OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Materials is 89. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Alternative propylene oxide production	2369
Clamping strategies for organ-on-a-chip devices	1352
Anti-Black racism in academia and what you can do about it	779
Soft sensing and haptics for medical procedures	694
The electrical conductivity of solution-processed nanosheet networks	602
Integrating plant molecular farming and materials research for next-generation vaccines	578
Drug delivery to the central nervous system	540
Context dependence in assembly code for supramolecular peptide materials and systems	492
Clinical translation of silica nanoparticles	448
Polymeric particle-based therapies for acute inflammatory diseases	433
Engineered lymphatic vessels	424
Reducing immune response in semiconducting polymers through molecular design	421
China unveils first lunar spacesuit for 2030 moon mission	420
Human- and machine-centred designs of molecules and materials for sustainability and decarbonization	417
Tunable moiré materials for probing Berry physics and topology	412
Diabetic wound dressings	388
Diffusion mechanisms of fast lithium-ion conductors	379
InP colloidal quantum dots for visible and near-infrared photonics	379
Synthesis and alignment of liquid crystalline elastomers	378
Precision drug delivery to the central nervous system using engineered nanoparticles	372
Author Correction: Nanostructuring versus microstructuring in battery electrodes	368
Mechanical nanosurgery for glioblastoma	346
Targeting HIV in the brain	341
Designing supramolecular catalytic systems for mammalian synthetic metabolism	331
Design, fabrication and assembly considerations for electronic systems made of fibre devices	330

A design strategy for 2D multiferroics	326
Chemotherapy delivery activated by radiation	307
Temporarily solid, permanently porous	296
A circular economy for sulfur-rich polymers	296
Biomaterial-based platforms for tumour tissue engineering	293
Engineering the multiscale complexity of vascular networks	284
Sustainable moisture energy	283
A framework for developing sex-specific engineered heart models	282
Author Correction: Quantum guidelines for solid-state spin defects	276
Author Correction: Emergence of melt and glass states of halide perovskite semiconductors	269
Icy reactors break down microplastics	267
Emerging photovoltaics for onboard space applications	239
Hydrogen bonding makes organic solar cells stretchy	237
Electrostatic gating and intercalation in 2D materials	230
Molecular design for low-cost organic photovoltaic materials	229
Design of functional and sustainable polymers assisted by artificial intelligence	219
Recycling of sodium-ion batteries	216
Tunable surface friction inspired by catfish	215
Switching moiré magnets	214
Enter the ring	214
Engineering sorption across scales	206
Author Correction: Dielectric breakdown of oxide films in electronic devices	204
Advanced material technologies for space and terrestrial medicine	202
Towards micro-PeLED displays	195
High-entropy materials go nano	193
Organic solid-state photochromism using porous scaffolds	192
Protein materials, by blueprint	187
Interfacial insight	185
3D cell networks advance bone-on-a-chip	180
Organelle-level precision with next-generation targeting technologies	174
Academic bullying slows the evolution of science	173
Anomalous Hall antiferromagnets	170
Chalcogens for high-energy batteries	169
MOF–ammonia working pairs in thermal energy conversion and storage	169
Electricity from cells	167
Integrating materials databases	166
Two anions are better than one	166
Forcing imines into MOFs	161
Adaptable navigation of magnetic microrobots	154
The state of the art in photovoltaic materials and device research	151
Resilience pathways for halide perovskite photovoltaics under temperature cycling	138
Publisher Correction: The fundamentals and applications of ferroelectric HfO2	137
Materials and device strategies to enhance spatiotemporal resolution in bioelectronics	136
2D materials for durable and sustainable electric vehicles	133
Molecule-like synthesis of ligand-protected metal nanoclusters	132
Electrified water treatment: fundamentals and roles of electrode materials	130
Host responses to implants revealed by intravital microscopy	129
Methane transformation by photocatalysis	127
A guide to comprehensive phosphor discovery for solid-state lighting	126
Models and mechanisms of ternary organic solar cells	124

Passively cooling power equipment	120
Secure attachments	119
A quirky mechanophore comes to light	116
Living in a material world	115
Making electronic circuits with hydrogels	114
Room-temperature control of topological defects in an antiferromagnet	105
The amorphous state as a frontier in computational materials design	104
Benzene, coronene, circumcoronene	104
Atomically thin bioelectronics	96
Oxide spin-orbitronics: spin–charge interconversion and topological spin textures	95
Untangling the chemical complexity of plastics to improve life cycle outcomes	95
Binding energy referencing in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy	90
Key molecular perspectives for high stability in organic photovoltaics	90
Extreme light confinement and control in low-symmetry phonon-polaritonic crystals	89