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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Elementary, my dear physicists!50
Commentary: Thinking of moving from academia into industry? Here are some things to consider39
Commentary: A physicist’s perspective on COVID-1936
Understanding the Mayans on their own terms33
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and nanoscience29
A clash of cosmologists23
Engineering better science education20
Eugene Newman Parker20
Climate change is redefining Arctic wildfires18
The standard model for beginners17
Frequency-dependent squeezing makes LIGO even more sensitive16
John Edward Harries16
Consulting can be stimulating and lucrative for physicists14
Physics and poetry revisited14
Urgent measures are needed to shore up NIST’s crumbling facilities14
Addressing the quantum measurement problem13
Malaysian physics and the maker ethos13
Correction13
Why insects orbit light at night13
New books & media13
Embracing imperfection for quantum technologies11
Record-setting cosmic neutrino breaks in a new telescope11
Branched flow10
More on William Fowler10
Ethics in physics: The need for culture change10
Sustainable fabrication of organic electronics10
How stars shape galaxies10
Condensed-matter titan9
3-2-1 Contact: Scientists at the writers’ table9
New books & media8
Kyozi Kawasaki8
Nanoprinting low-temperature glass8
Thoroughly modern Millie8
Commentary: Teaching quantum concepts8
Sand and mucus: A toolbox for animal survival8
Faculty interviews—traps and tips7
Quantifying and mimicking life7
New books & media7
The roles of research and “fit” in tenure6
State anti-DEI laws sow uncertainty in public colleges and universities6
Reconsidering tenure6
Q&A: Marty Baylor enhances students’ skills and their sense of belonging as physicists6
Physics and poetry revisited6
Idaho project tests the limits of DOE aid to advanced reactors5
FYI science policy briefs5
Water’s hydrogen bonds are seen like never before5
What makes a big cat roar?5
Comments on “Careers by the numbers”5
Twisted liquid crystal5
Atmospheric rivers bring anomalously high temperatures5
Nineteenth-century women and physics across the pond5
Europe’s particle-physics community weighs its next collider5
Lawrence Livermore achieves a burning plasma in the lab5
NASA urged to boost R&D at expense of near-term missions5
A meticulous thermodynamic recipe for cooking eggs4
Arthur Compton and the mysteries of light4
Fermilab goes deep to silence noisy radiation affecting qubits4
The two cultures, revisited4
To rule the waves4
The road from academia to entrepreneurship4
Stephen Hawking, human4
Our quantum world4
Solar energy considerations4
The roar of a rocket4
Heliocentrism before Copernicus4
Gravitational patterns reveal a tumultuous lunar past4
Q&A: Engineer Stewart Isaacs seeks equitable climate change solutions4
FYI science policy briefs4
A right-handed molecule is coaxed to behave like a left-handed one4
Lessons from 35 years in industry4
The universe at your fingertips4
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation4
Roman Jackiw and the chiral anomaly3
A new route to synthetic diamond3
Multidimensional measurements3
Judith Lynn Pipher3
A wandering vortex3
Nineteenth-century women and physics across the pond3
More machine than human?3
A seismometer maps Mars’s anatomy3
More on the quantum measurement problem3
Laudable lectures3
Supporting emerging astronomers across Africa3
Blu-ray microscope with blood-cell lens3
Perforating gold can make it stronger3
Physics … is for girls?3
The promises and perils of a mid-career pivot3
How a cloud of insects is (and isn’t) like a magnet3
FYI science policy briefs3
Up-conversion nanoparticles measure medium-sized forces in hard-to-reach places3
Translating scientific papers for the public3
Why did the Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor close?3
Metamaterial device makes 16 polarization measurements at once3
How a mineral that’s always wet gets wetter3
When your academic ladder is longer3
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation3
The behavior of thin curved sheets is ironed out3
More on the quantum measurement problem2
Japan accelerator pursues nanobeams to boost luminosity2
A synthesis of physical connectedness2
Research space increases at US universities2
New books & media2
Arecibo STEM educational center to open soon2
Precision measurements bring the search for new physics to the table2
Hubble has more time2
Synthetic dimensions2
Light-driven spin chemistry for quantum information science2
Observing interstellar molecular hydrogen2
James Burkett Hartle2
X-ray imaging shows how a 17th-century painting lost its color2
The early universe in a quantum gas2
Climate change drives extinction—and always has2
Putting microLED technology on display2
Q&A: Hyejin Youn applies statistical physics to human behavior2
Pre-satellite weather balloons2
Code changes could drastically reduce bitcoin’s enormous electricity requirements2
ITER’s net loss2
Climate modeling innovators are honored with half the physics Nobel2
Another Fowler2
Longitudinal study tracks why undergrads stick with or leave physics2
Water makes its mark on GPS signals2
The first 30 years of computer simulation2
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors2
Thomas Ferbel2
Groundwater flows deep under Antarctic ice2
Thermodynamics of the climate system2
