OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Biophysics is 11. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Free Energy Methods for the Description of Molecular Processes	169
Mechanism of Activation of the Visual Receptor Rhodopsin	134
Biophysical Modeling of Synaptic Plasticity	82
Membrane Association of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins	71
The Expanded Central Dogma: Genome Resynthesis, Orthogonal Biosystems, Synthetic Genetics	62
Collapse and Protein Folding: Should We Be Surprised That Biothermodynamics Works So Well?	57
Tethered Signaling Proteins	56
Structures of Photosynthetic Supramolecular Complexes	54
Next-Generation Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors Illuminate Cell Signaling and Metabolism	52
From Nucleosomes to Compartments: Physicochemical Interactions Underlying Chromatin Organization	50
Prospects and Limitations of High-Resolution Single-Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy	48
Structure and Mechanism of Human ABC Transporters	46
Imaging Dynamic Subcellular Organization at High Spatiotemporal Resolution	45
The Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore: Past, Present, and Future	44
Bacterial Electrophysiology	42
Bioenergetics and the Evolution of Cellular Traits	41
Bringing Structure to Cell Biology with Cryo-Electron Tomography	40
Unveiling the Intricate Connection: Cell Volume as a Key Regulator of Mechanotransduction	40
Hopfield Networks as Models of Emergent Function in Biology	35
Mechanisms for DNA Interplay in Eukaryotic Transcription Factors	34
Statistical Thermodynamics of the Protein Ensemble: Mediating Function and Evolution	32
Cholesterol and Lipid Rafts in the Biogenesis of Amyloid-β Protein and Alzheimer's Disease	30
Metabolic Engineering of Yeast	30
Structure Function Studies of Photosystem II Using X-Ray Free Electron Lasers	28
Information Processing in Biochemical Networks	22

Coding From Binding? Molecular Interactions at the Heart of Translation	22
Metabolomics and Microbial Metabolism: Toward a Systematic Understanding	22
Ancestral Reconstruction and the Evolution of Protein Energy Landscapes	21
Single-Cell Proteomic Technologies: Tools in the Quest for Principles	21
Protein Modeling with DEER Spectroscopy	21
Quantitative Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy	20
Toward Principles of Brain Network Organization and Function	19
Mitochondrial Outer Membrane Voltage-Dependent Anion Channels: Unique Structures, Distinct Functions, and Novel Therapeutic Targets	19
Emergent Spatiotemporal Organization in Stochastic Intracellular Transport Dynamics	18
Decoding and Recoding of mRNA Sequences by the Ribosome	17
Fold-Switching Proteins	17
Single-Molecule Imaging of Integral Membrane Protein Dynamics and Function	17
Mitochondrial Dynamics at Different Levels: From Cristae Dynamics to Interorganellar Cross Talk	16
Cryo-EM of Mitochondrial Complex I and ATP Synthase	16
Fifty Years of Biophysics at the Membrane Frontier	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
Ligand Binding Dynamics of Ion Channels and GPCRs Using Single-Molecule Fluorescence	13
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Seeking Biology's Physics Stories: Simplify, Simplify	12
Size Matters: A Biophysical Perspective on Biomolecular Condensates in Bacteria	11
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