OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Astronomy is 56. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Next stop the Moon	387
Pinpointing the origins of radio flashes	353
A new lens for quasar host masses	318
Observations of a very energetic ultraviolet and optical flare with a space telescope	315
Two decades for twin rovers	272
Life might seem out of whack	259
Mapping of an early quenched massive galaxy and its neighbourhood	181
Subaru’s spectrometer with thousands of eyes	144
The magic of radio astronomy	143
Detection of ultra-fast radio bursts from FRB 20121102A	136
An aspherical distribution for the explosive burning ash of core-collapse supernovae	130
Evidence of radial-migration-driven Galactic disc expansion with a U-shaped stellar age profile	127
SiO and a super-stellar C/O ratio in the atmosphere of the giant exoplanet WASP-121 b	120
The formation of merging black holes with masses beyond 30 M⊙ at solar metallicity	115
Insights into star formation and dispersal from the synchronization of stellar clocks	115
Early Mars habitability and global cooling by H2-based methanogens	112
A multi-cubic-kilometre neutrino telescope in the western Pacific Ocean	111
Precise measurement of the absolute sky brightness at 60–350 MHz	106
Small-body exploration with an in situ probe	102
Insight into multi-step geological evolution of C-type asteroids from Ryugu particles	101
Instantaneous jet power measured in an accreting black hole	101
Identification of the weak-to-strong transition in Alfvénic turbulence from space plasma	95
A blazar in the epoch of reionization	81
The impact of satellite trails on Hubble Space Telescope observations	80
Black in galaxy astrophysics	79

Enhanced star formation through the high-temperature formation of H2 on carbonaceous dust grains	79
A new class of rocky exoplanets?	78
Radar signatures of active lava flows on Venus	76
Scanning for planetary cores with single-receiver intersource correlations	72
The super-resolved megamasers of NGC 4258	69
Small moons boil, large moons break	68
The scourge of harassment in astronomy	68
Worlds between Earth and Neptune defy a simple story	68
Settling a cosmic metal debate	68
Enhanced magnetic activity in rapidly rotating binary stars	67
The main barriers to distributed interaction are not technological	67
A call to address humanity’s cosmic footprint	67
Author Correction: A low-density ocean inside Titan inferred from Cassini data	66
Nitrogen-rich organics from comets probed by ultra-carbonaceous Antarctic micrometeorites	66
Spectral determination of the colour and vertical structure of dark spots in Neptune’s atmosphere	64
Boiling oceans and compressional tectonics on emerging ocean worlds	63
A dehydrated space-weathered skin cloaking the hydrated interior of Ryugu	63
Direct detection of ultralight dark matter bound to the Sun with space quantum sensors	63
A binary model of long-period radio transients and white dwarf pulsars	61
Direct measurement of decimetre-sized rocky material in the Oort cloud	60
A fast X-ray transient from a weak relativistic jet associated with a type Ic-BL supernova	59
Stringent tests of spin-up theories posed by a millisecond pulsar with an extreme spin-down rate	59
Stress testing ΛCDM with high-redshift galaxy candidates	59
Effects of density and temperature variations on the metallicity of Mrk 71	59
The variety and origin of materials accreted by Bennu’s parent asteroid	59
The dramatic transition of the extreme red supergiant WOH G64 to a yellow hypergiant	58
The future ability to test theories of gravity with black-hole shadows	57
A JWST/DiSCo-TNOs portrait of the primordial Solar System through its trans-Neptunian objects	57
Radio show for rare type Ia	56
Where solar wind meets interstellar medium	56
Ice formation physics explains puzzling observations of CO in planetary birthplaces	56