OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ACS Synthetic Biology is 39. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Preventing Production Escape Using an Engineered Glucose-Inducible Genetic Circuit	145
The Japan-UK Synthetic Biology Conference, Spring 2025: Strengthening Global Links to Engineer Biology	142
Issue Publication Information	102
Stem Loop Mediated Transgene Modulation in Human T Cells	100
Construction of an Engineered Escherichia coli with Efficient Chemotactic and Metabolizing Ability toward Tetrathionate	85
A Photoresponsive Homing Endonuclease for Programmed DNA Cleavage	70
Issue Publication Information	68
Cell-Free Transcription and Translation Tether Expressed Peptides to Their Encoding Circular DNA	65
Targeting Transcriptional and Translational Hindrances in a Modular T7RNAP Expression System in Engineered Pseudomonas putida	62
Cell-Free Expression of Soluble Leafhopper Proteins from Brochosomes	61
Plasmid Copy Number Engineering Accelerates Fungal Polyketide Discovery upon Unnatural Polyketide Biosynthesis	59
DisGUVery: A Versatile Open-Source Software for High-Throughput Image Analysis of Giant Unilamellar Vesicles	59
Predicting and Interpreting Protein Developability Via Transfer of Convolutional Sequence Representation	58
Cell Free Bacteriophage Synthesis from Engineered Strains Improves Yield	58
Combining Chemical Catalysis with Enzymatic Steps for the Synthesis of the Artemisinin Precursor Dihydroartemisinic Acid	57
Protease-Responsive Toolkit for Conditional Targeted Protein Degradation	56
Energy Aware Technology Mapping of Genetic Logic Circuits	53
Development of a Recombineering System for the Acetogen Eubacterium limosum with Cas9 Counterselection for Markerless Genome Engineering	51
Desiccated Cyanobacteria Serve As Efficient Plasmid DNA Carriers in Space Flight	50
Directed Evolution of a SelB Variant that Does Not Require a Selenocysteine Insertion Sequence Element for Function	49
Preclinical Evaluation of Synthetic Biology-Driven Engineered Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 as a Living Therapeutic for Sustained L-DOPA Delivery	47
Engineering a Novel Acetyl-CoA Pathway for Efficient Biosynthesis of Acetyl-CoA-Derived Compounds	47
An Autocatalytic Peptide Cyclase Improves Fidelity and Yield of Circular Peptides In Vivo and In Vitro	46
Metabolic Engineering of Microbial Chassis Cells for d-Pantothenate Production: A Review	46
Highly Accurate Sequence- and Position-Independent Error Profiling of DNA Synthesis and Sequencing	46

Efficient Mutasynthesis of “Non-Natural” Antitubercular Ilamycins with Low Cytotoxicity	46
Mobile Translation Systems Generate Genomically Engineered Escherichia coli Cells with Improved Growth Phenotypes	45
IWBDA 2022: Toward a Modular Future of Synthetic Biology Driven by Bio-Design Automation	44
A Logically Reversible Double Feynman Gate with Molecular Engineered Bacteria Arranged in an Artificial Neural Network-Type Architecture	44
Nano-Regulation of Gene Expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: Harnessing AuNPs for Remotely Switchable Lipid Biosynthesis via Antisense Oligonucleotides	43
Efficient Genome Editing in Most Staphylococcus aureus by Using the Restriction-Modification System Silent CRISPR-Cas9 Toolkit	43
In VivoSampling of Intracellular Heterogeneity ofPseudomonas putidaEnables Multiobjective Optimization of Genetic Devices	43
Control of λ Lysogenic Escherichia coli Cells by Synthetic λ Phage Carrying cI^antisense	42
Simplified Construction of Engineered Bacillus subtilis Host for Improved Expression of Proteins Harboring Noncanonical Amino Acids	42
Bacteria Engineered to Produce Serotonin Modulate Host Intestinal Physiology	41
Issue Publication Information	41
Using Domain Insertion to Create Sulfite Reductases That Present Chemical-Dependent Activities	40
Cell-Free Protein Synthesis as a Method to Rapidly Screen Machine Learning-Generated Protease Variants	39
Actomyosin-Driven Division of a Synthetic Cell	39