OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Chemistry is 41. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Proteins turn up the contrast	835
Fabricating functionalized fibres	766
Watching RNA in action with a green lantern	658
From hardship to scholarship	555
Pregnancy in the lab	503
Setting the zirconocene for radical selectivity	467
Cracking the Z-scheme water-splitting puzzles	437
Expanding the catalytic landscape of metalloenzymes with lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases	356
Ni-catalysed remote C(sp3)–H functionalization using chain-walking strategies	349
Room-temperature phosphorescent materials derived from natural resources	328
Weighing up solvent effects	319
CACHE (Critical Assessment of Computational Hit-finding Experiments): A public–private partnership benchmarking initiative to enable the development of computational methods for hit-finding	308
Omniphobic liquid-like surfaces	304
Boosting band structure	275
Boosting solid stability	274
Advancing lithium-mediated ammonia synthesis	261
Ultrafast spectroscopy of liquids using extreme-ultraviolet to soft-X-ray pulses	244
Spearheading a new era in complex colloid synthesis with TPM and other silanes	226
Miniaturizing chemistry and biology using droplets in open systems	220
Selenium chemistry for spatio-selective peptide and protein functionalization	219
A comparison of RAFT and ATRP methods for controlled radical polymerization	205
Is educational research science, superstition or confidence trick?	200
Hot electrodes, cool reduction	199
Improving the quantum cycle	198
Understanding covalency in molecular f-block compounds from the synergy of spectroscopy and quantum chemistry	195

Meditations on mentorship and legacy	195
Mechanistic interpretation of orders in catalyst greater than one	186
Charge-transfer dynamics in S-scheme photocatalyst	182
Surface coating captures droplets	177
The cosmochemistry of planetary systems	170
The future of chemistry is language	169
Synthetic molecular cage receptors for carbohydrate recognition	167
Cleaning up with catalysts	166
Plastics from proteins	165
You can judge a book by its spectra	159
Picking an inter-locked cage	158
Bugging out for jet fuel	157
Author Correction: Near ambient N2 fixation on solid electrodes versus enzymes and homogeneous catalysts	152
Presenting the tactile periodic table	149
Supramolecular approaches for the treatment of hypoxic regions in tumours	144
Radical philicity and its role in selective organic transformations	142
Water at charged interfaces	131
Prospects and challenges for nitrogen-atom transfer catalysis	130
Light-empowered contra-thermodynamic stereochemical editing	127
Non-specificity as the sticky problem in therapeutic antibody development	122
Dual-locked spectroscopic probes for sensing and therapy	113
Light my fire	112
Inclusive teaching at your fingertips	111
Gender equity in funding	109
A life of leaving the door open	106
Microplastics that don’t come out in the wash	105
Examining actinides with X-ray spectroscopy	104
Rearrangements come to Scholl	104
A new actinide sandwich on the menu	104
Halogen chemistry of solid electrolytes in all-solid-state batteries	97
Direct air capture: fledgling technology or world saviour?	96
Solar utilization beyond photosynthesis	94
Accessing monomers from lignin through carbon–carbon bond cleavage	90
Opening the flood gates	90
Look what the catenane dragged in	89
Staying alive	89
The need to normalize failure	86
Scintillating observations	82
Author Correction: Closing the loop with reactions at the N-terminus	80
Fluorinated solvents for better batteries	78
Strategies to improve hydrogen activation on gold catalysts	78
Reviving antibiotic power	78
Go with the flow for high-throughput electrochemistry	78
Chemical approaches to cryopreservation	76
Studying protein structure and function by native separation–mass spectrometry	76
Stabilization of photoactive phases for perovskite photovoltaics	75
Continuous monitoring of chemical signals in plants under stress	72
Wearable chemical sensors for biomarker discovery in the omics era	71
Cap and release	70
Sulfonyl fluorides as targets and substrates in the development of new synthetic methods	70

Holding your nerve in academia whilst managing multiple sclerosis	69
An algorithmic looking glass for transitions	64
The synthesis behind the 2023 Nobel Prize	63
Unveiling the final nitrogenase	62
Complementary probes for the electrochemical interface	61
A career in pursuit of the fundamentals	61
Molecular chameleons in drug discovery	59
Intercalation in 2D materials and in situ studies	57
Metals to combat antimicrobial resistance	57
Super on-surface synthesis	56
Radical C(sp3)–H functionalization and cross-coupling reactions	56
Hierarchical pore assembly	55
Deceptive simplicity	54
The application of modern reactions in large-scale synthesis	54
Threading career skills into classrooms	54
How to drink like a liposome	54
Graphene oxide for photonics, electronics and optoelectronics	54
Making and breaking cages	53
A silicon solution	53
Radically new reactivity	52
Pump up the ultrasound	52
Chiral and magnetic butterflies	52
Chemotherapy gets tuned in	51
Another side of side chains	51
Reflections on the pigments of life	51
Snooping on the conical intersection	50
Optimizing the semiconductor–metal-single-atom interaction for photocatalytic reactivity	47
Reconfigurable microfluidics	46
Recent advances in visible light-induced C(sp3)–N bond formation	44
Motile behaviour of droplets in lipid systems	44
A glass of half and half	42
Secrets from a spin-out success story	42
Carbon on the move	41
Turning solvents into something	41
Interfacial interpretation	41