OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Physics is 65. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Peer review in a changing world	1915
Hares and hounds	351
Tracking a long-duration gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model	332
Ultrafast magneto-optical measurements for probing magnon–phonon interactions in nanomagnets	315
Characterization and control of non-Markovian quantum noise	276
Ultrathin waveguides for 2D photonic integrated circuits	259
How fast ions mitigate turbulence and enhance confinement in tokamak fusion plasmas	243
A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics	236
Exascale image processing for next-generation beamlines in advanced light sources	219
Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging	210
Challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning for high-energy physics	204
Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage	199
Controlling complex networks with complex nodes	191
Tree of light	189
Science in the age of large language models	189
Navigating an incomplete network using a map	185
Physicists and the first computing revolution	185
Meet the Nature Reviews Physics 2023 team	181
Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation	181
A fully connected Ising machine using standard technology	166
Characterizing gravitational-wave sources with likelihood reweighting	156
100 Years of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics	152
Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials	141
Drying droplets at a printhead nozzle	139
Diffusion metamaterials	139

Did you check for ravens?	137
Fresh perspectives on the foundations of quantum physics	137
From swarms to films	135
Droplets in cell nuclei are controlled by chromatin	127
Intervening in networks to make minorities more visible	125
How spin-off companies can play a role in science communication	120
Visualizing big science projects	118
Harnessing the power of chemically active sheets in solution	117
50 years of quantum spin liquids	116
25 years of small-world network theory	112
Advancing molecular simulation with equivariant interatomic potentials	110
Nanoscale magnetic field imaging for 2D materials	106
100 years of ferroelectricity	106
What human mobility data tell us about COVID-19 spread	105
Imaging whole-brain activity to understand behaviour	104
Quantum photonics with layered 2D materials	103
Quantum sensing for particle physics	98
Uptake of ride-sharing schemes	97
More and different at the interface	96
JWST sees little red dots	94
Indian space science missions	93
Computational scientists should consider climate impacts and grant agencies should reward them	89
Publisher Correction: Rydberg states of alkali atoms in atomic vapour as SI-traceable field probes and communications receivers	88
New approaches to dark matter detection	88
Principles for demonstrating condensed phase optical refrigeration	87
Programmable metasurfaces for future photonic artificial intelligence	86
The attoscience of strong-field-driven solids	83
Physical limits in electromagnetism	82
15 years of topological insulators	82
The transformative potential of machine learning for experiments in fluid mechanics	80
Mechanical properties of human tumour tissues and their implications for cancer development	80
Multidimensional nanoscopic chiroptics	77
Applications of single photons to quantum communication and computing	77
Tidal disruption events and high-energy neutrino coincidences	76
The physics of fizz	72
An AI-toolkit to develop and share research into new materials	71
Algae patterns	68
Calling all early-career physicists	66
Artificial dynamical effects in quantum field theory	66
Shifting sands of hardware and software in exascale quantum mechanical simulations	66