Nature

Papers
(The H4-Index of Nature is 281. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star26949
Five hundred days between pay cheques: the road I took to revive my career2628
Daily briefing: How to make colour-blind-friendly figures2567
Mini ‘metavehicles’ zip and swerve on light power2230
Richard Leakey (1944–2022)2069
How 'megastudies' are changing behavioural science1819
Brightest X-rays on Earth expose COVID lung damage1732
Daily briefing: What a healthy, sustainable diet looks like1707
Daily briefing: Largest trial shows psilocybin is effective to treat depression1678
Ukrainian mathematician becomes second woman to win prestigious Fields Medal1668
Postdoc unions can help secure a brighter future1509
Daily briefing: The nine wild animals that could help lock away carbon1469
Abortion-pill ruling threatens FDA’s authority, say drug firms1441
The forever family1421
JWST spots planetary building blocks in a surprising galaxy1346
My mission to grow fruit without the plant1336
The inspiring story of the Tara and its 20-year message from the corals1256
New pill helps COVID smell and taste loss fade quickly1234
Daily briefing: Malaria vaccine made of live parasites shows early success1223
Coronapod: COVID and pregnancy - what do we know?1110
COVID-19: build on Belgium’s psychosocial findings1108
Stop using ‘master–slave’ terminology in biology1078
Psychedelic drugs without the trip? This sensor could help seek them out1076
Good research begins long before papers get written1069
Long-awaited muon physics experiment nears moment of truth1057
Video grant proposals could be exclusionary1040
An antibody joins forces with the pancreas to delay diabetes1015
Bonobo mums open their arms to outsider orphans964
Black hole jets bent by magnetic fields942
Faint galaxies light up the dark web filling the cosmos925
Pink hare, deadlier COVID and a trove of bat coronaviruses898
Solar panels that throw shade on canals are an environmental win–win893
A critical period that shapes neuronal motor circuits876
India’s neighbours race to sequence genomes as COVID surges869
Pandemic whistle-blower: we need a non-political way to track viruses848
The sanitation crisis making rural America ill845
Flying a helicopter on Mars: NASA's Ingenuity799
Africa’s vaccines revolution must have research at its core799
Russia: scientists petition to end political persecution784
Vaccinate people in Africa’s prisons against COVID-19774
Minuscule drums push the limits of quantum weirdness771
Biologist to lead Europe’s premier research funder765
COVID, 2020 and a year of lost research759
Material mimicking lobster belly cracks the code for toughness756
What’s next for physics’ standard model? Muon results throw theories into confusion754
A smart genome scan could help scratch the itch for new antifungal drugs751
Coronapod: Uncertainty and the COVID 'lab-leak' theory738
Daily briefing: What we know about fast-spreading coronavirus variants696
Australia’s oldest rock painting and a prestigious mathematics prize689
Black scientist network celebrates successes — but calls for more support686
A century of US data documents obesity’s racially skewed rise683
How itchy are you? A new device knows precisely670
Trade resolution further threatens Brazil’s amphibians669
A graphene cloak keeps artworks’ colours ageless664
Mars auroras, deadly heatwave and new ERC president661
Daily briefing: Microfossils reveal mysterious shark die-off651
Elegant chemistry, a humane view of robots, and refugee economics: Books in brief651
Hunting the strongest accelerators in our Galaxy650
Complex, lab-made ‘cells’ react to change like the real thing646
On the origin of numbers645
It takes a wood to raise a tree: a memoir643
Daily briefing: How COVID damages the brain639
Household water crisis affects millions in the United States636
How quantum biology could help birds 'see' magnetic fields631
Seek diversity to solve complexity631
How a child’s heart health could be decided before birth607
Coronapod: the biomarker that could change COVID vaccines601
From the archive587
Daily briefing: Mini Moderna dose rouses big immune response584
Daily briefing: The parenting penalties faced by scientist mothers574
Shifting shores: delving into the past with mud cores571
Pikas in high places have a winter-time treat: yak poo569
Daily briefing: Aliens orbiting these 2,000 stars could (maybe) spot Earth568
Daily briefing: Video guide to the science of coronavirus variants567
Good presentation skills benefit careers — and science558
Holding a tool wrong? This brain region will notice555
What polar researchers have learnt from the pandemic555
Daily briefing: First major investigation of the global pandemic response554
UNESCO embraces open science to shape society’s future553
Daily briefing: ‘Staggering’ success for anti-dengue mosquito trial545
Journal closure leads to dip in papers’ citations544
China and the UK: Making an international collaboration work542
Snap and trap: DNA panels click together to form tiny virus catchers541
Five trendy technologies: where are they now?537
Not not happy535
Daily briefing: The evidence is stacking up for Sputnik V vaccine530
