OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Corrigendum to “Shedding light on complexity of protein–protein interactions in cancer” [Curr Opin Chem Biol 53 (2019) 75-81]	187
Small-molecule modulators of protein–RNA interactions	121
Fluorogenic polymethine dyes by intramolecular cyclization	107
Glycoengineering in antigen-specific immunotherapies	98
Recent advances in the structural analysis of adenylation domains in natural product biosynthesis	85
Engineered metallobiocatalysts for energy–relevant reactions	85
Peptide-based molecules for the disruption of bacterial Hsp70 chaperones	83
Imaging of proteases using activity-based probes	74
Glycosidase mechanisms: Sugar conformations and reactivity in endo- and exo-acting enzymes	69
Blurred lines: Crossing the boundaries between the chemical exposome and the metabolome	67
Synthetic transporters for oxoanions	66
Caged lipid probes for controlling lipid levels on subcellular scales	60
Site-specific bioconjugation and nuclear imaging	57
Extendable and explainable deep learning for pan-cancer radiogenomics research	55
Accessing and exploring the unusual chemistry by radical SAM-RiPP enzymes	54
New strategies for fluorescently labeling proteins in the study of amyloids	54
Recent advances in methods for quantifying the cell penetration of macromolecules	53
The Ramifications of synthetic biology	53
Characteristics of genetic tags for correlative light and electron microscopy	50
Activity-based protein profiling in microbes and the gut microbiome	49
Chemical inhibitors of transcription-associated kinases	48
Chemistry and biology of enzymes in protein glutathionylation	47
Past, present, and perspectives of protein N-terminal methylation	47
Multinuclear non-heme iron dependent oxidative enzymes (MNIOs) involved in unusual peptide modifications	44
Chemical probes for tagging mycobacterial lipids	42

Chemo- and opto-genetic tools for dissecting the role of membrane contact sites in living cells: Recent advances and limitations	42
Critical considerations in N-glycoproteomics	42
Selenium vitaminology: The connection between selenium, vitamin C, vitamin E, and ergothioneine	41
Genetically encoded fluorescent sensors for metals in biology	38
Highlighting the roles of transition metals and speciation in chemical biology	37
From the forest floor to the lab: Insights into the diversity and complexity of mushroom polyketide synthases	36
Chemical engineering of bacterial effectors for regulating cell signaling and responses	36
Advances in the understanding and exploitation of carbohydrate-active enzymes	36
Network biology bridges the gaps between quantitative genetics and multi-omics to map complex diseases	36
Opportunity knocks for uncovering the new function of an understudied nucleosome remodeling complex member, the bromodomain PHD finger transcription factor, BPTF	35
Understanding and controlling amyloid aggregation with chirality	35
Editorial Board	35
Editorial Board	35