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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
John Edward Harries67
Malaysian physics and the maker ethos46
Commentary: Thinking of moving from academia into industry? Here are some things to consider29
Engineering better science education25
Climate change is redefining Arctic wildfires25
Eugene Newman Parker25
Physics and poetry revisited25
New books & media24
Record-setting cosmic neutrino breaks in a new telescope23
Understanding the Mayans on their own terms21
The standard model for beginners21
More on William Fowler19
How stars shape galaxies19
Consulting can be stimulating and lucrative for physicists18
Why insects orbit light at night16
Urgent measures are needed to shore up NIST’s crumbling facilities14
Embracing imperfection for quantum technologies13
Sustainable fabrication of organic electronics12
Ethics in physics: The need for culture change11
Arthur Compton and the mysteries of light10
Atmospheric rivers bring anomalously high temperatures10
FYI science policy briefs10
New books & media10
Nineteenth-century women and physics across the pond9
Physics and poetry revisited9
Thoroughly modern Millie9
Comments on “Careers by the numbers”9
Faculty interviews—traps and tips9
Quantifying and mimicking life8
Twisted liquid crystal8
The roles of research and “fit” in tenure8
New books & media7
Nanoprinting low-temperature glass7
NASA urged to boost R&D at expense of near-term missions7
Reconsidering tenure7
What makes a big cat roar?7
Europe’s particle-physics community weighs its next collider6
Water’s hydrogen bonds are seen like never before6
State anti-DEI laws sow uncertainty in public colleges and universities6
Sand and mucus: A toolbox for animal survival6
Fermilab goes deep to silence noisy radiation affecting qubits5
Q&A: Engineer Stewart Isaacs seeks equitable climate change solutions5
A right-handed molecule is coaxed to behave like a left-handed one5
The roar of a rocket4
Translating scientific papers for the public4
Roman Jackiw and the chiral anomaly4
Heliocentrism before Copernicus4
Nineteenth-century women and physics across the pond4
To rule the waves4
Gravitational patterns reveal a tumultuous lunar past4
Physics … is for girls?4
Multidimensional measurements4
FYI science policy briefs4
The promises and perils of a mid-career pivot4
When your academic ladder is longer4
How a mineral that’s always wet gets wetter4
The ingredients for an unbeatable squash shot4
Metamaterial device makes 16 polarization measurements at once4
Supporting emerging astronomers across Africa4
Matter–antimatter asymmetry is observed in baryon decay4
A meticulous thermodynamic recipe for cooking eggs4
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation4
FYI science policy briefs4
X-ray imaging shows how a 17th-century painting lost its color3
Laudable lectures3
Time-reversed laser absorbs nearly all light3
Superdeterministic loophole3
Observing interstellar molecular hydrogen3
Precision measurements bring the search for new physics to the table3
Searching for religion in the laboratory3
A synthesis of physical connectedness3
The early universe in a quantum gas3
Judith Lynn Pipher3
Light-driven spin chemistry for quantum information science3
More machine than human?3
More on the quantum measurement problem3
Pre-satellite weather balloons3
Yamilée Toussaint sparks girls’ interest in STEM through dance3
Longitudinal study tracks why undergrads stick with or leave physics3
More on the quantum measurement problem3
The behavior of thin curved sheets is ironed out3
How a cloud of insects is (and isn’t) like a magnet3
A new route to synthetic diamond3
Perforating gold can make it stronger3
Thomas Ferbel3
Arecibo STEM educational center to open soon3
ITER’s net loss3
Seismic data provide a deep dive into groundwater health3
Hubble has more time3
When unmixable metals mix3
Battling Decoherence: The Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer2
More on nuclear treaties2
The successes and challenges of US–Soviet scientific communication2
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors2
New books & media2
Early debates in space science2
Panel recommends road map for US particle physics2
Focus on test, measurement, quantum metrology, and analytical equipment2
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and nanoscience2
Making an educational splash2
Where physics students find community2
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and photonics2
Japan accelerator pursues nanobeams to boost luminosity2
Mavericks who failed2
Butterfly effects2
Uranus’s hidden polar cyclone, revealed2
Synthetic dimensions2
Climate change drives extinction—and always has2
James Burkett Hartle2
New books & media2
Commentary: The benefits of being a maverick2
Quantum states can be scrambled extremely quickly2
Keeping accurate time while on the ocean2
Research space increases at US universities2
Q&A: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe reflects on her tenure as DOE Office of Science director2
Q&A: Hyejin Youn applies statistical physics to human behavior2
The perfect strike in tenpin bowling2
Code changes could drastically reduce bitcoin’s enormous electricity requirements2
An introductory astronomy textbook for majors2
With no end in sight for the war in Ukraine, CERN ceases cooperation with Russia2
Nonlinear optical computing doesn’t need nonlinear optics2
CO2 pipelines: A way forward?2
Another Fowler2
Geologic evidence that volcanic lightning promotes life on Earth2
Putting microLED technology on display2
