Nature

Article	Citations
Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star	25593
Five hundred days between pay cheques: the road I took to revive my career	2568
Daily briefing: How to make colour-blind-friendly figures	2502
Mini ‘metavehicles’ zip and swerve on light power	2359
Richard Leakey (1944–2022)	2163
How 'megastudies' are changing behavioural science	1781
Brightest X-rays on Earth expose COVID lung damage	1642
Daily briefing: What a healthy, sustainable diet looks like	1636
Machine learning enables global solar-panel detection	1572
Daily briefing: Largest trial shows psilocybin is effective to treat depression	1572
Ukrainian mathematician becomes second woman to win prestigious Fields Medal	1486
Postdoc unions can help secure a brighter future	1469
Daily briefing: The nine wild animals that could help lock away carbon	1438
Abortion-pill ruling threatens FDA’s authority, say drug firms	1430
The forever family	1327
JWST spots planetary building blocks in a surprising galaxy	1314
My mission to grow fruit without the plant	1286
The inspiring story of the Tara and its 20-year message from the corals	1251
New pill helps COVID smell and taste loss fade quickly	1201
Daily briefing: Malaria vaccine made of live parasites shows early success	1189
Biden has assembled a stellar science team — now they must pull together	1174
Coronapod: COVID and pregnancy - what do we know?	1128
Elation as first Arab Mars mission reaches orbit	1068
COVID-19: build on Belgium’s psychosocial findings	1058
Stop using ‘master–slave’ terminology in biology	1056

Gaming helped my lab-mates and me to conquer the social-distancing blues	1054
Psychedelic drugs without the trip? This sensor could help seek them out	1031
Good research begins long before papers get written	1025
Long-awaited muon physics experiment nears moment of truth	1018
Video grant proposals could be exclusionary	986
Major physics society won’t meet in cities with racist policing record	962
An antibody joins forces with the pancreas to delay diabetes	932
Bonobo mums open their arms to outsider orphans	893
Black hole jets bent by magnetic fields	888
Faint galaxies light up the dark web filling the cosmos	875
Daily briefing: The human genome sequence, 20 years on	869
Pink hare, deadlier COVID and a trove of bat coronaviruses	848
Solar panels that throw shade on canals are an environmental win–win	848
A critical period that shapes neuronal motor circuits	841
Webcast: How to write a great CV for academia and industry	799
India’s neighbours race to sequence genomes as COVID surges	799
Pandemic whistle-blower: we need a non-political way to track viruses	793
The sanitation crisis making rural America ill	781
Africa’s vaccines revolution must have research at its core	759
Flying a helicopter on Mars: NASA's Ingenuity	754
Russia: scientists petition to end political persecution	750
Vaccinate people in Africa’s prisons against COVID-19	743
Minuscule drums push the limits of quantum weirdness	728
Biologist to lead Europe’s premier research funder	720
COVID, 2020 and a year of lost research	719
Material mimicking lobster belly cracks the code for toughness	713
What’s next for physics’ standard model? Muon results throw theories into confusion	701
A smart genome scan could help scratch the itch for new antifungal drugs	686
Coronapod: Uncertainty and the COVID 'lab-leak' theory	680
Daily briefing: What we know about fast-spreading coronavirus variants	667
Australia’s oldest rock painting and a prestigious mathematics prize	662
Black scientist network celebrates successes — but calls for more support	654
A century of US data documents obesity’s racially skewed rise	649
How itchy are you? A new device knows precisely	648
Trade resolution further threatens Brazil’s amphibians	645
A graphene cloak keeps artworks’ colours ageless	631
Mars auroras, deadly heatwave and new ERC president	629
Elegant chemistry, a humane view of robots, and refugee economics: Books in brief	628
Daily briefing: Microfossils reveal mysterious shark die-off	627
Hunting the strongest accelerators in our Galaxy	626
Complex, lab-made ‘cells’ react to change like the real thing	625
On the origin of numbers	622
It takes a wood to raise a tree: a memoir	613
Daily briefing: How COVID damages the brain	610
Household water crisis affects millions in the United States	606
How quantum biology could help birds 'see' magnetic fields	594
Seek diversity to solve complexity	589
How a child’s heart health could be decided before birth	583
Coronapod: the biomarker that could change COVID vaccines	573
From the archive	571

Daily briefing: Mini Moderna dose rouses big immune response	570
Daily briefing: The parenting penalties faced by scientist mothers	550
Shifting shores: delving into the past with mud cores	541
Pikas in high places have a winter-time treat: yak poo	539
Daily briefing: Aliens orbiting these 2,000 stars could (maybe) spot Earth	536
Daily briefing: Video guide to the science of coronavirus variants	530
Good presentation skills benefit careers — and science	528
What polar researchers have learnt from the pandemic	524
Holding a tool wrong? This brain region will notice	523
Daily briefing: First major investigation of the global pandemic response	521
