OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Scientific American 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Science in Images	149
Born Unequal	34
Health Care Starts at School	21
Women at Risk	17
Clinical Trials Need More Diversity	15
Quick Hits	8
A Change to the Sound of the Voice Can Change Your Very Self-Identity	7
Letters	7
Quantum Consciousness	5
Exploring the “Ham Sandwich Theorem”	5
The Neuroscience of Taking Turns in a Conversation	5
Quantum Gravity in the Lab	5
Four Success Stories in Gene Therapy	5
Sea Goggles	5
It's Time for a Global Ban on Destructive Antisatellite Testing	4
Remote Rescue	4
Cosmic-Level Anxiety	4
Interspecies Epic	4
Transition Times	4
When “Good” Cholesterol Turns Bad	4
Pollen Passengers	4
Reviews	3
Omicron Is Likely to Weaken COVID Vaccine Protection--but Boosters Could Restore It	3
Fantastic Sea Creatures Photographed Up Close and Personal	3
Bohmian Rhapsody	3

Life Is Complicated--Literally, Astrobiologists Say	3
Hard Truths from Hard Data	3
COVID Gum	3
Are We Wired Differently?	3
Creek Revival	3
Let Oceans Breathe	3
Alien Moons	2
Dazzling Defenses	2
Gut Bacteria Change as You Get Older--and May Accelerate Aging	2
Animal Landscapers	2
Homeschooling Needs More Uniform Oversight	2
The Health-Wealth Gap	2
AI's Surveillance Pricing	2
Behind Every Smile	2
Hyper View	2
Star Magnet	2
The Origin of Joking	2
A Logging Robot	2
Gladiators of the Mesozoic	2
Improving with Age	2
Cultural Reconstruction	2
What Was It Like to Be a Dinosaur?	2
How Brains Seamlessly Switch between Languages	2
Experimental Brain Implant Could Personalize Depression Therapy	2
What We Know about the Rise in Monkeypox Cases Worldwide	2
Next Frontiers	2
Don’t Panic. AI Won’t End Scientific Exploration	2
Babies' Gut Bacteria Predict Allergy Risk	2
Ghost Image	2
The Darkest Place in the Milky Way	2
Thinking without Words	2
What God, Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness Have in Common	2
Abortion Pill Barriers	1
The Way of Karma	1
Hot Potato	1
Spinal Stimulation Helps People with Paralysis Walk, Canoe and Stand at a Bar	1
Alone in the Milky Way	1
Computation Foretold	1
Reviews	1
Preventing the Next Pandemic	1
The Bird That Broke the Binary	1
Landmark Alzheimer's Drug Approval Confounds Research Community	1
Does Consciousness Pervade the Universe?	1
Fishy Business	1
Glacial Whispers	1
Live and in Color	1
The Blast That Shook the World	1
The Attention Economy	1
What’s in a (Star’s) Name?	1
Disappearing Act	1

Trouble in the Fast Lane	1
Letters	1
Gas Stove Worries	1
Cold Comfort	1
Hypochondria’s Serious Toll	1
Science in Images	1
Here Be Dragons	1
Facing Facts	1
A New Era for Astronomy	1
Keeping Time	1
Letters	1
Can Coral Reefs Be Saved?	1
Hidden Figures	1
Weaponization of Disgust	1
How to Reach a Creative “Flow State”	1
What’s in a + Sign?	1
Preeclampsia Prediction	1
Our Turbulent Galaxy	1
Reproduction Disrupters	1
Dark Stars	1
Why Your Brain Needs Exercise	1
Could Gravity's Quantum Origins Explain Dark Energy?	1
Finish the Cycle	1
Drought Whiplash	1
Is There More to a Healthy-Heart Diet Than Cholesterol?	1
Astronomer Vera Rubin Taught Me about Dark Matter--and about How to Live Life	1
Should We Abandon the Leap Second?	1
Quick Hits	1
Mathematical Games	1
Mimicking Matter with Light	1
How Expertise Improves Concentration	1
50, 100 & 150 Years	1
Lost and Found	1
Finding Life off Earth	1
Splitting Errors	1
Everyday Concussions	1
Spy Satellites Confirmed Our Discovery of the First Meteor from beyond the Solar System	1
SpaceX's Starship and NASA's SLS Could Supercharge Space Science	1
Mini Monsters	1
The Long Shadow of Trauma	1
50, 100 & 150 Years Ago	1
Changing the Environment	1
Lyrebird	1
Want to Talk to Aliens? Try Changing the Technological Channel beyond Radio	1
Contributors	1
Science for Good	1
Why Your Friends Are More Popular Than You	1
Fluid Conversation	1
Quick Hits	1
Wine's True Origins	1
Are You a Good Judge of Knot Strength?	1
An Invisible Epidemic	1
Martian Puddles	1
Kitty Talk	1
The Absurd Pregnancy Math behind the Texas 'Six-Week' Abortion Ban	1
Science for True Well-Being	1
Eradicating the Next Pandemic Disease	1
Bringing Harmony to Earth	1
Energy-Efficient AI Is Critical	1
Reviews	1
An AI Mystery	1
A Cosmic Mystery and Geometric Gems	1
Deep Time, Deep Survival	1
The Intention Machine	1
A Nomadic Math Eccentric	1
A New Understanding of the Cell	1
Cosmic Tornado	1
In Shape	1
Use Nature as Infrastructure	1
Cruise Control	1
ADHD’s Hidden Benefits	1
COVID Set Off a Boom in Diagnostics	1
News about Racial Violence Harms Black People's Mental Health	1
The Power of Understanding	1
Star Cells	1
Oyster GPS	1
Other People Don't Think You're a Mess	1
Neandertal DNA and the Human Mind	1
Biting Distance	1
People Likely Aren’t as Susceptible to False Memories as Researchers Thought	1

