OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Physics is 67. 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
Peer review in a changing world	3442
The long and winding road	1696
Hares and hounds	398
Tracking a long-duration gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model	317
Characterization and control of non-Markovian quantum noise	286
Ultrafast magneto-optical measurements for probing magnon–phonon interactions in nanomagnets	276
Ultrathin waveguides for 2D photonic integrated circuits	246
Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage	215
How fast ions mitigate turbulence and enhance confinement in tokamak fusion plasmas	215
Challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning for high-energy physics	204
Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging	188
Exascale image processing for next-generation beamlines in advanced light sources	183
A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics	183
Controlling complex networks with complex nodes	182
Experimental signatures of the chiral anomaly in Dirac–Weyl semimetals	171
Science in the age of large language models	170
Tree of light	166
Navigating an incomplete network using a map	165
Physicists and the first computing revolution	163
Meet the Nature Reviews Physics 2023 team	163
A fully connected Ising machine using standard technology	162
Characterizing gravitational-wave sources with likelihood reweighting	158
100 Years of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics	156
Diffusion metamaterials	153
Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials	143

Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation	143
Drying droplets at a printhead nozzle	142
Did you check for ravens?	129
Harnessing the power of chemically active sheets in solution	125
Imaging whole-brain activity to understand behaviour	124
Fresh perspectives on the foundations of quantum physics	119
Nanoscale magnetic field imaging for 2D materials	116
Advancing molecular simulation with equivariant interatomic potentials	112
Quantum photonics with layered 2D materials	108
Visualizing big science projects	107
What human mobility data tell us about COVID-19 spread	103
50 years of quantum spin liquids	103
From swarms to films	102
Learning the flow	100
Droplets in cell nuclei are controlled by chromatin	97
25 years of small-world network theory	96
Intervening in networks to make minorities more visible	96
How spin-off companies can play a role in science communication	95
100 years of ferroelectricity	94
Quantum sensing for particle physics	93
Uptake of ride-sharing schemes	93
More and different at the interface	90
JWST sees little red dots	88
Indian space science missions	86
Computational scientists should consider climate impacts and grant agencies should reward them	85
Principles for demonstrating condensed phase optical refrigeration	82
Publisher Correction: Rydberg states of alkali atoms in atomic vapour as SI-traceable field probes and communications receivers	82
New approaches to dark matter detection	82
The attoscience of strong-field-driven solids	81
15 years of topological insulators	80
Removing detector distortions with machine learning	80
Applications of single photons to quantum communication and computing	80
The transformative potential of machine learning for experiments in fluid mechanics	77
Prospects for quantum enhancement with diabatic quantum annealing	77
Physical limits in electromagnetism	75
Mechanical properties of human tumour tissues and their implications for cancer development	72
Multidimensional nanoscopic chiroptics	71
Algae patterns	71
Physics-informed machine learning	71
Tidal disruption events and high-energy neutrino coincidences	70
The physics of fizz	69
An AI-toolkit to develop and share research into new materials	67