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Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Physics is 20. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Hares and hounds	382
Peer review in a changing world	373
How fast ions mitigate turbulence and enhance confinement in tokamak fusion plasmas	361
Characterization and control of non-Markovian quantum noise	302
Ultrafast magneto-optical measurements for probing magnon–phonon interactions in nanomagnets	300
Science in the age of large language models	236
Tracking a long-duration gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model	236
Photoemission electron microscopy for 2D materials	235
Challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning for high-energy physics	222
A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics	222
Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging	209
Exascale image processing for next-generation beamlines in advanced light sources	209
Ultrathin waveguides for 2D photonic integrated circuits	208
Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage	202
Controlling complex networks with complex nodes	195
Navigating an incomplete network using a map	195
Physicists and the first computing revolution	165
Tree of light	161
A fully connected Ising machine using standard technology	159
Characterizing gravitational-wave sources with likelihood reweighting	153
100 Years of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics	152
Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials	152
Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation	148
Meet the Nature Reviews Physics 2023 team	146
Diffusion metamaterials	146

Drying droplets at a printhead nozzle	144
Did you check for ravens?	135
What human mobility data tell us about COVID-19 spread	132
25 years of small-world network theory	130
Advancing molecular simulation with equivariant interatomic potentials	130
Droplets in cell nuclei are controlled by chromatin	127
Intervening in networks to make minorities more visible	123
From swarms to films	115
How spin-off companies can play a role in science communication	115
Harnessing the power of chemically active sheets in solution	115
Imaging whole-brain activity to understand behaviour	111
Quantum sensing for particle physics	107
Nanoscale magnetic field imaging for 2D materials	106
Fresh perspectives on the foundations of quantum physics	106
Quantum photonics with layered 2D materials	105
More and different at the interface	104
50 years of quantum spin liquids	104
JWST sees little red dots	98
Indian space science missions	97
Uptake of ride-sharing schemes	94
Meeting report: all-female speaker line-up in condensed matter	93
Computational scientists should consider climate impacts and grant agencies should reward them	91
Principles for demonstrating condensed phase optical refrigeration	91
Programmable metasurfaces for future photonic artificial intelligence	89
Multidimensional nanoscopic chiroptics	88
Patently funny and possibly useful	86
15 years of topological insulators	85
The attoscience of strong-field-driven solids	84
Mechanical properties of human tumour tissues and their implications for cancer development	83
Physical limits in electromagnetism	83
Publisher Correction: Rydberg states of alkali atoms in atomic vapour as SI-traceable field probes and communications receivers	79
The transformative potential of machine learning for experiments in fluid mechanics	79
New approaches to dark matter detection	77
Applications of single photons to quantum communication and computing	75
Tidal disruption events and high-energy neutrino coincidences	75
The physics of fizz	73
Supersolidity in ultracold dipolar gases	70
Calling all early-career physicists	69
Shifting sands of hardware and software in exascale quantum mechanical simulations	69
Point defects in metal halide perovskites	67
Artificial dynamical effects in quantum field theory	66
Magnetism, symmetry and spin transport in van der Waals layered systems	61
Algae patterns	61
Quantum sensors for biomedical applications	60
Rashba-like physics in condensed matter	60
The role of particle shape in computational modelling of granular matter	59
Data sharing varies across physics	56
Topological phonons in graphene	56
70 years at the high-energy frontier with the CERN accelerator complex	51
Faster Monte Carlo simulations of systems with long-range interactions	46

Nobel 1944: resonance method for measuring nuclear magnetic moments	46
W boson mass is worth the wait	46
Physics in Latin America	44
Current numbers of qubits and their uses	42
Collective motion strategies of sheep	41
Benchmarking quantum computers	41
Progress in quantum teleportation	40
Dual topological insulator found in superlattice	39
Visualizing twisted 2D materials with electron channelling contrast imaging	38
Blowing bubbles from a reservoir	37
70 years of CERN	35
Author Correction: Optimizing the dynamic pair distribution function method for inelastic neutron spectrometry	35
High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy	34
A century of Compton scattering	34
Hydride superconductivity is here to stay	33
The Stern–Gerlach experiment at 100	33
An open-source initiative would benefit quantum computing	32
Scientists need a break too	31
Author Correction: High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy	30
Liquid-metal experiments on geophysical and astrophysical phenomena	29
How technology made condensed matter physics boring	29
Physics words with surprising origins	29
Magnetic resonance elastography from fundamental soft-tissue mechanics to diagnostic imaging	29
Probing surface motion above ambient temperature with helium spin-echo spectroscopy	28
What we’ve learned about flying less for conferences	28
Nobel 1923: determining the charge of the electron	28
Dynamics of electricity exchange markets	28
Nobel 1983: chemistry and evolution of stars	28
An AI pipeline to investigate the binding properties of poorly annotated molecules	27
Non-equilibrium Bose–Einstein condensation in photonic systems	26
Wigner’s friend and relational objectivity	26
Nobel 1943: magnetic moment of the proton	26
Publisher Correction: Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate	26
The climate emergency demands scientists take action and here’s how	25
Spinning a strong yarn	24
Topological thermal transport	24
Fire ant rafts	24
Engineered dissipation for quantum information science	24
Generative AI and science communication in the physical sciences	23
A meeting point for art and science	23
Five books that put physics in context	23
Starting a conversation about social issues in optics and photonics	22
Mapping the landscape for graphene commercialization	22
Strong evidence for the discovery of a gravitational wave background	22
Theoretical tools for understanding the climate crisis from Hasselmann’s programme and beyond	21
Directed percolation and the transition to turbulence	21
Pushing big science frontiers in China	20
Orbital angular momentum lasers	20
Fluctuating into a biofilm	20
Noncommuting conserved charges in quantum thermodynamics and beyond	20