Nature

Article	Citations
Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star	26949
Five hundred days between pay cheques: the road I took to revive my career	2628
Daily briefing: How to make colour-blind-friendly figures	2567
Mini ‘metavehicles’ zip and swerve on light power	2230
Richard Leakey (1944–2022)	2069
How 'megastudies' are changing behavioural science	1819
Brightest X-rays on Earth expose COVID lung damage	1732
Daily briefing: What a healthy, sustainable diet looks like	1707
Daily briefing: Largest trial shows psilocybin is effective to treat depression	1678
Ukrainian mathematician becomes second woman to win prestigious Fields Medal	1668
Postdoc unions can help secure a brighter future	1509
Daily briefing: The nine wild animals that could help lock away carbon	1469
Abortion-pill ruling threatens FDA’s authority, say drug firms	1441
The forever family	1421
JWST spots planetary building blocks in a surprising galaxy	1346
My mission to grow fruit without the plant	1336
The inspiring story of the Tara and its 20-year message from the corals	1256
New pill helps COVID smell and taste loss fade quickly	1234
Daily briefing: Malaria vaccine made of live parasites shows early success	1223
Coronapod: COVID and pregnancy - what do we know?	1110
COVID-19: build on Belgium’s psychosocial findings	1108
Stop using ‘master–slave’ terminology in biology	1078
Psychedelic drugs without the trip? This sensor could help seek them out	1076
Good research begins long before papers get written	1069
Long-awaited muon physics experiment nears moment of truth	1057

Video grant proposals could be exclusionary	1040
An antibody joins forces with the pancreas to delay diabetes	1015
Bonobo mums open their arms to outsider orphans	964
Black hole jets bent by magnetic fields	942
Faint galaxies light up the dark web filling the cosmos	925
Pink hare, deadlier COVID and a trove of bat coronaviruses	898
Solar panels that throw shade on canals are an environmental win–win	893
A critical period that shapes neuronal motor circuits	876
India’s neighbours race to sequence genomes as COVID surges	869
Pandemic whistle-blower: we need a non-political way to track viruses	848
The sanitation crisis making rural America ill	845
Flying a helicopter on Mars: NASA's Ingenuity	799
Africa’s vaccines revolution must have research at its core	799
Russia: scientists petition to end political persecution	784
Vaccinate people in Africa’s prisons against COVID-19	774
Minuscule drums push the limits of quantum weirdness	771
Biologist to lead Europe’s premier research funder	765
COVID, 2020 and a year of lost research	759
Material mimicking lobster belly cracks the code for toughness	756
What’s next for physics’ standard model? Muon results throw theories into confusion	754
A smart genome scan could help scratch the itch for new antifungal drugs	751
Coronapod: Uncertainty and the COVID 'lab-leak' theory	738
Daily briefing: What we know about fast-spreading coronavirus variants	696
Australia’s oldest rock painting and a prestigious mathematics prize	689
Black scientist network celebrates successes — but calls for more support	686
A century of US data documents obesity’s racially skewed rise	683
How itchy are you? A new device knows precisely	670
Trade resolution further threatens Brazil’s amphibians	669
A graphene cloak keeps artworks’ colours ageless	664
Mars auroras, deadly heatwave and new ERC president	661
Daily briefing: Microfossils reveal mysterious shark die-off	651
Elegant chemistry, a humane view of robots, and refugee economics: Books in brief	651
Hunting the strongest accelerators in our Galaxy	650
Complex, lab-made ‘cells’ react to change like the real thing	646
On the origin of numbers	645
It takes a wood to raise a tree: a memoir	643
Daily briefing: How COVID damages the brain	639
Household water crisis affects millions in the United States	636
How quantum biology could help birds 'see' magnetic fields	631
Seek diversity to solve complexity	631
How a child’s heart health could be decided before birth	607
Coronapod: the biomarker that could change COVID vaccines	601
From the archive	587
Daily briefing: Mini Moderna dose rouses big immune response	584
Daily briefing: The parenting penalties faced by scientist mothers	574
Shifting shores: delving into the past with mud cores	571
Pikas in high places have a winter-time treat: yak poo	569
Daily briefing: Aliens orbiting these 2,000 stars could (maybe) spot Earth	568
Daily briefing: Video guide to the science of coronavirus variants	567
Good presentation skills benefit careers — and science	558

Holding a tool wrong? This brain region will notice	555
What polar researchers have learnt from the pandemic	555
Daily briefing: First major investigation of the global pandemic response	554
UNESCO embraces open science to shape society’s future	553
Daily briefing: ‘Staggering’ success for anti-dengue mosquito trial	545
Journal closure leads to dip in papers’ citations	544
China and the UK: Making an international collaboration work	542
Snap and trap: DNA panels click together to form tiny virus catchers	541
Five trendy technologies: where are they now?	537
Not not happy	535
