OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Chemistry is 67. 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
MXene chemistry, electrochemistry and energy storage applications	612
Towards the sustainable discovery and development of new antibiotics	575
Haemostatic materials for wound healing applications	488
Late-stage C–H functionalization offers new opportunities in drug discovery	437
Recent advances in the chemistry and applications of N-heterocyclic carbenes	376
Highlights and challenges in the selective reduction of carbon dioxide to methanol	329
The concept of active site in heterogeneous catalysis	322
Circularly polarized lanthanide luminescence for advanced security inks	310
Metal–organic cages for molecular separations	303
Water at charged interfaces	251
Metals to combat antimicrobial resistance	225
The principles, design and applications of fused-ring electron acceptors	225
Advances and opportunities in the exciting world of azobenzenes	220
Radical philicity and its role in selective organic transformations	217
A unified view on catalytic conversion of biomass and waste plastics	217
Wearable chemical sensors for biomarker discovery in the omics era	215
The many flavours of mechanochemistry and its plausible conceptual underpinnings	212
A comparison of RAFT and ATRP methods for controlled radical polymerization	208
Nuclease resistance of DNA nanostructures	204
Synthesis and applications of anisotropic nanoparticles with precisely defined dimensions	200
Dual-locked spectroscopic probes for sensing and therapy	180
Graphene oxide for photonics, electronics and optoelectronics	179
Construction of C–N bonds from small-molecule precursors through heterogeneous electrocatalysis	167
Self-assembled inorganic chiral superstructures	146
Emerging chemistries and molecular designs for flow batteries	145

Nitrene transfer catalysts for enantioselective C–N bond formation	144
Natural and synthetic carbohydrate-based vaccine adjuvants and their mechanisms of action	144
Chemical syntheses of bioinspired and biomimetic polymers toward biobased materials	144
Sulfonyl fluorides as targets and substrates in the development of new synthetic methods	138
Imine and imine-derived linkages in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks	136
Bifunctional reagents in organic synthesis	136
Chemical approaches to cryopreservation	130
Radical C(sp3)–H functionalization and cross-coupling reactions	129
Chemical strategies to engineer hydrogels for cell culture	127
Tailoring passivators for highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells	127
Molecular excited states through a machine learning lens	126
Designing bioresponsive nanomaterials for intracellular self-assembly	125
Re-examining Fenton and Fenton-like reactions	119
A practical guide to electrosynthesis	114
Structural transformations of solid electrocatalysts and photocatalysts	113
The chemistry of snake venom and its medicinal potential	111
Radical generation and fate control for photocatalytic biomass conversion	107
Solar utilization beyond photosynthesis	106
Omniphobic liquid-like surfaces	105
Post-synthetic modifications of metal–organic cages	104
Organic reactivity from mechanism to machine learning	101
Taking phototherapeutics from concept to clinical launch	99
Silk chemistry and biomedical material designs	97
Sustainable implementation of innovative technologies for water purification	96
NMR spectroscopy probes microstructure, dynamics and doping of metal halide perovskites	94
Engineering of stimuli-responsive lipid-bilayer membranes using supramolecular systems	90
Advancing mechanochemical synthesis by combining milling with different energy sources	89
Transient directing ligands for selective metal-catalysed C–H activation	78
Towards chemistry at absolute zero	77
Hole utilization in solar hydrogen production	77
Control of light, spin and charge with chiral metal halide semiconductors	76
DNA synthesis technologies to close the gene writing gap	75
Exploiting non-covalent interactions in selective carbohydrate synthesis	73
Controlling catalyst activity, chemoselectivity and stereoselectivity with the mechanical bond	72
Evaluation guidelines for machine learning tools in the chemical sciences	72
Interrogating biological systems using visible-light-powered catalysis	71
Carboranes in drug discovery, chemical biology and molecular imaging	71
Stabilization of photoactive phases for perovskite photovoltaics	70
Experimental characterization techniques for plasmon-assisted chemistry	69
Quantifying misfolded protein oligomers as drug targets and biomarkers in Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases	69
Decoupled aqueous batteries using pH-decoupling electrolytes	69
Chemically-powered swimming and diffusion in the microscopic world	69