Nature Reviews Physics

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Reviews Physics is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Hares and hounds527
Peer review in a changing world491
Tracking a long-duration gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model466
Photoemission electron microscopy for 2D materials375
Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging345
Spontaneous vortex formation in rotating fluids313
Let’s talk about limitations288
Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage274
A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics270
Ultrathin waveguides for 2D photonic integrated circuits240
Transitions of the Atlantic Ocean circulation234
Do the benefits of fundamental physics research outweigh its wider societal costs?232
Mechanobiology across timescales207
Controlling complex networks with complex nodes207
Science in the age of large language models203
How fast ions mitigate turbulence and enhance confinement in tokamak fusion plasmas199
Navigating an incomplete network using a map193
Physicists and the first computing revolution190
A fully connected Ising machine using standard technology185
100 Years of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics182
Diffusion metamaterials169
Shorebird feeding reveals a new liquid transport mechanism169
Meet the Nature Reviews Physics 2023 team166
Learning density functionals with differentiable DFT166
Black-hole thermodynamics156
Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation154
Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials147
Drying droplets at a printhead nozzle142
Did you check for ravens?139
Intervening in networks to make minorities more visible137
From swarms to films129
50 years of quantum spin liquids127
25 years of small-world network theory127
Precise pulse characterization using SHG-FROG125
Fresh perspectives on the foundations of quantum physics123
Ultrafast physics with structured light120
US–China collaboration as a catalyst for the early development of quantum physics116
Quantum sensing for particle physics116
Advancing molecular simulation with equivariant interatomic potentials113
JWST sees little red dots111
Computational scientists should consider climate impacts and grant agencies should reward them105
Uptake of ride-sharing schemes105
Patently funny and possibly useful101
Publisher Correction: Rydberg states of alkali atoms in atomic vapour as SI-traceable field probes and communications receivers98
More and different at the interface97
15 years of topological insulators97
Meeting report: all-female speaker line-up in condensed matter90
New approaches to dark matter detection89
The attoscience of strong-field-driven solids87
Programmable metasurfaces for future photonic artificial intelligence85
Mechanical properties of human tumour tissues and their implications for cancer development80
Upconverting nanoparticles for biomedical applications73
Applications of single photons to quantum communication and computing72
Principles for demonstrating condensed phase optical refrigeration72
Physical limits in electromagnetism68
The transformative potential of machine learning for experiments in fluid mechanics68
Tidal disruption events and high-energy neutrino coincidences67
The physics of fizz67
Calling all early-career physicists64
Algae patterns63
The Yang–Mills Millennium problem62
Shifting sands of hardware and software in exascale quantum mechanical simulations60
Point defects in metal halide perovskites59
Rashba-like physics in condensed matter59
Quantum sensors for biomedical applications54
Supersolidity in ultracold dipolar gases54
The role of particle shape in computational modelling of granular matter54
Data sharing varies across physics51
70 years at the high-energy frontier with the CERN accelerator complex50
W boson mass is worth the wait49
Nobel 1944: resonance method for measuring nuclear magnetic moments48
Physics in Latin America48
Faster Monte Carlo simulations of systems with long-range interactions47
Collective motion strategies of sheep47
Topological phonons in graphene47
Current numbers of qubits and their uses45
Progress in quantum teleportation43
Benchmarking quantum computers42
Dual topological insulator found in superlattice42
Blowing bubbles from a reservoir41
Visualizing twisted 2D materials with electron channelling contrast imaging41
Hydride superconductivity is here to stay40
70 years of CERN40
An open-source initiative would benefit quantum computing38
Scientists need a break too38
A century of Compton scattering37
Author Correction: High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy36
Liquid-metal experiments on geophysical and astrophysical phenomena36
Author Correction: Optimizing the dynamic pair distribution function method for inelastic neutron spectrometry36
Magnetic resonance elastography from fundamental soft-tissue mechanics to diagnostic imaging35
How technology made condensed matter physics boring35
High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy35
Physics words with surprising origins35
Dynamics of electricity exchange markets34
Nobel 1983: chemistry and evolution of stars34
The climate emergency demands scientists take action and here’s how33
Nobel 1923: determining the charge of the electron33
Nobel 2005: coherence and precision spectroscopy33
Nobel 1943: magnetic moment of the proton32
Cryogenic electron microscopy and tomography for beam-sensitive materials31
Nobel 1985: the quantum Hall effect31
Publisher Correction: Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate31
Wigner’s friend and relational objectivity29
Topological thermal transport29
What we’ve learned about flying less for conferences28
Warm dense matter studies with X-ray free-electron lasers28
Engineered dissipation for quantum information science27
Five books that put physics in context27
Non-equilibrium Bose–Einstein condensation in photonic systems27
Fire ant rafts27
Starting a conversation about social issues in optics and photonics26
Go to talks by women25
Cooper pairs in a metallic state24
Directed percolation and the transition to turbulence23
Mapping the landscape for graphene commercialization23
Theoretical tools for understanding the climate crisis from Hasselmann’s programme and beyond23
Strong evidence for the discovery of a gravitational wave background23
Size-controlled growth of anisotropic gold nanoparticles23
A meeting point for art and science22
Generative AI and science communication in the physical sciences22
Physics and chemistry perspectives on three unsolved problems in glass science22
Fluctuating into a biofilm20
