Nature

Article	Citations
Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star	28659
Five hundred days between pay cheques: the road I took to revive my career	2962
Daily briefing: How to make colour-blind-friendly figures	2695
Mini ‘metavehicles’ zip and swerve on light power	2611
Richard Leakey (1944–2022)	2336
How 'megastudies' are changing behavioural science	1954
Brightest X-rays on Earth expose COVID lung damage	1830
Daily briefing: What a healthy, sustainable diet looks like	1816
Daily briefing: Largest trial shows psilocybin is effective to treat depression	1687
Ukrainian mathematician becomes second woman to win prestigious Fields Medal	1686
Postdoc unions can help secure a brighter future	1554
Daily briefing: The nine wild animals that could help lock away carbon	1524
Abortion-pill ruling threatens FDA’s authority, say drug firms	1443
The forever family	1382
JWST spots planetary building blocks in a surprising galaxy	1285
My mission to grow fruit without the plant	1253
The inspiring story of the Tara and its 20-year message from the corals	1166
New pill helps COVID smell and taste loss fade quickly	1145
Daily briefing: Malaria vaccine made of live parasites shows early success	1141
COVID-19: build on Belgium’s psychosocial findings	1109
Stop using ‘master–slave’ terminology in biology	1098
Psychedelic drugs without the trip? This sensor could help seek them out	1094
Good research begins long before papers get written	1085
Black hole jets bent by magnetic fields	1052
A critical period that shapes neuronal motor circuits	1043

India’s neighbours race to sequence genomes as COVID surges	1007
The sanitation crisis making rural America ill	1006
Africa’s vaccines revolution must have research at its core	956
Flying a helicopter on Mars: NASA's Ingenuity	912
Vaccinate people in Africa’s prisons against COVID-19	906
Minuscule drums push the limits of quantum weirdness	899
Biologist to lead Europe’s premier research funder	895
Material mimicking lobster belly cracks the code for toughness	835
What’s next for physics’ standard model? Muon results throw theories into confusion	825
A smart genome scan could help scratch the itch for new antifungal drugs	806
Coronapod: Uncertainty and the COVID 'lab-leak' theory	795
Daily briefing: What we know about fast-spreading coronavirus variants	759
Black scientist network celebrates successes — but calls for more support	737
A century of US data documents obesity’s racially skewed rise	716
How itchy are you? A new device knows precisely	706
Trade resolution further threatens Brazil’s amphibians	700
A graphene cloak keeps artworks’ colours ageless	699
Mars auroras, deadly heatwave and new ERC president	692
Elegant chemistry, a humane view of robots, and refugee economics: Books in brief	687
Daily briefing: Microfossils reveal mysterious shark die-off	686
Hunting the strongest accelerators in our Galaxy	683
Complex, lab-made ‘cells’ react to change like the real thing	682
On the origin of numbers	682
It takes a wood to raise a tree: a memoir	672
Daily briefing: How COVID damages the brain	661
Household water crisis affects millions in the United States	659
How quantum biology could help birds 'see' magnetic fields	656
Seek diversity to solve complexity	654
How a child’s heart health could be decided before birth	650
Coronapod: the biomarker that could change COVID vaccines	643
From the archive	640
Daily briefing: Mini Moderna dose rouses big immune response	617
Daily briefing: The parenting penalties faced by scientist mothers	611
Shifting shores: delving into the past with mud cores	604
Pikas in high places have a winter-time treat: yak poo	597
Daily briefing: Aliens orbiting these 2,000 stars could (maybe) spot Earth	597
What polar researchers have learnt from the pandemic	596
Daily briefing: Video guide to the science of coronavirus variants	596
Holding a tool wrong? This brain region will notice	595
Daily briefing: First major investigation of the global pandemic response	590
UNESCO embraces open science to shape society’s future	588
Daily briefing: ‘Staggering’ success for anti-dengue mosquito trial	582
Journal closure leads to dip in papers’ citations	581
China and the UK: Making an international collaboration work	571
Snap and trap: DNA panels click together to form tiny virus catchers	567
Five trendy technologies: where are they now?	564
Not not happy	562
Daily briefing: The evidence is stacking up for Sputnik V vaccine	556
To build resilience, study complex systems	555
Daily briefing: Big COVID treatment trial reboots with three new drugs	554

Swiss funder draws lots to make grant decisions	554
Ants shrink their brains for motherhood — but can enlarge them when egg-laying ends	554
Daily briefing: Why rare vaccine side effects are so hard to investigate	554
Prediction for magnetic moment of the muon informs a test of the standard model of particle physics	543
How a worrisome coronavirus variant spread unnoticed	543
Daily briefing: Why it took so long to grapple with airborne COVID-19	542
Head-injury risk higher for female soccer players, massive survey finds	539
Daily briefing: Tardigrades didn’t survive crash-landing on the Moon	537
Coronapod: How to define rare COVID vaccine side effects	535
