OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Chemical Society Reviews is 175. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-12-01 to 2023-12-01.)

Article	Citations
A review on fundamentals for designing oxygen evolution electrocatalysts	1315
Guidelines and trends for next-generation rechargeable lithium and lithium-ion batteries	1212
MOF-derived electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction, oxygen evolution and hydrogen evolution reactions	1055
Functional metal–organic frameworks as effective sensors of gases and volatile compounds	713
Covalent organic frameworks for separation applications	710
Materials chemistry for rechargeable zinc-ion batteries	689
Synthesis of micro/nanoscaled metal–organic frameworks and their direct electrochemical applications	645
Covalent organic framework photocatalysts: structures and applications	571
Synthetic ratiometric fluorescent probes for detection of ions	562
Metallic nanostructures with low dimensionality for electrochemical water splitting	549
Atomic site electrocatalysts for water splitting, oxygen reduction and selective oxidation	544
Bulk COFs and COF nanosheets for electrochemical energy storage and conversion	543
Industrial carbon dioxide capture and utilization: state of the art and future challenges	537
State of the art and perspectives in heterogeneous catalysis of CO₂ hydrogenation to methanol	532
Transition metal nitrides for electrochemical energy applications	516
Recent advances in circularly polarized electroluminescence based on organic light-emitting diodes	512
Recent catalytic routes for the preparation and the upgrading of biomass derived furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural	503
Multifunctional sonosensitizers in sonodynamic cancer therapy	490
Electrocatalysis for CO₂conversion: from fundamentals to value-added products	485
Voltage issue of aqueous rechargeable metal-ion batteries	483
Recent progress in photosensitizers for overcoming the challenges of photodynamic therapy: from molecular design to application	481
Supramolecular materials based on AIE luminogens (AIEgens): construction and applications	463
Second near-infrared photothermal materials for combinational nanotheranostics	455
Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based small-molecule sensors and imaging agents	454
The unique features and promises of phthalocyanines as advanced photosensitisers for photodynamic therapy of cancer	452

Catechol-functionalized hydrogels: biomimetic design, adhesion mechanism, and biomedical applications	451
Single-atom catalysis in advanced oxidation processes for environmental remediation	449
Electrocatalysis as an enabling technology for organic synthesis	447
Design and applications of three dimensional covalent organic frameworks	442
Towards practical lithium-metal anodes	428
Core–shell structured catalysts for thermocatalytic, photocatalytic, and electrocatalytic conversion of CO₂	426
Emerging trends in porous materials for CO₂capture and conversion	424
Recent advances in copper-catalysed radical-involved asymmetric 1,2-difunctionalization of alkenes	418
Atomically dispersed metal–nitrogen–carbon catalysts for fuel cells: advances in catalyst design, electrode performance, and durability improvement	415
Coordinatively unsaturated metal sites (open metal sites) in metal–organic frameworks: design and applications	412
Electrochemical glucose sensors in diabetes management: an updated review (2010–2020)	410
Covalent organic frameworks: an ideal platform for designing ordered materials and advanced applications	409
Emerging 2D MXenes for supercapacitors: status, challenges and prospects	405
Non-precious-metal catalysts for alkaline water electrolysis: operando characterizations, theoretical calculations, and recent advances	400
A review of composite solid-state electrolytes for lithium batteries: fundamentals, key materials and advanced structures	390
Recent advances in activating surface reconstruction for the high-efficiency oxygen evolution reaction	388
Nitrate electroreduction: mechanism insight, in situ characterization, performance evaluation, and challenges	386
Gas hydrates in sustainable chemistry	384
Emerging combination strategies with phototherapy in cancer nanomedicine	381
QSAR without borders	381
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for electrochemical applications	373
Atomically precise alloy nanoclusters: syntheses, structures, and properties	372
Polyanion-type cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries	362
New synthetic strategies toward covalent organic frameworks	355
Nanoporous carbon for electrochemical capacitive energy storage	354
Metal-free photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution	350
Recent progress of zero-dimensional luminescent metal halides	347
Design of superior phototheranostic agents guided by Jablonski diagrams	346
Recent advances of noble-metal-free bifunctional oxygen reduction and evolution electrocatalysts	335
Energy-efficient separation alternatives: metal–organic frameworks and membranes for hydrocarbon separation	331
Photocatalytic transformations of lignocellulosic biomass into chemicals	330
Understanding nanoparticle endocytosis to improve targeting strategies in nanomedicine	330
