Nature

Papers
(The H4-Index of Nature is 288. 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.)
ArticleCitations
After COVID, African countries vow to take the fight to malaria12386
Babies collect their own viruses rather than relying on Mum’s3464
Structural insights into how a blood-pressure drug inhibits an ion transporter2713
Daily briefing: Melting Himalayan glaciers will affect more than one billion people1886
How to make the workplace fairer for female researchers1773
Shining a light on mysterious underwater cave creatures1467
Staring at the Sun — close-up images from space rewrite solar science1427
Webb telescope wows with first image of an exoplanet1409
Daily briefing: Deep-diving seals led scientists to an undiscovered underwater canyon1334
How to keep wildcats wild: ancient DNA offers fresh insights1261
The ebb and flow of the biomedical sciences in the pandemic era1194
Where baby birds thrive: plush but precarious hangouts1193
Classroom assistance: the scientists turning the tools of their trade to education1154
High-precision genomic tool tackles deadly mutation1125
Himalayan glaciers are losing weight faster than thought1088
Medicine in the blood1072
UK’s rupture with Horizon Europe is totally unnecessary1033
How the grid came to shape the US landscape1015
Prehistoric events might explain European multiple sclerosis risk980
The ‘Asian water tower’ is brimming — with glacial melt water963
Fossils found far from the Equator point to globetrotting tetrapods960
Daily briefing: A planetary budget to survive and thrive918
I study small organisms to tackle big climate problems915
Japan launches preprint server — but will scientists use it?911
My life at the helm of a top African cancer-treatment centre906
The skilled ecosystem engineers with big teeth and paddle tails900
Daily briefing: Do we really need a room-temperature superconductor?900
From process to outcome: working toward health equity874
A chocoholic’s best friends are the birds and the bats873
Bonobo apes pout and throw tantrums — and gain sympathy855
Painkillers are dispensed less freely by night-shift doctors851
Soft ‘electronic skin’ mimics our sense of touch825
Community science draws on the power of the crowd802
25th anniversary of the first known feathered dinosaurs785
New pill helps COVID smell and taste loss fade quickly784
I peer into volcanoes to see when they’ll blow762
Lifting the veil on the oldest-known animals750
Daily briefing: Diabetes drug shows promise against Parkinson’s740
Black holes made from light? Impossible, say physicists739
The plastic that biodegrades in your home compost732
Communication tools for scientists who stammer731
Black holes, love and poetry — an artistic exploration of intimacy and adventure729
I’m a Palestinian scientist building a more inclusive future729
Kyoto review: ‘thrilling’ play shows fight for landmark climate treaty723
Why does fat return after dieting? The microbiome might have a hand721
‘Virgin birth’ genetically engineered into female animals for the first time718
US chemical engineer avoids prison after conviction for hiding ties to China715
The race to make a variant-proof COVID vaccine695
Daily briefing: Huge ancient civilization discovered in the Amazon692
Origami mini-robot does gymnastics for a good cause678
Daily briefing: These polar bears can survive without sea ice676
Daily briefing: Watch spines form in an artificial human embryos675
AI predicts how many earthquake aftershocks will strike — and their strength663
How volcanoes shaped our planet — and why we need to be ready for the next big eruption662
Daily briefing: Iron-Age woman had the earliest-known case of Turner syndrome647
Structure sheds light on a lipid-transport machine in mycobacteria647
I advocate an African research agenda for African development634
Giving thanks for a glovebox: helping to make medicines from natural substances634
Daily briefing: How an Alzheimer’s gene ravages the brain630
A guide to the Nature Index625
From the archive: a shared motivation for scientists, and mirages611
How coaching could help tackle toxic research cultures609
Ukrainian mathematician becomes second woman to win prestigious Fields Medal608
How to measure the brain of an octopus600
From the archive: biological clocks, and a pollen puzzle about flies594
Daily briefing: Oldest DNA ever found reveals big, furry surprises593
India’s first Sun mission will investigate the origins of space weather585
A sea change in craft brewing576
A funding adviser’s guide to writing a great grant application574
How a US government shutdown could disrupt science569
The world’s most expensive dinosaur and more — July’s best science images567
Daily briefing: You’ve got space mail! Asteroid sample delivered to Earth566
How we boosted female faculty numbers in male-dominated departments566
China’s mysterious spaceplane returns to Earth — what we know564
Laser-induced vibrations probe microscale metamaterials without contacting them563
AI & robotics briefing: AlphaFold predicts thousands of possible psychedelics561
Daily briefing: Where long COVID is understudied and ignored560
Daily briefing: Mysterious lizard fossil revealed to be mostly black paint556
Daily briefing: Santorini volcano let off a prehistoric mega-blast554
A century of quantum physics549
First pig kidneys transplanted into people: what scientists think547
India’s pioneering mission bolsters idea that Moon’s surface was molten542
Why I use Notion to organize my PhD research539
Kids’ real-world arithmetic skills don’t transfer to the classroom537
Scientists everywhere must be protected537
AI and misinformation are supercharging the risk of nuclear war534
Why I co-developed a research career launchpad for first generation students531