A hurricane wrecks ‘Monkey Island’ — and leads to new monkey friendships	531
Daily briefing: Vast landscape of ancient stone structures discovered	531
Business of science: How to register a patent	528
Injection of light-sensitive proteins restores blind man’s vision	528
Brain-cell bouquet and snaps from Mars — March’s best science images	527
Meth-addicted trout swim for a hit	520
Lightning talks: science in 5 minutes or less	517
The ‘time neurons’ that help the brain keep track	515
A ‘no-brainer’ decision to become a COVID-19 vaccine-centre volunteer	508
Daily briefing: Why asthma attacks dropped during the pandemic	508
Why national attitudes about science matter for vaccine acceptance	507
How headless worms see the light to steer	503
Daily briefing: J&J COVID vaccine pause recommended	499
Animals’ bright colours don’t lie: eat me and you’ll be sorry	497
Audio long-read: How drugmakers can be better prepared for the next pandemic	496
Europe’s pandemic recovery: embed resilience	496
How new principal investigators tackled a tumultuous year	493
Activation of retinal neurons triggers tumour formation in cancer-prone mice	489
COVID’s cardiac connection	487
Daily briefing: ‘Inflammation clock’ shows your immune system’s age	484
Menopause therapy: Brain-based treatment for hot flushes approved by FDA	479
How to organize your lab purchases and inventory	478
Online pet shops are crawling with spiders captured in the wild	477
India shoots for the Moon with Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander	477
Structure sheds light on a lipid-transport machine in mycobacteria	473
‘Everybody is so excited’: South Korea set for first Moon mission	466
Daily briefing: How some fish can live for centuries	465
Science in 2022: what to expect this year	463
A visual guide to repairing the retina	463
The best science images of 2021	462
Busting benzene, lab-grown embryos — the week in infographics	460
Earth-like planet, neutrino’s mysterious mass and disease eradication	452
Daily briefing: Great Barrier Reef is experiencing a mass bleaching event	451
From the archive	448
Zeroing out his wavefunction	447
The singularity graveyard	446
How itchy vicuñas remade a vast wilderness	445
Feeling lonely in research? You’re not alone	444
Missing genomes, flexible microphone — the week in infographics	444
What maintains biodiversity in ecological communities?	443
The surprising benefit of meditative walks	442
Molecular map of the human blood–brain barrier reveals links to Alzheimer’s disease	442
Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time	440
Climatologist Michael Mann wins defamation case: what it means for scientists	438
What a tease! Great apes pull hair and poke each other for fun	437
Introducing meat–rice: grain with added muscles beefs up protein	434
R&D budget cut could be the final straw for South Korea’s young scientists	434
Daily briefing: Mysterious lizard fossil revealed to be mostly black paint	432
Ambitious survey of human diversity yields millions of undiscovered genetic variants	431
Daily briefing: First private Moon lander makes history	430
Forget lung, breast or prostate cancer? Why we shouldn’t abandon tumour names yet	428
Black holes, love and poetry — an artistic exploration of intimacy and adventure	428
Russia’s Arctic Council threat requires lessons from cold war science diplomacy	428
So … you’ve been hacked	424
Daily briefing: Tweeting about your paper doesn’t boost citations	423
Tweeting your research paper boosts engagement but not citations	422
I study small organisms to tackle big climate problems	420
Did ‘alien’ debris hit Earth? Startling claim sparks row at scientific meeting	417
How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says	414
A fundamental constant in physics gets an update	409
Presidents of Royal Society live long lives	408
I peer into volcanoes to see when they’ll blow	407
Daily briefing: How PhD assessment needs to change	406
AI & robotics briefing: AI decodes languages in first ‘bilingual’ brain-reading device	406
Superpowered science: charting China’s research rise	405
How virtual reality is helping to boost scientific engagement in rural Africa	403
Why do some dogs chase squirrels? Study finds genetic links to canine quirks	402
DNA reveals that mastodons roamed a forested Greenland two million years ago	402
Crucial biodiversity summit will go ahead in Canada, not China: what scientists think	402
Tracing the brain circuitry underlying movement and mood symptoms in Parkinson’s disease	399
Ancient 'giraffes' sported thick helmets for headbutting	399

Santiago Ramón y Cajal: art, politics and neuroscience revolution	399
Cancer cells hijack nerve cells to storm through the brain	396
Billions more for US science: how the landmark spending plan will boost research	394
Blipcoin	392
Healthier foods are better for the planet, mammoth study finds	390
Daily briefing: How to clean indoor air of viruses and pollutants	388
Daily briefing: New treatments offer fresh hope for depression	388
Charge dropped against New Zealand science agency after deadly volcano eruption	387
COVID derailed polar research projects. Here’s how students have coped	387
Mid-career scientists: advice to our younger selves	384
