OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Soft Matter is 33. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Back cover	115
Contents list	96
Rheology of a 2D granular film	92
The growth and the decay of a visco-elastocapillary ridge by localized forces	79
New quasiperiodic structures in nematic liquid crystals	71
Effect of polyacrylamide gel elasticity on collagen type II fibril assembly	68
From nematic shells to nematic droplets: energetics and defect transitions	66
Contents list	59
A facile strategy to in situ synthesize metal oxide/conductive polymer hybrid electrodes for supercapacitors	57
Viscoelasticity of single folded proteins using dynamic atomic force microscopy	51
Microfluidic extensional flow device to study mass transfer dynamics in the polymer microparticle formation process	48
Mechanical deformation affects the counterion condensation in highly-swollen polyelectrolyte hydrogels	45
Composition and temperature effects on the solution structure of SDS/octanol/brine by SANS, NMR and microscopy	44
PEG-fibrin conjugates: the PEG impact on the polymerization dynamics	43
Multi-population dissolution in confined active fluids	42
Reply to the ‘Comment on “Effects of topological constraints on linked ring polymers in solvents of varying quality”’ by M. Tsige and H. Guo, Soft Matter, 2024, 20, DOI: 10.1039/D3SM0161	40
Inside back cover	40
Hysteresis in phase volumes, compositions and interfacial roughness in model OPV-small-molecule/polymer thin-films	40
Spontaneous symmetry-breaking of the active cluster drives the directed movement and self-sustained oscillation of symmetric rod-like passive particles	40
Statistical mechanics of cell aggregates: explaining the phase transition and paradoxical piezoelectric behavior of soft biological tissues	39
Front cover	39
Back cover	38
Front cover	37
Front cover	37
Front cover	37

Liquid crystalline collagen assemblies as substrates for directed alignment of human Schwann cells	36
Entangled nematic disclinations using multi-particle collision dynamics	36
Effect of polymerization on free water in polyacrylamide hydrogels observed with Brillouin spectroscopy	36
Contents list	35
Correction: A passive star polymer in a dense active bath: insights from computer simulations	35
Temperature dependence of micelle shape transitions in copolymer solutions: the role of inter-block incompatibility	34
Tuning the polymer thermal conductivity through structural modification induced by MoS₂ bilayers	34
A simple one step synthesis of magnetic-optical dual functional ZIF-8 in a sodalite phase for magnetically guided targeting bioimaging and drug delivery	34
Size-dependent bending of a rectangular polymer film	33
Revisiting the strain-induced softening behaviour in hydrogels	33
Dynamic compaction of cohesive granular materials: scaling behavior and bonding structures	33