OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Biophysics is 13. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Enzymology and Dynamics by Cryogenic Electron Microscopy	181
Free Energy Methods for the Description of Molecular Processes	166
Mapping Enzyme Landscapes by Time-Resolved Crystallography with Synchrotron and X-Ray Free Electron Laser Light	111
The Effects of Temperature on Cellular Physiology	109
Nanomechanics of Blood Clot and Thrombus Formation	106
Biophysical Modeling of Synaptic Plasticity	105
Membrane Association of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins	93
Mechanism of Activation of the Visual Receptor Rhodopsin	78
The Expanded Central Dogma: Genome Resynthesis, Orthogonal Biosystems, Synthetic Genetics	58
ATP-Independent Chaperones	53
Collapse and Protein Folding: Should We Be Surprised That Biothermodynamics Works So Well?	46
Next-Generation Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors Illuminate Cell Signaling and Metabolism	44
From Nucleosomes to Compartments: Physicochemical Interactions Underlying Chromatin Organization	43
Chaperonin Mechanisms: Multiple and (Mis)Understood?	42
Molecular Shape Solution for Mesoscopic Remodeling of Cellular Membranes	42
Structure and Mechanism of Human ABC Transporters	41
Prospects and Limitations of High-Resolution Single-Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy	41
Bacterial Electrophysiology	40
Bioenergetics and the Evolution of Cellular Traits	37
Waves in Embryonic Development	37
Bringing Structure to Cell Biology with Cryo-Electron Tomography	34
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neurotransmitter Release	33
Unveiling the Intricate Connection: Cell Volume as a Key Regulator of Mechanotransduction	32
Mechanisms for DNA Interplay in Eukaryotic Transcription Factors	32
Statistical Thermodynamics of the Protein Ensemble: Mediating Function and Evolution	30

Structure Function Studies of Photosystem II Using X-Ray Free Electron Lasers	28
Coding From Binding? Molecular Interactions at the Heart of Translation	28
Cholesterol and Lipid Rafts in the Biogenesis of Amyloid-β Protein and Alzheimer's Disease	28
Metabolomics and Microbial Metabolism: Toward a Systematic Understanding	27
Information Processing in Biochemical Networks	27
Ancestral Reconstruction and the Evolution of Protein Energy Landscapes	27
Metabolic Engineering of Yeast	27
Morphology and Transport in Eukaryotic Cells	25
Protein Modeling with DEER Spectroscopy	25
Toward Principles of Brain Network Organization and Function	23
Quantitative Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy	22
Variable-Temperature Native Mass Spectrometry for Studies of Protein Folding, Stabilities, Assembly, and Molecular Interactions	22
Emergent Spatiotemporal Organization in Stochastic Intracellular Transport Dynamics	22
Decoding and Recoding of mRNA Sequences by the Ribosome	21
Cryo-EM of Mitochondrial Complex I and ATP Synthase	20
Single-Molecule Imaging of Integral Membrane Protein Dynamics and Function	17
Orientation of Cell Polarity by Chemical Gradients	17
Mitochondrial Dynamics at Different Levels: From Cristae Dynamics to Interorganellar Cross Talk	16
Insights into the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Amino-Acid Radicals in Proteins	15
Cryo-Electron Tomography: The Resolution Revolution and a Surge of In Situ Virological Discoveries	15
Single-Cell Mechanics: Structural Determinants and Functional Relevance	13
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Molecular Level Super-Resolution Fluorescence Imaging	13
Fifty Years of Biophysics at the Membrane Frontier	13
Mechanisms of Inheritance of Chromatin States: From Yeast to Human	13