UNESCO embraces open science to shape society’s future	518
Daily briefing: ‘Staggering’ success for anti-dengue mosquito trial	518
Journal closure leads to dip in papers’ citations	517
China and the UK: Making an international collaboration work	516
Snap and trap: DNA panels click together to form tiny virus catchers	515
Five trendy technologies: where are they now?	511
Not not happy	508
Daily briefing: The evidence is stacking up for Sputnik V vaccine	506
To build resilience, study complex systems	503
Rethink how we plan research to shrink COVID health disparities	502
Trying a Mediterranean diet? Gut microbes might sway the outcome	501
Swiss funder draws lots to make grant decisions	499
Daily briefing: Oldest wooden relic could reshape history	498
Report exposes power gap at US universities	497
Human Genome Project - Nature’s editor-in-chief reflects 20 years on	494
Daily briefing: Big COVID treatment trial reboots with three new drugs	492
Heart of the gestalt	491
TL;DR: how well do machines summarize our work?	491
Impervious to cold? A gene helps people to ward off the chills	491
Daily briefing: Why rare vaccine side effects are so hard to investigate	484
Ants shrink their brains for motherhood — but can enlarge them when egg-laying ends	483
How a worrisome coronavirus variant spread unnoticed	481
Prediction for magnetic moment of the muon informs a test of the standard model of particle physics	481
Daily briefing: Why it took so long to grapple with airborne COVID-19	481
Head-injury risk higher for female soccer players, massive survey finds	478
AI maths whiz creates tough new problems for humans to solve	478
Daily briefing: Tardigrades didn’t survive crash-landing on the Moon	471
Coronapod: How to define rare COVID vaccine side effects	469
A hurricane wrecks ‘Monkey Island’ — and leads to new monkey friendships	467
Daily briefing: Vast landscape of ancient stone structures discovered	467
Injection of light-sensitive proteins restores blind man’s vision	459
Business of science: How to register a patent	459
Mechanical effects on the genome known since 1948	454
Brain-cell bouquet and snaps from Mars — March’s best science images	449
Meth-addicted trout swim for a hit	446
Lightning talks: science in 5 minutes or less	445
The ‘time neurons’ that help the brain keep track	444
Daily briefing: Why asthma attacks dropped during the pandemic	443
Practice on a pulsefish	441
Boost US federal funding for international trainees	441
Daily briefing: Mysterious spike in ozone-killing chemicals is over	440
A ‘no-brainer’ decision to become a COVID-19 vaccine-centre volunteer	437
Why national attitudes about science matter for vaccine acceptance	436
How headless worms see the light to steer	430
Daily briefing: J&J COVID vaccine pause recommended	429
Animals’ bright colours don’t lie: eat me and you’ll be sorry	427
Europe’s pandemic recovery: embed resilience	423
Network of world’s most accurate clocks paves way to redefine time	423
Audio long-read: How drugmakers can be better prepared for the next pandemic	422
How new principal investigators tackled a tumultuous year	420
Activation of retinal neurons triggers tumour formation in cancer-prone mice	414
COVID’s cardiac connection	412
Daily briefing: ‘Inflammation clock’ shows your immune system’s age	407
How to organize your lab purchases and inventory	406
Menopause therapy: Brain-based treatment for hot flushes approved by FDA	406
Online pet shops are crawling with spiders captured in the wild	404
Structure sheds light on a lipid-transport machine in mycobacteria	403
India shoots for the Moon with Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander	403
‘Everybody is so excited’: South Korea set for first Moon mission	401
Daily briefing: How some fish can live for centuries	400
Science in 2022: what to expect this year	396
A visual guide to repairing the retina	393
Busting benzene, lab-grown embryos — the week in infographics	392
The best science images of 2021	392
Earth-like planet, neutrino’s mysterious mass and disease eradication	390
Daily briefing: Great Barrier Reef is experiencing a mass bleaching event	386
From the archive	384
The singularity graveyard	383
Zeroing out his wavefunction	383
How itchy vicuñas remade a vast wilderness	382

Missing genomes, flexible microphone — the week in infographics	382
Feeling lonely in research? You’re not alone	381
What maintains biodiversity in ecological communities?	380
Molecular map of the human blood–brain barrier reveals links to Alzheimer’s disease	379
The surprising benefit of meditative walks	376
Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time	373
People, not search-engine algorithms, choose unreliable or partisan news	372
How population size shapes the evolution of guppy fish	370
Climatologist Michael Mann wins defamation case: what it means for scientists	369
What a tease! Great apes pull hair and poke each other for fun	368
Introducing meat–rice: grain with added muscles beefs up protein	367
R&D budget cut could be the final straw for South Korea’s young scientists	366
Sri Lanka is in crisis — and so are its scientists	362
Daily briefing: Mysterious lizard fossil revealed to be mostly black paint	360
Russia’s Arctic Council threat requires lessons from cold war science diplomacy	359