Spin-torque driven skyrmion resonance20
Orbital angular momentum lasers20
Pushing big science frontiers in China20
Metrics for spin-based computing19
Fifty years of ‘More is different’19
Drop friction19
50 years of spin glass theory18
Chaotic photonics in microresonators17
Noncommuting conserved charges in quantum thermodynamics and beyond17
The AI revolution is always just out of reach16
Symmetry emerging from the algorithmic nature of evolution16
Connecting physicists across Africa and the world16
Scientific biographies for the beach15
Olfactory cues and memories in animal navigation14
Publisher Correction: Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials14
Janus-like magnetic particles for spin-controlled biological research13
Using Bayesian parameter estimation to learn more from data without black boxes13
How libraries classified physics preprints before arXiv and set the stage for distinguishing insiders from outsiders13
Serendipity in an algorithm-driven culture13
Introducing the Nature Reviews Physics Advisory Board12
Multiscale modelling of twisted bilayers of 2D materials12
Collapsing bubbles with broken symmetry12
Solving Feynman’s sprinkler puzzle12
Author Correction: Topological phenomena at defects in acoustic, photonic and solid-state lattices11
Physics of sphere packings10
Morpho-Enhanced Polarization Microscopy10
The many facets of impact10
Material insights on electronic transport of charge and heat from first principles10
The physics of cats10
How the Cold War changed quantum education9
Challenges and opportunities in quantum optimization9
Radiacoustic imaging9
Tips for writing opinion articles9
The precision measurement of the W boson mass and its impact on physics9
Nature Reviews Physics turns five9
Too much efficiency leads to delays9
Carrier transport in emerging 2D materials9
Graph neural networks at the Large Hadron Collider8
Publisher Correction: Resonant anomalous X-ray reflectivity for revealing ion distributions near electrodes8
Controlling water waves with artificial structures8
Forty years of the Ellis–Baldwin test8
Nobel 1965: to infinity and beyond8
Interpreting coherence in wall turbulence8
How to set up your first machine learning project in astronomy7
Anomalies in particle physics and their implications for physics beyond the standard model7
On scientific understanding with artificial intelligence7
Predicting high-entropy alloy phases with machine learning7
Review of performance metrics of spin qubits in gated semiconducting nanostructures7
Yielding and plasticity in amorphous solids7
Structure and flow of low-dimensional water7
Limitations and possibilities of topological photonics7
The hidden sustainability cost of the reproducibility crisis6
A festival of cosmic fireworks6
Should artificial intelligence be interpretable to humans?6
Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar and nuclear physics6
The mechanics of emus’ unusual gait6
Rigor with machine learning from field theory to the Poincaré conjecture6
A milestone in fusion research is reached6
Global tuning of hadronic interaction models with accelerator-based and astroparticle data6
Physics of exotic nuclei5
The physics of optical computing5
Farewells and hellos at Nature Reviews Physics5
Thouless pumping and topology5
Delivering fusion energy needs bold decisions and sustained commitment5
No sign of sterile neutrinos but anomalies remain5
The physics of 3D printing with light5
How multiscale curvature couples forces to cellular functions5
Ten books for ten years of Higgs5
Fractionalized electrons in moiré materials4
Nanoscale laser writing of 3D ferroelectric domains in lithium niobate4
Physics should acknowledge its environmental impact and act on it4
Non-Hermitian topology and exceptional-point geometries4
Ultrafast carrier dynamics of magnetic topological insulators4
How quantum biosensing is transforming healthcare4
Preserving orbital angular momentum in scattering media4
The Higgs announcement as open science4
How to optimize high-order harmonic generation in gases4
Packing finite numbers of spheres efficiently4
A method for generating constrained surrogate power laws4
Quantum computing for finance4
Platforms for the realization and characterization of Tomonaga–Luttinger liquids4
The importance of documenting failure4
Photophysical properties of materials for high-speed photodetection4
Walkable cities4
Defining physicists’ relationship with AI4
Research needs both academia and industry4
The humanities can help make physics greener3
The surprising history of abstracts3
Bottom-up mesoscopic coarse-graining of soft matter3
Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate3
Talking quantum with a 9-year-old3
Applications of single photons in quantum metrology, biology and the foundations of quantum physics3
Network renormalization3
Nobel 1945: the exclusion principle3
Author Correction: Advances in artificial spin ice3
Determining intrinsic sensitivity and the role of multiple scattering in speckle metrology3
A tiny titanium:sapphire laser on a chip3
Physics of the cryosphere3
Balancing innovation and safety in FLASH radiotherapy3
Physics and the empirical gap of trustworthy AI3
AI-driven research in pure mathematics and theoretical physics3
Pervasive machine learning in physics3
70 years of Turing patterns3
Petahertz electronics3
90 years of the Wigner crystal2
Assessing the skills gap for the UK’s quantum missions2
First-principles calculations for Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction2
Engagement opportunities on the continuum between science and policy2
Laser-produced plasmas as probes of astrophysical magnetic fields2
Three decades of the search for life on other planets2
Bringing quantum physics to new generations2
A brief history of the ‘physicist’2
Replicability and the evolution of scientific norms2
Protocols and tools to enable reproducibility in 2D materials research2
Artificial gauge fields in photonics2
Neutrinos from explosive transients at the dawn of multi-messenger astronomy2
Art as a catalyst for promoting sustainable research2
Shaping the history of quantum physics to make women visible2
Superconductivity in infinite-layer and Ruddlesden–Popper nickelates2
The superfluid-to-Mott insulator transition and the birth of experimental quantum simulation2
50 years of Penrose tilings2
Dequantizing algorithms to understand quantum advantage in machine learning2
Ab initio methods for superconductivity2
Contagion dynamics on higher-order networks2
Quantum states and intertwining phases in kagome materials2
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