OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Biophysics is 16. 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
Enzymology and Dynamics by Cryogenic Electron Microscopy	160
Free Energy Methods for the Description of Molecular Processes	153
Mapping Enzyme Landscapes by Time-Resolved Crystallography with Synchrotron and X-Ray Free Electron Laser Light	136
The Effects of Temperature on Cellular Physiology	106
Mechanism of Activation of the Visual Receptor Rhodopsin	103
Membrane Association of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins	96
The Expanded Central Dogma: Genome Resynthesis, Orthogonal Biosystems, Synthetic Genetics	92
Nanomechanics of Blood Clot and Thrombus Formation	88
Biophysical Modeling of Synaptic Plasticity	84
ATP-Independent Chaperones	81
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From Nucleosomes to Compartments: Physicochemical Interactions Underlying Chromatin Organization	71
The Molecular Basis for Life in Extreme Environments	70
Collapse and Protein Folding: Should We Be Surprised that Biothermodynamics Works So Well?	63
Next-Generation Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors Illuminate Cell Signaling and Metabolism	59
Chaperonin Mechanisms: Multiple and (Mis)Understood?	57
Molecular Shape Solution for Mesoscopic Remodeling of Cellular Membranes	51
Prospects and Limitations of High-Resolution Single-Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy	50
Structure and Mechanism of Human ABC Transporters	48
Directed Evolution of Microbial Communities	47
Waves in Embryonic Development	45
Bringing Structure to Cell Biology with Cryo-Electron Tomography	43
Bacterial Electrophysiology	43
Review of COVID-19 Antibody Therapies	43
Mechanisms for DNA Interplay in Eukaryotic Transcription Factors	41

Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neurotransmitter Release	41
Unveiling the Intricate Connection: Cell Volume as a Key Regulator of Mechanotransduction	39
Cholesterol and Lipid Rafts in the Biogenesis of Amyloid-β Protein and Alzheimer's Disease	38
Statistical Thermodynamics of the Protein Ensemble: Mediating Function and Evolution	38
Coding From Binding? Molecular Interactions at the Heart of Translation	37
Structure Function Studies of Photosystem II Using X-Ray Free Electron Lasers	34
The Mechanosensory Transduction Machinery in Inner Ear Hair Cells	31
Information Processing in Biochemical Networks	31
Protein Modeling with DEER Spectroscopy	30
Metabolic Engineering of Yeast	30
Learning to Model G-Quadruplexes: Current Methods and Perspectives	29
From Bench to Keyboard and Back Again: A Brief History of Lambda Phage Modeling	28
Cutting-Edge Single-Molecule Technologies Unveil New Mechanics in Cellular Biochemistry	27
Morphology and Transport in Eukaryotic Cells	27
Metabolomics and Microbial Metabolism: Toward a Systematic Understanding	27
Ancestral Reconstruction and the Evolution of Protein Energy Landscapes	27
Toward Principles of Brain Network Organization and Function	26
Emergent Spatiotemporal Organization in Stochastic Intracellular Transport Dynamics	25
The Phasor Plot: A Universal Circle to Advance Fluorescence Lifetime Analysis and Interpretation	25
Quantitative Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy	25
Variable-Temperature Native Mass Spectrometry for Studies of Protein Folding, Stabilities, Assembly, and Molecular Interactions	25
Single-Molecule Imaging of Integral Membrane Protein Dynamics and Function	23
Orientation of Cell Polarity by Chemical Gradients	22
Mitochondrial Dynamics at Different Levels: From Cristae Dynamics to Interorganellar Cross Talk	22
Structure of Phycobilisomes	21
Molecular Force Measurement with Tension Sensors	21
Decoding and Recoding of mRNA Sequences by the Ribosome	21
Cryo-Electron Tomography: The Resolution Revolution and a Surge of In Situ Virological Discoveries	19
The Contribution of Biophysics and Structural Biology to Current Advances in COVID-19	18
Insights into the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Amino-Acid Radicals in Proteins	17
Biomolecular Modeling and Simulation: A Prospering Multidisciplinary Field	16
Fifty Years of Biophysics at the Membrane Frontier	16