Understanding of perovskite crystal growth and film formation in scalable deposition processes	329
MXene hydrogels: fundamentals and applications	328
Recent progress in hot exciton materials for organic light-emitting diodes	323
High-voltage liquid electrolytes for Li batteries: progress and perspectives	322
Towards commercialization: the operational stability of perovskite solar cells	322
A historical overview of the activation and porosity of metal–organic frameworks	322
Towards high-performance solid-state Li–S batteries: from fundamental understanding to engineering design	310
Mussel-inspired hydrogels: from design principles to promising applications	309
Water electrolysis: from textbook knowledge to the latest scientific strategies and industrial developments	309
Advances in metal–organic framework coatings: versatile synthesis and broad applications	305
High temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells: progress in advanced materials and key technologies	304
Half a century of amyloids: past, present and future	300
Recent advances in persistent luminescence based on molecular hybrid materials	300
Propane dehydrogenation: catalyst development, new chemistry, and emerging technologies	298
A review on energy chemistry of fast-charging anodes	294
Assembly strategies of organic-based imaging agents for fluorescence and photoacoustic bioimaging applications	294
Fundamentals and applications of photo-thermal catalysis	294
Acceptor–donor–acceptor type molecules for high performance organic photovoltaics – chemistry and mechanism	294

Metal–organic frameworks and their derivatives as electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction	293
Robust superhydrophobicity: mechanisms and strategies	282
Recent progress, challenges, and prospects of fully integrated mobile and wearable point-of-care testing systems for self-testing	280
Regulating electrodeposition morphology of lithium: towards commercially relevant secondary Li metal batteries	280
Emerging photothermal-derived multimodal synergistic therapy in combating bacterial infections	279
Engineering nanomedicine for glutathione depletion-augmented cancer therapy	278
Layered double hydroxide-based electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction: identification and tailoring of active sites, and superaerophobic nanoarray electrode assembly	276
Downstream processing of lignin derived feedstock into end products	275
A comparative perspective of electrochemical and photochemical approaches for catalytic H₂O₂ production	275
Transition metal-based catalysts for the electrochemical CO₂reduction: from atoms and molecules to nanostructured materials	274
Self-assembly of block copolymers towards mesoporous materials for energy storage and conversion systems	272
Metal–organic frameworks as photoluminescent biosensing platforms: mechanisms and applications	271
Solving the COF trilemma: towards crystalline, stable and functional covalent organic frameworks	268
Two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks with hierarchical porosity	262
A review of defect structure and chemistry in ceria and its solid solutions	258
Recent developments in the construction and applications of platinum-based metallacycles and metallacagesviacoordination	254
Synthesis, optoelectronic properties and applications of halide perovskites	253
Hybrid polyoxometalates as post-functionalization platforms: from fundamentals to emerging applications	253
Materials chemistry and engineering in metal halide perovskite lasers	249
Photocatalytic CO₂ conversion: What can we learn from conventional CO_x hydrogenation?	246
Doping and ion substitution in colloidal metal halide perovskite nanocrystals	243
Recent progress on donor and donor–donor carbenes	243
Nanomechanical mapping of soft materials with the atomic force microscope: methods, theory and applications	240
Intermolecular radical carboamination of alkenes	240
Developing high safety Li-metal anodes for future high-energy Li-metal batteries: strategies and perspectives	239
The versatile biomedical applications of bismuth-based nanoparticles and composites: therapeutic, diagnostic, biosensing, and regenerative properties	239
Chemiluminescence for bioimaging and therapeutics: recent advances and challenges	236
Electrocatalytic reduction of nitrate – a step towards a sustainable nitrogen cycle	236
Two-dimensional materials in biomedical, biosensing and sensing applications	236
Optoelectronic processes in covalent organic frameworks	233
Stimuli-responsive polydopamine-based smart materials	233
Covalent organic framework nanosheets: preparation, properties and applications	231
Visible light-promoted reactions with diazo compounds: a mild and practical strategy towards free carbene intermediates	231
Supramolecular cancer nanotheranostics	231
Bioapplications of small molecule Aza-BODIPY: from rational structural design toin vivoinvestigations	231
Organic solid-state lasers: a materials view and future development	229
Inorganic nanomaterials with rapid clearance for biomedical applications	229
The recent progress on metal–organic frameworks for phototherapy	227
Metallenes as functional materials in electrocatalysis	227
Chiral phosphoric acid-catalyzed asymmetric dearomatization reactions	227