‘Wind droughts’ driven by climate change put green power at risk531
The world’s biggest animal migration and more — July’s best science images529
Daily briefing: Gaze upon the most detailed Moon maps ever made525
The Correctives524
Mystery of huge ancient engravings of snakes solved at last522
Did ‘alien’ debris hit Earth? Startling claim sparks row at scientific meeting520
Superstar porous materials get salty thanks to computer simulations520
So … you’ve been hacked517
Verbose robots, and why some people love Bach: Books in Brief516
Do elephants have names for each other?512
Splendid squirrel sneezes at will512
Missing data mean we’ll probably never know how many people died of COVID512
Brain implants help people to recover after severe head injury509
Cancer’s power harnessed — lymphoma mutations supercharge T cells507
I took my case to Nepal’s highest court to improve conservation506
Why a cheap, effective treatment for diarrhoea is underused504
Who needs qubits? Physicists make light-based ‘qumodes’ for quantum computing499
My brief appearance in Downton Abbey: Nature readers share stories of side gigs496
Immune molecule links COVID‑19 with severe inflammatory disorder in children495
Coral giants sound the alarm for the Great Barrier Reef495
Daily briefing: The infinite optimism of polymath Gottfried Leibniz492
Iran and India: work together to save cheetahs488
Ancient humans used bone tools one million years earlier than thought486
Bioeconomy: game changer for climate action485
Melaku Worede, crop genetics leader (1936–2023)479
Stars hint at an unusual black hole lurking in our Galaxy478
Ancient DNA reveals origins of multiple sclerosis in Europe475
Unlocking the mysteries of the brain’s neocortex474
Moon mission failure: why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing?472
Daily briefing: Meet the recipient of the first whole-eye transplant468
The astonishing scientists who starved to protect plants during the Second World War468
Daily briefing: Super hot plasma made easy with stabilizing fibres466
How to develop a good writing style464
Cycles462
The United States, as a marine superpower, must ratify the high seas biodiversity treaty now461
A step-by-step guide to landing your next job in science458
Why Asia is leading the field in green materials457
Bone repair supported by flexible films made using an innovative method454
A guide to the Nature Index453
Daily briefing: Squid-inspired pills squirt drugs straight into your gut453
France’s research minister has a plan to shake up science452
Japan needs a fresh approach to innovation449
Mysterious radio bursts mostly come from massive galaxies448
A sustainable ocean needs thriving ocean societies448
Federico Mayor Zaragoza obituary: former UNESCO chief who championed neonatal screening448
Science communication will benefit from research integrity standards447
All we are is our memories446
First sighting of ‘neutrino fog’ sparks excitement – but is it bad news for dark matter?443
Months away at sea to protect China’s only population of Bryde’s whales443
New lasso-shaped antibiotic kills drug-resistant bacteria443
‘They went to the bar at noon’: what this virtual AI village is teaching researchers442
A 27,000-year-old pyramid? Controversy hits an extraordinary archaeological claim442
Early grant success attracts more funding: study of 100,000 applicants hints at why441
A ‘killswitch’ peptide solidifies protein droplets in living cells440
Taiwan hit by biggest earthquake in 25 years: why scientists weren’t surprised438
How flight helped bats become invincible to viruses437
Nearly half of China’s major cities are sinking — some ‘rapidly’437
Marsupial genomes reveal how a skin membrane for gliding evolved434
Daily briefing: How scientists balance work and faith434
US election has profound implications for science in Ukraine433
AI rapidly diagnoses brain tumours during surgery433
Global conservation priorities for island plant diversity431
Twisted system makes nanolasers shine together430
‘For AI to change how economies work, it has to represent all of us’430
Satellite images show the widespread impact of mining on tropical rivers426
The race to uncover snow’s many mysteries before it disappears forever423
What the Silicon Valley Bank collapse means for science start-ups422
Creative hobbies could slow brain ageing at the molecular level422
The sleight-of-hand trick that can simplify scientific computing421
Allen J. Bard obituary: electrochemist whose techniques underpin clinical diagnostics, materials discovery and more420
Satellite images reveal untracked human activity on the oceans420
Einstein in Oxford: the untold story of an unlikely friendship418
Quantum feat: physicists observe entangled quarks for first time418
The Nature Podcast festive spectacular 2024417
Build your own receptor: modular system can be tailored to any antigen417
Daily briefing: Infamous ‘hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19’ paper has been retracted416
How five researchers fared after their ‘great resignation’ from academia412
Preprint sites bioRxiv and medRxiv launch new era of independence412
‘The wolf is not the bad guy’: working with farmers to protect a reintroduced species411
DNA circuits store data — with heat as their power source409
Can giant surveys of scientists fight misinformation on COVID, climate change and more?408
Mind-reading machines are coming — how can we keep them in check?407
Trust and science: the essential elements missing from plastics treaty talks406
Subicular neurons encode concave and convex geometries404
‘Unacceptable’: a staggering 4.4 billion people lack safe drinking water, study finds403
Enhanced silica export in a future ocean triggers global diatom decline403
