OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Catalysis is 103. 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
Setting the standard	817
N-between the aryls	809
Greenwashed catalysis?	738
PASADENA NMR	707
Bioproduction from methanol	672
Enzyme-like water preorganization in a synthetic molecular cleft for homogeneous water oxidation catalysis	630
Localized thermal levering events drive spontaneous kinetic oscillations during CO oxidation on Rh/Al2O3	515
Enhancing the connection between computation and experiments in electrocatalysis	514
Enantio- and diastereoselective construction of vicinal C(sp3) centres via nickel-catalysed hydroalkylation of alkenes	510
Red light is ‘Go!’ for protein labelling	493
Exploration of the bio-analogous asymmetric C–C coupling mechanism in tandem CO2 electroreduction	480
Imagine polypropylene	446
Organic electrolyte cations promote non-aqueous CO2 reduction by mediating interfacial electric fields	434
Zn2+-mediated catalysis for fast-charging aqueous Zn-ion batteries	423
Role of the human-in-the-loop in emerging self-driving laboratories for heterogeneous catalysis	418
Structure and mechanism of haem-dependent nitrogen–nitrogen bond formation in piperazate synthase	409
Electrosynthesis of amino acids from NO and α-keto acids using two decoupled flow reactors	397
Double alkyl–alkyl bond construction across alkenes enabled by nickel electron-shuttle catalysis	383
Neither H2 nor O2 in hydrogenative oxidations with water	382
Silver linings	320
Methanotrophic catalysis for methane oxidation to formaldehyde	316
Density control	310
Identifying and avoiding dead ends in the characterization of heterogeneous catalysts at the gas–solid interface	284
Identification of the active sites in supported subnanometric metal catalysts	284
Programmed exosome fusion for energy generation in living cells	278

Understanding the interplay between electrocatalytic C(sp3)‒C(sp3) fragmentation and oxygenation reactions	269
Electrocatalytic hydrogenation of alkenes with Pd/carbon nanotubes at an oil–water interface	267
RNA-catalysed guanosine methylation	263
The synchronized catalytic dance of CRISPR-Cas9	256
Author Correction: Epistasis arises from shifting the rate-limiting step during enzyme evolution of a β-lactamase	251
Motorized catalysis	250
Electrochemistry-inspired design of thermocatalysts	250
The iron-catalysed Suzuki coupling of aryl chlorides	245
Room temperature photo-promoted iron-catalysed arene C–H alkenylation without Grignard reagents	244
Light-induced Pd catalyst enables C(sp2)–C(sp2) cross-electrophile coupling bypassing the demand for transmetalation	243
Unified mechanistic understanding of CO2 reduction to CO on transition metal and single atom catalysts	241
Ternary platinum–cobalt–indium nanoalloy on ceria as a highly efficient catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane using CO2	240
Peripheral-nitrogen effects on the Ru1 centre for highly efficient propane dehydrogenation	234
H2-reduced phosphomolybdate promotes room-temperature aerobic oxidation of methane to methanol	233
Direct conversion of methane with O2 at room temperature over edge-rich MoS2	232
Symbiotic oxides in catalysts	230
Valence oscillation and dynamic active sites in monolayer NiCo hydroxides for water oxidation	217
Choreography of a self-splicing ribozyme	215
The rise of ab initio surface thermodynamics	213
O2 so good	207
Active sites overcrowding	201
Iminium catalysis in natural Diels–Alderase	199
Current state and future prospects of liquid metal catalysis	198
Iron-catalysed cooperative redox mechanism for the simultaneous conversion of nitrous oxide and nitric oxide	197
Enzymatic catalysis favours eight-membered over five-membered ring closure in bicyclomycin biosynthesis	195
Metabolic network remodelling enhances yeast’s fitness on xylose using aerobic glycolysis	194