To build resilience, study complex systems526
Swiss funder draws lots to make grant decisions525
Daily briefing: Oldest wooden relic could reshape history523
Report exposes power gap at US universities523
Daily briefing: Big COVID treatment trial reboots with three new drugs519
Heart of the gestalt518
Ants shrink their brains for motherhood — but can enlarge them when egg-laying ends517
Daily briefing: Why rare vaccine side effects are so hard to investigate517
Prediction for magnetic moment of the muon informs a test of the standard model of particle physics515
How a worrisome coronavirus variant spread unnoticed514
Daily briefing: Why it took so long to grapple with airborne COVID-19510
Head-injury risk higher for female soccer players, massive survey finds508
Daily briefing: Tardigrades didn’t survive crash-landing on the Moon507
Coronapod: How to define rare COVID vaccine side effects506
A hurricane wrecks ‘Monkey Island’ — and leads to new monkey friendships500
Daily briefing: Vast landscape of ancient stone structures discovered499
Business of science: How to register a patent493
Injection of light-sensitive proteins restores blind man’s vision491
Mechanical effects on the genome known since 1948489
Brain-cell bouquet and snaps from Mars — March’s best science images485
Meth-addicted trout swim for a hit483
Lightning talks: science in 5 minutes or less479
The ‘time neurons’ that help the brain keep track477
Daily briefing: Why asthma attacks dropped during the pandemic474
Practice on a pulsefish473
A ‘no-brainer’ decision to become a COVID-19 vaccine-centre volunteer470
Why national attitudes about science matter for vaccine acceptance469
Daily briefing: J&J COVID vaccine pause recommended462
How headless worms see the light to steer462
Animals’ bright colours don’t lie: eat me and you’ll be sorry455
Network of world’s most accurate clocks paves way to redefine time453
Europe’s pandemic recovery: embed resilience452
Audio long-read: How drugmakers can be better prepared for the next pandemic448
How new principal investigators tackled a tumultuous year444
COVID’s cardiac connection444
Activation of retinal neurons triggers tumour formation in cancer-prone mice444
Daily briefing: ‘Inflammation clock’ shows your immune system’s age442
Menopause therapy: Brain-based treatment for hot flushes approved by FDA437
Online pet shops are crawling with spiders captured in the wild435
How to organize your lab purchases and inventory435
India shoots for the Moon with Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander433
‘Everybody is so excited’: South Korea set for first Moon mission430
Structure sheds light on a lipid-transport machine in mycobacteria430
Daily briefing: How some fish can live for centuries427
A visual guide to repairing the retina424
Science in 2022: what to expect this year424
The best science images of 2021421
Busting benzene, lab-grown embryos — the week in infographics421
Earth-like planet, neutrino’s mysterious mass and disease eradication420
Daily briefing: Great Barrier Reef is experiencing a mass bleaching event417
From the archive415
Zeroing out his wavefunction414
The singularity graveyard409
How itchy vicuñas remade a vast wilderness409
Feeling lonely in research? You’re not alone408
Missing genomes, flexible microphone — the week in infographics408
What maintains biodiversity in ecological communities?405
The surprising benefit of meditative walks403
Molecular map of the human blood–brain barrier reveals links to Alzheimer’s disease403
Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time402
Climatologist Michael Mann wins defamation case: what it means for scientists401
Introducing meat–rice: grain with added muscles beefs up protein399
What a tease! Great apes pull hair and poke each other for fun399
R&D budget cut could be the final straw for South Korea’s young scientists398
Sri Lanka is in crisis — and so are its scientists397
Daily briefing: First private Moon lander makes history396
Daily briefing: Mysterious lizard fossil revealed to be mostly black paint396
Ambitious survey of human diversity yields millions of undiscovered genetic variants396
Russia’s Arctic Council threat requires lessons from cold war science diplomacy396
Forget lung, breast or prostate cancer? Why we shouldn’t abandon tumour names yet395
So … you’ve been hacked394
Black holes, love and poetry — an artistic exploration of intimacy and adventure394
Daily briefing: Tweeting about your paper doesn’t boost citations392
I study small organisms to tackle big climate problems391
Tweeting your research paper boosts engagement but not citations391
Did ‘alien’ debris hit Earth? Startling claim sparks row at scientific meeting384
How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says384
A fundamental constant in physics gets an update383
Daily briefing: How PhD assessment needs to change382
I peer into volcanoes to see when they’ll blow382
Presidents of Royal Society live long lives382
AI & robotics briefing: AI decodes languages in first ‘bilingual’ brain-reading device381
Superpowered science: charting China’s research rise377
