OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Astronomy is 54. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A rebounding instability	356
Next stop the Moon	325
Pinpointing the origins of radio flashes	294
A new lens for quasar host masses	288
Observations of a very energetic ultraviolet and optical flare with a space telescope	255
Two decades for twin rovers	233
Life might seem out of whack	206
Insights into star formation and dispersal from the synchronization of stellar clocks	158
A blazar in the epoch of reionization	155
Insight into multi-step geological evolution of C-type asteroids from Ryugu particles	128
Mapping of an early quenched massive galaxy and its neighbourhood	127
Subaru’s spectrometer with thousands of eyes	120
Predicted future fate of COSMOS galaxy protoclusters over 11 Gyr with constrained simulations	119
The magic of radio astronomy	115
SiO and a super-stellar C/O ratio in the atmosphere of the giant exoplanet WASP-121 b	108
Small-body exploration with an in situ probe	98
A multi-cubic-kilometre neutrino telescope in the western Pacific Ocean	98
Enhanced star formation through the high-temperature formation of H2 on carbonaceous dust grains	98
The formation of merging black holes with masses beyond 30 M⊙ at solar metallicity	91
Detection of ultra-fast radio bursts from FRB 20121102A	90
An aspherical distribution for the explosive burning ash of core-collapse supernovae	89
Early Mars habitability and global cooling by H2-based methanogens	89
Identification of the weak-to-strong transition in Alfvénic turbulence from space plasma	89
The impact of satellite trails on Hubble Space Telescope observations	88
Black in galaxy astrophysics	87

A new class of rocky exoplanets?	85
Radar signatures of active lava flows on Venus	78
Scanning for planetary cores with single-receiver intersource correlations	73
The super-resolved megamasers of NGC 4258	72
Settling a cosmic metal debate	71
The scourge of harassment in astronomy	70
A dehydrated space-weathered skin cloaking the hydrated interior of Ryugu	68
Effects of density and temperature variations on the metallicity of Mrk 71	67
Stringent tests of spin-up theories posed by a millisecond pulsar with an extreme spin-down rate	64
A call to address humanity’s cosmic footprint	63
The main barriers to distributed interaction are not technological	63
Nitrogen-rich organics from comets probed by ultra-carbonaceous Antarctic micrometeorites	62
Author Correction: A low-density ocean inside Titan inferred from Cassini data	62
The dramatic transition of the extreme red supergiant WOH G64 to a yellow hypergiant	61
Spectral determination of the colour and vertical structure of dark spots in Neptune’s atmosphere	61
The future ability to test theories of gravity with black-hole shadows	60
Direct measurement of decimetre-sized rocky material in the Oort cloud	60
The variety and origin of materials accreted by Bennu’s parent asteroid	60
A binary model of long-period radio transients and white dwarf pulsars	60
A fast X-ray transient from a weak relativistic jet associated with a type Ic-BL supernova	59
Discovery of a radio-emitting neutron star with an ultra-long spin period of 76 s	59
Boiling oceans and compressional tectonics on emerging ocean worlds	58
Small moons boil, large moons break	57
Worlds between Earth and Neptune defy a simple story	55
A JWST/DiSCo-TNOs portrait of the primordial Solar System through its trans-Neptunian objects	55
Enhanced magnetic activity in rapidly rotating binary stars	55
Direct detection of ultralight dark matter bound to the Sun with space quantum sensors	55
Unnecessary risks created by uncontrolled rocket reentries	55
Radio show for rare type Ia	54
Stress testing ΛCDM with high-redshift galaxy candidates	54