OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Astronomy is 53. 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
Two decades for twin rovers	281
Feedback gets a stellar review	237
A rebounding instability	225
Observations of a very energetic ultraviolet and optical flare with a space telescope	223
Next stop the Moon	218
Oxygen as atmospheric thermometer	208
Pinpointing the origins of radio flashes	200
A new lens for quasar host masses	178
Women astronomers in Afghanistan need the world’s support	160
Life might seem out of whack	150
SiO and a super-stellar C/O ratio in the atmosphere of the giant exoplanet WASP-121 b	149
The formation of merging black holes with masses beyond 30 M⊙ at solar metallicity	129
A radio technosignature search towards Proxima Centauri resulting in a signal of interest	123
Early Mars habitability and global cooling by H2-based methanogens	106
Subaru’s spectrometer with thousands of eyes	105
A blazar in the epoch of reionization	103
Enhanced star formation through the high-temperature formation of H2 on carbonaceous dust grains	97
Detection of ultra-fast radio bursts from FRB 20121102A	96
A multi-cubic-kilometre neutrino telescope in the western Pacific Ocean	95
Knowing when to stop	95
Mapping of an early quenched massive galaxy and its neighbourhood	93
The impact of satellite trails on Hubble Space Telescope observations	91
An aspherical distribution for the explosive burning ash of core-collapse supernovae	90
Predicted future fate of COSMOS galaxy protoclusters over 11 Gyr with constrained simulations	83
Identification of the weak-to-strong transition in Alfvénic turbulence from space plasma	82

Insights into star formation and dispersal from the synchronization of stellar clocks	81
The scourge of harassment in astronomy	80
Insight into multi-step geological evolution of C-type asteroids from Ryugu particles	80
Save the Earth… and space	79
Effects of density and temperature variations on the metallicity of Mrk 71	76
Odd radio circles ring galaxies	76
A dehydrated space-weathered skin cloaking the hydrated interior of Ryugu	75
The main barriers to distributed interaction are not technological	71
Direct detection of ultralight dark matter bound to the Sun with space quantum sensors	71
Stress testing ΛCDM with high-redshift galaxy candidates	70
Radar signatures of active lava flows on Venus	67
Chilean astronomy and climate change	64
Author Correction: A low-density ocean inside Titan inferred from Cassini data	64
Exhibition: Reflections on the Universe	64
The super-resolved megamasers of NGC 4258	62
Scanning for planetary cores with single-receiver intersource correlations	62
Settling a cosmic metal debate	59
Spectral determination of the colour and vertical structure of dark spots in Neptune’s atmosphere	59
A new class of rocky exoplanets?	58
Analysis of the Breakthrough Listen signal of interest blc1 with a technosignature verification framework	58
Nitrogen-rich organics from comets probed by ultra-carbonaceous Antarctic micrometeorites	58
Black in galaxy astrophysics	57
A call to address humanity’s cosmic footprint	57
Discovery of a radio-emitting neutron star with an ultra-long spin period of 76 s	56
Enhanced magnetic activity in rapidly rotating binary stars	56
A JWST/DiSCo-TNOs portrait of the primordial Solar System through its trans-Neptunian objects	53
Geomorphic contexts and science focus of the Zhurong landing site on Mars	53
A fast X-ray transient from a weak relativistic jet associated with a type Ic-BL supernova	53
Direct measurement of decimetre-sized rocky material in the Oort cloud	53