OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Chemical Science is 86. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Water as the reaction medium in organic chemistry: from our worst enemy to our best friend	337
Non-concentrated aqueous electrolytes with organic solvent additives for stable zinc batteries	319
Fluorescent small organic probes for biosensing	309
Recent advances of AIE light-up probes for photodynamic therapy	262
Increasing structural and functional complexity in self-assembled coordination cages	215
Design of BODIPY dyes as triplet photosensitizers: electronic properties tailored for solar energy conversion, photoredox catalysis and photodynamic therapy	197
Molecular design of thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitters for narrowband orange–red OLEDs boosted by a cyano-functionalization strategy	187
Accurate crystal structures and chemical properties from NoSpherA2	186
Structural and process controls of AIEgens for NIR-II theranostics	184
Ultrasensitive single-cell proteomics workflow identifies >1000 protein groups per mammalian cell	183
Electrochemical C–N coupling with perovskite hybrids toward efficient urea synthesis	180
CRISPR technology incorporating amplification strategies: molecular assays for nucleic acids, proteins, and small molecules	179
Graphene–carbon 2D heterostructures with hierarchically-porous P,N-doped layered architecture for capacitive deionization	170
Recent advances in single atom catalysts for the electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction	163
Hexafluoroisopropanol: the magical solvent for Pd-catalyzed C–H activation	162
Plasmonic photothermal catalysis for solar-to-fuel conversion: current status and prospects	160
Universal quenching of common fluorescent probes by water and alcohols	158
Pathways to increase the dissymmetry in the interaction of chiral light and chiral molecules	156
Recent advances of cancer chemodynamic therapy based on Fenton/Fenton-like chemistry	155
Emerging applications for living crystallization-driven self-assembly	151
Accelerating high-throughput virtual screening through molecular pool-based active learning	150
Recent development in transition metal-catalysed C–H olefination	150
Strategic design of Fe and N co-doped hierarchically porous carbon as superior ORR catalyst: from the perspective of nanoarchitectonics	143
Efficient metal-free organic room temperature phosphors	140
MGraphDTA: deep multiscale graph neural network for explainable drug–target binding affinity prediction	132

A field guide to flow chemistry for synthetic organic chemists	127
Molecular reactivity of thiolate-protected noble metal nanoclusters: synthesis, self-assembly, and applications	127
Conceptual density functional theory based electronic structure principles	122
Achieving high circularly polarized luminescence with push–pull helicenic systems: from rationalized design to top-emission CP-OLED applications	122
Nanoporous ultra-high-entropy alloys containing fourteen elements for water splitting electrocatalysis	121
Electrochemiluminescence with semiconductor (nano)materials	119
Machine learning meets mechanistic modelling for accurate prediction of experimental activation energies	116
Designing light-driven rotary molecular motors	113
Catalysis using transition metal complexes featuring main group metal and metalloid compounds as supporting ligands	113
Activatable fluorescence sensors forin vivobio-detection in the second near-infrared window	112
Recent progress in thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for nondoped organic light-emitting diodes	112
Insights into alloy/oxide or hydroxide interfaces in Ni–Mo-based electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution under alkaline conditions	112
AlphaFold accelerates artificial intelligence powered drug discovery: efficient discovery of a novel CDK20 small molecule inhibitor	112
Fluorescent probe for the imaging of superoxide and peroxynitrite during drug-induced liver injury	111
Calculation of absolute molecular entropies and heat capacities made simple	111
Photoactive electron donor–acceptor complex platform for Ni-mediated C(sp³)–C(sp²) bond formation	109
Tetrathiafulvalene-based covalent organic frameworks for ultrahigh iodine capture	107
Absorption and emission of light in red emissive carbon nanodots	104
Recent advances in activity-based probes (ABPs) and affinity-based probes (AfBPs) for profiling of enzymes	102
