OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Biotechnology is 46. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The potential of remote sensing and artificial intelligence as tools to improve the resilience of agriculture production systems	219
Enhancing phytoremediation of soils polluted with heavy metals	172
Principles for designing an optimal mRNA lipid nanoparticle vaccine	136
Large-scale production of enzymes for biotechnology uses	97
Enhancing phage therapy through synthetic biology and genome engineering	94
Metagenomic tools in microbial ecology research	90
The future of phage biocontrol in integrated plant protection for sustainable crop production	90
Unlocking the next generation of phage therapy: the key is in the receptors	88
Overview of dietary assessment methods for measuring intakes of foods, beverages, and dietary supplements in research studies	83
Marine collagen scaffolds in tissue engineering	82
Microbial production of polyunsaturated fatty acids — high-value ingredients for aquafeed, superfoods, and pharmaceuticals	77
Technoeconomic analysis for biofuels and bioproducts	76
Microalgae based production of single-cell protein	75
The role of single cell protein in cellular agriculture	75
Advances in microphysiological blood-brain barrier (BBB) models towards drug delivery	74
Formate dehydrogenases for CO2 utilization	73
Glutathione and its precursors in cancer	71
New-to-nature chemistry from old protein machinery: carbene and nitrene transferases	69
Implantable brain machine interfaces: first-in-human studies, technology challenges and trends	68
Single-cell metabolomics: where are we and where are we going?	68
The plant microbiota: composition, functions, and engineering	66
Applications of artificial intelligence to enzyme and pathway design for metabolic engineering	66
Recent advances in understanding the ecophysiology of enhanced biological phosphorus removal	65
Synthetic co-cultures: novel avenues for bio-based processes	65
Chain elongators, friends, and foes	65

Circadian rhythms and meal timing: impact on energy balance and body weight	64
Transcription factor-based biosensors: a molecular-guided approach for natural product engineering	63
Unraveling the mechanobiology of immune cells	62
Fermented food products in the era of globalization: tradition meets biotechnology innovations	60
Vascularization in skin wound healing: where do we stand and where do we go?	59
Carbonic anhydrase for CO2 capture, conversion and utilization	58
Bacteriophage endolysins — extending their application to tissues and the bloodstream	58
Contemporary aquaculture: implications for human nutrition	57
Reprogramming bacteriophage host range: design principles and strategies for engineering receptor binding proteins	56
Machine learning to navigate fitness landscapes for protein engineering	56
Conquering CRISPR: how phages overcome bacterial adaptive immunity	55
Application of nanotechnology in medical diagnosis and imaging	54
Toward sustainable, cell-free biomanufacturing	52
Enzyme evolution for industrial biocatalytic cascades	51
The limitless applications of single-cell metabolomics	51
Recent advances in heterologous expression of natural product biosynthetic gene clusters in Streptomyces hosts	50
RNAs — a new frontier in crop protection	49
Engineering of new-to-nature ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide natural products	49
Engineering nanoparticulate vaccines for enhancing antigen cross-presentation	48
Transporter engineering in microbial cell factories: the ins, the outs, and the in-betweens	48
Lysins breaking down the walls of Gram-negative bacteria, no longer a no-go	48
Targeting biofilms using phages and their enzymes	46