OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Chemistry is 37. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
From hardship to scholarship	1148
Pregnancy in the lab	634
Setting the zirconocene for radical selectivity	508
Proteins turn up the contrast	470
Cracking the Z-scheme water-splitting puzzles	469
Rings make more room	466
A story of chance and collaboration	396
Watching RNA in action with a green lantern	381
Room-temperature phosphorescent materials derived from natural resources	332
Ni-catalysed remote C(sp3)–H functionalization using chain-walking strategies	328
Expanding the catalytic landscape of metalloenzymes with lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases	309
Weighing up solvent effects	307
Boosting band structure	304
Boosting solid stability	299
Ultrafast spectroscopy of liquids using extreme-ultraviolet to soft-X-ray pulses	289
CACHE (Critical Assessment of Computational Hit-finding Experiments): A public–private partnership benchmarking initiative to enable the development of computational methods for hit-finding	271
Miniaturizing chemistry and biology using droplets in open systems	253
Spearheading a new era in complex colloid synthesis with TPM and other silanes	244
Advancing lithium-mediated ammonia synthesis	242
Selenium chemistry for spatio-selective peptide and protein functionalization	231
Omniphobic liquid-like surfaces	228
Meditations on mentorship and legacy	224
Improving the quantum cycle	223
Is educational research science, superstition or confidence trick?	220
Hot electrodes, cool reduction	215

The ideal recyclable solar cell	208
Coupling experiment and theory to push the state-of-the-art in X-ray spectroscopy	206
Understanding covalency in molecular f-block compounds from the synergy of spectroscopy and quantum chemistry	204
The cosmochemistry of planetary systems	191
The future of chemistry is language	186
Mechanistic interpretation of orders in catalyst greater than one	178
Synthetic molecular cage receptors for carbohydrate recognition	177
Charge-transfer dynamics in S-scheme photocatalyst	172
Cleaning up with catalysts	166
You can judge a book by its spectra	158
Bugging out for jet fuel	156
Picking an inter-locked cage	154
Presenting the tactile periodic table	150
Author Correction: Near ambient N2 fixation on solid electrodes versus enzymes and homogeneous catalysts	143
Plastics from proteins	132
The future of reviews writing in the AI era	127
Supramolecular approaches for the treatment of hypoxic regions in tumours	125
Prospects and challenges for nitrogen-atom transfer catalysis	124
Light-empowered contra-thermodynamic stereochemical editing	123
Non-specificity as the sticky problem in therapeutic antibody development	123
Light my fire	120
A life of leaving the door open	118
A new actinide sandwich on the menu	115
Microplastics that don’t come out in the wash	113
Examining actinides with X-ray spectroscopy	112
Gender equity in funding	106
Direct air capture: fledgling technology or world saviour?	106
Inclusive teaching at your fingertips	104
The impact of supramolecular self-association of organocatalysts on catalytic performance	101
Halogen chemistry of solid electrolytes in all-solid-state batteries	96
Solar utilization beyond photosynthesis	93
Accessing monomers from lignin through carbon–carbon bond cleavage	93
Staying alive	86
Go with the flow for high-throughput electrochemistry	85
Look what the catenane dragged in	85
Author Correction: Closing the loop with reactions at the N-terminus	85
Opening the flood gates	85
The role and structure of molecular glues in plant signalling networks	84
The need to normalize failure	83
Scientific collaboration to rid the world of chemical weapons	82
Fluorinated solvents for better batteries	77
Scintillating observations	77
Studying protein structure and function by native separation–mass spectrometry	76
Sulfonyl fluorides as targets and substrates in the development of new synthetic methods	76
Stabilization of photoactive phases for perovskite photovoltaics	75
Strategies to improve hydrogen activation on gold catalysts	72
Continuous monitoring of chemical signals in plants under stress	72
Reviving antibiotic power	71
Chemical approaches to cryopreservation	70
Wearable chemical sensors for biomarker discovery in the omics era	68

Unchained power	67
Cap and release	66
An algorithmic looking glass for transitions	66
Holding your nerve in academia whilst managing multiple sclerosis	66
A career in pursuit of the fundamentals	66
Element sets for schools	66
The synthesis behind the 2023 Nobel Prize	66
Unveiling the final nitrogenase	64
Molecular chameleons in drug discovery	64
Radical C(sp3)–H functionalization and cross-coupling reactions	63
Intercalation in 2D materials and in situ studies	63
Complementary probes for the electrochemical interface	61
Metals to combat antimicrobial resistance	61
Super on-surface synthesis	56
How to drink like a liposome	55
Photochemistry of interstellar ice forming complex organic molecules	55
A career with a natural interest in total synthesis	54
Dynamics in electrochemical organic oxidation reactions from in situ and operando techniques	54
Graphene oxide for photonics, electronics and optoelectronics	53
Hierarchical pore assembly	53
Threading career skills into classrooms	51
Making and breaking cages	51
Pump up the ultrasound	49
Radically new reactivity	47
Chiral and magnetic butterflies	46
Reflections on the pigments of life	44
Developing a tool for teaching chemistry to people with visual impairments	43
Snooping on the conical intersection	42
Another side of side chains	41
Recent advances in visible light-induced C(sp3)–N bond formation	40
Motile behaviour of droplets in lipid systems	40
Optimizing the semiconductor–metal-single-atom interaction for photocatalytic reactivity	38
Turning solvents into something	37
Secrets from a spin-out success story	37
A glass of half and half	37