Efficient electroreduction of CO₂to C₂₊products on CeO₂modified CuO	101
Choosing the right molecular machine learning potential	100
Advances in anion binding and sensing using luminescent lanthanide complexes	99
A general electron donor–acceptor complex for photoactivation of arenes via thianthrenation	99
NIR TADF emitters and OLEDs: challenges, progress, and perspectives	99
Recent advances of group 14 dimetallenes and dimetallynes in bond activation and catalysis	98
Mechanism of inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 M^pro by N3 peptidyl Michael acceptor explained by QM/MM simulations and design of new derivatives with tunable chemical reactivity	98
A host–guest strategy for converting the photodynamic agents from a singlet oxygen generator to a superoxide radical generator	98
Natural product drug discovery in the artificial intelligence era	98
Tale of the Breslow intermediate, a central player in N-heterocyclic carbene organocatalysis: then and now	98
Capture of toxic gases in MOFs: SO₂, H₂S, NH₃ and NO_x	97
A review on machine learning algorithms for the ionic liquid chemical space	97
Chiral assembly of organic luminogens with aggregation-induced emission	97
Supramolecular agents for combination of photodynamic therapy and other treatments	96
Electrogenerated chemiluminescence detection of single entities	96
Defective TiO₂for photocatalytic CO₂conversion to fuels and chemicals	95
Hierarchical self-assembly into chiral nanostructures	95
AIE-active luminogens as highly efficient free-radical ROS photogenerator for image-guided photodynamic therapy	94
Discovery of cryptic allosteric sites using reversed allosteric communication by a combined computational and experimental strategy	94
Defect mitigation using d-penicillamine for efficient methylammonium-free perovskite solar cells with high operational stability	94
Organothianthrenium salts: synthesis and utilization	93
Phosphorescent metal complexes as theranostic anticancer agents: combining imaging and therapy in a single molecule	93
A rationally designed two-dimensional MoSe₂/Ti₂CO₂ heterojunction for photocatalytic overall water splitting: simultaneously suppressing electron–hole recombination an	93
Accelerated reactions of amines with carbon dioxide driven by superacid at the microdroplet interface	93
Recent progress on MOF-based optical sensors for VOC sensing	92
Efficient and organic host–guest room-temperature phosphorescence: tunable triplet–singlet crossing and theoretical calculations for molecular packing	92
Multicolor polymeric carbon dots: synthesis, separation and polyamide-supported molecular fluorescence	92
Recent progress in metal–organic framework/graphene-derived materials for energy storage and conversion: design, preparation, and application	92
Near-infrared fluorescent molecular probes for imaging and diagnosis of nephro-urological diseases	91
Structure-based de novo drug design using 3D deep generative models	91
DNA nanostructure-based nucleic acid probes: construction and biological applications	91

Key difference between transition state stabilization and ground state destabilization: increasing atomic charge densities before or during enzyme–substrate binding	89
A pH-responsive ultrathin Cu-based nanoplatform for specific photothermal and chemodynamic synergistic therapy	89
Recent advances in noble metal complex based photodynamic therapy	89
Perspective on intermetallics towards efficient electrocatalytic water-splitting	89
Mitigation of Jahn–Teller distortion and Na⁺/vacancy ordering in a distorted manganese oxide cathode material by Li substitution	88
Universal and high-fidelity DNA single nucleotide polymorphism detection based on a CRISPR/Cas12a biochip	88
Realizing high hydrogen evolution activity under visible light using narrow band gap organic photocatalysts	88
An amplification-free ultra-sensitive electrochemical CRISPR/Cas biosensor for drug-resistant bacteria detection	87
Nanofluidic osmotic power generators – advanced nanoporous membranes and nanochannels for blue energy harvesting	87
Regio-selectivity prediction with a machine-learned reaction representation and on-the-fly quantum mechanical descriptors	86
2D framework materials for energy applications	86
Bicyclobutanes: from curiosities to versatile reagents and covalent warheads	86
Hybridized local and charge-transfer excited state fluorophores enabling organic light-emitting diodes with record high efficiencies close to 20%	86
Perovskite indoor photovoltaics: opportunity and challenges	86