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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Hares and hounds423
Peer review in a changing world408
Characterization and control of non-Markovian quantum noise382
Ultrafast magneto-optical measurements for probing magnon–phonon interactions in nanomagnets371
Tracking a long-duration gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model292
Ultrathin waveguides for 2D photonic integrated circuits270
Photoemission electron microscopy for 2D materials258
Spontaneous vortex formation in rotating fluids255
Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging245
Challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning for high-energy physics230
Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage230
Mechanobiology across timescales213
Exascale image processing for next-generation beamlines in advanced light sources212
How fast ions mitigate turbulence and enhance confinement in tokamak fusion plasmas192
Controlling complex networks with complex nodes185
Science in the age of large language models181
A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics172
Physicists and the first computing revolution171
Navigating an incomplete network using a map171
Tree of light167
A fully connected Ising machine using standard technology165
Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation161
100 Years of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics161
Shorebird feeding reveals a new liquid transport mechanism152
Meet the Nature Reviews Physics 2023 team142
Diffusion metamaterials139
Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials135
Did you check for ravens?130
Drying droplets at a printhead nozzle130
Intervening in networks to make minorities more visible129
From swarms to films129
Fresh perspectives on the foundations of quantum physics128
Advancing molecular simulation with equivariant interatomic potentials120
How spin-off companies can play a role in science communication120
Precise pulse characterization using SHG-FROG117
25 years of small-world network theory115
Quantum sensing for particle physics110
50 years of quantum spin liquids109
Ultrafast physics with structured light107
Imaging whole-brain activity to understand behaviour106
Quantum photonics with layered 2D materials104
More and different at the interface101
Uptake of ride-sharing schemes100
JWST sees little red dots100
Computational scientists should consider climate impacts and grant agencies should reward them98
Principles for demonstrating condensed phase optical refrigeration95
Programmable metasurfaces for future photonic artificial intelligence95
Patently funny and possibly useful95
Meeting report: all-female speaker line-up in condensed matter93
Publisher Correction: Rydberg states of alkali atoms in atomic vapour as SI-traceable field probes and communications receivers90
15 years of topological insulators88
New approaches to dark matter detection86
The attoscience of strong-field-driven solids82
Physical limits in electromagnetism82
Mechanical properties of human tumour tissues and their implications for cancer development81
Applications of single photons to quantum communication and computing81
The transformative potential of machine learning for experiments in fluid mechanics79
The physics of fizz73
Tidal disruption events and high-energy neutrino coincidences73
Artificial dynamical effects in quantum field theory71
Algae patterns69
Supersolidity in ultracold dipolar gases66
Shifting sands of hardware and software in exascale quantum mechanical simulations66
Calling all early-career physicists66
Point defects in metal halide perovskites55
Rashba-like physics in condensed matter55
Magnetism, symmetry and spin transport in van der Waals layered systems55
Quantum sensors for biomedical applications53
The role of particle shape in computational modelling of granular matter52
70 years at the high-energy frontier with the CERN accelerator complex51
Data sharing varies across physics51
W boson mass is worth the wait47
Physics in Latin America46
Nobel 1944: resonance method for measuring nuclear magnetic moments46
Faster Monte Carlo simulations of systems with long-range interactions46
Topological phonons in graphene44
Collective motion strategies of sheep43
Benchmarking quantum computers41
Current numbers of qubits and their uses41
Progress in quantum teleportation39
Visualizing twisted 2D materials with electron channelling contrast imaging39
Dual topological insulator found in superlattice39
Blowing bubbles from a reservoir38
70 years of CERN36
Author Correction: Optimizing the dynamic pair distribution function method for inelastic neutron spectrometry36
Author Correction: High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy35
Scientists need a break too35
An open-source initiative would benefit quantum computing35
High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy34
The Stern–Gerlach experiment at 10034
Liquid-metal experiments on geophysical and astrophysical phenomena33
A century of Compton scattering33
Magnetic resonance elastography from fundamental soft-tissue mechanics to diagnostic imaging33
How technology made condensed matter physics boring32
Physics words with surprising origins32
Hydride superconductivity is here to stay32
Nobel 1983: chemistry and evolution of stars31
What we’ve learned about flying less for conferences31
Nobel 1923: determining the charge of the electron31
Dynamics of electricity exchange markets31
Cryogenic electron microscopy and tomography for beam-sensitive materials30
An AI pipeline to investigate the binding properties of poorly annotated molecules30
The climate emergency demands scientists take action and here’s how30
Wigner’s friend and relational objectivity30
Publisher Correction: Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate30
Nobel 2005: coherence and precision spectroscopy29
Nobel 1943: magnetic moment of the proton28
Nobel 1985: the quantum Hall effect28
Warm dense matter studies with X-ray free-electron lasers27
Spinning a strong yarn26
Non-equilibrium Bose–Einstein condensation in photonic systems26
Engineered dissipation for quantum information science26
Topological thermal transport26
A meeting point for art and science25
Fire ant rafts25
Theoretical tools for understanding the climate crisis from Hasselmann’s programme and beyond24
Five books that put physics in context24
Mapping the landscape for graphene commercialization24
Starting a conversation about social issues in optics and photonics24
Generative AI and science communication in the physical sciences23
Cooper pairs in a metallic state23
Orbital angular momentum lasers23
Go to talks by women22
