Physics Today

Papers
(The TQCC of Physics Today is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Elementary, my dear physicists!50
Commentary: Thinking of moving from academia into industry? Here are some things to consider38
Commentary: A physicist’s perspective on COVID-1935
Understanding the Mayans on their own terms32
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and nanoscience27
A clash of cosmologists23
Engineering better science education20
Eugene Newman Parker20
Climate change is redefining Arctic wildfires19
Acoustics of multiuse spaces17
The standard model for beginners17
Urgent measures are needed to shore up NIST’s crumbling facilities14
Frequency-dependent squeezing makes LIGO even more sensitive14
John Edward Harries14
Consulting can be stimulating and lucrative for physicists13
New books & media13
Correction13
Physics and poetry revisited13
Addressing the quantum measurement problem13
Why insects orbit light at night12
Record-setting cosmic neutrino breaks in a new telescope11
Malaysian physics and the maker ethos11
Branched flow10
Ethics in physics: The need for culture change10
Embracing imperfection for quantum technologies10
3-2-1 Contact: Scientists at the writers’ table9
More on William Fowler9
Sustainable fabrication of organic electronics9
How stars shape galaxies9
Condensed-matter titan8
New books & media8
Commentary: Teaching quantum concepts8
Nanoprinting low-temperature glass8
Kyozi Kawasaki8
Sand and mucus: A toolbox for animal survival7
New books & media7
Thoroughly modern Millie7
Quantifying and mimicking life7
Q&A: Marty Baylor enhances students’ skills and their sense of belonging as physicists6
Physics and poetry revisited6
The roles of research and “fit” in tenure6
Faculty interviews—traps and tips6
Twisted liquid crystal6
Reconsidering tenure6
What makes a big cat roar?5
Nineteenth-century women and physics across the pond5
Lawrence Livermore achieves a burning plasma in the lab5
Water’s hydrogen bonds are seen like never before5
NASA urged to boost R&D at expense of near-term missions5
Atmospheric rivers bring anomalously high temperatures5
FYI science policy briefs5
Idaho project tests the limits of DOE aid to advanced reactors4
Arthur Compton and the mysteries of light4
Q&A: Engineer Stewart Isaacs seeks equitable climate change solutions4
Solar energy considerations4
The road from academia to entrepreneurship4
Our quantum world4
Comments on “Careers by the numbers”4
Europe’s particle-physics community weighs its next collider4
A meticulous thermodynamic recipe for cooking eggs4
A right-handed molecule is coaxed to behave like a left-handed one4
Lessons from 35 years in industry4
State anti-DEI laws sow uncertainty in public colleges and universities4
Stephen Hawking, human4
The roar of a rocket4
Fermilab goes deep to silence noisy radiation affecting qubits4
The two cultures, revisited4
To rule the waves3
Metamaterial device makes 16 polarization measurements at once3
Judith Lynn Pipher3
When your academic ladder is longer3
Multidimensional measurements3
Nineteenth-century women and physics across the pond3
Why did the Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor close?3
Translating scientific papers for the public3
More on the quantum measurement problem3
Perforating gold can make it stronger3
Symposia and webinars3
The promises and perils of a mid-career pivot3
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation3
How a mineral that’s always wet gets wetter3
Blu-ray microscope with blood-cell lens3
The universe at your fingertips3
A new route to synthetic diamond3
Algebra-based high school physics3
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation3
How a cloud of insects is (and isn’t) like a magnet3
Gravitational patterns reveal a tumultuous lunar past3
Heliocentrism before Copernicus3
Physics … is for girls?3
A wandering vortex3
FYI science policy briefs3
A seismometer maps Mars’s anatomy3
Supporting emerging astronomers across Africa3
Laudable lectures3
More machine than human?3
Observing interstellar molecular hydrogen2
A synthesis of physical connectedness2
Climate modeling innovators are honored with half the physics Nobel2
A stormy life in atmospheric science2
Hubble has more time2
Searching for religion in the laboratory2
Thermodynamics of the climate system2
Putting microLED technology on display2
Krypton isotopes tell the early story of Earth’s life-giving elements2
Precision measurements bring the search for new physics to the table2
Up-conversion nanoparticles measure medium-sized forces in hard-to-reach places2
The first 30 years of computer simulation2
X-ray imaging shows how a 17th-century painting lost its color2
Code changes could drastically reduce bitcoin’s enormous electricity requirements2
Europe’s experiment in funding graphene research is paying off2
Battling Decoherence: The Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer2
New books & media2
With no end in sight for the war in Ukraine, CERN ceases cooperation with Russia2
More on the quantum measurement problem2
Groundwater flows deep under Antarctic ice2
An overview of complex systems2
Yamilée Toussaint sparks girls’ interest in STEM through dance2
ITER’s net loss2
Light-driven spin chemistry for quantum information science2
Superdeterministic loophole2
The early universe in a quantum gas2
