OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Physics is 23. 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
Hares and hounds	502
Peer review in a changing world	482
Tracking a long-duration gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model	477
Ultrathin waveguides for 2D photonic integrated circuits	448
Photoemission electron microscopy for 2D materials	353
Spontaneous vortex formation in rotating fluids	330
Let’s talk about limitations	306
A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics	293
Mechanobiology across timescales	275
Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage	266
How fast ions mitigate turbulence and enhance confinement in tokamak fusion plasmas	264
Controlling complex networks with complex nodes	231
Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging	224
Exascale image processing for next-generation beamlines in advanced light sources	221
Science in the age of large language models	201
Navigating an incomplete network using a map	198
Physicists and the first computing revolution	197
A fully connected Ising machine using standard technology	192
100 Years of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics	184
Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation	181
Meet the Nature Reviews Physics 2023 team	176
Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials	165
Shorebird feeding reveals a new liquid transport mechanism	161
Diffusion metamaterials	160
Did you check for ravens?	156

Drying droplets at a printhead nozzle	156
Intervening in networks to make minorities more visible	151
From swarms to films	149
Fresh perspectives on the foundations of quantum physics	146
Quantum sensing for particle physics	145
US–China collaboration as a catalyst for the early development of quantum physics	140
Advancing molecular simulation with equivariant interatomic potentials	137
Precise pulse characterization using SHG-FROG	131
25 years of small-world network theory	123
50 years of quantum spin liquids	122
Ultrafast physics with structured light	122
JWST sees little red dots	118
Uptake of ride-sharing schemes	117
Computational scientists should consider climate impacts and grant agencies should reward them	116
Patently funny and possibly useful	114
Publisher Correction: Rydberg states of alkali atoms in atomic vapour as SI-traceable field probes and communications receivers	112
15 years of topological insulators	111
More and different at the interface	110
Physical limits in electromagnetism	105
Meeting report: all-female speaker line-up in condensed matter	104
New approaches to dark matter detection	103
Principles for demonstrating condensed phase optical refrigeration	102
The transformative potential of machine learning for experiments in fluid mechanics	100
The attoscience of strong-field-driven solids	93
Mechanical properties of human tumour tissues and their implications for cancer development	93
Programmable metasurfaces for future photonic artificial intelligence	91
Upconverting nanoparticles for biomedical applications	87
Applications of single photons to quantum communication and computing	83
Tidal disruption events and high-energy neutrino coincidences	81
The physics of fizz	80
Calling all early-career physicists	79
Shifting sands of hardware and software in exascale quantum mechanical simulations	69
Algae patterns	69
Supersolidity in ultracold dipolar gases	66
The Yang–Mills Millennium problem	66
Rashba-like physics in condensed matter	65
Artificial dynamical effects in quantum field theory	65
Point defects in metal halide perovskites	65
Quantum sensors for biomedical applications	60
The role of particle shape in computational modelling of granular matter	57
70 years at the high-energy frontier with the CERN accelerator complex	56
Data sharing varies across physics	56
Nobel 1944: resonance method for measuring nuclear magnetic moments	55
W boson mass is worth the wait	55
Physics in Latin America	54
Faster Monte Carlo simulations of systems with long-range interactions	53
Topological phonons in graphene	52
Collective motion strategies of sheep	50
Current numbers of qubits and their uses	48
Benchmarking quantum computers	46

Progress in quantum teleportation	46
Visualizing twisted 2D materials with electron channelling contrast imaging	45
Dual topological insulator found in superlattice	45
Blowing bubbles from a reservoir	44
70 years of CERN	43
An open-source initiative would benefit quantum computing	42
Author Correction: High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy	41
A century of Compton scattering	41
Scientists need a break too	41
Author Correction: Optimizing the dynamic pair distribution function method for inelastic neutron spectrometry	40
Liquid-metal experiments on geophysical and astrophysical phenomena	40
Hydride superconductivity is here to stay	39
High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy	38
Magnetic resonance elastography from fundamental soft-tissue mechanics to diagnostic imaging	37
Physics words with surprising origins	36
Nobel 1983: chemistry and evolution of stars	36
How technology made condensed matter physics boring	36
Dynamics of electricity exchange markets	36
Topological thermal transport	35
Nobel 1923: determining the charge of the electron	35
Nobel 1943: magnetic moment of the proton	34
Warm dense matter studies with X-ray free-electron lasers	34
Nobel 2005: coherence and precision spectroscopy	34
Non-equilibrium Bose–Einstein condensation in photonic systems	34
The climate emergency demands scientists take action and here’s how	34
Engineered dissipation for quantum information science	34
What we’ve learned about flying less for conferences	32
Publisher Correction: Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate	32
Nobel 1985: the quantum Hall effect	32
Cryogenic electron microscopy and tomography for beam-sensitive materials	31
An AI pipeline to investigate the binding properties of poorly annotated molecules	30
Wigner’s friend and relational objectivity	30
A meeting point for art and science	29
Fire ant rafts	29
Five books that put physics in context	28
Go to talks by women	28
Starting a conversation about social issues in optics and photonics	28
Cooper pairs in a metallic state	27
Strong evidence for the discovery of a gravitational wave background	26
Directed percolation and the transition to turbulence	25
Size-controlled growth of anisotropic gold nanoparticles	25
Orbital angular momentum lasers	24
Theoretical tools for understanding the climate crisis from Hasselmann’s programme and beyond	24
Generative AI and science communication in the physical sciences	24
Mapping the landscape for graphene commercialization	24
Spin-torque driven skyrmion resonance	23
50 years of spin glass theory	23
Fifty years of ‘More is different’	23
Metrics for spin-based computing	23
Fluctuating into a biofilm	23
Pushing big science frontiers in China	23