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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Narrow specialization and other forms of sin45
Embracing imperfection for quantum technologies34
Elementary, my dear physicists!33
Commentary: Thinking of moving from academia into industry? Here are some things to consider33
Commentary: A physicist’s perspective on COVID-1929
Understanding the Mayans on their own terms27
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and nanoscience22
A clash of cosmologists20
Eugene Newman Parker17
Climate change is redefining Arctic wildfires16
Engineering better science education16
Acoustics of multiuse spaces14
Urgent measures are needed to shore up NIST’s crumbling facilities14
John Edward Harries14
The standard model for beginners14
Frequency-dependent squeezing makes LIGO even more sensitive14
Physics and poetry revisited13
Sustainable fabrication of organic electronics11
New books & media11
Consulting can be stimulating and lucrative for physicists11
A note on dielectrophoresis10
Addressing the quantum measurement problem10
More on William Fowler10
Ethics in physics: The need for culture change9
Masatoshi Koshiba9
Correction9
Record-setting cosmic neutrino breaks in a new telescope8
Malaysian physics and the maker ethos8
Why insects orbit light at night8
Condensed-matter titan8
Branched flow8
3-2-1 Contact: Scientists at the writers’ table8
Arthur Compton and the mysteries of light7
Commentary: Teaching quantum concepts7
Nanoprinting low-temperature glass7
Kyozi Kawasaki7
New books & media7
Thoroughly modern Millie6
Physics and poetry revisited6
Faculty interviews—traps and tips6
New books & media6
Reconsidering tenure6
Sand and mucus: A toolbox for animal survival6
Quantifying and mimicking life6
The roles of research and “fit” in tenure6
Twisted liquid crystal5
Water’s hydrogen bonds are seen like never before5
State anti-DEI laws sow uncertainty in public colleges and universities5
Lawrence Livermore achieves a burning plasma in the lab5
Atmospheric rivers bring anomalously high temperatures5
NASA urged to boost R&D at expense of near-term missions4
What makes a big cat roar?4
Stephen Hawking, human4
The roar of a rocket4
FYI science policy briefs4
Comments on “Careers by the numbers”4
A meticulous thermodynamic recipe for cooking eggs4
Q&A: Marty Baylor enhances students’ skills and their sense of belonging as physicists4
Idaho project tests the limits of DOE aid to advanced reactors4
Nineteenth-century women and physics across the pond4
Q&A: Engineer Stewart Isaacs seeks equitable climate change solutions4
Our quantum world4
Nineteenth-century women and physics across the pond3
More machine than human?3
The behavior of thin curved sheets is ironed out3
Symposia and webinars3
Perforating gold can make it stronger3
Krypton isotopes tell the early story of Earth’s life-giving elements3
The promises and perils of a mid-career pivot3
The universe at your fingertips3
A right-handed molecule is coaxed to behave like a left-handed one3
Fermilab goes deep to silence noisy radiation affecting qubits3
The two cultures, revisited3
Physics … is for girls?3
A. V. Hill: The man behind the initials3
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation3
Blu-ray microscope with blood-cell lens3
A wandering vortex3
Why did the Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor close?3
Metamaterial device makes 16 polarization measurements at once3
Lessons from 35 years in industry3
Solar energy considerations3
How a mineral that’s always wet gets wetter3
More on the quantum measurement problem3
When your academic ladder is longer3
Gravitational patterns reveal a tumultuous lunar past3
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation3
Judith Lynn Pipher3
To rule the waves3
Heliocentrism before Copernicus3
The road from academia to entrepreneurship3
A seismometer maps Mars’s anatomy2
The first 30 years of computer simulation2
Supporting emerging astronomers across Africa2
Arecibo STEM educational center to open soon2
Multidimensional measurements2
Searching for religion in the laboratory2
X-ray imaging shows how a 17th-century painting lost its color2
Climate modeling innovators are honored with half the physics Nobel2
With no end in sight for the war in Ukraine, CERN ceases cooperation with Russia2
Water makes its mark on GPS signals2
Thomas Ferbel2
Yamilée Toussaint sparks girls’ interest in STEM through dance2
Putting microLED technology on display2
Light-driven spin chemistry for quantum information science2
Hubble has more time2
A new route to synthetic diamond2
A synthesis of physical connectedness2
When unmixable metals mix2
Living cells on the move2
The early universe in a quantum gas2
Longitudinal study tracks why undergrads stick with or leave physics2
Algebra-based high school physics2
FYI science policy briefs2
Pre-satellite weather balloons2
A sprinkling of scientists prioritizes behaviors to counter climate change2
Groundwater flows deep under Antarctic ice2
Steven Weinberg2
Precision measurements bring the search for new physics to the table2
Zdeněk Herman2
Observing interstellar molecular hydrogen2
Climate change drives extinction—and always has2
Thermodynamics of the climate system2
