OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Chemistry is 75. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Not all catenanes with oriented rings are topologically chiral	453
The origin of translation	334
Finding the sweet spot for chaperone activity	316
Engineering yeast to produce plant-derived anti-obesity agent	300
Expanding the effectiveness of screening	292
Ultimate control in chemistry	213
Bite-size science	195
Analysing allostery	180
Ethics education for chemists	177
Chemical testing	168
Dissipative DNA fibres	165
A circular polyester platform based on simple gem-disubstituted valerolactones	162
Charting the ligandable proteome for stereoselective interactions	161
Heterotrimeric collagen helix with high specificity of assembly results in a rapid rate of folding	153
Enantioselective synthesis of atropisomeric indoles via iron-catalysed oxidative cross-coupling	146
Postdoc progression	139
Sulfone cross-coupling outcompetes proton transfer	138
Enantiospecific cross-coupling of cyclic alkyl sulfones	137
Repurposing of halogenated organic pollutants via alkyl bromide-catalysed transfer chlorination	130
Expanding the diversity of lithium electrolytes	125
Giving the green light	124
How many roads must a woman walk down?	121
Facing the fluctuations	121
Sweet as sucrose	119
Biosynthesis and characterization of fuscimiditide, an aspartimidylated graspetide	118

Playing Lego with perylene dyes	117
Synthesis of a glycan hairpin	117
Aluminium analogue of oxirane	115
From feedstock to pharmaceuticals	115
Pop-up rings to rule reactivity	113
Doing away with radium’s proxies	106
Signal transduction with a swing	105
Ion-pair reorganization regulates reactivity in photoredox catalysts	101
A handle on charge reorganization	100
Reversing the charge of lysine by genetic code expansion	99
Rings of power	98
Baird’s rules at the tipping point	97
Using symmetry to drive new protein assemblies	96
How synonymous mutations alter enzyme structure and function over long timescales	96
Phase-separation behaviour of RNAs	96
Plot twist in the iron spin saga	95
Stereoretentive enantioconvergent reactions	94
Fast track to structural biology	94
Nanomachines built from multiple components can have functional advantages	93
A near-linear lanthanide complex that displays magnet-like behaviour	92
Fullerenes promote transition-metal-catalysed ammonia synthesis	91
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H2 and N2 activation for ammonia synthesis	90
Chemoproteomic profiling unveils binding and functional diversity of endogenous proteins that interact with endogenous triplex DNA	90
Looking into the future of hybrid glasses	90
Spatiotemporal functional assembly of split protein pairs through a light-activated SpyLigation	89
Ultrafast proton-coupled isomerization in the phototransformation of phytochrome	89
Building enzymes from scratch	89
C–H···π interactions disrupt electrostatic interactions between non-aqueous electrolytes to increase solubility	89
A 21-electron cobalt sandwich	87
An interfacial role for NO2	86
Hydrogen splitting at a single phosphorus centre and its use for hydrogenation	85
Single-electron transfer between sulfonium and tryptophan enables site-selective photo crosslinking of methyllysine reader proteins	83
Keeping COFs in the loop	82
Formylation boosts the performance of light-driven overcrowded alkene-derived rotary molecular motors	82
Sorting sub-150-nm liposomes of distinct sizes by DNA-brick-assisted centrifugation	82
Copper-catalysed asymmetric hydroboration of alkenes with 1,2-benzazaborines to access chiral naphthalene isosteres	82
Probing precipitation properties	81
Decentring the central science	81
An air- and moisture-stable ruthenium precatalyst for diverse reactivity	80
Comparing notes	80
A para- to meta-isomerization of phenols	80
Alkynes fuel free carbene formation	79
A molecular sandwich with a lithium–aluminium filling	79
Tectonic shifts in framework chemistry	78
Back-to-back cycloadditions in nature	78
Activity-based directed evolution of a membrane editor in mammalian cells	77
Colouring by force	77
Different timescales during ultrafast stilbene isomerization in the gas and liquid phases revealed using time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy	77
Heteromultivalency enables enhanced detection of nucleic acid mutations	76
Co-precipitation behaviour of single atoms of rutherfordium in basic solutions	75

Stabilizing Au2+ in a mixed-valence 3D halide perovskite	75
Tunable valence tautomerism in lanthanide–organic alloys	75