Loss of power looms for some families as climate changes	384
What Xi Jinping’s third term means for science	384
Daily briefing: Everest observatory is falling apart	381
Boosting banana nutrition for Ugandans	381
Women and the environment: power on the ground and in academia	379
Why cannabis reeks of skunk	379
Daily briefing: Exoplanet has ruby and sapphire rain	378
From the archive	375
Coronapod: what people get wrong about endemic COVID	375
Warming world, women in science — the week in infographics	372
The AI historian: A new tool to decipher ancient texts	370
Daily briefing: Ukrainian researchers ‘in agony’ in Antarctica	369
From the archive: fishy business in 1972 and 1922	369
Clever orangutans invent nutcrackers from scratch	367
Wildfire smoke creates brighter clouds — and weather changes	365
Climate change to loom large in talks to form new German government	365
AI finally beats humans at a real-life sport — drone racing	364
Peering into bats’ brains as the animals fly and feed together	361
How research managers are using AI to get ahead	361
Surface interaction propels molecule forwards	361
Politics and the environment collide in Brazil: Lula’s first year back in office	359
I look for the mineral equivalent of tree rings	359
Daily briefing: Sexism is a waste of money	359
Can resetting the body clock help with depression?	358
Daily briefing: Citation padding gets papers accepted	358
Daily briefing: First UK children born with DNA from three people	358
This infinite tiling pattern could end a 60-year mathematical quest	356
NIH to intensify scrutiny of foreign grant recipients in wake of COVID origins debate	355
How to keep Ukraine’s research hopes alive	354
From the archive: hay fever, and the transit of Venus across the Sun	354
Super-cooling lasers could help to reveal celestial chemistry	353
Dolphin mums whistle ‘baby talk’ with their calves	351
‘Virgin birth’ genetically engineered into female animals for the first time	350
Surprise dip in UK COVID cases baffles researchers	349
Postdoctoral researchers warn NIH that cost-of-living pressures are gutting the workforce	347
COVID was twice as deadly in poorer countries	347
Chronic stress can inflame the gut — now scientists know why	347
In search of body	346
Trees are dying much faster in northern Australia — climate change is probably to blame	344
A sea change in craft brewing	344
Daily briefing: First known case of getting COVID from a cat	343
Touch-evoked itch pinned on Piezo1 ion-channel protein	341
Daily briefing: The largest Jurassic flier ever found	341
Witness in US climate-change law suit tells all	341
Coronapod: Ivermectin, what the science says	340
Maize under threat, and morality for cars: Books in brief	336
Goodnight, Moon	336
Starfish, sharks and space-telescope selfie — February’s best science images	334
Hard feelings over mission change for NASA’s Pluto spacecraft	333
Circadian rhythms are set by epigenetic marks in neurons	332
Pioneering CERN scheme will pay publishers more if they hit open-science targets	332
Author Correction: Ab initio characterization of protein molecular dynamics with AI2BMD	331
Neuromorphic computing at scale	329
‘Publish or perish’ culture blamed for reproducibility crisis	328
Bilayer nanographene reveals halide permeation through a benzene hole	325
Clouds reduce downwelling longwave radiation over land in a warming climate	324
How to trick the immune system into attacking tumours	324
Raising a glass to the Four Friends Doing Science journal club	323
How I use data to highlight complex and overlooked work in health-care systems	322
The Doppler effect explained with steam trains	322
Beyond black and white: an ecologist applies racial-justice principles to predators and their ecosystems	321
The surprising link between muscle and the reproductive system	320
Video: Babies with misshapen hearts	319
Puzzling spikes in ozone-eating chemical have a fiery cause	319
Daily briefing: Chemist Charles Lieber convicted of hiding his ties to China	317
Single proton cooled by distant ions	317
Hubble spots space rocks — with aid from citizen scientists	316
From the archive	316
Mobile-phone data reveal the acts of war that make people flee	315
Exercise spurs the brain to make more mood-boosting hormone	315
From the archive: international efforts to curb pollution, and the perils of broadcasting	314
From the archive: Shakespeare’s stage directions, and fern fever	314
A postdoc’s guide to choosing the right lab	313
From the archive: early science in Florence and fingerprint forgery	312
From hydrocarbons to history: building research capacity in Ghana	312
Grants and hiring: will impact factors and h-indices be scrapped?	311
Two-drug trick to target the brain blocks toxicity in the body	310
Frank Drake (1930–2022)	310
How a missing gene leads to super-sensitivity to sound	309
Pupating ants make milk — and scientists only just noticed	307
These monkeypox researchers warned that the disease would go global	307
Daily briefing: Biden names biologist as first ARPA-H chief	306
A diamond sensor shines at ‘seeing’ voltages	306
Daily briefing: The most climate-friendly seafood	306
A chocoholic’s best friends are the birds and the bats	305