OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology is 54. 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
Publisher Correction: Structure and activation of the RING E3 ubiquitin ligase TRIM72 on the membrane	564
Structural insights into metazoan pretargeting GET complexes	408
Transcription directionality is licensed by Integrator at active human promoters	277
The Ruminococcus bromii amylosome protein Sas6 binds single and double helical α-glucan structures in starch	261
Author Correction: Polλ promotes microhomology-mediated end-joining	203
Surviving under stress conditions	194
A novel class of inhibitors that disrupts the stability of integrin heterodimers identified by CRISPR-tiling-instructed genetic screens	172
Structure of the HCV glycoprotein	171
Endocrine resistance and breast cancer plasticity are controlled by CoREST	161
HP1 shapes embryonic genome architecture	142
Cryo-EM analysis of complement C3 reveals a reversible major opening of the macroglobulin ring	137
Uncovering protein glycosylation dynamics and heterogeneity using deep quantitative glycoprofiling (DQGlyco)	126
Celebrating Nature Structural & Molecular Biology’s 30th anniversary	119
Isoform-resolved mRNA profiling of ribosome load defines interplay of HIF and mTOR dysregulation in kidney cancer	116
30 years of structural and molecular biology and counting	114
Accessible technology for diploid high-order 3D human genome analysis	114
Alternative splicing of CARM1 regulated by LincGET-guided paraspeckles biases the first cell fate in mammalian early embryos	112
Structural basis of branching during RNA splicing	112
Snapshots of actin and tubulin folding inside the TRiC chaperonin	108
Author Correction: Structure of the human K2P13.1 channel reveals a hydrophilic pore restriction and lipid cofactor site	88
Structural basis of tRNA recognition by the m3C RNA methyltransferase METTL6 in complex with SerRS seryl-tRNA synthetase	81
Tropomyosin 1-I/C coordinates kinesin-1 and dynein motors during oskar mRNA transport	80
PARylated PDHE1α generates acetyl-CoA for local chromatin acetylation and DNA damage repair	77
Structures of aberrant spliceosome intermediates on their way to disassembly	76
Protein import into mitochondria — a new path through the membranes	76

Current challenges in understanding the role of enhancers in disease	76
Structural basis for pre-tRNA recognition and processing by the human tRNA splicing endonuclease complex	74
Fanconi anemia proteins participate in a break-induced-replication-like pathway to counter replication stress	74
Exploration of novel αβ-protein folds through de novo design	74
Dissecting the mechanism of CRISPR–Cas technologies to design efficient biotechnologies	73
Structural insights into translocation and tailored synthesis of hyaluronan	72
Tau modification by the norepinephrine metabolite DOPEGAL stimulates its pathology and propagation	72
Ensemble cryo-EM reveals conformational states of the nsp13 helicase in the SARS-CoV-2 helicase replication–transcription complex	71
Shifting our perspective on orphan G protein-coupled receptors	71
Constitutive activation mechanism of a class C GPCR	71
Reduction of DHHC5-mediated beclin 1 S-palmitoylation underlies autophagy decline in aging	70
A PKA inhibitor motif within SMOOTHENED controls Hedgehog signal transduction	69
Studying the impact of the nuclear topography on gene function	67
Binding NEMO: Liquid–liquid phase separation captures immune regulator	67
Nature, more than nurture, of epigenetic states	66
Transcription start site choice diversifies mRNA isoforms and defines cancer cell behavior	65
Author Correction: Structural basis of tRNA recognition by the m3C RNA methyltransferase METTL6 in complex with SerRS seryl-tRNA synthetase	64
MiOS, an integrated imaging and computational strategy to model gene folding with nucleosome resolution	62
Phase separation drives X-chromosome inactivation	62
Dynamic PRC1–CBX8 stabilizes a porous structure of chromatin condensates	62
Understanding ubiquitination in neurodevelopment by integrating insights across space and time	61
SCAF1 drives the compositional diversity of mammalian respirasomes	60
Structures of transcription preinitiation complex engaged with the +1 nucleosome	59
Cryogenic electron microscopy structures reveal how ATP and DNA binding in MutS coordinates sequential steps of DNA mismatch repair	58
Microtubule-binding-induced allostery triggers LIS1 dissociation from dynein prior to cargo transport	54
Telomeric 8-oxo-guanine drives rapid premature senescence in the absence of telomere shortening	54
Lineage regulators TFAP2C and NR5A2 function as bipotency activators in totipotent embryos	54
cBAF generates subnucleosomes that expand OCT4 binding and function beyond DNA motifs at enhancers	54
Cryo-EM structure of an active central apparatus	54