Recent advances in solid-contact ion-selective electrodes: functional materials, transduction mechanisms, and development trends	226
Fabrication of desalination membranes by interfacial polymerization: history, current efforts, and future directions	223
Rare-earth metal–organic frameworks: from structure to applications	222
Dielectric polymers for high-temperature capacitive energy storage	222
Porphyrin-based frameworks for oxygen electrocatalysis and catalytic reduction of carbon dioxide	221
Two-dimensional nanochannel membranes for molecular and ionic separations	220
Electrocatalytic reduction of CO₂ and CO to multi-carbon compounds over Cu-based catalysts	218
Carbon materials for ion-intercalation involved rechargeable battery technologies	217
Tools and strategies of systems metabolic engineering for the development of microbial cell factories for chemical production	216
Catalytic reductive aminations using molecular hydrogen for synthesis of different kinds of amines	216
Recent advances and perspectives for solar-driven water splitting using particulate photocatalysts	216
Photophysics and photochemistry with Earth-abundant metals – fundamentals and concepts	215
Poly(ionic liquid) composites	215
Molecular and nanoengineering approaches towards activatable cancer immunotherapy	215
Electrochemically active sites inside crystalline porous materials for energy storage and conversion	214
Organic photodiodes and phototransistors toward infrared detection: materials, devices, and applications	212
Overcoming barriers in photodynamic therapy harnessing nano-formulation strategies	212
Organic field-effect transistor-based flexible sensors	211
Asymmetric synthesis of allylic compoundsviahydrofunctionalisation and difunctionalisation of dienes, allenes, and alkynes	210
Two-dimensional conjugated metal–organic frameworks (2D c-MOFs): chemistry and function for MOFtronics	209
Emerging new phase boundary in potassium sodium-niobate based ceramics	209
The luminescent and photophysical properties of covalent organic frameworks	208
Molecular catalysis of CO₂ reduction: recent advances and perspectives in electrochemical and light-driven processes with selected Fe, Ni and Co aza macrocyclic and polypyridine complexes	208
Visible light photocatalysis in the late-stage functionalization of pharmaceutically relevant compounds	208
Emerging aqueous two-phase systems: from fundamentals of interfaces to biomedical applications	208
Doping regulation in transition metal compounds for electrocatalysis	207
Theoretical insights into single-atom catalysts	206
Catalyst–electrolyte interface chemistry for electrochemical CO₂ reduction	205
Fluorescence imaging of pathophysiological microenvironments	204
Fundamentals and challenges of ultrathin 2D photocatalysts in boosting CO₂ photoreduction	203
Dye-sensitized solar cells strike back	202
Small molecule based fluorescent chemosensors for imaging the microenvironment within specific cellular regions	201
Mechanochemical tools for polymer materials	197
Stretchable electrochemical energy storage devices	197
Supramolecular chiroptical switches	196
Printed gas sensors	190
Gas diffusion electrode design for electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction	190
Asymmetric organocatalysis: an enabling technology for medicinal chemistry	189
Advanced biotechnology-assisted precise sonodynamic therapy	189
Rare-earth-containing perovskite nanomaterials: design, synthesis, properties and applications	189

Life and death of liquid-infused surfaces: a review on the choice, analysis and fate of the infused liquid layer	187
From colloidal particles to photonic crystals: advances in self-assembly and their emerging applications	187
Single-atom alloy catalysts: structural analysis, electronic properties and catalytic activities	186
Ionic liquid lubricants: when chemistry meets tribology	185
Designing flexible, smart and self-sustainable supercapacitors for portable/wearable electronics: from conductive polymers	185
Chiral covalent organic frameworks: design, synthesis and property	184
Site-selective modification strategies in antibody–drug conjugates	183
Stable abnormal N-heterocyclic carbenes and their applications	182
2D graphdiyne: an emerging carbon material	182
Chemically modified and conjugated antimicrobial peptides against superbugs	182
Recent advances in electrochemical oxidative cross-coupling with hydrogen evolution involving radicals	182
Organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) compounds used in photocatalysis	180
Twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) and twists beyond TICT: from mechanisms to rational designs of bright and sensitive fluorophores	180
Polyoxometalates in solution: speciation under spotlight	180
Stimuli responsive dynamic transformations in supramolecular gels	176
Controlling the morphology of metal–organic frameworks and porous carbon materials: metal oxides as primary architecture-directing agents	176
Polymer-guided assembly of inorganic nanoparticles	176
Radical trifluoromethylation	175
Recent developments of nanocatalyzed liquid-phase hydrogen generation	175
Transition-metal mediated carbon–sulfur bond activation and transformations: an update	175
Chemical doping of organic semiconductors for thermoelectric applications	175