OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Structural Biology is 44. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Raman spectroscopy and imaging of protein droplet formation and aggregation	177
How molecular modelling can better broaden the understanding of glycosylations	172
Mutational fitness landscape and drug resistance	132
Editorial	126
Computer-aided drug design, quantum-mechanical methods for biological problems	123
In silico reconstitution of DNA replication. Lessons from single-molecule imaging and cryo-tomography applied to single-particle cryo-EM	113
Catalysis and structure of nitrogenases	104
Pump-like channelrhodopsins: Not just bridging the gap between ion pumps and ion channels	95
Access and utilization of long chain fatty acyl-CoA by zDHHC protein acyltransferases	93
Advancing biomolecular simulation through exascale HPC, AI and quantum computing	89
Structure-based virtual screening of vast chemical space as a starting point for drug discovery	82
Harnessing the 14-3-3 protein–protein interaction network	81
Single-point mutations in disordered proteins: Linking sequence, ensemble, and function	80
May the proton motive force be with you: A plant transporter review	79
Single-particle Cryo-EM and molecular dynamics simulations: A perfect match	78
Genome modeling: From chromatin fibers to genes	75
Editorial overview: Biophysical methods: Exploring structures in motions, from biomolecules to cells, and how to drug them	74
Implications of disease-related mutations at protein–protein interfaces	73
Modeling membranes in situ	72
Markov field models: Scaling molecular kinetics approaches to large molecular machines	72
Deep learning for intrinsically disordered proteins: From improved predictions to deciphering conformational ensembles	70
Advancing protein structure prediction beyond AlphaFold2	69
The mannose receptor ligands and the macrophage glycome	68
Mucin networks: Dynamic structural assemblies controlling mucus function	68
Principles of nucleosome recognition by chromatin factors and enzymes	66

Editorial Board	63
Dynamics and interactions of intrinsically disordered proteins	61
Inner workings of RAG recombinase and its specialization for adaptive immunity	59
Structure-based analyses of gut microbiome-related proteins by neural networks and molecular dynamics simulations	58
Mutually beneficial confluence of structure-based modeling of protein dynamics and machine learning methods	57
Molecular dynamics simulations for the study of chromatin biology	57
Gut power: Modulation of human amyloid formation by amyloidogenic proteins in the gastrointestinal tract	55
NMR tools to detect protein allostery	54
Structural insights into host–microbe glycointeractions	53
Conformational penalties: New insights into nucleic acid recognition	52
Proteins with alternative folds reveal blind spots in AlphaFold-based protein structure prediction	52
Protein dynamics underlying allosteric regulation	52
Interpretable artificial intelligence and exascale molecular dynamics simulations to reveal kinetics: Applications to Alzheimer's disease	51
Viral amyloids: New opportunities for antiviral therapeutic strategies	50
Table of contents	48
Table of contents	46
Editorial overview: Molecular determinants, mechanisms, and state-of-the-art approaches in allostery	45
Editorial Board	45
Biomolecular simulations at the exascale: From drug design to organelles and beyond	44
Structural insights into assembly of transcription preinitiation complex	44