OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Biochemical Sciences is 48. 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
Biomolecular Condensates in the Nucleus	294
Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Mitophagy in Parkinson’s Disease: From Mechanism to Therapy	279
FUS and TDP-43 Phases in Health and Disease	170
The NLRP3 inflammasome: activation and regulation	145
Hippo Signaling in Embryogenesis and Development	143
Cell entry by SARS-CoV-2	128
Autophagy Assays for Biological Discovery and Therapeutic Development	123
G-Quadruplexes in RNA Biology: Recent Advances and Future Directions	119
Single-Cell Proteomics	112
Origins and evolving functionalities of tRNA-derived small RNAs	101
YAP and TAZ Are Not Identical Twins	100
The lysosome as a master regulator of iron metabolism	99
Coordinating gene expression during the cell cycle	98
Structural Designs and Mechanogating Mechanisms of the Mechanosensitive Piezo Channels	97
Discovering riboswitches: the past and the future	94
How Lysosomes Sense, Integrate, and Cope with Stress	91
ADAR RNA Modifications, the Epitranscriptome and Innate Immunity	87
ER-Phagy, ER Homeostasis, and ER Quality Control: Implications for Disease	82
Extracellular miRNAs and Cell–Cell Communication: Problems and Prospects	81
Beyond Autophagy: The Expanding Roles of ATG8 Proteins	79
Mechanisms of Long Noncoding RNA Nuclear Retention	72
Circular RNAs in Immune Response and Viral Infection	70
One Ring to Rule them All? Structural and Functional Diversity in the Nuclear Pore Complex	70
Histone Tail Conformations: A Fuzzy Affair with DNA	69
Rapid Detection and Signaling of DNA Damage by PARP-1	68

The Retromer Complex: From Genesis to Revelations	68
Chromatin Regulation through Ubiquitin and Ubiquitin-like Histone Modifications	67
Direct Structural Insights into GABAA Receptor Pharmacology	66
How do plants feel the heat and survive?	64
Structural and Biophysical Mechanisms of Class C G Protein-Coupled Receptor Function	62
Translational control through ribosome heterogeneity and functional specialization	61
A Chain of Events: Regulating Target Proteins by SUMO Polymers	61
Biomolecular Condensates and Their Links to Cancer Progression	61
Molecular mechanisms of heat shock factor 1 regulation	60
Protein N-Terminal Acetylation: Structural Basis, Mechanism, Versatility, and Regulation	59
News about amino acid metabolism in plant–microbe interactions	58
Mitochondrial DNA: cellular genotoxic stress sentinel	58
Regulation of Autophagy Enzymes by Nutrient Signaling	57
Mitochondrial-to-nuclear communication in aging: an epigenetic perspective	57
Molecular Determinants of Flavivirus Virion Assembly	54
Drug discovery in the era of cryo-electron microscopy	53
The CYTOLD and ERTOLD pathways for lipid droplet–protein targeting	52
Assembly and function of branched ubiquitin chains	51
Detecting and Rescuing Stalled Ribosomes	51
Revisiting Extracellular RNA Release, Processing, and Function	50
Canary in a coal mine: collided ribosomes as sensors of cellular conditions	50
A Tour of TOR Complex Signaling in Plants	50
Nonredundant Roles of GRASP55 and GRASP65 in the Golgi Apparatus and Beyond	49
The Mediator kinase module: an interface between cell signaling and transcription	48