OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Chemistry is 35. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
MXene chemistry, electrochemistry and energy storage applications	524
Towards the sustainable discovery and development of new antibiotics	496
Biomimetic peptide self-assembly for functional materials	466
Haemostatic materials for wound healing applications	440
Late-stage C–H functionalization offers new opportunities in drug discovery	378
Recent advances in the chemistry and applications of N-heterocyclic carbenes	340
Highlights and challenges in the selective reduction of carbon dioxide to methanol	304
Circularly polarized lanthanide luminescence for advanced security inks	281
Exploiting chemistry and molecular systems for quantum information science	276
Metal–organic cages for molecular separations	272
The concept of active site in heterogeneous catalysis	266
Water at charged interfaces	215
The principles, design and applications of fused-ring electron acceptors	202
The many flavours of mechanochemistry and its plausible conceptual underpinnings	196
Radical philicity and its role in selective organic transformations	194
Nuclease resistance of DNA nanostructures	184
Iron and manganese oxo complexes, oxo wall and beyond	181
Molecular reactions at aqueous interfaces	181
A comparison of RAFT and ATRP methods for controlled radical polymerization	180
Synthesis and applications of anisotropic nanoparticles with precisely defined dimensions	179
Advances and opportunities in the exciting world of azobenzenes	177
Wearable chemical sensors for biomarker discovery in the omics era	177
A unified view on catalytic conversion of biomass and waste plastics	172
Metals to combat antimicrobial resistance	168
Dual-locked spectroscopic probes for sensing and therapy	164

Construction of C–N bonds from small-molecule precursors through heterogeneous electrocatalysis	139
Natural and synthetic carbohydrate-based vaccine adjuvants and their mechanisms of action	137
Graphene oxide for photonics, electronics and optoelectronics	135
Bimetallic cooperation across the periodic table	132
Temporary or removable directing groups enable activation of unstrained C–C bonds	132
Chemistry under high pressure	132
Charge-transfer processes in metal complexes enable luminescence and memory functions	130
Deciphering protein post-translational modifications using chemical biology tools	128
Emerging chemistries and molecular designs for flow batteries	128
Bifunctional reagents in organic synthesis	127
Chemical syntheses of bioinspired and biomimetic polymers toward biobased materials	126
Self-assembled inorganic chiral superstructures	124
Developing bioorthogonal probes to span a spectrum of reactivities	122
Molecular excited states through a machine learning lens	120
Sulfonyl fluorides as targets and substrates in the development of new synthetic methods	119
Nitrene transfer catalysts for enantioselective C–N bond formation	118
Re-examining Fenton and Fenton-like reactions	109
Imine and imine-derived linkages in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks	108
Towards artificial molecular factories from framework-embedded molecular machines	108
Designing bioresponsive nanomaterials for intracellular self-assembly	105
Biosynthesis of inorganic nanomaterials using microbial cells and bacteriophages	104
Structural transformations of solid electrocatalysts and photocatalysts	102
A practical guide to electrosynthesis	101
Designing disorder into crystalline materials	101
Chemical approaches to cryopreservation	100
From self-replication to replicator systems en route to de novo life	99
Radical C(sp3)–H functionalization and cross-coupling reactions	99
Chemical strategies to engineer hydrogels for cell culture	94
Organic reactivity from mechanism to machine learning	94
Radical generation and fate control for photocatalytic biomass conversion	94
The chemistry of snake venom and its medicinal potential	91
Taking phototherapeutics from concept to clinical launch	90
Post-synthetic modifications of metal–organic cages	88
Sustainable implementation of innovative technologies for water purification	87
Engineering of stimuli-responsive lipid-bilayer membranes using supramolecular systems	86
Tailoring passivators for highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells	82
NMR spectroscopy probes microstructure, dynamics and doping of metal halide perovskites	80
Solar utilization beyond photosynthesis	80
Inhibition of RNA-binding proteins with small molecules	79
Omniphobic liquid-like surfaces	77
Towards chemistry at absolute zero	76
Advances in the chemistry and applications of alkali-metal–gas batteries	76
Hole utilization in solar hydrogen production	73
Transient directing ligands for selective metal-catalysed C–H activation	72
Silk chemistry and biomedical material designs	71
Interrogating biological systems using visible-light-powered catalysis	68
Controlling catalyst activity, chemoselectivity and stereoselectivity with the mechanical bond	66
Control of light, spin and charge with chiral metal halide semiconductors	65
Advancing mechanochemical synthesis by combining milling with different energy sources	65
Exploiting non-covalent interactions in selective carbohydrate synthesis	64

Chemically-powered swimming and diffusion in the microscopic world	64
DNA synthesis technologies to close the gene writing gap	63
Experimental characterization techniques for plasmon-assisted chemistry	62
Quantifying misfolded protein oligomers as drug targets and biomarkers in Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases	62
Radical-pairing-induced molecular assembly and motion	61
Stereochemical expression of ns2 electron pairs in metal halide perovskites	60
Carboranes in drug discovery, chemical biology and molecular imaging	60
Evaluation guidelines for machine learning tools in the chemical sciences	59
Optimizing the semiconductor–metal-single-atom interaction for photocatalytic reactivity	57
Decoupled aqueous batteries using pH-decoupling electrolytes	56
Hydrogels as functional components in artificial cell systems	54
De novo metalloprotein design	54
DNA nanostructures as templates for biomineralization	51
Stereoselectivity in Pd-catalysed cross-coupling reactions of enantioenriched nucleophiles	51
Synthesis of lipid membranes for artificial cells	51
Stabilization of photoactive phases for perovskite photovoltaics	50
Chemical targets to deactivate biological and chemical toxins using surfaces and fabrics	49
Exploring new targets and chemical space with affinity selection-mass spectrometry	48
Direct synthesis of amorphous coordination polymers and metal–organic frameworks	48
Reversible catalysis	45
Extending machine learning beyond interatomic potentials for predicting molecular properties	44
The application of modern reactions in large-scale synthesis	44
Plasmonic phenomena in molecular junctions: principles and applications	43
Reconfigurable microfluidics	43
Nanoscale molecular rectifiers	40
Natural product anticipation through synthesis	40
Light-empowered contra-thermodynamic stereochemical editing	40
Establishing electron diffraction in chemical crystallography	39
Self-reproducing catalytic micelles as nanoscopic protocell precursors	39
Energy- and atom-efficient chemical synthesis with endergonic photocatalysis	38
Bioassembly of complex iron–sulfur enzymes: hydrogenases and nitrogenases	35
The case for data science in experimental chemistry: examples and recommendations	35
MOFs in the time domain	35