OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Scientist is 0. 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
Innovation Using History	8
The Right Mount	5
The Wicked Problem of Transitioning to Renewable Energy	4
My Science Is Important	3
A Life of Purpose	3
A Hidden Life of Research	3
Do Swimming Animals Mix the Ocean?	2
Teams of Rivals	2
The Orbit of the Moon	2
Reading Mathematics	2
Sea Turtle Files	2
Uncovering Ancient Corrections	2
Gliflozins for Diabetes: From Bark to Bench to Bedside	1
Dynamic Science	1
Modeling a Greener Future	1
“Why Are We Funding This?”	1
Uncovering Nanostructures	1
Psychedelics Move Toward Mainstream Medicine	1
Rumors Have Rules	1
Guideposts for Regeneration	1
Briefings	1
Building in Our Value(s)	1
Systematizing Scents	1
The Inevitably Incomplete Story of Human Evolution	1
Language, Reimagined	0

On the Hunt for Another Earth	0
Dandelions: Diuretics and Rubber	0
A Deep Dive into Innovation	0
Artificial Communication	0
Baby Talk	0
Form and Function	0
Hints of an Ancient Protoplanet Inside of Earth	0
Briefings	0
Treating the Side Effects	0
The Power of Apples	0
Wildlife Surveys Out of Thin Air	0
Three Paths to Fusion Power	0
The Emergence of Directed Evolution	0
Fossils Saved by Fool’s Gold	0
The Light We Shine Upon the Moon	0
A Resurgence of Respiratory Viruses	0
Roaming Rocks	0
Trap-Free Solar Cells	0
Body Parts, Reimagined	0
In Sickness and in Health	0
Welcome to Jurassic Skye	0
Cosmos Ex Machina	0
Designing for Recycling	0
What Lies Beneath	0
Talk It Out	0
Predicting an Aging and Changing World	0
Museums of Bridges	0
Perfume or Noxious Fume?	0
Why STEM Education—and Democracy—Need Civic Science	0
Strangers Among Us	0
Farming and the Risk of Flash Droughts	0
Escaping AI’s Magic Black Box	0
Policies Support Miners’ Health	0
Serval	0
Reef Health from Space	0
Of Mouse Models and Humans	0
Seasons of Change	0
Hidden Genius	0
Unrepresentative Meteorites	0
Equitable Treatment	0
Ballparks Physics	0
Infinite Quest	0
Winners and Losers of Desert Green Energy	0
In the Thick of It	0
Pyrocene Park	0
The Call of Science	0
From Flu Season to Fire Season	0
On a Wing and a Prayer?	0
Messenger RNA Can Do More for Medicine	0
Do You Wanna Dance?	0

Understanding Consciousness	0
The Power of Data Literacy	0
The Case for Quantity in Science Publishing	0
Overcoming Challenges	0
A Revolutionary Drug to Treat and Prevent HIV Infection	0
Spirit(s) of a Profession	0
The Struggle Against Oneself	0
First Principles and Beyond	0
In the Modern Agora	0
Is Garlic Mustard an Invader or an Opportunist?	0
The Manipulative Side of Chatbots and AI	0
Deepwater Hydrothermal Vents	0
Memories Within Myth	0
Smart Urbanization	0
A Galactic Art Salon	0
When Art and Engineering Fold Together	0
Field Experiences	0
Self-Organized Scales	0
What We Prize	0
Coding: More than Just Instructions	0
Diversity from Isolation	0
The Ecoacoustics of Forests	0
Unfurling the Curl	0
Inspiring Environments	0
Mud Acoustics	0
The Chemistry of Vinegar Varieties	0
Global Discourse on Science Communication	0
Briefings	0
Briefings	0
Computer-Designed Antibiotics	0
Briefings	0
The Peril Beneath the Glow	0
Building Better Growth Curves	0
Inspired by Immunity	0
Letters to the Editors	0
Getting That Glow	0
Knowing Where to Look	0
Briefings	0
When Sharks Eat an Angler’s Haul	0
Strengthening AI Guardrails	0
Bookcases and Bedpans	0
CAUTION: Nerdiness Ahead	0
The Science of Better Choices	0
A New Kind of Space Mission	0
A Quantum History of Space-Time	0
What's in the Smell of First Rain?	0
The Enduring Forest Gardens of the Ancient Maya	0
Briefings	0
Is There an AI Metrics Mirage?	0
How Amino Acids Got Their Names	0
Briefings	0
The Early Years of Brain Imaging	0
Breeding Better Enzymes	0
Mosquitoes’ Hothouse Potential	0
A Sense of Direction (Masthead)	0
Cancer Fiends for Fructose	0
The Mechanics of Voice	0
Dealing with Uncertainty	0
From Motion to Emotion	0
Briefings	0
The Soil Contains Multitudes	0
Briefings	0
Balls in the Air	0
The Vicious Spiral of AI Slop	0
Connected Behaviors	0
Turning Hard Problems into Post-quantum Solutions	0
BOOK EXCERPT: How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense	0
Milestones in Deep Time	0
Approximating Reality	0
Writing History	0
The Call of Engineering	0
A Subtle Apocalypse	0
Relativity and the World of Molecules	0
Looking Through the Eye and into Alzheimer’s Disease	0
A Frozen Window to the Universe	0
The Unlikely Primeval Sky	0
The Psychology of Conflict Avoidance	0
Secrets Beyond the Sparkle	0
Roughing It	0
Briefings	0