Daily briefing: The evidence is stacking up for Sputnik V vaccine	530
To build resilience, study complex systems	526
Swiss funder draws lots to make grant decisions	525
Daily briefing: Oldest wooden relic could reshape history	523
Report exposes power gap at US universities	523
Daily briefing: Big COVID treatment trial reboots with three new drugs	519
Heart of the gestalt	518
Ants shrink their brains for motherhood — but can enlarge them when egg-laying ends	517
Daily briefing: Why rare vaccine side effects are so hard to investigate	517
Prediction for magnetic moment of the muon informs a test of the standard model of particle physics	515
How a worrisome coronavirus variant spread unnoticed	514
Daily briefing: Why it took so long to grapple with airborne COVID-19	510
Head-injury risk higher for female soccer players, massive survey finds	508
Daily briefing: Tardigrades didn’t survive crash-landing on the Moon	507
Coronapod: How to define rare COVID vaccine side effects	506
A hurricane wrecks ‘Monkey Island’ — and leads to new monkey friendships	500
Daily briefing: Vast landscape of ancient stone structures discovered	499
Business of science: How to register a patent	493
Injection of light-sensitive proteins restores blind man’s vision	491
Mechanical effects on the genome known since 1948	489
Brain-cell bouquet and snaps from Mars — March’s best science images	485
Meth-addicted trout swim for a hit	483
Lightning talks: science in 5 minutes or less	479
The ‘time neurons’ that help the brain keep track	477
Daily briefing: Why asthma attacks dropped during the pandemic	474
Practice on a pulsefish	473
A ‘no-brainer’ decision to become a COVID-19 vaccine-centre volunteer	470
Why national attitudes about science matter for vaccine acceptance	469
Daily briefing: J&J COVID vaccine pause recommended	462
How headless worms see the light to steer	462
Animals’ bright colours don’t lie: eat me and you’ll be sorry	455
Network of world’s most accurate clocks paves way to redefine time	453
Europe’s pandemic recovery: embed resilience	452
Audio long-read: How drugmakers can be better prepared for the next pandemic	448
How new principal investigators tackled a tumultuous year	444
COVID’s cardiac connection	444
Activation of retinal neurons triggers tumour formation in cancer-prone mice	444
Daily briefing: ‘Inflammation clock’ shows your immune system’s age	442
Menopause therapy: Brain-based treatment for hot flushes approved by FDA	437
Online pet shops are crawling with spiders captured in the wild	435
How to organize your lab purchases and inventory	435
India shoots for the Moon with Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander	433
‘Everybody is so excited’: South Korea set for first Moon mission	430
Structure sheds light on a lipid-transport machine in mycobacteria	430
Daily briefing: How some fish can live for centuries	427
A visual guide to repairing the retina	424
Science in 2022: what to expect this year	424
The best science images of 2021	421
Busting benzene, lab-grown embryos — the week in infographics	421
Earth-like planet, neutrino’s mysterious mass and disease eradication	420
Daily briefing: Great Barrier Reef is experiencing a mass bleaching event	417
From the archive	415
Zeroing out his wavefunction	414
The singularity graveyard	409
How itchy vicuñas remade a vast wilderness	409
Feeling lonely in research? You’re not alone	408
Missing genomes, flexible microphone — the week in infographics	408
What maintains biodiversity in ecological communities?	405
The surprising benefit of meditative walks	403
Molecular map of the human blood–brain barrier reveals links to Alzheimer’s disease	403
Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time	402
Climatologist Michael Mann wins defamation case: what it means for scientists	401
Introducing meat–rice: grain with added muscles beefs up protein	399
What a tease! Great apes pull hair and poke each other for fun	399
R&D budget cut could be the final straw for South Korea’s young scientists	398
Sri Lanka is in crisis — and so are its scientists	397
Daily briefing: First private Moon lander makes history	396
Daily briefing: Mysterious lizard fossil revealed to be mostly black paint	396
Ambitious survey of human diversity yields millions of undiscovered genetic variants	396
Russia’s Arctic Council threat requires lessons from cold war science diplomacy	396

Forget lung, breast or prostate cancer? Why we shouldn’t abandon tumour names yet	395
So … you’ve been hacked	394
Black holes, love and poetry — an artistic exploration of intimacy and adventure	394
Daily briefing: Tweeting about your paper doesn’t boost citations	392
I study small organisms to tackle big climate problems	391
Tweeting your research paper boosts engagement but not citations	391
Did ‘alien’ debris hit Earth? Startling claim sparks row at scientific meeting	384
How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says	384
A fundamental constant in physics gets an update	383
Daily briefing: How PhD assessment needs to change	382
I peer into volcanoes to see when they’ll blow	382
Presidents of Royal Society live long lives	382
AI & robotics briefing: AI decodes languages in first ‘bilingual’ brain-reading device	381