Cell cycle duration determines oncogenic transformation capacity401
Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review399
Diversity and biogeography of the bacterial microbiome in glacier-fed streams398
Synaptic architecture of leg and wing premotor control networks in Drosophila396
Programmable on-chip nonlinear photonics396
COP28 climate summit signals the end of fossil fuels — but is it enough?395
Basis of the H2AK119 specificity of the Polycomb repressive deubiquitinase395
Parental histone transfer caught at the replication fork393
Isoprene nitrates drive new particle formation in Amazon’s upper troposphere392
Protected areas slow declines unevenly across the tetrapod tree of life391
One-shot entorhinal maps enable flexible navigation in novel environments391
Passive wing deployment and retraction in beetles and flapping microrobots390
Homomeric chains of intermolecular bonds scaffold octahedral germanium perovskites388
Hippocampal representations drift in stable multisensory environments388
Structural basis for the activity of the type VII CRISPR–Cas system385
Alternative CDC20 translational isoforms tune mitotic arrest duration385
Molecular profiling of gene-edited cells reveals shared drug-resistance mechanisms383
High-precision calculation of the quark–gluon coupling from lattice QCD381
Transport and inhibition mechanisms of human VMAT2380
Predatory aggression evolved through adaptations to noradrenergic circuits379
World's first wooden satellite could herald era of greener space exploration376
Tweeting your research paper boosts engagement but not citations376
China made waves with Deepseek, but its real ambition is AI-driven industrial innovation375
Plastics treaty — research must inform action374
Magnetic field expulsion in optically driven YBa2Cu3O6.48371
See the intricate worlds of parasites and algae — March’s best science images371
Publisher Correction: The future transistors369
Retraction Note: Evidence of near-ambient superconductivity in a N-doped lutetium hydride368
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Evidence of near-ambient superconductivity in a N-doped lutetium hydride368
Author Correction: Autoimmune response to C9orf72 protein in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis367
The γδ IEL effector API5 masks genetic susceptibility to Paneth cell death365
Bacteriophages suppress CRISPR–Cas immunity using RNA-based anti-CRISPRs362
In situ tumour arrays reveal early environmental control of cancer immunity361
Identification of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere361
Continuous-wave narrow-linewidth vacuum ultraviolet laser source360
Do climate lawsuits lead to action? Researchers assess their impact360
The Moon belongs to all of us — not just countries that can afford to reach it359
Suppression of black-hole growth by strong outflows at redshifts 5.8–6.6357
Light from cosmic dawn hints at how interstellar dust is made355
Author Correction: Natural behaviour is learned through dopamine-mediated reinforcement352
Author Correction: Phenome-wide analysis of copy number variants in 470,727 UK Biobank genomes352
First images from world’s largest digital camera leave astronomers in awe351
Daily briefing: Different people’s brains process colours in the same way350
How the brain’s amygdala reacts when making decisions to avoid losses350
Earth’s capacity to store carbon could max out surprisingly soon350
Newfound immune cell in mice hints at why inflammation spikes with old age348
Your time is valuable. Don’t give it away just for ‘exposure’345
Self-assembling synthetic polymer forms liquid-like droplets344
Retractions can reshape scientists’ careers in unexpected ways342
Tree islands boost biodiversity in oil-palm plantations341
How a tick-borne virus enters human cells341
Ultrashort laser pulse amplified by back-and-forth propagation340
It’s not wokeness — it’s human rights339
Author Correction: Comparative and demographic analysis of orang-utan genomes337
A troubleshooting guide to your flat-pack planet337
Author Correction: Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing336
Author Correction: Spatiotemporal dissection of the cell cycle with single-cell proteogenomics336
Author Correction: Life-cycle-coupled evolution of mitosis in close relatives of animals335
Author Correction: Synthetic GPCRs for programmable sensing and control of cell behaviour334
Author Correction: The oldest known lepidosaur and origins of lepidosaur feeding adaptations333
Author Correction: Neutralizing GDF-15 can overcome anti-PD-1 and anti-PD-L1 resistance in solid tumours333
Planning for life on Mars332
Huge randomized trial of AI boosts discovery — at least for good scientists331
RSV wave hammers hospitals — but vaccines and treatments are coming331
Should Alzheimer’s be diagnosed with a blood test? Proposal sparks controversy330
Ferocity of Atlantic hurricanes surges as the ocean warms330
Seasonality dominates changes in lake-surface extent and aligns with human residence330
Exclusive: Documents raise questions about UCLA’s suspension of ecologist328
Ancient shackles testify to brutality of Egypt’s gold mines327
Bird brains help scientists to unveil the secrets of speech327
Storm of seizures in a baby’s brain calms after trial therapy327
Canada’s election: what Mark Carney’s win means for science326
Blood of man who’s had 200 snake bites helps make a potent antivenom326
Creating an ‘all comers’ research group in quantitative history326
Young physicists say ethics rules are being ignored325
‘Dark matter’, 'Big Bang' and ‘spin’: how physics terms can confuse researchers325
Dazzling auroras are just a warm-up as more solar storms are likely, scientists say324
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