When unmixable metals mix2
Superdeterministic loophole2
Yamilée Toussaint sparks girls’ interest in STEM through dance2
Nuclear surveillance from space2
Fanning flames2
A stormy life in atmospheric science2
Geologic evidence that volcanic lightning promotes life on Earth2
Igor Ekhiel’evich Dzyaloshinskii2
A sprinkling of scientists prioritizes behaviors to counter climate change2
With no end in sight for the war in Ukraine, CERN ceases cooperation with Russia2
Searching for religion in the laboratory2
Battling Decoherence: The Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer2
Steven Weinberg2
Seismic data provide a deep dive into groundwater health2
An overview of complex systems2
Time-reversed laser absorbs nearly all light2
A. V. Hill: The man behind the initials2
Krypton isotopes tell the early story of Earth’s life-giving elements2
New books & media2
CO2 pipelines: A way forward?2
New books & media2
Young physicists excited to network through the International Association of Physics Students1
Contributions to computed tomography1
No uncertain terms1
The power of fluctuation relations1
Focus on test, measurement, quantum metrology, and analytical equipment1
Einstein would be doubly amazed1
Revisiting the electric potential1
Keeping accurate time while on the ocean1
More on being a physicist in industry1
The black powder behind battery power1
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation1
Making an educational splash1
Uranus’s hidden polar cyclone, revealed1
New books & media1
New books & media1
Live streaming a radio-telescope observation of the solar eclipse1
A radio telescope array takes shape with private funds1
France’s Oppenheimer1
Newton’s “force” and fake doors: The “geometric spirit” in the arts1
The subtle math of a heartbeat gone wrong1
Commentary: The benefits of being a maverick1
A shocking beginning to star formation1
NSF and postwar US science1
Butterfly effects1
Commentary: Breaking the spell of scientific isolation in the developing world1
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and photonics1
Comments on early space controversies1
A complementary perspective on quantum history1
UNESCO details the STEM gender gap and efforts to close it1
The rapid acidification of sea spray aerosols1
Manhattan Project astrophysics1
Elusive helium stars identified in archival data1
The no-cloning theorem1
Slow solar wind traced to Sun’s active regions1
An introductory astronomy textbook for majors1
Wolfgang Stodiek1
The death of expertise has been exaggerated1
Constructing DNA, once again1
A windfall for US carbon capture and storage1
More on nuclear treaties1
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors1
FYI science policy briefs1
Building a ship in a bottle for neutrino science1
New books & media1
Jamming connects granulation and flow1
Hydrogen as an aviation fuel1
Black carbon frozen in ice1
Panel recommends road map for US particle physics1
Living chiral crystals1
Lesson from a lost radioactive source1
Roman Jackiw and the chiral anomaly1
Physics Nobel honors foundational quantum entanglement experiments1
Commentary: Researching around Europe: A personal reflection1
Revisiting science and colonialism1
Giant telescopes take small but significant steps toward realization1
Modeling sound at Stonehenge1
Where physics students find community1
Hybrid scientific conferences: An ongoing experiment1
Listening to the seafloor with optical fibers1
Nonlinear optical computing doesn’t need nonlinear optics1
Particle physicist Carolina Deluca retools when she needs to1
When learning physics mirrors doing physics1
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and nanoscience1
Michael Ellis Fisher1
Comments on early space controversies1
A journey to touch the Sun1
A small ancient galaxy started reionizing its surroundings early1
Deep learning opens up protein science’s next frontiers1
Role-playing the life of a scientist1
Iron-based superconductors: Teenage, complex, challenging1
The weak mixing angle1
Celebrating Emmy Noether1
Cosmic tau neutrinos uncovered1
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation1
The conundrums of atomic secrecy1
Q&A: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe reflects on her tenure as DOE Office of Science director1
Stepping into NSF1
Wu, Shaknov, and the EPR dilemma1
The world is square1
How a fake Kepler portrait became iconic1
A forgotten trailblazer1
More on Arrhenius plots1
Mavericks who failed1
Supply-chain issues compound research slowdowns1
Helping physics departments thrive1
Baseball rubbing mud does, in fact, make balls grippier1
Einstein statue unveiled in Havana1
W. Jason Morgan1
Randomness unbound1
Conference organizers, potential participants fault US policies for falling attendance1
Sea changes for scientific ocean drilling1
Fast-drying cracks1
Io was always extremely volcanic, evidence indicates1
FYI science policy briefs1
Early debates in space science1
A timely retrospective1
Demands on early-career faculty1
Quantum materials out of equilibrium1
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors1
Stacked materials build up massive electrons1
World-leading rare isotope facility is on line in Michigan1
A geophysicist uses Swifties’ seismic activity for science outreach1
US research enterprise seeks to retain leadership while upping security1
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