OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Physics is 63. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Hares and hounds	502
Peer review in a changing world	482
Tracking a long-duration gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model	477
Ultrathin waveguides for 2D photonic integrated circuits	448
Photoemission electron microscopy for 2D materials	353
Spontaneous vortex formation in rotating fluids	330
Let’s talk about limitations	306
A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics	293
Mechanobiology across timescales	275
Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage	266
How fast ions mitigate turbulence and enhance confinement in tokamak fusion plasmas	264
Controlling complex networks with complex nodes	231
Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging	224
Exascale image processing for next-generation beamlines in advanced light sources	221
Science in the age of large language models	201
Navigating an incomplete network using a map	198
Physicists and the first computing revolution	197
A fully connected Ising machine using standard technology	192
100 Years of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics	184
Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation	181
Meet the Nature Reviews Physics 2023 team	176
Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials	165
Shorebird feeding reveals a new liquid transport mechanism	161
Diffusion metamaterials	160
Did you check for ravens?	156

Drying droplets at a printhead nozzle	156
Intervening in networks to make minorities more visible	151
From swarms to films	149
Fresh perspectives on the foundations of quantum physics	146
Quantum sensing for particle physics	145
US–China collaboration as a catalyst for the early development of quantum physics	140
Advancing molecular simulation with equivariant interatomic potentials	137
Precise pulse characterization using SHG-FROG	131
25 years of small-world network theory	123
Ultrafast physics with structured light	122
50 years of quantum spin liquids	122
JWST sees little red dots	118
Uptake of ride-sharing schemes	117
Computational scientists should consider climate impacts and grant agencies should reward them	116
Patently funny and possibly useful	114
Publisher Correction: Rydberg states of alkali atoms in atomic vapour as SI-traceable field probes and communications receivers	112
15 years of topological insulators	111
More and different at the interface	110
Physical limits in electromagnetism	105
Meeting report: all-female speaker line-up in condensed matter	104
New approaches to dark matter detection	103
Principles for demonstrating condensed phase optical refrigeration	102
The transformative potential of machine learning for experiments in fluid mechanics	100
Mechanical properties of human tumour tissues and their implications for cancer development	93
The attoscience of strong-field-driven solids	93
Programmable metasurfaces for future photonic artificial intelligence	91
Upconverting nanoparticles for biomedical applications	87
Applications of single photons to quantum communication and computing	83
Tidal disruption events and high-energy neutrino coincidences	81
The physics of fizz	80
Calling all early-career physicists	79
Shifting sands of hardware and software in exascale quantum mechanical simulations	69
Algae patterns	69
The Yang–Mills Millennium problem	66
Supersolidity in ultracold dipolar gases	66
Point defects in metal halide perovskites	65
Rashba-like physics in condensed matter	65
Artificial dynamical effects in quantum field theory	65