Photoelectrochemical asymmetric dehydrogenative [2 + 2] cycloaddition between C–C single and double bonds via the activation of two C(sp3)–H bonds	190
A non-carboxylative route for the efficient synthesis of central metabolite malonyl-CoA and its derived products	186
Exploring mesoscopic mass transport effects on electrocatalytic selectivity	184
Optimizing iridium sites	172
Pulsed electrolysis through neutron lenses	172
Heavy labels from gas surrogates	169
Retro Hits	168
Steam methane reforming using a regenerable antenna–reactor plasmonic photocatalyst	166
Dinuclear Cu(I) molecular electrocatalyst for CO2-to-C3 product conversion	165
Probing electrolyte effects on cation-enhanced CO2 reduction on copper in acidic media	164
Remote site-selective arene C–H functionalization enabled by N-heterocyclic carbene organocatalysis	164
Solution-based Cu+ transient species mediate the reconstruction of copper electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction	162
The role of Cu1–O3 species in single-atom Cu/ZrO2 catalyst for CO2 hydrogenation	159
One, two, three, four, five!	158
Catalytic borylation of tertiary C–H bonds	157
Onto the Surface	156
Organocatalytic acylation of remote arene C–H bonds	152
Catalysing rate and capacity	151
Organocatalytic olefin C–H functionalization for enantioselective synthesis of atropisomeric 1,3-dienes	150
Durable MnO2 electrocatalysts by stronger Mn–O bonds	149
Wireless potentiometry of thermochemical heterogeneous catalysis	147
Bubble trouble	147
In situ lysosomal proteomics enabled by bioorthogonal photocatalytic proximity labelling	142
Reassessment of the catalytic activity of bismuth for aqueous nitrogen electroreduction	142

Germanium-enriched double-four-membered-ring units inducing zeolite-confined subnanometric Pt clusters for efficient propane dehydrogenation	141
N-Heterocyclic carbenes as tunable ligands for catalytic metal surfaces	141
Concerted methane fixation at ambient temperature and pressure mediated by an alcohol oxidase and Fe-ZSM-5 catalytic couple	140
A fine adjustment	137
Lengthened by ethylene	136
Doing without diazos	134
Frustration-driven efficiency	134
CYP screening for a better terpenoid world	132
Author Correction: Stereoselective alkyl–alkyl cross-coupling	132
Tailored for semi-hydrogenation	125
Blowing in the tube	123
Publisher Correction: Parahydrogen-enhanced magnetic resonance identification of intermediates in [Fe]-hydrogenase catalysis	122
Synthesis of tri- and tetrasubstituted stereocentres by nickel-catalysed enantioselective olefin cross-couplings	115
Uniting biological and chemical strategies for selective CO2 reduction	115
Step bunching instability and its effects in electrocatalysis on platinum surfaces	113
Active-site isolation in intermetallics enables precise identification of elementary reaction kinetics during olefin hydrogenation	112
Ammonia synthesis via an engineered nitrogenase assembly pathway in Escherichia coli	112
Regioselective silyl installation for arene diversification	111
Enantioselective Chan–Lam S-arylation of sulfenamides	110
Bridging catalysis	110
Nickel-electrocatalysed C(sp3)–C(sp3) cross-coupling of unactivated alkyl halides	107
High-purity carbon monoxide production via photothermal formic acid decomposition over fluorite ZrO2	107
Reactant-induced dynamics of lithium imide surfaces during the ammonia decomposition process	106
A synthetic methylotrophic Escherichia coli as a chassis for bioproduction from methanol	106
Cationic-group-functionalized electrocatalysts enable stable acidic CO2 electrolysis	105
The role of ruthenium in improving the kinetics of hydrogen oxidation and evolution reactions of platinum	105
An efficient Morita–Baylis–Hillmanase	105
Modular biocatalysis for polyamines	103
Chemoselective carbene transfer	103
Cations in alkaline hydrogen electrocatalysis	103
A hydrogenative oxidation strategy for the single-step synthesis of lactams from N-heteroarenes using water	103