OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Physics is 19. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Precise measurement of neutron lifetime	3299
Nonlocality with massive particles and mesoscopic systems	1637
The scientific article as a master finding system	388
Nobel 2004: freedom for quarks!	339
70 years of CERN	307
Tips for writing opinion articles	273
Visualizing twisted 2D materials with electron channelling contrast imaging	252
How the Cold War changed quantum education	240
Generation of large strains in 2D van der Waals materials at cryogenic temperatures	202
Phonon-limited electronic transport through first principles	196
Ultrafast magneto-optical measurements for probing magnon–phonon interactions in nanomagnets	195
Bringing together science and fiction	182
Forty years of the Ellis–Baldwin test	179
Peer review in a changing world	178
How redundancy and distributed control are helping make robots autonomous	175
Blowing bubbles from a reservoir	163
Shapes of ice and rock	163
Fighting stereotypes	163
The physics of breakfast	160
Then and now	157
The Stern–Gerlach experiment at 100	155
Machine learning and density functional theory	151
Ab initio methods for superconductivity	151
Ultrathin waveguides for 2D photonic integrated circuits	149
How detection and imaging technologies could make us better humans	147

Laser power stabilization via radiation pressure	144
When scientists disagree	141
Quantum Zeno effect at 45	138
Nature Reviews Physics turns five	126
Hares and hounds	124
Boxfish keels	122
How you can change gender stereotypes about physicists	118
Networks get more cliquey as they grow	114
Ten years of IceCube	110
Hydraulic spider legs	106
The long and winding road	105
Why we ask for synopses	101
Dual topological insulator found in superlattice	97
A 10 kg mechanical oscillator close to its motional ground state	97
Hydride superconductivity is here to stay	96
Weaving smooth 3D shapes with curved ribbons	96
Experimental signatures of the chiral anomaly in Dirac–Weyl semimetals	93
Machine-and-data intelligence for synchrotron science	92
Exascale image processing for next-generation beamlines in advanced light sources	91
Characterization and control of non-Markovian quantum noise	90
The superfluid-to-Mott insulator transition and the birth of experimental quantum simulation	90
Dequantizing algorithms to understand quantum advantage in machine learning	89
Publisher Correction: Resonant anomalous X-ray reflectivity for revealing ion distributions near electrodes	87
Author Correction: Optimizing the dynamic pair distribution function method for inelastic neutron spectrometry	87
How to set up your first machine learning project in astronomy	84
Author Correction: High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy	84
High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy	80
Tracking a long-duration gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model	80
Materials discovery screening with pymatgen	79
Visual anemometry for physics-informed inference of wind	77
60 years of Landauer’s principle	76
A new frontier for Hopfield networks	76
90 years of the Wigner crystal	74
10 years of the quantum anomalous Hall effect	74
A brief history of nonlinear excitations	74
A century of Compton scattering	74
30 years of orbital angular momentum of light	73
Machine learning as a tool in theoretical science	72
Too much efficiency leads to delays	70
Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging	67
Challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning for high-energy physics	66
Time irreversibility in active matter, from micro to macro	66
Magnetic reconnection in the era of exascale computing and multiscale experiments	66
Science in the age of large language models	66
Controlling water waves with artificial structures	65
Thermal conductivity of materials under pressure	64
Amyloid formation as a protein phase transition	62
Quantum rotations of nanoparticles	60
Controlling complex networks with complex nodes	58
Light–matter interaction at atomic scales	56

New physics from the polarized light of the cosmic microwave background	55
How fast ions mitigate turbulence and enhance confinement in tokamak fusion plasmas	54
Assessing the skills gap for the UK’s quantum missions	52
Learning quantum systems	50
A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics	50
Graph neural networks at the Large Hadron Collider	48
Liquid-metal experiments on geophysical and astrophysical phenomena	47
Anomalies in particle physics and their implications for physics beyond the standard model	47
Magnetic resonance elastography from fundamental soft-tissue mechanics to diagnostic imaging	44
On scientific understanding with artificial intelligence	44
Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage	44
Photocurrent as a multiphysics diagnostic of quantum materials	44
Graphene nanoribbons for quantum electronics	43
Physical insights into non-fullerene organic photovoltaics	43
Review of performance metrics of spin qubits in gated semiconducting nanostructures	39
First-principles calculations for Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction	38
Making clean electrical contacts on 2D transition metal dichalcogenides	37
A snapshot of 2023	36
Big science in India	36
A new century of quantum physics	34
Should artificial intelligence be interpretable to humans?	33
Physics words with surprising origins	33
Forging personal connections with science through storytelling	32
How to assess the carbon footprint of a large-scale physics project	30
Author Correction: Hot carrier photovoltaics in van der Waals heterostructures	30
Characterizing gravitational-wave sources with likelihood reweighting	29
Probing surface motion above ambient temperature with helium spin-echo spectroscopy	28
An AI pipeline to investigate the binding properties of poorly annotated molecules	28
Probing charge density in materials with atomic resolution in real space	27
High-accuracy electronic structure calculations with QMCPACK	27
100 Years of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics	27
The hidden sustainability cost of the reproducibility crisis	26
How promoting domestic electricity became physics outreach	26
Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation	25
Nanoscale diamond quantum sensors for many-body physics	24
The spectrum of early career physics	23
Cycling Fermi arc electrons with Weyl orbits	23
Learning quantum states from their classical shadows	23
Nobel 1983: chemistry and evolution of stars	22
Physics of exotic nuclei	22
Nobel 1943: magnetic moment of the proton	22
The early days of Monte Carlo methods	22
Nobel 1923: determining the charge of the electron	22
From physics to art and back	22
50 years of Penrose tilings	21
Navigating an incomplete network using a map	21
Engagement opportunities on the continuum between science and policy	21
How technology made condensed matter physics boring	21
Bird nest packing	20
Dynamics of electricity exchange markets	20
Tree of light	20
Physicists and the first computing revolution	20
The mechanics of emus’ unusual gait	19
How to teach climate change in a physics classroom	19
Looking back at 2024	19