OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Chemistry is 85. 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
Enantiospecific cross-coupling of cyclic alkyl sulfones	526
A near-linear lanthanide complex that displays magnet-like behaviour	378
Not all catenanes with oriented rings are topologically chiral	376
Eric the AI research assistant for chemists	338
General strategy for the synthesis of N-monofluoromethyl amides	325
Supramolecular crystals for hydrogen storage	246
Using symmetry to drive new protein assemblies	228
Mass spectrometry captures biased signalling and allosteric modulation of a G-protein-coupled receptor	220
Excited-state intermediates in a designer protein encoding a phototrigger caught by an X-ray free-electron laser	208
Pop-up rings to rule reactivity	205
The origin of translation	198
Digital skills in chemical education	196
DNA catch bonds demonstrate the art of getting stuck	187
Author Correction: Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution	180
In situ nonlinear optical spectroscopy for probing buried oxide–water interfaces	174
Protons undermine lithium-ion batteries with positively disastrous results	171
Corrole and squeezed coordination	160
A metalloenzyme platform for catalytic asymmetric radical dearomatization	154
Building enzymes from scratch	149
Discovery and synthesis of atropisomerically chiral acyl-substituted stable vinyl sulfoxonium ylides	147
Iron–sulfur clusters as inhibitors and catalysts of viral replication	145
Tunable valence tautomerism in lanthanide–organic alloys	145
A pseudo-cubic metal–organic cage with conformationally switchable faces for dynamically adaptive guest encapsulation	142
Machine learning designs new GCGR/GLP-1R dual agonists with enhanced biological potency	138
The twists and turns of chiral chemistry	134

Single crystals of purely organic free-standing two-dimensional woven polymer networks	129
Baird’s rules at the tipping point	127
An air- and moisture-stable ruthenium precatalyst for diverse reactivity	126
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H2 and N2 activation for ammonia synthesis	125
Platinum incorporation into titanate perovskites to deliver emergent active and stable platinum nanoparticles	123
A soil-inspired dynamically responsive chemical system for microbial modulation	122
Enantioselective fullerene functionalization through stereochemical information transfer from a self-assembled cage	120
Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification	119
Amphoteric chalcogen-bonding and halogen-bonding rotaxanes for anion or cation recognition	119
Reaction-induced unsaturated Mo oxycarbides afford highly active CO2 conversion catalysts	118
Sulfone cross-coupling outcompetes proton transfer	118
Expanding the substrate scope of pyrrolysyl-transfer RNA synthetase enzymes to include non-α-amino acids in vitro and in vivo	116
SARS-CoV-2 simulations go exascale to predict dramatic spike opening and cryptic pockets across the proteome	114
The numerous paths of ferrocene	113
O-GlcNAcylation modulates liquid–liquid phase separation of SynGAP/PSD-95	113
A programmable biomimetic cytoskeleton	112
Photomediated aliphatic C–H functionalization	111
Beyond Hubble	111
D3+ formation through photoionization of the molecular D2–D2 dimer	110
Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers	109
A bridged backbone strategy enables collective synthesis of strychnan alkaloids	109
Adaptive response of a metal–organic framework through reversible disorder–disorder transitions	109
Multilayer stacks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons	108
A template for artificial life	107
ATP hydrolysis captured in atomic detail	106
Aryl ortho methoxylation	106
The role of aromaticity in the cyclization and polymerization of alkyne-substituted porphyrins on Au(111)	105
Combining biological and chemical diversity	104
Bottleable triplet nitrenes	102
Synthesis and single-molecule imaging reveal stereospecific enhancement of binding kinetics by the antitumour eEF1A antagonist SR-A3	101
A living library concept to capture the dynamics and reactivity of mixed-metal clusters for catalysis	101
Aromaticity rules	101
Low-valent tungsten redox catalysis enables controlled isomerization and carbonylative functionalization of alkenes	100
Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates	100
Global profiling of functional histidines in live cells using small-molecule photosensitizer and chemical probe relay labelling	100
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions	99
A catalytic asymmetric cross-coupling approach to the synthesis of cyclobutanes	98
A dynamic metal–organic framework photocatalyst	98
Insights from an information thermodynamics analysis of a synthetic molecular motor	97
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen	97
A C–H activation-based enantioselective synthesis of lower carbo[n]helicenes	95
Mass photometric detection and quantification of nanoscale α-synuclein phase separation	95
An electroaffinity labelling platform for chemoproteomic-based target identification	94
Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes	93
Stepwise on-demand functionalization of multihydrosilanes enabled by a hydrogen-atom-transfer photocatalyst based on eosin Y	93
Constructing artificial gap junctions to mediate intercellular signal and mass transport	92
Proton-triggered topological transformation in superbase-mediated selective polymerization enables access to ultrahigh-molar-mass cyclic polymers	92
Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation	92
The ribosome stabilizes partially folded intermediates of a nascent multi-domain protein	92
Growth of single-crystal imine-linked covalent organic frameworks using amphiphilic amino-acid derivatives in water	92

Pluralistic teaching	92
A single diiron enzyme catalyses the oxidative rearrangement of tryptophan to indole nitrile	90
Small-molecule-catalysed deamination enables transcriptome-wide profiling of N6-methyladenosine in RNA	88
Milking riboflavin for all it’s worth	87
Three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks	86
Artificial cell synthesis using biocatalytic polymerization-induced self-assembly	86
4f-orbital covalency enables a single-crystal-to-single-crystal ring-opening isomerization in a CeIV–cyclopropenyl complex	86
Protein semisynthesis reveals plasticity in HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase mechanisms	85
Sustainable and degradable plastics	85
Molecular contacts with an orthogonal π-skeleton induce amorphization to enhance perovskite solar cell performance	85