OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Chemistry 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Proteins turn up the contrast	999
From hardship to scholarship	745
Pregnancy in the lab	563
Setting the zirconocene for radical selectivity	556
Watching RNA in action with a green lantern	429
Cracking the Z-scheme water-splitting puzzles	414
A story of chance and collaboration	386
Rings make more room	356
Fabricating functionalized fibres	356
Ni-catalysed remote C(sp3)–H functionalization using chain-walking strategies	326
Expanding the catalytic landscape of metalloenzymes with lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases	315
Room-temperature phosphorescent materials derived from natural resources	294
Weighing up solvent effects	292
Selenium chemistry for spatio-selective peptide and protein functionalization	272
Boosting band structure	263
Ultrafast spectroscopy of liquids using extreme-ultraviolet to soft-X-ray pulses	261
Boosting solid stability	256
Spearheading a new era in complex colloid synthesis with TPM and other silanes	244
A comparison of RAFT and ATRP methods for controlled radical polymerization	244
Miniaturizing chemistry and biology using droplets in open systems	234
CACHE (Critical Assessment of Computational Hit-finding Experiments): A public–private partnership benchmarking initiative to enable the development of computational methods for hit-finding	233
Omniphobic liquid-like surfaces	230
Advancing lithium-mediated ammonia synthesis	221
Is educational research science, superstition or confidence trick?	205
Hot electrodes, cool reduction	200

Improving the quantum cycle	194
Meditations on mentorship and legacy	193
The ideal recyclable solar cell	190
The future of chemistry is language	190
Synthetic molecular cage receptors for carbohydrate recognition	178
Understanding covalency in molecular f-block compounds from the synergy of spectroscopy and quantum chemistry	172
Mechanistic interpretation of orders in catalyst greater than one	171
Coupling experiment and theory to push the state-of-the-art in X-ray spectroscopy	167
The cosmochemistry of planetary systems	166
Charge-transfer dynamics in S-scheme photocatalyst	151
Cleaning up with catalysts	146
Plastics from proteins	138
You can judge a book by its spectra	136
Picking an inter-locked cage	135
Bugging out for jet fuel	133
Author Correction: Near ambient N2 fixation on solid electrodes versus enzymes and homogeneous catalysts	128
Supramolecular approaches for the treatment of hypoxic regions in tumours	126
Presenting the tactile periodic table	124
Prospects and challenges for nitrogen-atom transfer catalysis	119
Non-specificity as the sticky problem in therapeutic antibody development	116
The future of reviews writing in the AI era	115
Light-empowered contra-thermodynamic stereochemical editing	112
Light my fire	102
Inclusive teaching at your fingertips	101
A life of leaving the door open	100
Gender equity in funding	100
Microplastics that don’t come out in the wash	98
Direct air capture: fledgling technology or world saviour?	97
Examining actinides with X-ray spectroscopy	97
A new actinide sandwich on the menu	95
Halogen chemistry of solid electrolytes in all-solid-state batteries	94
Accessing monomers from lignin through carbon–carbon bond cleavage	94
Opening the flood gates	93
Solar utilization beyond photosynthesis	93
Staying alive	91
Look what the catenane dragged in	91
The need to normalize failure	85
Author Correction: Closing the loop with reactions at the N-terminus	83
Unchained power	77
The role and structure of molecular glues in plant signalling networks	77
Go with the flow for high-throughput electrochemistry	77
Studying protein structure and function by native separation–mass spectrometry	75
Scintillating observations	74
Reviving antibiotic power	71
Fluorinated solvents for better batteries	71
Continuous monitoring of chemical signals in plants under stress	68
Strategies to improve hydrogen activation on gold catalysts	68
Chemical approaches to cryopreservation	67
Wearable chemical sensors for biomarker discovery in the omics era	66
Sulfonyl fluorides as targets and substrates in the development of new synthetic methods	66

Stabilization of photoactive phases for perovskite photovoltaics	66
Cap and release	63
Holding your nerve in academia whilst managing multiple sclerosis	62
An algorithmic looking glass for transitions	61
A career in pursuit of the fundamentals	60
The synthesis behind the 2023 Nobel Prize	60
Element sets for schools	59
Complementary probes for the electrochemical interface	58
Unveiling the final nitrogenase	58
Intercalation in 2D materials and in situ studies	58
Molecular chameleons in drug discovery	56
Radical C(sp3)–H functionalization and cross-coupling reactions	56
Metals to combat antimicrobial resistance	56
Super on-surface synthesis	55
Hierarchical pore assembly	55
Photochemistry of interstellar ice forming complex organic molecules	52
How to drink like a liposome	52
Graphene oxide for photonics, electronics and optoelectronics	51
Threading career skills into classrooms	50
A silicon solution	49
Making and breaking cages	49
Pump up the ultrasound	48
Radically new reactivity	47
Chiral and magnetic butterflies	47
Reflections on the pigments of life	47
Another side of side chains	46
Snooping on the conical intersection	45
Developing a tool for teaching chemistry to people with visual impairments	42
Reconfigurable microfluidics	42
Motile behaviour of droplets in lipid systems	42
Recent advances in visible light-induced C(sp3)–N bond formation	41
Optimizing the semiconductor–metal-single-atom interaction for photocatalytic reactivity	41
Secrets from a spin-out success story	39