OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Physics is 64. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Hares and hounds	423
Peer review in a changing world	408
Characterization and control of non-Markovian quantum noise	382
Ultrafast magneto-optical measurements for probing magnon–phonon interactions in nanomagnets	371
Tracking a long-duration gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model	292
Ultrathin waveguides for 2D photonic integrated circuits	270
Photoemission electron microscopy for 2D materials	258
Spontaneous vortex formation in rotating fluids	255
Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging	245
Challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning for high-energy physics	230
Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage	230
Mechanobiology across timescales	213
Exascale image processing for next-generation beamlines in advanced light sources	212
How fast ions mitigate turbulence and enhance confinement in tokamak fusion plasmas	192
Controlling complex networks with complex nodes	185
Science in the age of large language models	181
A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics	172
Physicists and the first computing revolution	171
Navigating an incomplete network using a map	171
Tree of light	167
A fully connected Ising machine using standard technology	165
Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation	161
100 Years of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics	161
Shorebird feeding reveals a new liquid transport mechanism	152
Meet the Nature Reviews Physics 2023 team	142

Diffusion metamaterials	139
Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials	135
Did you check for ravens?	130
Drying droplets at a printhead nozzle	130
Intervening in networks to make minorities more visible	129
From swarms to films	129
Fresh perspectives on the foundations of quantum physics	128
Advancing molecular simulation with equivariant interatomic potentials	120
How spin-off companies can play a role in science communication	120
Precise pulse characterization using SHG-FROG	117
25 years of small-world network theory	115
Quantum sensing for particle physics	110
50 years of quantum spin liquids	109
Ultrafast physics with structured light	107
Imaging whole-brain activity to understand behaviour	106
Quantum photonics with layered 2D materials	104
More and different at the interface	101
Uptake of ride-sharing schemes	100
JWST sees little red dots	100
Computational scientists should consider climate impacts and grant agencies should reward them	98
Principles for demonstrating condensed phase optical refrigeration	95
Programmable metasurfaces for future photonic artificial intelligence	95
Patently funny and possibly useful	95
Meeting report: all-female speaker line-up in condensed matter	93
Publisher Correction: Rydberg states of alkali atoms in atomic vapour as SI-traceable field probes and communications receivers	90
15 years of topological insulators	88
New approaches to dark matter detection	86
The attoscience of strong-field-driven solids	82
Physical limits in electromagnetism	82
Mechanical properties of human tumour tissues and their implications for cancer development	81
Applications of single photons to quantum communication and computing	81
The transformative potential of machine learning for experiments in fluid mechanics	79
The physics of fizz	73
Tidal disruption events and high-energy neutrino coincidences	73
Artificial dynamical effects in quantum field theory	71
Algae patterns	69
Supersolidity in ultracold dipolar gases	66
Shifting sands of hardware and software in exascale quantum mechanical simulations	66
Calling all early-career physicists	66