Daily briefing: First private Moon lander makes history	359
Ambitious survey of human diversity yields millions of undiscovered genetic variants	359
Black holes, love and poetry — an artistic exploration of intimacy and adventure	358
Forget lung, breast or prostate cancer? Why we shouldn’t abandon tumour names yet	358
So … you’ve been hacked	356
Daily briefing: Tweeting about your paper doesn’t boost citations	355
Tweeting your research paper boosts engagement but not citations	353
I study small organisms to tackle big climate problems	352
Did ‘alien’ debris hit Earth? Startling claim sparks row at scientific meeting	350
Presidents of Royal Society live long lives	349
A fundamental constant in physics gets an update	349
How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says	349
I peer into volcanoes to see when they’ll blow	345
Cichlid fish seized an ecological opportunity to diversify	344
Daily briefing: How PhD assessment needs to change	344
Smoking’s lasting effect on the immune system	343
AI & robotics briefing: AI decodes languages in first ‘bilingual’ brain-reading device	342
Why snow is crucial for water supply — and what will happen when it becomes scarce	339
Emissions scenarios and targets aligned to meet climate goals	337
Human pangenome supports analysis of complex genomic regions	337
Superpowered science: charting China’s research rise	336
Fructose in the diet expands the surface of the gut and promotes nutrient absorption	336
How virtual reality is helping to boost scientific engagement in rural Africa	335
COVID is spreading in deer. What does that mean for the pandemic?	334
Aligned grains and scattered light found in gaps of planet-forming disk	333
A microscopy technique that images single reaction events in total darkness	333
DNA reveals that mastodons roamed a forested Greenland two million years ago	332
Why do some dogs chase squirrels? Study finds genetic links to canine quirks	332
Santiago Ramón y Cajal: art, politics and neuroscience revolution	331
Crucial biodiversity summit will go ahead in Canada, not China: what scientists think	331
Amazon Indigenous peoples: lawsuit threatens lands	328
Ancient 'giraffes' sported thick helmets for headbutting	327
Tracing the brain circuitry underlying movement and mood symptoms in Parkinson’s disease	327
Cancer cells hijack nerve cells to storm through the brain	324
Billions more for US science: how the landmark spending plan will boost research	323
Blipcoin	322
Healthier foods are better for the planet, mammoth study finds	321
Daily briefing: New treatments offer fresh hope for depression	320
Daily briefing: How to clean indoor air of viruses and pollutants	320
COVID derailed polar research projects. Here’s how students have coped	319
Charge dropped against New Zealand science agency after deadly volcano eruption	317
Loss of power looms for some families as climate changes	316
Mid-career scientists: advice to our younger selves	315
What Xi Jinping’s third term means for science	315
Why cannabis reeks of skunk	313
Boosting banana nutrition for Ugandans	313
Daily briefing: Everest observatory is falling apart	313
Women and the environment: power on the ground and in academia	312
Daily briefing: Exoplanet has ruby and sapphire rain	311
From the archive	311
Warming world, women in science — the week in infographics	310
Coronapod: what people get wrong about endemic COVID	310
The AI historian: A new tool to decipher ancient texts	309
Daily briefing: Ukrainian researchers ‘in agony’ in Antarctica	309
From the archive: fishy business in 1972 and 1922	308
Wildfire smoke creates brighter clouds — and weather changes	307
Clever orangutans invent nutcrackers from scratch	307
Climate change to loom large in talks to form new German government	305
Surface interaction propels molecule forwards	302
Peering into bats’ brains as the animals fly and feed together	302
How research managers are using AI to get ahead	302
AI finally beats humans at a real-life sport — drone racing	302
Politics and the environment collide in Brazil: Lula’s first year back in office	300
Daily briefing: Sexism is a waste of money	299
I look for the mineral equivalent of tree rings	299
Can resetting the body clock help with depression?	298
Daily briefing: First UK children born with DNA from three people	297
NIH to intensify scrutiny of foreign grant recipients in wake of COVID origins debate	295
This infinite tiling pattern could end a 60-year mathematical quest	295
Daily briefing: Citation padding gets papers accepted	295
How to keep Ukraine’s research hopes alive	293
From the archive: hay fever, and the transit of Venus across the Sun	293
Super-cooling lasers could help to reveal celestial chemistry	292
‘Virgin birth’ genetically engineered into female animals for the first time	292
Dolphin mums whistle ‘baby talk’ with their calves	292
Surprise dip in UK COVID cases baffles researchers	290
COVID was twice as deadly in poorer countries	290
Postdoctoral researchers warn NIH that cost-of-living pressures are gutting the workforce	289
Chronic stress can inflame the gut — now scientists know why	289
Trees are dying much faster in northern Australia — climate change is probably to blame	287