Teaching physics with phones: A game changer?2
Wu, Shaknov, and the EPR dilemma2
Cosmic tau neutrinos uncovered2
Comments on early space controversies2
World-leading rare isotope facility is on line in Michigan2
Fanning flames2
Living chiral crystals2
Fast-drying cracks2
Five decades of missing matter2
Demands on early-career faculty1
Newton’s “force” and fake doors: The “geometric spirit” in the arts1
More on being a physicist in industry1
Comparing clocks by using pulses of light1
Scientific progress and preservation clash in demolition of Curie building1
Spacetime, essentially1
Portraits of dismissed scientists personalize US government cuts to science1
Jamming connects granulation and flow1
Helping physics departments thrive1
Paul Langevin, U-boats, and ultrasonics1
Frictional flow patterns1
Focusing with a spiral lens1
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation1
A series of paradigm shifts1
Commentary: How to talk about climate change with politicians1
UK coalition gears up to demonstrate commercial viability of fusion energy1
FYI policy briefs1
Green ammonia can be a clean energy source1
Sea changes for scientific ocean drilling1
FYI science policy briefs1
Nanoscale 3D printing1
Atomic force microscopy gets a feel for electron spins1
US research enterprise seeks to retain leadership while upping security1
Revisiting science and colonialism1
Revisiting the electric potential1
What’s old is new in DOE’s choice of fusion hopefuls1
Correction1
Giant telescopes take small but significant steps toward realization1
A climatologist’s introduction to data analysis tools1
Squaring the quantum computing circle1
Putting holes in a sail to reach the stars1
W. Jason Morgan1
The black powder behind battery power1
The clean-energy challenge redux1
Listening to the seafloor with optical fibers1
A geophysicist uses Swifties’ seismic activity for science outreach1
The power of fluctuation relations1
Revisiting science and colonialism1
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation1
FYI science policy briefs1
A radio telescope array takes shape with private funds1
Einstein would be doubly amazed1
Lesson from a lost radioactive source1
Q&A: Xiaoxing Xi on the wrongful arrest that upended his research and his life1
When tenure fails1
Deep convection drives oceanic overturning1
Celebrating Emmy Noether1
A journey to touch the Sun1
From cracks to atoms and back again1
Stories from the early days of quantum mechanics1
Correction1
Astronomy data in the classroom1
Nanophotonics for a sustainable future1
A small ancient galaxy started reionizing its surroundings early1
Building with liquid blocks1
A proposed solution to arbitrary evaluations1
Focus on test, measurement, quantum metrology, spectroscopy, and spectrometry1
Nuclear fission technologies for space exploration1
Live streaming a radio-telescope observation of the solar eclipse1
Q&A: Tareq Abu Hamed champions environmental cooperation in the Middle East1
Physics, AI, and the future of discovery1
New books & media1
Role-playing the life of a scientist1
Engineering better science education1
Seeing the softer side of nanoparticles1
US ocean sciences decadal report calls for regaining leadership1
Attosecond pioneers win physics Nobel1
A timely retrospective1
Structures like Möbius strips1
Artificial hands make lifelike movements1
Measurements of sea-level rise from melting ice get even more accurate1
Particle physicist Carolina Deluca retools when she needs to1
France’s Oppenheimer1
Io was always extremely volcanic, evidence indicates1
A shocking beginning to star formation1
A star’s demise is connected to a neutrino outburst1
NSF and postwar US science1
Conference organizers, potential participants fault US policies for falling attendance1
No uncertain terms1
The world is square1
Iron-based superconductors: Teenage, complex, challenging1
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors1
Solving quantum chemistry problems on quantum computers1
Stepping into NSF1
Physics Nobel honors foundational quantum entanglement experiments1
The Hund-metal path to strong electronic correlations1
The tsunami triggered by the Chicxulub impact1
The complexities of the human placenta1
“My Favorite Things,” physics edition1
Correction1
Firearms forensics is becoming more quantitative1
Disillusionment with climate models1
Frank Kameny the astronomer1
Hidden fluid dynamics of dry salt lakes1
Manhattan Project astrophysics1
Q&A: Frank Close probes quarks and popularizes science1
FYI science policy briefs1
Focus on test, measurement, quantum metrology, and analytical equipment1
Helium prices surge to record levels as shortage continues1
UNESCO details the STEM gender gap and efforts to close it1
The clean-energy challenge1
A menagerie of Martian auroras1
Illuminating atmospheric aerosols1
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors1
Focus on test, measurement, quantum metrology, spectroscopy, and spectrometry1
Robert Floyd Curl Jr1
Mauna Loa awakens1
Gauge invariance applies to statistical mechanics too1
Diamond-defect clusters are measured with speed and precision1
Building on Mars with human blood and urine1
Scientists drill for oldest ice to reveal secrets about Earth’s climate1
Slow solar wind traced to Sun’s active regions1
A complementary perspective on quantum history1
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and photonics1
Hybrid scientific conferences: An ongoing experiment1
Young physicists excited to network through the International Association of Physics Students1
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