Physics Today

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(The median citation count of Physics Today is 0. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Narrow specialization and other forms of sin47
Embracing imperfection for quantum technologies36
Elementary, my dear physicists!35
Commentary: Thinking of moving from academia into industry? Here are some things to consider32
Commentary: A physicist’s perspective on COVID-1927
Understanding the Mayans on their own terms22
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and nanoscience20
A clash of cosmologists18
Climate change is redefining Arctic wildfires16
Engineering better science education16
Eugene Newman Parker16
John Edward Harries14
The standard model for beginners14
Frequency-dependent squeezing makes LIGO even more sensitive14
Acoustics of multiuse spaces14
Urgent measures are needed to shore up NIST’s crumbling facilities13
Physics and poetry revisited13
New books & media12
Consulting can be stimulating and lucrative for physicists12
Addressing the quantum measurement problem11
Sustainable fabrication of organic electronics11
Malaysian physics and the maker ethos10
Correction10
Why insects orbit light at night10
Record-setting cosmic neutrino breaks in a new telescope10
Masatoshi Koshiba10
Branched flow9
Ethics in physics: The need for culture change9
Arthur Compton and the mysteries of light8
Condensed-matter titan8
Nanoprinting low-temperature glass8
3-2-1 Contact: Scientists at the writers’ table8
More on William Fowler8
New books & media8
How stars shape galaxies8
Commentary: Teaching quantum concepts7
Thoroughly modern Millie7
Kyozi Kawasaki7
Sand and mucus: A toolbox for animal survival7
New books & media6
Faculty interviews—traps and tips6
Quantifying and mimicking life6
The roles of research and “fit” in tenure6
Physics and poetry revisited6
Reconsidering tenure6
Twisted liquid crystal5
Q&A: Marty Baylor enhances students’ skills and their sense of belonging as physicists5
Lawrence Livermore achieves a burning plasma in the lab5
State anti-DEI laws sow uncertainty in public colleges and universities5
Atmospheric rivers bring anomalously high temperatures4
FYI science policy briefs4
Comments on “Careers by the numbers”4
A right-handed molecule is coaxed to behave like a left-handed one4
Our quantum world4
What makes a big cat roar?4
Nineteenth-century women and physics across the pond4
Stephen Hawking, human4
Solar energy considerations4
The roar of a rocket4
Water’s hydrogen bonds are seen like never before4
NASA urged to boost R&D at expense of near-term missions4
Idaho project tests the limits of DOE aid to advanced reactors4
A meticulous thermodynamic recipe for cooking eggs4
Q&A: Engineer Stewart Isaacs seeks equitable climate change solutions4
More on the quantum measurement problem3
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation3
Why did the Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor close?3
Judith Lynn Pipher3
Nineteenth-century women and physics across the pond3
The universe at your fingertips3
The two cultures, revisited3
How a mineral that’s always wet gets wetter3
Perforating gold can make it stronger3
Physics … is for girls?3
More machine than human?3
Krypton isotopes tell the early story of Earth’s life-giving elements3
Blu-ray microscope with blood-cell lens3
Gravitational patterns reveal a tumultuous lunar past3
Lessons from 35 years in industry3
Metamaterial device makes 16 polarization measurements at once3
The road from academia to entrepreneurship3
Symposia and webinars3
The promises and perils of a mid-career pivot3
A. V. Hill: The man behind the initials3
The behavior of thin curved sheets is ironed out3
A wandering vortex3
To rule the waves3
Heliocentrism before Copernicus3
Fermilab goes deep to silence noisy radiation affecting qubits3
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation3
When your academic ladder is longer3
Pre-satellite weather balloons2
With no end in sight for the war in Ukraine, CERN ceases cooperation with Russia2
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors2
Thomas Ferbel2
CO2 pipelines: A way forward?2
Yamilée Toussaint sparks girls’ interest in STEM through dance2
Groundwater flows deep under Antarctic ice2
A synthesis of physical connectedness2
Light-driven spin chemistry for quantum information science2
Living cells on the move2
Supporting emerging astronomers across Africa2
Longitudinal study tracks why undergrads stick with or leave physics2
Laudable lectures2
Translating scientific papers for the public2
How a cloud of insects is (and isn’t) like a magnet2
Time-reversed laser absorbs nearly all light2
More on the quantum measurement problem2
Seismic data provide a deep dive into groundwater health2
Steven Weinberg2
Water makes its mark on GPS signals2
Zdeněk Herman2
Putting microLED technology on display2
Hubble has more time2
James Burkett Hartle2
Thomas James McIlrath2
Thermodynamics of the climate system2
Igor Ekhiel’evich Dzyaloshinskii2
A seismometer maps Mars’s anatomy2
ITER’s net loss2
A new route to synthetic diamond2
Multidimensional measurements2
Searching for religion in the laboratory2
Up-conversion nanoparticles measure medium-sized forces in hard-to-reach places2
Observing interstellar molecular hydrogen2
