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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Feedback gets a stellar review	320
A rebounding instability	279
Next stop the Moon	252
Oxygen as atmospheric thermometer	245
Pinpointing the origins of radio flashes	228
A new lens for quasar host masses	206
Observations of a very energetic ultraviolet and optical flare with a space telescope	192
Two decades for twin rovers	181
Women astronomers in Afghanistan need the world’s support	171
Life might seem out of whack	143
Enhanced star formation through the high-temperature formation of H2 on carbonaceous dust grains	137
Mapping of an early quenched massive galaxy and its neighbourhood	123
Small-body exploration with an in situ probe	115
Predicted future fate of COSMOS galaxy protoclusters over 11 Gyr with constrained simulations	113
Subaru’s spectrometer with thousands of eyes	112
Detection of ultra-fast radio bursts from FRB 20121102A	107
An aspherical distribution for the explosive burning ash of core-collapse supernovae	102
A blazar in the epoch of reionization	101
Insight into multi-step geological evolution of C-type asteroids from Ryugu particles	96
SiO and a super-stellar C/O ratio in the atmosphere of the giant exoplanet WASP-121 b	93
Insights into star formation and dispersal from the synchronization of stellar clocks	92
Early Mars habitability and global cooling by H2-based methanogens	89
Identification of the weak-to-strong transition in Alfvénic turbulence from space plasma	85
The formation of merging black holes with masses beyond 30 M⊙ at solar metallicity	82
The impact of satellite trails on Hubble Space Telescope observations	81

Black in galaxy astrophysics	77
A multi-cubic-kilometre neutrino telescope in the western Pacific Ocean	77
A new class of rocky exoplanets?	76
Author Correction: A low-density ocean inside Titan inferred from Cassini data	75
Radar signatures of active lava flows on Venus	75
Chilean astronomy and climate change	73
Scanning for planetary cores with single-receiver intersource correlations	71
The super-resolved megamasers of NGC 4258	69
Spectral determination of the colour and vertical structure of dark spots in Neptune’s atmosphere	68
The scourge of harassment in astronomy	67
Settling a cosmic metal debate	67
Save the Earth… and space	65
Odd radio circles ring galaxies	64
Effects of density and temperature variations on the metallicity of Mrk 71	63
A dehydrated space-weathered skin cloaking the hydrated interior of Ryugu	63
A call to address humanity’s cosmic footprint	63
The future ability to test theories of gravity with black-hole shadows	62
Enhanced magnetic activity in rapidly rotating binary stars	62
Unnecessary risks created by uncontrolled rocket reentries	61
Boiling oceans and compressional tectonics on emerging ocean worlds	60
The main barriers to distributed interaction are not technological	60
Small moons boil, large moons break	59
Nitrogen-rich organics from comets probed by ultra-carbonaceous Antarctic micrometeorites	58
Direct measurement of decimetre-sized rocky material in the Oort cloud	57
A JWST/DiSCo-TNOs portrait of the primordial Solar System through its trans-Neptunian objects	56
Stress testing ΛCDM with high-redshift galaxy candidates	56
Discovery of a radio-emitting neutron star with an ultra-long spin period of 76 s	55
A fast X-ray transient from a weak relativistic jet associated with a type Ic-BL supernova	55
Radio show for rare type Ia	54
Direct detection of ultralight dark matter bound to the Sun with space quantum sensors	54
The variety and origin of materials accreted by Bennu’s parent asteroid	54