology and structural evolution in the biosynthesis of volatile infochemicals	37
Back cover	36
Natural products modulating interleukin-mediated pathways for anti-allergic and immunomodulatory effects	35
Contents list	35
Technological developments driving industrial natural product discovery	35
Enzymatic crosslinking of histidine side chains in peptide natural products	35
[2 + 2]-Cycloaddition-derived cyclobutane natural products: structural diversity, sources, bioactivities, and biomimetic syntheses	34
Illuminating the dark space of bioactive peptides with mass spectrometry	34
SAM is not the SAM(e): diastereomers of an important cofactor	34
From gene discovery to synthetic biology: recent advances in the biosynthesis of oleanane-type pentacyclic triterpenoids	34
Labelling studies in the biosynthesis of polyketides and non-ribosomal peptides	33
Front cover	32
From botanical origins to modern laboratories: 50 year journey in protoberberine alkaloid total synthesis	30
Brief overview of recently reported misassigned natural products and their in silico revisions enabled by DU8ML, a machine learning-augmented DFT computa	30
Advances in the total synthesis of bis- and tris-indole alkaloids containing N-heterocyclic linker moieties	30
Contents list	29
Hot off the Press	28
AI and mechanistic modeling for characterizing biosynthetic pathways of natural products	28
Back cover	27
Biosynthesis of invertebrate-derived natural products: an uncharted territory	26
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Contents list	26

Engineering the biosynthesis of fungal nonribosomal peptides	26
Metabolism and bioavailability aspects of natural products of plant origin using mass spectrometry-based and metabolomic approaches	26
Biosynthesis of indole diterpenes: a reconstitution approach in a heterologous host	25
Recent advances in the strategic use of multiple enzymatic transformations in the total synthesis of natural products	25
Front cover	25
Recent advances in oxidative phenol coupling for the total synthesis of natural products	25
Structure-based engineering of α-ketoglutarate dependent oxygenases in fungal meroterpenoid biosynthesis	25
Epigenetic regulation of plant specialized metabolism: anthocyanin biosynthesis as a histone acetylation paradigm	25
Chemistry, biosynthesis and biology of floral volatiles: roles in pollination and other functions	24
The shikimate pathway: gateway to metabolic diversity	24
Production of high molecular-ordered stilbene oligomers for the study of their biological activity: total synthesis, bio-catalyzed synthesis and production by plant systems	23
Vallesamidine and schizozygane alkaloids: rearranged monoterpene indole alkaloids and synthetic endeavours	23
Semi-synthesis in the exploration of opioid-targeting natural products	23
The elansolids: how nature shows chemists how to tame p -quinone methide	23
Structural enzymology of iterative type I polyketide synthases: various routes to catalytic programming	23
Natural products as anthelmintics: safeguarding animal health	23
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Microbial engineering for natural and unnatural glycosaminoglycans biosynthesis	22
Anthrol reductases: discovery, role in biosynthesis and applications in natural product syntheses	22
Asymmetric synthesis of 3,3-disubstituted oxindoles: methodologies and applications in natural product synthesis	21
Modular polyketide synthase-derived insecticidal agents: from biosynthesis and metabolic engineering to combinatorial biosynthesis for their production	21
Connecting metabolome and phenotype: recent advances in functional metabolomics tools for the identification of bioactive natural products	21
Bacterial cyclophane-containing RiPPs from radical SAM enzymes	21
Strategies and tactics for the synthesis of lipid I and II and shortened analogues: functional building blocks of bacterial cell wall biosynthesis	20
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Warfare under the waves: a review of bacteria-derived algaecidal natural products	20
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Unlocking the metabolic potential of endophytic fungi through epigenetics: a paradigm shift for natural product discovery and plant–microbe interactions	19
High-throughput assays for SAM-dependent methyltransferases: advances, challenges, and future perspectives	19
Recent advances in total synthesis of protoberberine and chiral tetrahydroberberine alkaloids	19
Contents list	19
Analytical methods for the analysis of volatile natural products	18
Hot off the Press	18
Unlocking marine treasures: isolation and mining strategies of natural products from sponge-associated bacteria	18
S -Adenosylmethionine: considerations on its role in the origin and evolution of life	18
The chemical and biological properties of natural resorcylic acid lactones	18
The action of phytochemicals in biofilm control	18
Advances, opportunities, and challenges in methods for interrogating the structure activity relationships of natural products	17
Back cover	17
Intramolecular cycloaddition of nitrones in total synthesis of natural products	17
Contents list	17
Opportunities and challenges of RiPP-based therapeutics	17
A novel class of oligoarylamide antibiotics defined by albicidins and cystobactamids	17
Therapeutic vulnerabilities of cancer stem cells and effects of natural products	17
The development of Burkholderia bacteria as heterologous hosts	17