OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Space Science Reviews is 25. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Mars 2020 Mission Overview	199
The SuperCam Instrument Suite on the NASA Mars 2020 Rover: Body Unit and Combined System Tests	127
The SuperCam Instrument Suite on the Mars 2020 Rover: Science Objectives and Mast-Unit Description	110
Coronal Heating by MHD Waves	97
Radio Properties of Tidal Disruption Events	81
Perseverance’s Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) Investigation	81
The Non-carbonaceous–Carbonaceous Meteorite Dichotomy	74
Optical-Ultraviolet Tidal Disruption Events	70
Star Clusters Near and Far	70
Relative Atomic Solar System Abundances, Mass Fractions, and Atomic Masses of the Elements and Their Isotopes, Composition of the Solar Photosphere, and Compositions of the Major Chondritic Meteorite	68
The Mars 2020 Engineering Cameras and Microphone on the Perseverance Rover: A Next-Generation Imaging System for Mars Exploration	68
The Molecular Cloud Lifecycle	67
Quasi-Periodic Pulsations in Solar and Stellar Flares: A Review of Underpinning Physical Mechanisms and Their Predicted Observational Signatures	64
Decoding the Pre-Eruptive Magnetic Field Configurations of Coronal Mass Ejections	64
The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mast Camera Zoom (Mastcam-Z) Multispectral, Stereoscopic Imaging Investigation	63
The Ingenuity Helicopter on the Perseverance Rover	63
The MarSCoDe Instrument Suite on the Mars Rover of China’s Tianwen-1 Mission	60
Investigating Mercury’s Environment with the Two-Spacecraft BepiColombo Mission	60
Diffuse and Pulsating Aurora	60
Kink Oscillations of Coronal Loops	59
BepiColombo - Mission Overview and Science Goals	57
Uranus and Neptune: Origin, Evolution and Internal Structure	57
Impact of Low-Energy Cosmic Rays on Star Formation	55
China’s Mars Exploration Mission and Science Investigation	54
Dust-to-Gas and Refractory-to-Ice Mass Ratios of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from Rosetta Observations	54

Lunar Seismology: An Update on Interior Structure Models	53
Photogeologic Map of the Perseverance Rover Field Site in Jezero Crater Constructed by the Mars 2020 Science Team	52
The Physics of Star Cluster Formation and Evolution	51
PIXL: Planetary Instrument for X-Ray Lithochemistry	51
Lunar Seismology: A Data and Instrumentation Review	51
The Sampling and Caching Subsystem (SCS) for the Scientific Exploration of Jezero Crater by the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover	50
High-Energy Particles and Radiation in Star-Forming Regions	50
The Host Galaxies of Tidal Disruption Events	50
Slow-Mode Magnetoacoustic Waves in Coronal Loops	49
Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE)	49
Large Ocean Worlds with High-Pressure Ices	48
The Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer, MEDA. A Suite of Environmental Sensors for the Mars 2020 Mission	48
Atmospheric Dynamics of Hot Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs	48
The Emergence of Life	46
Perpendicular Transport of Energetic Particles in Magnetic Turbulence	45
Rates of Stellar Tidal Disruption	44
Ground and In-Flight Calibration of the OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite	44
Towards Precision Measurements of Accreting Black Holes Using X-Ray Reflection Spectroscopy	43
Magnetohydrodynamic Fast Sausage Waves in the Solar Corona	43
Advanced Curation of Astromaterials for Planetary Science	42
Formation and Evolution of Disks Around Young Stellar Objects	42
X-Ray Properties of TDEs	42
Rationale for BepiColombo Studies of Mercury’s Surface and Composition	41
The Importance of Phobos Sample Return for Understanding the Mars-Moon System	41
Deep Atmosphere Composition, Structure, Origin, and Exploration, with Particular Focus on Critical in situ Science at the Icy Giants	40
SIMBIO-SYS: Scientific Cameras and Spectrometer for the BepiColombo Mission	40
Radar Imager for Mars’ Subsurface Experiment—RIMFAX	39
Radiation Belt Radial Diffusion at Earth and Beyond	38
The BepiColombo Planetary Magnetometer MPO-MAG: What Can We Learn from the Hermean Magnetic Field?	37
Four Distinct Pathways to the Element Abundances in Solar Energetic Particles	37
3He-Rich Solar Energetic Particles: Solar Sources	36
SuperCam Calibration Targets: Design and Development	36
Physical Processes in Star Formation	36
European Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) and Radioisotope Heater Units (RHUs) for Space Science and Exploration	36
How Well Do We Understand the Belt/Zone Circulation of Giant Planet Atmospheres?	35
Comparison of the Deep Atmospheric Dynamics of Jupiter and Saturn in Light of the Juno and Cassini Gravity Measurements	35
The ELFIN Mission	35
A Review of Possible Planetary Atmospheres in the TRAPPIST-1 System	35
Constraining the Evolutionary History of the Moon and the Inner Solar System: A Case for New Returned Lunar Samples	35
Rossby Waves in Astrophysics	33
Formation of the First Stars and Black Holes	33
Perspectives on Atmospheric Evolution from Noble Gas and Nitrogen Isotopes on Earth, Mars & Venus	33
Overview of the Chang’e-4 Mission: Opening the Frontier of Scientific Exploration of the Lunar Far Side	33
Hydrogen Dominated Atmospheres on Terrestrial Mass Planets: Evidence, Origin and Evolution	32
From Diffuse Gas to Dense Molecular Cloud Cores	32
Ice-Ocean Exchange Processes in the Jovian and Saturnian Satellites	32
Aurora in the Polar Cap: A Review	32
Multi-model Meteorological and Aeolian Predictions for Mars 2020 and the Jezero Crater Region	32
Quiet, Discrete Auroral Arcs—Observations	29
The Navigation and Terrain Cameras on the Tianwen-1 Mars Rover	29

Loss and Fractionation of Noble Gas Isotopes and Moderately Volatile Elements from Planetary Embryos and Early Venus, Earth and Mars	29
Current Sheets, Plasmoids and Flux Ropes in the Heliosphere	29
High Resolution Imaging Camera (HiRIC) on China’s First Mars Exploration Tianwen-1 Mission	29
On the Origin and Evolution of the Material in 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko	28
Dayside Aurora	28
Magnetohydrodynamic Waves in Open Coronal Structures	28
Studying the Composition and Mineralogy of the Hermean Surface with the Mercury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer (MERTIS) for the BepiColombo Mission: An Update	28
Quiescent Discrete Auroral Arcs: A Review of Magnetospheric Generator Mechanisms	27
On the Habitability and Future Exploration of Ocean Worlds	27
Zooming in on Individual Star Formation: Low- and High-Mass Stars	27
The BepiColombo Mercury Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer: Science Goals, Instrument Performance and Operations	27
Pre-flight Calibration and Near-Earth Commissioning Results of the Mercury Plasma Particle Experiment (MPPE) Onboard MMO (Mio)	26
Accretion of the Earth—Missing Components?	26
Meteorological Predictions for Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing Site at Jezero Crater	26
Mio—First Comprehensive Exploration of Mercury’s Space Environment: Mission Overview	26
Dayside Transient Phenomena and Their Impact on the Magnetosphere and Ionosphere	25
The Diverse Planetary Ingassing/Outgassing Paths Produced over Billions of Years of Magmatic Activity	25
Landing Site Selection and Overview of China’s Lunar Landing Missions	25
Pre-Flight Calibration of the Mars 2020 Rover Mastcam Zoom (Mastcam-Z) Multispectral, Stereoscopic Imager	25