OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Astronomy is 52. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Two decades for twin rovers	273
Feedback gets a stellar review	229
Observations of a very energetic ultraviolet and optical flare with a space telescope	219
A rebounding instability	219
Next stop the Moon	214
Oxygen as atmospheric thermometer	198
Pinpointing the origins of radio flashes	196
A new lens for quasar host masses	172
Women astronomers in Afghanistan need the world’s support	154
The formation of merging black holes with masses beyond 30 M⊙ at solar metallicity	144
Life might seem out of whack	139
SiO and a super-stellar C/O ratio in the atmosphere of the giant exoplanet WASP-121 b	125
Insights into star formation and dispersal from the synchronization of stellar clocks	118
Predicted future fate of COSMOS galaxy protoclusters over 11 Gyr with constrained simulations	101
An aspherical distribution for the explosive burning ash of core-collapse supernovae	100
Mapping of an early quenched massive galaxy and its neighbourhood	99
Early Mars habitability and global cooling by H2-based methanogens	96
A radio technosignature search towards Proxima Centauri resulting in a signal of interest	95
Identification of the weak-to-strong transition in Alfvénic turbulence from space plasma	95
A Solar System formation analogue in the Ophiuchus star-forming complex	93
Knowing when to stop	93
Subaru’s spectrometer with thousands of eyes	91
A blazar in the epoch of reionization	87
Enhanced star formation through the high-temperature formation of H2 on carbonaceous dust grains	86
The impact of satellite trails on Hubble Space Telescope observations	83

Detection of ultra-fast radio bursts from FRB 20121102A	81
Insight into multi-step geological evolution of C-type asteroids from Ryugu particles	80
A multi-cubic-kilometre neutrino telescope in the western Pacific Ocean	80
The scourge of harassment in astronomy	75
Odd radio circles ring galaxies	74
Effects of density and temperature variations on the metallicity of Mrk 71	74
Save the Earth… and space	74
A new class of rocky exoplanets?	70
A dehydrated space-weathered skin cloaking the hydrated interior of Ryugu	70
Radar signatures of active lava flows on Venus	68
Author Correction: A low-density ocean inside Titan inferred from Cassini data	67
Chilean astronomy and climate change	64
Exhibition: Reflections on the Universe	63
Scanning for planetary cores with single-receiver intersource correlations	62
Settling a cosmic metal debate	62
Spectral determination of the colour and vertical structure of dark spots in Neptune’s atmosphere	62
The super-resolved megamasers of NGC 4258	62
Direct measurement of decimetre-sized rocky material in the Oort cloud	60
Enhanced magnetic activity in rapidly rotating binary stars	59
Black in galaxy astrophysics	57
Direct detection of ultralight dark matter bound to the Sun with space quantum sensors	57
A fast X-ray transient from a weak relativistic jet associated with a type Ic-BL supernova	56
Discovery of a radio-emitting neutron star with an ultra-long spin period of 76 s	55
Nitrogen-rich organics from comets probed by ultra-carbonaceous Antarctic micrometeorites	55
Unnecessary risks created by uncontrolled rocket reentries	53
Geomorphic contexts and science focus of the Zhurong landing site on Mars	53
The main barriers to distributed interaction are not technological	52
Analysis of the Breakthrough Listen signal of interest blc1 with a technosignature verification framework	52
A JWST/DiSCo-TNOs portrait of the primordial Solar System through its trans-Neptunian objects	52