OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Astronomy is 55. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Two decades for twin rovers	242
Knowing when to stop	203
A rebounding instability	194
Feedback gets a stellar review	194
Observations of a very energetic ultraviolet and optical flare with a space telescope	188
Next stop the Moon	179
Anomalously porous boulders on (162173) Ryugu as primordial materials from its parent body	171
Oxygen as atmospheric thermometer	157
Predicted future fate of COSMOS galaxy protoclusters over 11 Gyr with constrained simulations	149
Early Mars habitability and global cooling by H2-based methanogens	144
Enhanced star formation through the high-temperature formation of H2 on carbonaceous dust grains	128
Pinpointing the origins of radio flashes	121
A new lens for quasar host masses	117
Women astronomers in Afghanistan need the world’s support	114
The impact of satellite trails on Hubble Space Telescope observations	110
Detection of ultra-fast radio bursts from FRB 20121102A	110
Insights into star formation and dispersal from the synchronization of stellar clocks	106
Identification of the weak-to-strong transition in Alfvénic turbulence from space plasma	101
A blazar in the epoch of reionization	94
The formation of merging black holes with masses beyond 30 M⊙ at solar metallicity	93
A radio technosignature search towards Proxima Centauri resulting in a signal of interest	90
An aspherical distribution for the explosive burning ash of core-collapse supernovae	89
A Solar System formation analogue in the Ophiuchus star-forming complex	85
Subaru’s spectrometer with thousands of eyes	85
Insight into multi-step geological evolution of C-type asteroids from Ryugu particles	84

Addendum: Phosphine gas in the cloud deck of Venus	81
A hot subdwarf–white dwarf super-Chandrasekhar candidate supernova Ia progenitor	81
The scourge of harassment in astronomy	79
A multi-cubic-kilometre neutrino telescope in the western Pacific Ocean	79
Save the Earth… and space	77
Odd radio circles ring galaxies	76
Analysis of the Breakthrough Listen signal of interest blc1 with a technosignature verification framework	75
Nitrogen-rich organics from comets probed by ultra-carbonaceous Antarctic micrometeorites	74
Discovery of a radio-emitting neutron star with an ultra-long spin period of 76 s	74
A JWST/DiSCo-TNOs portrait of the primordial Solar System through its trans-Neptunian objects	73
Accelerated, scalable and reproducible AI-driven gravitational wave detection	71
Radar signatures of active lava flows on Venus	69
Chilean astronomy and climate change	68
Author Correction: A low-density ocean inside Titan inferred from Cassini data	68
Exhibition: Reflections on the Universe	67
Scanning for planetary cores with single-receiver intersource correlations	66
Unnecessary risks created by uncontrolled rocket reentries	65
The super-resolved megamasers of NGC 4258	65
Direct measurement of decimetre-sized rocky material in the Oort cloud	64
Effects of density and temperature variations on the metallicity of Mrk 71	61
Settling a cosmic metal debate	61
Spectral determination of the colour and vertical structure of dark spots in Neptune’s atmosphere	61
The main barriers to distributed interaction are not technological	60
Geomorphic contexts and science focus of the Zhurong landing site on Mars	59
Stress testing ΛCDM with high-redshift galaxy candidates	58
Direct detection of ultralight dark matter bound to the Sun with space quantum sensors	58
A dehydrated space-weathered skin cloaking the hydrated interior of Ryugu	58
Evaluation of the InSightSeers and DART Boarders mission observer programmes	57
Differences in galaxy colours are not just about the mass	55
Planets form from rings	55