OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science is 26. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding how bacterial collectives organize on surfaces by tracking surfactant flow	344
Accelerated emergence of CoNi-based medium-entropy alloys with emphasis on their mechanical properties	276
Amorphous oxide semiconductors: From fundamental properties to practical applications	232
Toward high-quality graphene film growth by chemical vapor deposition system	142
Overcoming the limitations of COVID-19 diagnostics with nanostructures, nucleic acid engineering, and additive manufacturing	103
Graphene- polymer nanocomposite-based wearable strain sensors for physiological signal Monitoring: Recent progress and challenges	98
Grain refinement and morphological control of intermetallic compounds: A comprehensive review	86
Editorial Board	82
Editorial Board	72
Dopants and defects in ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors	64
Electric current-induced phenomena in metallic materials	63
Liquid crystalline elastomer actuators with dynamic covalent bonding: Synthesis, alignment, reprogrammability, and self-healing	59
Conductive-synthetic diamond materials in meeting the sustainable development goals	56
Editorial: Special issue on solid-state battery materials, phenomena, and systems	53
Editorial Board	53
Solid state lithium metal batteries – Issues and challenges at the lithium-solid electrolyte interface	51
Predicting displacement damage for ion irradiation: Origin of the overestimation of vacancy production in SRIM full-cascade calculations	51
High strain rate nanoindentation testing: Recent advancements, challenges and opportunities	51
The next generation of nanoindentation and small-scale mechanical testing	51
Van der Waals heterostructures based on three-dimensional topological insulators	45
History, present status, and future directions of vanadium alloys for fusion reactors	44
Recent advances in describing and driving crystal nucleation using machine learning and artificial intelligence	44
Review on thermal transport and lattice dynamics of high-entropy alloys containing Ni	43
Chemomechanics: Friend or foe of the “AND problem” of solid-state batteries?	42
Advances in additive manufacturing of cemented carbides: From powder production to mechanical properties and future challenges	41

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for materials	39
Rational design of high-entropy ceramics based on machine learning – A critical review	36
Hydriding of titanium: Recent trends and perspectives in advanced characterization and multiscale modeling	35
Monolithic 3D integration as a pathway to energy-efficient computing and beyond: From materials and devices to architectures and chips	35
Editorial Board	33
Current opinions on memristor-accelerated machine learning hardware	31
Advancements in fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy Instrumentation: Towards high speed and 3D	30
Chiral photonic materials self-assembled by cellulose nanocrystals	30
Deformation-induced martensitic transformations: A strategy for overcoming the strength-ductility trade-off in high-entropy alloys	30
From jammed solids to mechanical metamaterials : A brief review	28
Hollow-walled lattice materials by additive manufacturing: Design, manufacture, properties, applications and challenges	27
Intrinsically stretchable sensory-neuromorphic system for sign language translation	27
Editorial Board	26
Autonomous materials research and design: Characterization	26