Reconsidering Our Soundscapes	0
When the Body Turns on Itself	0
Living in an Age of Extremes	0
A Measure of Trust	0
Alien Life Is No Joke	0
A Brave New Robotic World	0
The Public Lecture and Social Mobility	0
Gentle Giants	0
Wearable, Wireless Electronics	0
Sea Nettle Jellyfish	0
Creatures Both Serene and Deeply Strange	0
The Ancient Mississippi River’s Return	0
The Illustrated Brain	0
Indexing the Information Age	0
Science in Times of Danger	0
What Goes In Must Come Out	0
Rethinking Adult ADHD	0
Writing to Facilitate Reading	0
Research Pays Off	0
Illustrating the Invisible	0
Earth 2.0 Could Be Just Around the Corner	0
Unearthly Beauty	0
Sweet Deceit	0
The Doors of Animal Perception	0
Models and Mathematics: Q&A with Erica Thompson	0
Nonantibiotic Medications May Help Fight Superbugs	0
The Princess and the Philosopher	0
Little Things Do a Lot	0
Small Predator, Big Strategy	0
The Dark Side of Light	0
Humbled by Evolution	0
How the Transistor Shaped Music	0
Bias Optimizers	0
Consciousness: The Road to Reductionism	0
Changing Forms	0
Redefining Normal	0
How People Decide to Trust in Science	0
The Myxomycetes: Nature’s Quick-Change Artists	0
The Discovery of Dark Comets	0
Leaf Spotting	0
Cosmic Detectives	0
Briefings	0
A New Picture of Dinosaur Nesting Ecology	0
Modeling Well	0
The Many Lives of Scientific Literacy	0
Growing the Great Green Wall	0
Biology Is Not Binary	0
Letters to the Editors	0
The Math of Beach Pebble Formation	0
Getting to the Heart with AI	0
Estuaries Face a Stormy Future	0
Getting Tough with Ionogels	0
Balancing Hope and Reality	0
Ancient DNA	0
When Ideology Eclipses Science	0
Crossroads of Science and Fiction	0
What Causes the Color of Auroras?	0
Paleoanthropology’s Superstar	0
The Human Factor in Floods	0
Space Tourism	0
Letters	0
Rethinking Research Impact	0
Beautiful Armor	0
Science Comics: Definitely Not Just for Kids	0
A Lunar Farside Radio Telescope	0
Do You Know Where Your Satellite Is Tonight?	0
Letters To The Editor	0
Collect New Data, Revise, Repeat	0
Deconstructing DNA Beyond the Helix	0
Wicked Crosswords	0
The Art and Wonder of Little Beasts	0
Mantle Waves	0
There’s Your Problem	0
AI and Responsible Authorship	0
Self-Sterilizing Surfaces	0
Celebrating Science	0
African Pygmy Hedgehog	0
The Flow of Time and Magma	0
Tardigrades’ Protective Protein	0
To Save Society from Digital Tech, Enable Scrutiny of Policy Implementation	0
Briefings	0
Engineering for Heat Waves	0
Letters to the Editors	0
Building with Nature	0
Taking Chances in the Cosmos	0
The American Inventor of Modern Thermodynamics	0
The Pinocchio Puzzle	0
(Don’t) Shut Your π-Hole	0
To Fix the Brain, Look to Other Nerves	0
Making Lasting Change	0
Briefings	0
Gas Dynamics of Solar and Stellar Winds	0
Retraction Reactions	0
Glitching Out	0
How Herman Hollerith Counted America and the World	0