OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ACS Synthetic Biology is 37. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Directed Evolution of a SelB Variant that Does Not Require a Selenocysteine Insertion Sequence Element for Function	107
Synthetic Biology 2.0: The Dawn of a New Era	91
Discovering Content through Text Mining for a Synthetic Biology Knowledge System	91
Mobile Translation Systems Generate Genomically Engineered Escherichia coli Cells with Improved Growth Phenotypes	75
Preventing Production Escape Using an Engineered Glucose-Inducible Genetic Circuit	74
Simplified Construction of Engineered Bacillus subtilis Host for Improved Expression of Proteins Harboring Noncanonical Amino Acids	72
The Japan-UK Synthetic Biology Conference, Spring 2025: Strengthening Global Links to Engineer Biology	71
Nano-Regulation of Gene Expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: Harnessing AuNPs for Remotely Switchable Lipid Biosynthesis via Antisense Oligonucleotides	70
Cell-Free Expression of Soluble Leafhopper Proteins from Brochosomes	65
Metabolic Engineering of Microbial Chassis Cells for d-Pantothenate Production: A Review	63
Recent Advances in the Biological Synthesis of l-Tyrosine Derivatives by Genetically Engineered Microbes	62
Highly Accurate Sequence- and Position-Independent Error Profiling of DNA Synthesis and Sequencing	58
Issue Publication Information	55
Control of λ Lysogenic Escherichia coli Cells by Synthetic λ Phage Carrying cI^antisense	53
Plasmid Copy Number Engineering Accelerates Fungal Polyketide Discovery upon Unnatural Polyketide Biosynthesis	52
Optimal LentiCRISPR-Based System for Sequential CRISPR/Cas9 Screens	52
Stem Loop Mediated Transgene Modulation in Human T Cells	51
Strategies for Improved Docosahexaenoic Acid Synthesis in Microalgae	51
LOICA: Integrating Models with Data for Genetic Network Design Automation	50
Cell-Free Protein Synthesis as a Method to Rapidly Screen Machine Learning-Generated Protease Variants	50
Bacteria Engineered to Produce Serotonin Modulate Host Intestinal Physiology	49
Targeting Transcriptional and Translational Hindrances in a Modular T7RNAP Expression System in Engineered Pseudomonas putida	48
Engineering Cyanobacterial Cell Factories for Photosynthetic Production of Fructose	48
Combining Chemical Catalysis with Enzymatic Steps for the Synthesis of the Artemisinin Precursor Dihydroartemisinic Acid	46
IWBDA 2022: Toward a Modular Future of Synthetic Biology Driven by Bio-Design Automation	46

DisGUVery: A Versatile Open-Source Software for High-Throughput Image Analysis of Giant Unilamellar Vesicles	45
Desiccated Cyanobacteria Serve As Efficient Plasmid DNA Carriers in Space Flight	44
Energy Aware Technology Mapping of Genetic Logic Circuits	44
A Photoresponsive Homing Endonuclease for Programmed DNA Cleavage	44
Efficient Mutasynthesis of “Non-Natural” Antitubercular Ilamycins with Low Cytotoxicity	41
Engineered Mutants of a Marine Photosynthetic Purple Nonsulfur Bacterium with Increased Volumetric Productivity of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Bioplastics	41
Efficient Genome Editing in Most Staphylococcus aureus by Using the Restriction-Modification System Silent CRISPR-Cas9 Toolkit	41
Issue Publication Information	38
Cell-Free Transcription and Translation Tether Expressed Peptides to Their Encoding Circular DNA	38
Cell Free Bacteriophage Synthesis from Engineered Strains Improves Yield	37
In VivoSampling of Intracellular Heterogeneity ofPseudomonas putidaEnables Multiobjective Optimization of Genetic Devices	37
Actomyosin-Driven Division of a Synthetic Cell	37