OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Chem is 82. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Programming extracellular protein fate with peptide chimeras	805
Transitioning aliphatic C–H functionalization from bench to plant: Is decatungstate photocatalysis ready for the leap yet?	426
Spatially resolved cell tagging and surfaceome labeling via targeted photocatalytic decaging	405
Catalysis, replication, and non-equilibrium behavior: Key determinants for life-like complexity realized using short peptides	360
Highly selective and efficient uranium recovery by size-sieving porous aromatic frameworks with rigidly functionalized windows	358
Click chemistry in polymer science	330
Nanocellulose: New horizons in organic chemistry and beyond	317
Excited-state protonation and reduction enable the umpolung Birch reduction of naphthalenes	287
Nature-inspired synthetic oligourea foldamer channels allow water transport with high salt rejection	247
2D conjugated metal-organic framework as a proton-electron dual conductor	221
Experimentally modeling the emergence of prebiotically plausible phospholipid vesicles	207
Air-stable radical polycyclic aromatic hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks	201
Probing enantioinduction in confined chiral spaces through asymmetric oxime reductions	199
From trash to treasure: Vanadium-catalyzed upcycling of non-biodegradable plastics	190
ElectroChemputer with integrated monitoring for programmable electrochemistry	184
An M60L60 metal-peptide capsid with a 60-crossing woven network	177
Lanthanide luminescence from supramolecular hydrogels consisting of bio-conjugated picolinic-acid-based guanosine quadruplexes	175
Photoswitches and photochemical reactions for optically controlled phase transition and energy storage	157
B(C6F5)3-catalyzed selective C–H chalcogenation of arenes and heteroarenes	156
A Star of David [2]catenane of single handedness	156
In this issue	149
Out-of-equilibrium chemical logic systems	148
Multi-omics profiling of a self-assembling bioactive hydrogel for immunomodulation and myogenesis in volumetric muscle loss	147
N-Heterocyclic carbene-derived second-period main-group radicals: Synthesis, fundamentals, and applications	146
2D covalent organic framework via catenation	146

Selective recognition of quaternary ammonium cations	145
Harnessing plastic depolymerization products to upcycle mixed waste into high-value chemicals	141
A high-throughput workflow to analyze sequence-conformation relationships and explore hydrophobic patterning in disordered peptoids	141
Quasicrystal approximants in isoreticular metal-organic frameworks via Cairo pentagonal tiling	140
Variable nanosheets for highly efficient oxygen evolution reaction	136
Reaction: Harnessing reactive oxygen species (ROS) for water purification	134
Ion-dipole-interaction-manipulated bilateral interface chemistry for deep rechargeability and high redox activity of Zn-organic batteries	133
Recent research progress of all-polymer solar cells based on PSMA-type polymer acceptors	132
Semiconducting ladder-type covalent organic frameworks	129
From G-protein-coupled receptors to solute carriers—mass spectrometry informs dynamics, function, and regulation	129
Ionic surface propensity controls pH in nanopores	125
Strong halide anion binding within the cavity of a conformation-adaptive phenazine-based Pd2L4 cage	123
In This Issue	123
Switchable diversification of quaternary ammonium salts using photocatalysis	122
Iridium-mediated methane dehydrogenation and methylidene (=CH2) transfer	122
Design of piezoelectric organic cage salts for energy harvesting	121
Photo-assembling cyclic peptides for dynamic light-driven peptide nanotubes	120
Observation of ultrafast electrons in pendant-embedded conducting two-dimensional polymers	119
Breaking ampere-level current density limitations in multi-carbon products through crystal facet engineering	118
Oxygen reduction active-site regulation enables reverse photocurrent in photoelectrochemical sensing	118
Atom swap in triple bonds via nitrogen-deletion coupling with gem-diborylalkanes	118
The beauty of low symmetry: Non-statistical assembly of [Pd2(LA)(LB)(LC)(LD)]4+ cages	117
Phosphine oxide additives for perovskite light-emitting diodes and solar cells	116
Catalytic strategies for upvaluing plastic wastes	115
Redox-couple-assisted CO2 capture on solid-electrolyte reactor	114
Be your own star	111
Swapping benches from chemistry PhD student to science advisor at law firm	111
Molecular freaky Friday: Polarity reversal and resorcin[4]arenes as chloride receptors	110
In this issue	107
Battery detectives: Uncovering cathode impact on anode-free Li cell performance by operando NMR	105
Reaction: Don’t hate the player in chemical AI; hate the game	105
Transition metal-free difunctionalization of unactivated alkenes: Arylation/azidation, arylation/chlorination, and arylation/cyanation	105
Supramolecular boosted superexchange	104
Modular nucleic acid scaffolds for synthesizing monodisperse and sequence-encoded antibody oligomers	103
A radical–polar crossover approach to complex nitrogen heterocycles via the triplet state	102
General and selective metal-free radical α-C–H borylation of aliphatic amines	100
Curved plane increases the d vacancy population of Pd for green production of cyclohexanone	98
In this issue	97
Structure-performance relationships for catalysis-driven molecular machinery	97
Stereodivergent asymmetric hydrogenation of quinoxalines	97
Bioinspired chemical design to control interfacial wet adhesion	96
Highly oxygenated organic molecules with high unsaturation formed upon photochemical aging of soot	95
Improving productivity and stability for CO2 hydrogenation by using pincer-ligated Mn complexes with hemilabile ligands	93
Molecule-resolvable SERSome for metabolic profiling	92
Time-resolved fluorescence imaging with color-changing, “turn-on/turn-on” AIE nanoparticles	89
An effective strategy to boost lattice-oxygen-mediated acidic oxygen evolution	88
para-Selective C–H alkylation of aroyl chlorides through organic photoredox-catalyzed radical tele-substitution	88
Two-in-one metallaphotoredox cross-couplings enabled by a photoactive ligand	88
Cation-exchange-upgraded nanostructures for photocatalysts	87
A light-driven chloride anion transporter	86

Development of tumor-evolution-targeted anticancer therapeutic nanomedicineEVT	85
Direct enantioselective α-amination of amides guided by DFT prediction of E/Z selectivity in a sulfonium intermediate	84
Chemical probes of redox enzymes by rational, reactivity-based design	84
Metal-free photocatalyzed cyanation enables access to carbon-11-radiolabeled aryl nitriles	83
Selective palladium recovery by a highly porous polyisothiocyanurate	82
The role of concentration waves in synthesizing hollow multi-shelled structures	82
Colorless zinc colored by metal-metal orbital interaction	82