OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Astronomy is 54. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A rebounding instability	364
Next stop the Moon	336
Pinpointing the origins of radio flashes	300
A new lens for quasar host masses	297
Observations of a very energetic ultraviolet and optical flare with a space telescope	259
Two decades for twin rovers	241
Life might seem out of whack	214
Mapping of an early quenched massive galaxy and its neighbourhood	168
Enhanced star formation through the high-temperature formation of H2 on carbonaceous dust grains	131
The formation of merging black holes with masses beyond 30 M⊙ at solar metallicity	128
Subaru’s spectrometer with thousands of eyes	122
SiO and a super-stellar C/O ratio in the atmosphere of the giant exoplanet WASP-121 b	121
The magic of radio astronomy	116
Instantaneous jet power measured in an accreting black hole	115
Identification of the weak-to-strong transition in Alfvénic turbulence from space plasma	102
Small-body exploration with an in situ probe	101
Early Mars habitability and global cooling by H2-based methanogens	99
A blazar in the epoch of reionization	97
Predicted future fate of COSMOS galaxy protoclusters over 11 Gyr with constrained simulations	96
Detection of ultra-fast radio bursts from FRB 20121102A	94
Insights into star formation and dispersal from the synchronization of stellar clocks	92
An aspherical distribution for the explosive burning ash of core-collapse supernovae	92
The impact of satellite trails on Hubble Space Telescope observations	90
Insight into multi-step geological evolution of C-type asteroids from Ryugu particles	89
A multi-cubic-kilometre neutrino telescope in the western Pacific Ocean	89

Black in galaxy astrophysics	78
A new class of rocky exoplanets?	77
Radar signatures of active lava flows on Venus	73
Scanning for planetary cores with single-receiver intersource correlations	73
Settling a cosmic metal debate	72
The super-resolved megamasers of NGC 4258	72
The scourge of harassment in astronomy	67
Boiling oceans and compressional tectonics on emerging ocean worlds	65
Stringent tests of spin-up theories posed by a millisecond pulsar with an extreme spin-down rate	65
A dehydrated space-weathered skin cloaking the hydrated interior of Ryugu	64
Small moons boil, large moons break	64
Effects of density and temperature variations on the metallicity of Mrk 71	63
A binary model of long-period radio transients and white dwarf pulsars	62
A JWST/DiSCo-TNOs portrait of the primordial Solar System through its trans-Neptunian objects	62
Worlds between Earth and Neptune defy a simple story	62
The dramatic transition of the extreme red supergiant WOH G64 to a yellow hypergiant	62
The main barriers to distributed interaction are not technological	62
Enhanced magnetic activity in rapidly rotating binary stars	61
A call to address humanity’s cosmic footprint	59
Nitrogen-rich organics from comets probed by ultra-carbonaceous Antarctic micrometeorites	58
A fast X-ray transient from a weak relativistic jet associated with a type Ic-BL supernova	57
Spectral determination of the colour and vertical structure of dark spots in Neptune’s atmosphere	57
Author Correction: A low-density ocean inside Titan inferred from Cassini data	57
Direct detection of ultralight dark matter bound to the Sun with space quantum sensors	56
The variety and origin of materials accreted by Bennu’s parent asteroid	55
The future ability to test theories of gravity with black-hole shadows	55
Stress testing ΛCDM with high-redshift galaxy candidates	55
Unnecessary risks created by uncontrolled rocket reentries	55
Direct measurement of decimetre-sized rocky material in the Oort cloud	54
Radio show for rare type Ia	54