Superpowered science: charting China’s research rise	377
COVID is spreading in deer. What does that mean for the pandemic?	375
How virtual reality is helping to boost scientific engagement in rural Africa	375
Why do some dogs chase squirrels? Study finds genetic links to canine quirks	374
A microscopy technique that images single reaction events in total darkness	374
DNA reveals that mastodons roamed a forested Greenland two million years ago	373
Santiago Ramón y Cajal: art, politics and neuroscience revolution	372
Crucial biodiversity summit will go ahead in Canada, not China: what scientists think	372
Ancient 'giraffes' sported thick helmets for headbutting	370
Tracing the brain circuitry underlying movement and mood symptoms in Parkinson’s disease	369
Cancer cells hijack nerve cells to storm through the brain	367
Billions more for US science: how the landmark spending plan will boost research	364
Blipcoin	363
Healthier foods are better for the planet, mammoth study finds	363
Daily briefing: How to clean indoor air of viruses and pollutants	362
Daily briefing: New treatments offer fresh hope for depression	362
COVID derailed polar research projects. Here’s how students have coped	358
Charge dropped against New Zealand science agency after deadly volcano eruption	354
Loss of power looms for some families as climate changes	353
What Xi Jinping’s third term means for science	353
Mid-career scientists: advice to our younger selves	350
Daily briefing: Everest observatory is falling apart	349
Why cannabis reeks of skunk	349
Boosting banana nutrition for Ugandans	349
From the archive	347
Women and the environment: power on the ground and in academia	347
Daily briefing: Exoplanet has ruby and sapphire rain	347
Coronapod: what people get wrong about endemic COVID	343
Warming world, women in science — the week in infographics	342
The AI historian: A new tool to decipher ancient texts	341
Daily briefing: Ukrainian researchers ‘in agony’ in Antarctica	340
From the archive: fishy business in 1972 and 1922	339
Clever orangutans invent nutcrackers from scratch	338
Wildfire smoke creates brighter clouds — and weather changes	337
AI finally beats humans at a real-life sport — drone racing	336
Climate change to loom large in talks to form new German government	336
Peering into bats’ brains as the animals fly and feed together	336
How research managers are using AI to get ahead	335
Surface interaction propels molecule forwards	335
Daily briefing: Sexism is a waste of money	333
Politics and the environment collide in Brazil: Lula’s first year back in office	333
I look for the mineral equivalent of tree rings	332
Daily briefing: First UK children born with DNA from three people	330
Can resetting the body clock help with depression?	330
Daily briefing: Citation padding gets papers accepted	329
This infinite tiling pattern could end a 60-year mathematical quest	329
From the archive: hay fever, and the transit of Venus across the Sun	328
NIH to intensify scrutiny of foreign grant recipients in wake of COVID origins debate	328
How to keep Ukraine’s research hopes alive	327
Super-cooling lasers could help to reveal celestial chemistry	326
Dolphin mums whistle ‘baby talk’ with their calves	324
Surprise dip in UK COVID cases baffles researchers	323
‘Virgin birth’ genetically engineered into female animals for the first time	323
COVID was twice as deadly in poorer countries	322
Postdoctoral researchers warn NIH that cost-of-living pressures are gutting the workforce	321
In search of body	320
Chronic stress can inflame the gut — now scientists know why	320
A sea change in craft brewing	319
Trees are dying much faster in northern Australia — climate change is probably to blame	319
Daily briefing: First known case of getting COVID from a cat	317
Daily briefing: The largest Jurassic flier ever found	316
Witness in US climate-change law suit tells all	316
Touch-evoked itch pinned on Piezo1 ion-channel protein	316
Coronapod: Ivermectin, what the science says	315
Maize under threat, and morality for cars: Books in brief	314
Goodnight, Moon	313
Hard feelings over mission change for NASA’s Pluto spacecraft	312
Starfish, sharks and space-telescope selfie — February’s best science images	312
Circadian rhythms are set by epigenetic marks in neurons	310
Pioneering CERN scheme will pay publishers more if they hit open-science targets	310
Author Correction: Ab initio characterization of protein molecular dynamics with AI2BMD	310
Neuromorphic computing at scale	309
‘Publish or perish’ culture blamed for reproducibility crisis	308
All-solid-state Li–S batteries with fast solid–solid sulfur reaction	307
Superconductivity in 5.0° twisted bilayer WSe2	307
Bilayer nanographene reveals halide permeation through a benzene hole	306
Clouds reduce downwelling longwave radiation over land in a warming climate	305
How to trick the immune system into attacking tumours	305
Raising a glass to the Four Friends Doing Science journal club	304
How I use data to highlight complex and overlooked work in health-care systems	303
Beyond black and white: an ecologist applies racial-justice principles to predators and their ecosystems	302
The Doppler effect explained with steam trains	302