OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Chemical Science is 74. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Non-concentrated aqueous electrolytes with organic solvent additives for stable zinc batteries	276
Water as the reaction medium in organic chemistry: from our worst enemy to our best friend	272
Fluorescent small organic probes for biosensing	251
Recent advances of AIE light-up probes for photodynamic therapy	226
Increasing structural and functional complexity in self-assembled coordination cages	183
Molecular design of thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitters for narrowband orange–red OLEDs boosted by a cyano-functionalization strategy	167
Structural and process controls of AIEgens for NIR-II theranostics	167
Ultrasensitive single-cell proteomics workflow identifies >1000 protein groups per mammalian cell	162
Design of BODIPY dyes as triplet photosensitizers: electronic properties tailored for solar energy conversion, photoredox catalysis and photodynamic therapy	161
Graphene–carbon 2D heterostructures with hierarchically-porous P,N-doped layered architecture for capacitive deionization	147
CRISPR technology incorporating amplification strategies: molecular assays for nucleic acids, proteins, and small molecules	146
Accurate crystal structures and chemical properties from NoSpherA2	146
Electrochemical C–N coupling with perovskite hybrids toward efficient urea synthesis	144
Hexafluoroisopropanol: the magical solvent for Pd-catalyzed C–H activation	142
Recent development in transition metal-catalysed C–H olefination	138
Recent advances in single atom catalysts for the electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction	133
Plasmonic photothermal catalysis for solar-to-fuel conversion: current status and prospects	131
Pathways to increase the dissymmetry in the interaction of chiral light and chiral molecules	130
Emerging applications for living crystallization-driven self-assembly	126
Universal quenching of common fluorescent probes by water and alcohols	125
Recent advances of cancer chemodynamic therapy based on Fenton/Fenton-like chemistry	118
Accelerating high-throughput virtual screening through molecular pool-based active learning	118
Efficient metal-free organic room temperature phosphors	118
Strategic design of Fe and N co-doped hierarchically porous carbon as superior ORR catalyst: from the perspective of nanoarchitectonics	117
Achieving high circularly polarized luminescence with push–pull helicenic systems: from rationalized design to top-emission CP-OLED applications	109

Molecular reactivity of thiolate-protected noble metal nanoclusters: synthesis, self-assembly, and applications	108
Machine learning meets mechanistic modelling for accurate prediction of experimental activation energies	102
Catalysis using transition metal complexes featuring main group metal and metalloid compounds as supporting ligands	101
Activatable fluorescence sensors for in vivo bio-detection in the second near-infrared window	101
Conceptual density functional theory based electronic structure principles	99
Fluorescent probe for the imaging of superoxide and peroxynitrite during drug-induced liver injury	98
Electrochemiluminescence with semiconductor (nano)materials	97
MGraphDTA: deep multiscale graph neural network for explainable drug–target binding affinity prediction	96
Photoactive electron donor–acceptor complex platform for Ni-mediated C(sp³)–C(sp²) bond formation	94
Recent progress in thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for nondoped organic light-emitting diodes	92
Electrogenerated chemiluminescence detection of single entities	90
Nanoporous ultra-high-entropy alloys containing fourteen elements for water splitting electrocatalysis	90
Efficient electroreduction of CO₂to C₂₊products on CeO₂modified CuO	89
Tetrathiafulvalene-based covalent organic frameworks for ultrahigh iodine capture	88
Defect mitigation using d-penicillamine for efficient methylammonium-free perovskite solar cells with high operational stability	88
Designing light-driven rotary molecular motors	88
Absorption and emission of light in red emissive carbon nanodots	87
Calculation of absolute molecular entropies and heat capacities made simple	86
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	86
Discovery of cryptic allosteric sites using reversed allosteric communication by a combined computational and experimental strategy	84
Recent advances of group 14 dimetallenes and dimetallynes in bond activation and catalysis	84
Efficient and organic host–guest room-temperature phosphorescence: tunable triplet–singlet crossing and theoretical calculations for molecular packing	84
Supramolecular agents for combination of photodynamic therapy and other treatments	83
Advances in anion binding and sensing using luminescent lanthanide complexes	83
A rationally designed two-dimensional MoSe₂/Ti₂CO₂ heterojunction for photocatalytic overall water splitting: simultaneously suppressing electron–hole recombination an	82
A review on machine learning algorithms for the ionic liquid chemical space	81
Defective TiO₂ for photocatalytic CO₂ conversion to fuels and chemicals	81
Recent progress in metal–organic framework/graphene-derived materials for energy storage and conversion: design, preparation, and application	81
Multicolor polymeric carbon dots: synthesis, separation and polyamide-supported molecular fluorescence	81
Near-infrared fluorescent molecular probes for imaging and diagnosis of nephro-urological diseases	81
Structure-based de novo drug design using 3D deep generative models	81
Capture of toxic gases in MOFs: SO₂, H₂S, NH₃ and NO_x	81
The chronological evolution of small organic molecular fluorescent probes for thiols	79
Realizing high hydrogen evolution activity under visible light using narrow band gap organic photocatalysts	79
Phosphorescent metal complexes as theranostic anticancer agents: combining imaging and therapy in a single molecule	79
Insights into alloy/oxide or hydroxide interfaces in Ni–Mo-based electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution under alkaline conditions	78
A host–guest strategy for converting the photodynamic agents from a singlet oxygen generator to a superoxide radical generator	78
AIE-active luminogens as highly efficient free-radical ROS photogenerator for image-guided photodynamic therapy	78
A pH-responsive ultrathin Cu-based nanoplatform for specific photothermal and chemodynamic synergistic therapy	78
Chiral assembly of organic luminogens with aggregation-induced emission	77
Accelerated reactions of amines with carbon dioxide driven by superacid at the microdroplet interface	76
Tale of the Breslow intermediate, a central player in N-heterocyclic carbene organocatalysis: then and now	76
A field guide to flow chemistry for synthetic organic chemists	76
Natural product drug discovery in the artificial intelligence era	75
Perspective on intermetallics towards efficient electrocatalytic water-splitting	75
Prediction and mitigation of mutation threats to COVID-19 vaccines and antibody therapies	75
Site-selective functionalization of remote aliphatic C–H bonds via C–H metallation	75
Recent advances in activity-based probes (ABPs) and affinity-based probes (AfBPs) for profiling of enzymes	75
DNA nanostructure-based nucleic acid probes: construction and biological applications	74
Regio-selectivity prediction with a machine-learned reaction representation and on-the-fly quantum mechanical descriptors	74

Perovskite indoor photovoltaics: opportunity and challenges	74
Choosing the right molecular machine learning potential	74