OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Soft Matter is 33. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Back cover	113
Contents list	91
Rheology of a 2D granular film	87
The growth and the decay of a visco-elastocapillary ridge by localized forces	76
New quasiperiodic structures in nematic liquid crystals	71
Effect of polyacrylamide gel elasticity on collagen type II fibril assembly	66
From nematic shells to nematic droplets: energetics and defect transitions	64
New approach for SANS measurement of micelle chain mixing during size and morphology transitions	58
Contents list	57
A facile strategy to in situ synthesize metal oxide/conductive polymer hybrid electrodes for supercapacitors	49
Microfluidic extensional flow device to study mass transfer dynamics in the polymer microparticle formation process	45
Viscoelasticity of single folded proteins using dynamic atomic force microscopy	45
Mechanical deformation affects the counterion condensation in highly-swollen polyelectrolyte hydrogels	43
Composition and temperature effects on the solution structure of SDS/octanol/brine by SANS, NMR and microscopy	41
PEG-fibrin conjugates: the PEG impact on the polymerization dynamics	40
Multi-population dissolution in confined active fluids	38
Water–alcohol–TiO₂ dispersions as sustainable ink	38
Inside back cover	37
Hysteresis in phase volumes, compositions and interfacial roughness in model OPV-small-molecule/polymer thin-films	37
Spontaneous symmetry-breaking of the active cluster drives the directed movement and self-sustained oscillation of symmetric rod-like passive particles	37
Front cover	37
Reply to the ‘Comment on “Effects of topological constraints on linked ring polymers in solvents of varying quality”’ by M. Tsige and H. Guo, Soft Matter, 2024, 20, DOI: 10.1039/D3SM0161	37
Pyridine-functional diblock copolymer nanoparticles synthesized via RAFT-mediated polymerization-induced self-assembly: effect of solution pH	36
Statistical mechanics of cell aggregates: explaining the phase transition and paradoxical piezoelectric behavior of soft biological tissues	36
Back cover	35

Front cover	35
Front cover	35
Thermotropic reentrant isotropy and induced smectic antiferroelectricity in the ferroelectric nematic realm: comparing RM734 and DIO	34
Effect of polymerization on free water in polyacrylamide hydrogels observed with Brillouin spectroscopy	34
Entangled nematic disclinations using multi-particle collision dynamics	34
Front cover	34
Correction: A passive star polymer in a dense active bath: insights from computer simulations	33
Liquid crystalline collagen assemblies as substrates for directed alignment of human Schwann cells	33
Contents list	33