Water makes its mark on GPS signals2
FYI science policy briefs2
James Burkett Hartle2
Longitudinal study tracks why undergrads stick with or leave physics2
Geologic evidence that volcanic lightning promotes life on Earth2
A sprinkling of scientists prioritizes behaviors to counter climate change2
Zdeněk Herman2
Synthetic dimensions2
Steven Weinberg2
Seismic data provide a deep dive into groundwater health2
Pre-satellite weather balloons2
Time-reversed laser absorbs nearly all light2
Thomas James McIlrath2
When unmixable metals mix2
Climate change drives extinction—and always has2
A. V. Hill: The man behind the initials2
CO2 pipelines: A way forward?2
The behavior of thin curved sheets is ironed out2
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors2
Roman Jackiw and the chiral anomaly2
Igor Ekhiel’evich Dzyaloshinskii2
Arecibo STEM educational center to open soon2
Research space increases at US universities2
Another Fowler2
Thomas Ferbel2
UK coalition gears up to demonstrate commercial viability of fusion energy1
FYI science policy briefs1
Focus on test, measurement, quantum metrology, and analytical equipment1
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation1
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and nanoscience1
Newton’s “force” and fake doors: The “geometric spirit” in the arts1
Hackathon culture’s maker potential1
Particle physicist Carolina Deluca retools when she needs to1
Japan accelerator pursues nanobeams to boost luminosity1
A shocking beginning to star formation1
Io was always extremely volcanic, evidence indicates1
Q&A: Hyejin Youn applies statistical physics to human behavior1
Building a ship in a bottle for neutrino science1
W. Jason Morgan1
Nuclear surveillance from space1
Black carbon frozen in ice1
Sea changes for scientific ocean drilling1
Lesson from a lost radioactive source1
Physics Nobel honors foundational quantum entanglement experiments1
Commentary: The benefits of being a maverick1
A complementary perspective on quantum history1
When learning physics mirrors doing physics1
Butterfly effects1
Manhattan Project astrophysics1
Comments on early space controversies1
Comments on early space controversies1
Revisiting science and colonialism1
Stacked materials build up massive electrons1
An introductory astronomy textbook for majors1
Young physicists excited to network through the International Association of Physics Students1
Diamond’s sparkle is in more than gemstones1
The weak mixing angle1
A geophysicist uses Swifties’ seismic activity for science outreach1
How a fake Kepler portrait became iconic1
Five decades of missing matter1
No uncertain terms1
A climatologist’s introduction to data analysis tools1
Hydrogen as an aviation fuel1
More on nuclear treaties1
Nanoscale 3D printing1
Q&A: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe reflects on her tenure as DOE Office of Science director1
The power of fluctuation relations1
Live streaming a radio-telescope observation of the solar eclipse1
FYI science policy briefs1
New books & media1
Einstein statue unveiled in Havana1
Modeling sound at Stonehenge1
New books & media1
The world is square1
Slow solar wind traced to Sun’s active regions1
Commentary: Researching around Europe: A personal reflection1
More on Arrhenius plots1
NSF and postwar US science1
Michael Ellis Fisher1
US research enterprise seeks to retain leadership while upping security1
Where physics students find community1
Hybrid scientific conferences: An ongoing experiment1
Commentary: Breaking the spell of scientific isolation in the developing world1
Keeping accurate time while on the ocean1
A small ancient galaxy started reionizing its surroundings early1
Iron-based superconductors: Teenage, complex, challenging1
Nonlinear optical computing doesn’t need nonlinear optics1
France’s Oppenheimer1
Deep learning opens up protein science’s next frontiers1
Living chiral crystals1
The complexities of the human placenta1
Contributions to computed tomography1
Wolfgang Stodiek1
Physics, AI, and the future of discovery1
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors1
Cosmic tau neutrinos uncovered1
Constructing DNA, once again1
New books & media1
A timely retrospective1
Early debates in space science1
UNESCO details the STEM gender gap and efforts to close it1
A proposed solution to arbitrary evaluations1
A windfall for US carbon capture and storage1
The black powder behind battery power1
Fanning flames1
Revisiting the electric potential1
The conundrums of atomic secrecy1
The rapid acidification of sea spray aerosols1
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation1
Giant telescopes take small but significant steps toward realization1
Randomness unbound1
Roman Jackiw and the chiral anomaly1
Listening to the seafloor with optical fibers1
Role-playing the life of a scientist1
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and photonics1
Fast-drying cracks1
New books & media1
Demands on early-career faculty1
Quantum materials out of equilibrium1
The no-cloning theorem1
The subtle math of a heartbeat gone wrong1
A journey to touch the Sun1
Elusive helium stars identified in archival data1
New books & media1
Baseball rubbing mud does, in fact, make balls grippier1
Correction1
The death of expertise has been exaggerated1
Celebrating Emmy Noether1
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