Directed percolation and the transition to turbulence22
Strong evidence for the discovery of a gravitational wave background22
Pushing big science frontiers in China21
Fluctuating into a biofilm21
Spin-torque driven skyrmion resonance20
Fifty years of ‘More is different’20
Drop friction19
Using Bayesian parameter estimation to learn more from data without black boxes19
50 years of spin glass theory19
Symmetry emerging from the algorithmic nature of evolution19
Noncommuting conserved charges in quantum thermodynamics and beyond19
Connecting physicists across Africa and the world19
The AI revolution is always just out of reach18
Monte Carlo methods for impurity physics in ultracold Bose quantum gases17
Publisher Correction: Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials17
Scientific biographies for the beach17
Olfactory cues and memories in animal navigation17
Janus-like magnetic particles for spin-controlled biological research17
Machine learning in the search for new fundamental physics17
Introducing the Nature Reviews Physics Advisory Board16
Collapsing bubbles with broken symmetry16
Multiscale modelling of twisted bilayers of 2D materials15
Author Correction: Topological phenomena at defects in acoustic, photonic and solid-state lattices15
Author Correction: Optical superoscillation technologies beyond the diffraction limit15
Solving Feynman’s sprinkler puzzle15
The many facets of impact14
The precision measurement of the W boson mass and its impact on physics14
The physics of cats14
Challenges and opportunities in quantum optimization14
Morpho-Enhanced Polarization Microscopy14
Radiacoustic imaging14
Shapes of ice and rock13
Too much efficiency leads to delays12
A brief history of nonlinear excitations12
How the Cold War changed quantum education11
Publisher Correction: Resonant anomalous X-ray reflectivity for revealing ion distributions near electrodes11
Tips for writing opinion articles11
Nature Reviews Physics turns five11
Structure and flow of low-dimensional water10
Nobel 1965: to infinity and beyond9
Predicting high-entropy alloy phases with machine learning9
30 years of orbital angular momentum of light9
Controlling water waves with artificial structures8
Yielding and plasticity in amorphous solids8
Limitations and possibilities of topological photonics8
Review of performance metrics of spin qubits in gated semiconducting nanostructures8
Forty years of the Ellis–Baldwin test8
Graph neural networks at the Large Hadron Collider8
Magnetic reconnection in the era of exascale computing and multiscale experiments8
A festival of cosmic fireworks7
How to set up your first machine learning project in astronomy7
A milestone in fusion research is reached7
Time irreversibility in active matter, from micro to macro7
Anomalies in particle physics and their implications for physics beyond the standard model7
The hidden sustainability cost of the reproducibility crisis7
Rigor with machine learning from field theory to the Poincaré conjecture7
On scientific understanding with artificial intelligence7
Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar and nuclear physics7
Should artificial intelligence be interpretable to humans?6
The mechanics of emus’ unusual gait6
Global tuning of hadronic interaction models with accelerator-based and astroparticle data6
The physics of optical computing5
Ten books for ten years of Higgs5
Physics of exotic nuclei5
How multiscale curvature couples forces to cellular functions5
No sign of sterile neutrinos but anomalies remain5
Farewells and hellos at Nature Reviews Physics5
Thouless pumping and topology5
The physics of 3D printing with light5
Delivering fusion energy needs bold decisions and sustained commitment5
Author Correction: Advances in artificial spin ice4
Quantum computing for finance4
Balancing innovation and safety in FLASH radiotherapy4
Defining physicists’ relationship with AI4
A method for generating constrained surrogate power laws4
Non-Hermitian topology and exceptional-point geometries4
The importance of documenting failure4
Platforms for the realization and characterization of Tomonaga–Luttinger liquids4
The Higgs announcement as open science4
Physics should acknowledge its environmental impact and act on it4
Photophysical properties of materials for high-speed photodetection4
Ultrafast carrier dynamics of magnetic topological insulators4
Research needs both academia and industry4
Fractionalized electrons in moiré materials4
Publisher Correction: Polariton condensates for classical and quantum computing4
Nanoscale laser writing of 3D ferroelectric domains in lithium niobate4
How to optimize high-order harmonic generation in gases4
Packing finite numbers of spheres efficiently4
Pervasive machine learning in physics4
Walkable cities4
Preserving orbital angular momentum in scattering media4
Nobel 1945: the exclusion principle3
The humanities can help make physics greener3
Network renormalization3
A tiny titanium:sapphire laser on a chip3
Petahertz electronics3
Quantum states and intertwining phases in kagome materials3
The surprising history of abstracts3
AI-driven research in pure mathematics and theoretical physics3
How quantum biosensing is transforming healthcare3
Determining intrinsic sensitivity and the role of multiple scattering in speckle metrology3
Reviving a failed network through a single node3
Superconductivity in infinite-layer and Ruddlesden–Popper nickelates3
Scientific machine learning benchmarks3
Physics and the empirical gap of trustworthy AI3
How to pitch a Review idea3
Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate3
70 years of Turing patterns3
Physics of the cryosphere3
Applications of single photons in quantum metrology, biology and the foundations of quantum physics3
Bringing quantum physics to new generations3
First-principles calculations for Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction2
50 years of Penrose tilings2
The difficult but necessary role of political engagement for scientists2
Shaping the history of quantum physics to make women visible2
Contagion dynamics on higher-order networks2
Artificial gauge fields in photonics2
Dequantizing algorithms to understand quantum advantage in machine learning2
Engagement opportunities on the continuum between science and policy2
Replicability and the evolution of scientific norms2
Protocols and tools to enable reproducibility in 2D materials research2
Neutrinos from explosive transients at the dawn of multi-messenger astronomy2
Ab initio methods for superconductivity2
Science should inspire, but visions need nuance2
Quantum Zeno effect at 452
A brief history of the ‘physicist’2
Assessing the skills gap for the UK’s quantum missions2
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