The Hidden Costs of Men’s Social Isolation	1
Unison Call	0
The Excluded Girls	0
Social Security and Science	0
Serenading Cells	0
Why Stories Endure	0
Power Trips	0
Absolution	0
Quantum Physics Is Weirder Than You Think	0
Love and Grief on a Loop	0
A Large Language Model for the Stars	0
Get in Line	0
Contributors	0
The Twisted Paths of Perception	0
Lab Leak?	0
Sound Sleeping	0
Heavy Metal Exoplanet Found Orbiting Nearby Star	0
Letters	0
Into the Mucosphere	0
Vitamin Map	0
When Things Feel Unreal, Is That a Delusion or an Insight?	0
Female Birds Sing, Too	0
It’s All Coming Together	0
A $1-Billion Boost to the NCI Will Help Us Beat Cancer	0
Letters	0
Head Trip	0
COVID Relay	0
Marker Magic	0
How to Search for Life as We Don't Know It	0
Big Questions	0
How Influenza Reassortment May Make Bird Flu More Dangerous	0
Pandemic Year One Saw a Dramatic Global Rise in Anxiety and Depression	0
Solar Seas	0
Mars's Downfall	0
Science in Images	0
Spin-Swapping Particles Could Be “Quantum Cheshire Cats”	0
Guardians of the Brain	0
Out of Sight	0
How Much Can We Know?	0
Black Holes, Wormholes and Entanglement	0
Language Affects Kids’ Interest in Science	0
50, 100 & 150 Years	0
Brooding and Cocky	0
Goofy Running	0
Conspiracy Theories Made It Harder for Scientists to Seek the Truth	0
Plastic Fuel	0
We Great Apes Are All Jokers	0
Disinformation Campaign	0
Discovery of New HIV Variant Sends Warning for COVID Pandemic	0
The Allure of Mirages	0
Green Intelligence	0
The Cosmic Surprise	0
Sight Unseen	0
Sleep Sustains Emotional Health	0
Wiki-Curious	0
Layers of Meaning	0
Escalating Drought	0
The “Habitable Zone” Problem	0
The Universal Problem of Climate Change	0
Humans Find AI-Generated Faces More Trustworthy Than the Real Thing	0
Designing Cities Right	0
Meltdown	0
Warning Charge	0
The Next Viral Plague	0
Cryptic Sex	0
New Attention and Hope for Sickle Cell	0
Lucky Genes	0
Fifty Shades of Trees	0
50, 100 & 150 Years Ago	0
What's That Smell?	0
Can Intense Exercise Lead to ALS?	0
Electronic Tongue	0
Nicotine on trial	0
Sweet Gut	0
Echo Chamber	0
The Coming Collapse	0
Rachel Carson and Queer Nature	0
There Is Too Much Trash in Space	0
Physical Activity Could Be an Evolutionary Adaptation for Grandparenting	0
Abortion Doesn't Have to Be an Either-Or Conversation	0
Alaska Burning	0
New Record-Breaking Simulation Sheds Light on 'Cosmic Dawn'	0
Discoveries from the Deep	0
Stop Giving Healthy Animals Antimicrobials	0
All the Darkness We Cannot See	0
Aerogel: A Quintain	0
Do Monoclonal Antibodies Help COVID Patients?	0
The Inspiration of Hilaree Nelson	0
The Nail-Biting Journey of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Is About to Begin	0
Hearing Aids May Lower Risk of Dementia	0
Quick Hits	0
Scanning the Cosmos for Dark Matter	0
A New Type of Pain Pill	0
Infectious Dreams	0
Double Bubbles	0