COVID is spreading in deer. What does that mean for the pandemic?375
How virtual reality is helping to boost scientific engagement in rural Africa375
Why do some dogs chase squirrels? Study finds genetic links to canine quirks374
A microscopy technique that images single reaction events in total darkness374
DNA reveals that mastodons roamed a forested Greenland two million years ago373
Santiago Ramón y Cajal: art, politics and neuroscience revolution372
Crucial biodiversity summit will go ahead in Canada, not China: what scientists think372
Ancient 'giraffes' sported thick helmets for headbutting370
Tracing the brain circuitry underlying movement and mood symptoms in Parkinson’s disease369
Cancer cells hijack nerve cells to storm through the brain367
Billions more for US science: how the landmark spending plan will boost research364
Blipcoin363
Healthier foods are better for the planet, mammoth study finds363
Daily briefing: How to clean indoor air of viruses and pollutants362
Daily briefing: New treatments offer fresh hope for depression362
COVID derailed polar research projects. Here’s how students have coped358
Charge dropped against New Zealand science agency after deadly volcano eruption354
Loss of power looms for some families as climate changes353
What Xi Jinping’s third term means for science353
Mid-career scientists: advice to our younger selves350
Daily briefing: Everest observatory is falling apart349
Why cannabis reeks of skunk349
Boosting banana nutrition for Ugandans349
From the archive347
Women and the environment: power on the ground and in academia347
Daily briefing: Exoplanet has ruby and sapphire rain347
Coronapod: what people get wrong about endemic COVID343
Warming world, women in science — the week in infographics342
The AI historian: A new tool to decipher ancient texts341
Daily briefing: Ukrainian researchers ‘in agony’ in Antarctica340
From the archive: fishy business in 1972 and 1922339
Clever orangutans invent nutcrackers from scratch338
Wildfire smoke creates brighter clouds — and weather changes337
AI finally beats humans at a real-life sport — drone racing336
Climate change to loom large in talks to form new German government336
Peering into bats’ brains as the animals fly and feed together336
How research managers are using AI to get ahead335
Surface interaction propels molecule forwards335
Daily briefing: Sexism is a waste of money333
Politics and the environment collide in Brazil: Lula’s first year back in office333
I look for the mineral equivalent of tree rings332
Daily briefing: First UK children born with DNA from three people330
Can resetting the body clock help with depression?330
Daily briefing: Citation padding gets papers accepted329
This infinite tiling pattern could end a 60-year mathematical quest329
From the archive: hay fever, and the transit of Venus across the Sun328
NIH to intensify scrutiny of foreign grant recipients in wake of COVID origins debate328
How to keep Ukraine’s research hopes alive327
Super-cooling lasers could help to reveal celestial chemistry326
Dolphin mums whistle ‘baby talk’ with their calves324
Surprise dip in UK COVID cases baffles researchers323
‘Virgin birth’ genetically engineered into female animals for the first time323
COVID was twice as deadly in poorer countries322
Postdoctoral researchers warn NIH that cost-of-living pressures are gutting the workforce321
In search of body320
Chronic stress can inflame the gut — now scientists know why320
A sea change in craft brewing319
Trees are dying much faster in northern Australia — climate change is probably to blame319
Daily briefing: First known case of getting COVID from a cat317
Daily briefing: The largest Jurassic flier ever found316
Witness in US climate-change law suit tells all316
Touch-evoked itch pinned on Piezo1 ion-channel protein316
Coronapod: Ivermectin, what the science says315
Maize under threat, and morality for cars: Books in brief314
Goodnight, Moon313
Hard feelings over mission change for NASA’s Pluto spacecraft312
Starfish, sharks and space-telescope selfie — February’s best science images312
Circadian rhythms are set by epigenetic marks in neurons310
Pioneering CERN scheme will pay publishers more if they hit open-science targets310
Author Correction: Ab initio characterization of protein molecular dynamics with AI2BMD310
Neuromorphic computing at scale309
‘Publish or perish’ culture blamed for reproducibility crisis308
All-solid-state Li–S batteries with fast solid–solid sulfur reaction307
Superconductivity in 5.0° twisted bilayer WSe2307
Bilayer nanographene reveals halide permeation through a benzene hole306
Clouds reduce downwelling longwave radiation over land in a warming climate305
How to trick the immune system into attacking tumours305
Raising a glass to the Four Friends Doing Science journal club304
How I use data to highlight complex and overlooked work in health-care systems303
Beyond black and white: an ecologist applies racial-justice principles to predators and their ecosystems302
The Doppler effect explained with steam trains302
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