Synthetic dimensions2
New books & media2
Precision measurements bring the search for new physics to the table2
An overview of complex systems2
Climate change drives extinction—and always has2
Superdeterministic loophole2
X-ray imaging shows how a 17th-century painting lost its color2
The first 30 years of computer simulation2
FYI science policy briefs2
Arecibo STEM educational center to open soon2
When unmixable metals mix2
A stormy life in atmospheric science2
The early universe in a quantum gas2
Algebra-based high school physics2
Roman Jackiw and the chiral anomaly2
France’s Oppenheimer1
Japan accelerator pursues nanobeams to boost luminosity1
Leaving politics aside1
New books & media1
Research space increases at US universities1
Modeling sound at Stonehenge1
Correction1
Baseball rubbing mud does, in fact, make balls grippier1
Climate modeling innovators are honored with half the physics Nobel1
Testing the theory of general relativity1
ARPA–E explores paths to emissions-free metal making1
Geologic evidence that volcanic lightning promotes life on Earth1
Giant telescopes take small but significant steps toward realization1
Einstein statue unveiled in Havana1
Randomness unbound1
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors1
The power of fluctuation relations1
Where physics students find community1
FYI science policy briefs1
Live streaming a radio-telescope observation of the solar eclipse1
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and nanoscience1
Demands on early-career faculty1
Nanoscale 3D printing1
A forgotten trailblazer1
An introductory astronomy textbook for majors1
US research enterprise seeks to retain leadership while upping security1
Physics, AI, and the future of discovery1
Hydrogen as an aviation fuel1
The weak mixing angle1
Celebrating Emmy Noether1
The black powder behind battery power1
Cosmic tau neutrinos uncovered1
The complexities of the human placenta1
Role-playing the life of a scientist1
Soviet uranium boosters1
The no-cloning theorem1
Fanning flames1
A timely retrospective1
A small ancient galaxy started reionizing its surroundings early1
New books & media1
Commentary: Breaking the spell of scientific isolation in the developing world1
An ink for printed electronics1
Nonlinear optical computing doesn’t need nonlinear optics1
The conundrums of atomic secrecy1
Physics Nobel honors foundational quantum entanglement experiments1
A sprinkling of scientists prioritizes behaviors to counter climate change1
Elusive helium stars identified in archival data1
The subtle math of a heartbeat gone wrong1
Five decades of missing matter1
Sea changes for scientific ocean drilling1
A shocking beginning to star formation1
Early debates in space science1
Listening to the seafloor with optical fibers1
Newton’s “force” and fake doors: The “geometric spirit” in the arts1
Fast-drying cracks1
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and photonics1
FYI science policy briefs1
Quantum materials out of equilibrium1
UNESCO details the STEM gender gap and efforts to close it1
Hackathon culture’s maker potential1
Focus on test, measurement, and analytical equipment1
Living chiral crystals1
Young physicists excited to network through the International Association of Physics Students1
Roman Jackiw and the chiral anomaly1
A menagerie of Martian auroras1
Contributions to computed tomography1
No uncertain terms1
Black carbon frozen in ice1
Nuclear surveillance from space1
Manhattan Project astrophysics1
A European snowstorm is linked to climate change1
Hybrid scientific conferences: An ongoing experiment1
Revisiting science and colonialism1
New books & media1
Particle physicist Carolina Deluca retools when she needs to1
Lesson from a lost radioactive source1
Code changes could drastically reduce bitcoin’s enormous electricity requirements1
Io was always extremely volcanic, evidence indicates1
More on Arrhenius plots1
Europe’s experiment in funding graphene research is paying off1
W. Jason Morgan1
Michael Ellis Fisher1
Diamond’s sparkle is in more than gemstones1
Slow solar wind traced to Sun’s active regions1
Revisiting the electric potential1
The rapid acidification of sea spray aerosols1
NSF and postwar US science1
A windfall for US carbon capture and storage1
Commentary: The benefits of being a maverick1
Deep learning opens up protein science’s next frontiers1
Building a ship in a bottle for neutrino science1
Butterfly effects1
When learning physics mirrors doing physics1
Stacked materials build up massive electrons1
New books & media1
A journey to touch the Sun1
Iron-based superconductors: Teenage, complex, challenging1
A proposed solution to arbitrary evaluations1
Focus on test, measurement, quantum metrology, and analytical equipment1
New books & media1
Wolfgang Stodiek1
The world is square1
Building on Mars with human blood and urine1
Commentary: Researching around Europe: A personal reflection1
Constructing DNA, once again1
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation1
The death of expertise has been exaggerated1
A geophysicist uses Swifties’ seismic activity for science outreach1
Q&A: Hyejin Youn applies statistical physics to human behavior1
UK coalition gears up to demonstrate commercial viability of fusion energy1
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