OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science is 37. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Pickering emulsions: Versatility of colloidal particles and recent applications	297
Sustainable food-grade Pickering emulsions stabilized by plant-based particles	246
A technical review of face mask wearing in preventing respiratory COVID-19 transmission	161
Coacervates as models of membraneless organelles	158
Contact angle hysteresis	125
Recent developments in food foams	111
Generation and stability of bulk nanobubbles: A review and perspective	87
Stability of surface and bulk nanobubbles	75
Bulk nanobubbles, generation methods and potential applications	74
Impact of compound drops: a perspective	72
Physicochemical control of foam properties	69
Thin liquid films: Where hydrodynamics, capillarity, surface stresses and intermolecular forces meet	67
Can coacervation unify disparate hypotheses in the origin of cellular life?	64
DNA origami nanostructures for controlled therapeutic drug delivery	63
Recent breakthroughs of antibacterial and antiviral protective polymeric materials during COVID-19 pandemic and after pandemic: Coating, packaging, and textile applications	62
Techno-functional properties of edible insect proteins and effects of processing	59
Interfacial behavior of plant proteins — novel sources and extraction methods	59
Stimuli-responsive liquid foams: From design to applications	57
Bursting microbubbles: How nanobubble contrast agents can enable the future of medical ultrasound molecular imaging and image-guided therapy	56
The viability of SARS-CoV-2 on solid surfaces	50
Trends in biosensing platforms for SARS-CoV-2 detection: A critical appraisal against standard detection tools	46
Current knowledge on the interfacial behaviour limits our understanding of plant protein functionality in emulsions	46
Recent development in food emulsion stabilized by plant-based cellulose nanoparticles	45
Biosurfactants: Opportunities for the development of a sustainable future	45
The intertwined physics of active chemical reactions and phase separation	44

Polyampholyte physics: Liquid–liquid phase separation and biological condensates	43
High internal phase Pickering emulsions	42
Airborne virus transmission via respiratory droplets: Effects of droplet evaporation and sedimentation	41
Differentiating bulk nanobubbles from nanodroplets and nanoparticles	41
Inverting structures: from micelles via emulsions to internally self-assembled water and oil continuous nanocarriers	41
Recent advances in surface-active ionic liquid-assisted self-assembly systems for drug delivery	40
Nanobubbles for therapeutic delivery: Production, stability and current prospects	40
Exogenous pulmonary surfactant: A review focused on adjunctive therapy for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 including SP-A and SP-D as added clinical marker	39
Surfactants – Compounds for inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 and other enveloped viruses	39
Zooming in on the role of surfactants in droplet coalescence at the macroscale and microscale	39
Surfactant-mediated wetting and spreading: Recent advances and applications	38
Nanoplastics: From model materials to colloidal fate	38
Molecular determinants of protein-based coacervates	37
Polyethylene glycol as a green chemical solvent	37