OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science is 35. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Pickering emulsions: Versatility of colloidal particles and recent applications	243
Sustainable food-grade Pickering emulsions stabilized by plant-based particles	206
Hydrogel design strategies for drug delivery	166
Biosurfactants: Formulations, properties, and applications	159
A technical review of face mask wearing in preventing respiratory COVID-19 transmission	148
Coacervates as models of membraneless organelles	129
Protein–polysaccharide interactions and aggregates in food formulations	108
Recent developments in food foams	89
Contact angle hysteresis	78
Generation and stability of bulk nanobubbles: A review and perspective	67
Impact of compound drops: a perspective	64
DNA origami nanostructures for controlled therapeutic drug delivery	54
Recent advances in biodegradable matrices for active ingredient release in crop protection: Towards attaining sustainability in agriculture	54
Recent breakthroughs of antibacterial and antiviral protective polymeric materials during COVID-19 pandemic and after pandemic: Coating, packaging, and textile applications	54
Stability of surface and bulk nanobubbles	53
Bulk nanobubbles, generation methods and potential applications	53
Recent advances of non-lamellar lyotropic liquid crystalline nanoparticles in nanomedicine	52
Thin liquid films: Where hydrodynamics, capillarity, surface stresses and intermolecular forces meet	52
Physicochemical control of foam properties	47
Can coacervation unify disparate hypotheses in the origin of cellular life?	47
Stimuli-responsive liquid foams: From design to applications	46
Interfacial behavior of plant proteins — novel sources and extraction methods	46
Equilibrium and kinetically trapped aggregates in polyelectrolyte–oppositely charged surfactant mixtures	45
The viability of SARS-CoV-2 on solid surfaces	45
Trends in biosensing platforms for SARS-CoV-2 detection: A critical appraisal against standard detection tools	45

Bursting microbubbles: How nanobubble contrast agents can enable the future of medical ultrasound molecular imaging and image-guided therapy	45
Techno-functional properties of edible insect proteins and effects of processing	43
Water-in-salt electrolytes: An interfacial perspective	42
Electrochemical interfaces for chemical and biomolecular separations	40
Biosurfactants: Opportunities for the development of a sustainable future	38
Airborne virus transmission via respiratory droplets: Effects of droplet evaporation and sedimentation	38
Importance of weak interactions in the formulation of organic phases for efficient liquid/liquid extraction of metals	36
Role of molecular architecture in the modulation of hydrophobic interactions	36
Engineering oral delivery of hydrophobic bioactives in real-world scenarios	35
Surfactant-mediated wetting and spreading: Recent advances and applications	35
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	35
Recent development in food emulsion stabilized by plant-based cellulose nanoparticles	35