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Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Physics is 66. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Precise measurement of neutron lifetime	3299
Nonlocality with massive particles and mesoscopic systems	1637
The scientific article as a master finding system	388
Nobel 2004: freedom for quarks!	339
70 years of CERN	307
Tips for writing opinion articles	273
Visualizing twisted 2D materials with electron channelling contrast imaging	252
How the Cold War changed quantum education	240
Generation of large strains in 2D van der Waals materials at cryogenic temperatures	202
Phonon-limited electronic transport through first principles	196
Ultrafast magneto-optical measurements for probing magnon–phonon interactions in nanomagnets	195
Bringing together science and fiction	182
Forty years of the Ellis–Baldwin test	179
Peer review in a changing world	178
How redundancy and distributed control are helping make robots autonomous	175
Blowing bubbles from a reservoir	163
Shapes of ice and rock	163
Fighting stereotypes	163
The physics of breakfast	160
Then and now	157
The Stern–Gerlach experiment at 100	155
Machine learning and density functional theory	151
Ab initio methods for superconductivity	151
Ultrathin waveguides for 2D photonic integrated circuits	149
How detection and imaging technologies could make us better humans	147

Laser power stabilization via radiation pressure	144
When scientists disagree	141
Quantum Zeno effect at 45	138
Nature Reviews Physics turns five	126
Hares and hounds	124
Boxfish keels	122
How you can change gender stereotypes about physicists	118
Networks get more cliquey as they grow	114
Ten years of IceCube	110
Hydraulic spider legs	106
The long and winding road	105
Why we ask for synopses	101
Dual topological insulator found in superlattice	97
A 10 kg mechanical oscillator close to its motional ground state	97
Hydride superconductivity is here to stay	96
Weaving smooth 3D shapes with curved ribbons	96
Experimental signatures of the chiral anomaly in Dirac–Weyl semimetals	93
Machine-and-data intelligence for synchrotron science	92
Exascale image processing for next-generation beamlines in advanced light sources	91
Characterization and control of non-Markovian quantum noise	90
The superfluid-to-Mott insulator transition and the birth of experimental quantum simulation	90
Dequantizing algorithms to understand quantum advantage in machine learning	89
Publisher Correction: Resonant anomalous X-ray reflectivity for revealing ion distributions near electrodes	87
Author Correction: Optimizing the dynamic pair distribution function method for inelastic neutron spectrometry	87
How to set up your first machine learning project in astronomy	84
Author Correction: High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy	84
High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy	80
Tracking a long-duration gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model	80
Materials discovery screening with pymatgen	79
Visual anemometry for physics-informed inference of wind	77
60 years of Landauer’s principle	76
A new frontier for Hopfield networks	76
10 years of the quantum anomalous Hall effect	74
A brief history of nonlinear excitations	74
A century of Compton scattering	74
90 years of the Wigner crystal	74
30 years of orbital angular momentum of light	73
Machine learning as a tool in theoretical science	72
Too much efficiency leads to delays	70
Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging	67
Magnetic reconnection in the era of exascale computing and multiscale experiments	66
Science in the age of large language models	66
Challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning for high-energy physics	66
Time irreversibility in active matter, from micro to macro	66