OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Chemistry is 68. 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
Towards the sustainable discovery and development of new antibiotics	448
Phase engineering of nanomaterials	445
MXene chemistry, electrochemistry and energy storage applications	443
Biomimetic peptide self-assembly for functional materials	426
Haemostatic materials for wound healing applications	385
Late-stage C–H functionalization offers new opportunities in drug discovery	343
Recent advances in the chemistry and applications of N-heterocyclic carbenes	291
Highlights and challenges in the selective reduction of carbon dioxide to methanol	262
Exploiting chemistry and molecular systems for quantum information science	251
Circularly polarized lanthanide luminescence for advanced security inks	247
Metal–organic cages for molecular separations	235
The concept of active site in heterogeneous catalysis	224
Stabilization strategies in biomass depolymerization using chemical functionalization	217
Water at charged interfaces	188
Exploring chemical compound space with quantum-based machine learning	188
The many flavours of mechanochemistry and its plausible conceptual underpinnings	182
The principles, design and applications of fused-ring electron acceptors	173
Radical philicity and its role in selective organic transformations	170
Iron and manganese oxo complexes, oxo wall and beyond	169
Nuclease resistance of DNA nanostructures	165
Synthesis and applications of anisotropic nanoparticles with precisely defined dimensions	158
A comparison of RAFT and ATRP methods for controlled radical polymerization	158
Advances and opportunities in the exciting world of azobenzenes	157
Molecular reactions at aqueous interfaces	152
Dual-locked spectroscopic probes for sensing and therapy	145

Wearable chemical sensors for biomarker discovery in the omics era	143
A unified view on catalytic conversion of biomass and waste plastics	139
Metals to combat antimicrobial resistance	134
Temporary or removable directing groups enable activation of unstrained C–C bonds	128
Bifunctional reagents in organic synthesis	124
Charge-transfer processes in metal complexes enable luminescence and memory functions	123
Natural and synthetic carbohydrate-based vaccine adjuvants and their mechanisms of action	121
Bimetallic cooperation across the periodic table	120
Developing bioorthogonal probes to span a spectrum of reactivities	120
Deciphering protein post-translational modifications using chemical biology tools	119
Chemistry under high pressure	117
Chemical syntheses of bioinspired and biomimetic polymers toward biobased materials	116
Construction of C–N bonds from small-molecule precursors through heterogeneous electrocatalysis	112
Molecular excited states through a machine learning lens	108
Nitrene transfer catalysts for enantioselective C–N bond formation	107
Self-assembled inorganic chiral superstructures	104
Helical polymers for biological and medical applications	104
Graphene oxide for photonics, electronics and optoelectronics	101
Sulfonyl fluorides as targets and substrates in the development of new synthetic methods	101
Towards artificial molecular factories from framework-embedded molecular machines	99
Fluorescent amino acids as versatile building blocks for chemical biology	98
Emerging chemistries and molecular designs for flow batteries	97
Biosynthesis of inorganic nanomaterials using microbial cells and bacteriophages	97
Designing disorder into crystalline materials	95
Structural transformations of solid electrocatalysts and photocatalysts	95
Re-examining Fenton and Fenton-like reactions	94
From self-replication to replicator systems en route to de novo life	92
Organic reactivity from mechanism to machine learning	91
Designing bioresponsive nanomaterials for intracellular self-assembly	89
A practical guide to electrosynthesis	86
Imine and imine-derived linkages in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks	86
Chemical approaches to cryopreservation	83
Radical C(sp3)–H functionalization and cross-coupling reactions	80
Taking phototherapeutics from concept to clinical launch	78
Inhibition of RNA-binding proteins with small molecules	77
Engineering of stimuli-responsive lipid-bilayer membranes using supramolecular systems	75
NMR spectroscopy probes microstructure, dynamics and doping of metal halide perovskites	75
Radical generation and fate control for photocatalytic biomass conversion	74
Sustainable implementation of innovative technologies for water purification	74
Post-synthetic modifications of metal–organic cages	72
The chemistry of snake venom and its medicinal potential	71
Advances in the chemistry and applications of alkali-metal–gas batteries	70
Broadening the scope of biocatalytic C–C bond formation	69
Towards chemistry at absolute zero	68
Chemical strategies to engineer hydrogels for cell culture	68