OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Physics is 61. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Hares and hounds	527
Peer review in a changing world	491
Tracking a long-duration gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model	466
Photoemission electron microscopy for 2D materials	375
Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging	345
Spontaneous vortex formation in rotating fluids	313
Let’s talk about limitations	288
Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage	274
A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics	270
Ultrathin waveguides for 2D photonic integrated circuits	240
Transitions of the Atlantic Ocean circulation	234
Do the benefits of fundamental physics research outweigh its wider societal costs?	232
Controlling complex networks with complex nodes	207
Mechanobiology across timescales	207
Science in the age of large language models	203
How fast ions mitigate turbulence and enhance confinement in tokamak fusion plasmas	199
Navigating an incomplete network using a map	193
Physicists and the first computing revolution	190
A fully connected Ising machine using standard technology	185
100 Years of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics	182
Diffusion metamaterials	169
Shorebird feeding reveals a new liquid transport mechanism	169
Learning density functionals with differentiable DFT	166
Meet the Nature Reviews Physics 2023 team	166
Black-hole thermodynamics	156

Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation	154
Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials	147
Drying droplets at a printhead nozzle	142
Did you check for ravens?	139
Intervening in networks to make minorities more visible	137
From swarms to films	129
25 years of small-world network theory	127
50 years of quantum spin liquids	127
Precise pulse characterization using SHG-FROG	125
Fresh perspectives on the foundations of quantum physics	123
Ultrafast physics with structured light	120
US–China collaboration as a catalyst for the early development of quantum physics	116
Quantum sensing for particle physics	116
Advancing molecular simulation with equivariant interatomic potentials	113
JWST sees little red dots	111
Computational scientists should consider climate impacts and grant agencies should reward them	105
Uptake of ride-sharing schemes	105
Patently funny and possibly useful	101
Publisher Correction: Rydberg states of alkali atoms in atomic vapour as SI-traceable field probes and communications receivers	98
15 years of topological insulators	97
More and different at the interface	97
Meeting report: all-female speaker line-up in condensed matter	90
New approaches to dark matter detection	89
The attoscience of strong-field-driven solids	87
Programmable metasurfaces for future photonic artificial intelligence	85
Mechanical properties of human tumour tissues and their implications for cancer development	80
Upconverting nanoparticles for biomedical applications	73
Applications of single photons to quantum communication and computing	72
Principles for demonstrating condensed phase optical refrigeration	72
The transformative potential of machine learning for experiments in fluid mechanics	68
Physical limits in electromagnetism	68
The physics of fizz	67
Tidal disruption events and high-energy neutrino coincidences	67
Calling all early-career physicists	64
Algae patterns	63
The Yang–Mills Millennium problem	62