Superdeterministic loophole2
Roman Jackiw and the chiral anomaly2
Thomas James McIlrath2
Laudable lectures2
Igor Ekhiel’evich Dzyaloshinskii2
Translating scientific papers for the public2
ITER’s net loss2
How a cloud of insects is (and isn’t) like a magnet2
Time-reversed laser absorbs nearly all light2
More on the quantum measurement problem2
Seismic data provide a deep dive into groundwater health2
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors2
New books & media2
An overview of complex systems2
CO2 pipelines: A way forward?2
James Burkett Hartle2
Synthetic dimensions2
Up-conversion nanoparticles measure medium-sized forces in hard-to-reach places2
A stormy life in atmospheric science2
Five decades of missing matter1
Nanoscale 3D printing1
Randomness unbound1
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors1
Chasing a power supply in Siberia1
A proposed solution to arbitrary evaluations1
Soviet uranium boosters1
More on Arrhenius plots1
Modeling sound at Stonehenge1
Fanning flames1
Testing the theory of general relativity1
Code changes could drastically reduce bitcoin’s enormous electricity requirements1
Role-playing the life of a scientist1
Slow solar wind traced to Sun’s active regions1
Nonlinear optical computing doesn’t need nonlinear optics1
Revisiting science and colonialism1
Japan accelerator pursues nanobeams to boost luminosity1
Baseball rubbing mud does, in fact, make balls grippier1
Physics Nobel honors foundational quantum entanglement experiments1
Iron-based superconductors: Teenage, complex, challenging1
Early debates in space science1
The no-cloning theorem1
Leaving politics aside1
The world is square1
Fast-drying cracks1
UNESCO details the STEM gender gap and efforts to close it1
Einstein statue unveiled in Havana1
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and nanoscience1
Sea changes for scientific ocean drilling1
More on nuclear treaties1
The power of fluctuation relations1
Living chiral crystals1
Celebrating Emmy Noether1
Focus on test, measurement, quantum metrology, and analytical equipment1
A timely retrospective1
Contributions to computed tomography1
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation1
Hackathon culture’s maker potential1
UK coalition gears up to demonstrate commercial viability of fusion energy1
Physics, AI, and the future of discovery1
Boiling eggs, radiation damage, and the Arrhenius plot1
Roman Jackiw and the chiral anomaly1
Commentary: Breaking the spell of scientific isolation in the developing world1
A European snowstorm is linked to climate change1
Michael Ellis Fisher1
The conundrums of atomic secrecy1
The rapid acidification of sea spray aerosols1
ARPA–E explores paths to emissions-free metal making1
Geologic evidence that volcanic lightning promotes life on Earth1
A geophysicist uses Swifties’ seismic activity for science outreach1
Ernest Rutherford’s ambitions1
Europe’s experiment in funding graphene research is paying off1
Stacked materials build up massive electrons1
Cosmic tau neutrinos uncovered1
Lesson from a lost radioactive source1
Deep learning opens up protein science’s next frontiers1
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors1
Commentary: The benefits of being a maverick1
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and photonics1
Building a ship in a bottle for neutrino science1
Butterfly effects1
NSF and postwar US science1
Hydrogen as an aviation fuel1
A shocking beginning to star formation1
A journey to touch the Sun1
Young physicists excited to network through the International Association of Physics Students1
The complexities of the human placenta1
Hybrid scientific conferences: An ongoing experiment1
New books & media1
No uncertain terms1
Commentary: Researching around Europe: A personal reflection1
The black powder behind battery power1
The death of expertise has been exaggerated1
Einstein would be doubly amazed1
Newton’s “force” and fake doors: The “geometric spirit” in the arts1
A windfall for US carbon capture and storage1
When learning physics mirrors doing physics1
New books & media1
An ink for printed electronics1
Io was always extremely volcanic, evidence indicates1
Q&A: Hyejin Youn applies statistical physics to human behavior1
The subtle math of a heartbeat gone wrong1
W. Jason Morgan1
New books & media1
Elusive helium stars identified in archival data1
Research space increases at US universities1
Manhattan Project astrophysics1
Correction1
France’s Oppenheimer1
Giant telescopes take small but significant steps toward realization1
Particle physicist Carolina Deluca retools when she needs to1
Nuclear surveillance from space1
New books & media1
FYI science policy briefs1
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation1
Where physics students find community1
Demands on early-career faculty1
Revisiting the electric potential1
Quantum materials out of equilibrium1
Listening to the seafloor with optical fibers1
A menagerie of Martian auroras1
Black carbon frozen in ice1
An introductory astronomy textbook for majors1
Wolfgang Stodiek1
Some remarks about Rutherford1
Live streaming a radio-telescope observation of the solar eclipse1
The weak mixing angle1
Constructing DNA, once again1
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