Nature Reviews Physics

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Reviews Physics 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Precise measurement of neutron lifetime3299
Nonlocality with massive particles and mesoscopic systems1637
The scientific article as a master finding system388
Nobel 2004: freedom for quarks!339
70 years of CERN307
Tips for writing opinion articles273
Visualizing twisted 2D materials with electron channelling contrast imaging252
How the Cold War changed quantum education240
Generation of large strains in 2D van der Waals materials at cryogenic temperatures202
Phonon-limited electronic transport through first principles196
Ultrafast magneto-optical measurements for probing magnon–phonon interactions in nanomagnets195
Bringing together science and fiction182
Forty years of the Ellis–Baldwin test179
Peer review in a changing world178
How redundancy and distributed control are helping make robots autonomous175
Shapes of ice and rock163
Fighting stereotypes163
Blowing bubbles from a reservoir163
The physics of breakfast160
Then and now157
The Stern–Gerlach experiment at 100155
Ab initio methods for superconductivity151
Machine learning and density functional theory151
Ultrathin waveguides for 2D photonic integrated circuits149
How detection and imaging technologies could make us better humans147
Laser power stabilization via radiation pressure144
When scientists disagree141
Quantum Zeno effect at 45138
Nature Reviews Physics turns five126
Hares and hounds124
Boxfish keels122
How you can change gender stereotypes about physicists118
Networks get more cliquey as they grow114
Ten years of IceCube110
Hydraulic spider legs106
The long and winding road105
Why we ask for synopses101
A 10 kg mechanical oscillator close to its motional ground state97
Dual topological insulator found in superlattice97
Hydride superconductivity is here to stay96
Weaving smooth 3D shapes with curved ribbons96
Experimental signatures of the chiral anomaly in Dirac–Weyl semimetals93
Machine-and-data intelligence for synchrotron science92
Exascale image processing for next-generation beamlines in advanced light sources91
The superfluid-to-Mott insulator transition and the birth of experimental quantum simulation90
Characterization and control of non-Markovian quantum noise90
Dequantizing algorithms to understand quantum advantage in machine learning89
Author Correction: Optimizing the dynamic pair distribution function method for inelastic neutron spectrometry87
Publisher Correction: Resonant anomalous X-ray reflectivity for revealing ion distributions near electrodes87
Author Correction: High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy84
How to set up your first machine learning project in astronomy84
High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy80
Tracking a long-duration gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model80
Materials discovery screening with pymatgen79
Visual anemometry for physics-informed inference of wind77
A new frontier for Hopfield networks76
60 years of Landauer’s principle76
10 years of the quantum anomalous Hall effect74
A brief history of nonlinear excitations74
A century of Compton scattering74
90 years of the Wigner crystal74
30 years of orbital angular momentum of light73
Machine learning as a tool in theoretical science72
Too much efficiency leads to delays70
Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging67
Science in the age of large language models66
Challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning for high-energy physics66
Time irreversibility in active matter, from micro to macro66
Magnetic reconnection in the era of exascale computing and multiscale experiments66
Controlling water waves with artificial structures65
Thermal conductivity of materials under pressure64
Amyloid formation as a protein phase transition62
Quantum rotations of nanoparticles60
Controlling complex networks with complex nodes58
Light–matter interaction at atomic scales56
New physics from the polarized light of the cosmic microwave background55
How fast ions mitigate turbulence and enhance confinement in tokamak fusion plasmas54
Assessing the skills gap for the UK’s quantum missions52
A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics50
Learning quantum systems50
Graph neural networks at the Large Hadron Collider48
Anomalies in particle physics and their implications for physics beyond the standard model47
Liquid-metal experiments on geophysical and astrophysical phenomena47
On scientific understanding with artificial intelligence44
Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage44
Photocurrent as a multiphysics diagnostic of quantum materials44
Magnetic resonance elastography from fundamental soft-tissue mechanics to diagnostic imaging44
Graphene nanoribbons for quantum electronics43
Physical insights into non-fullerene organic photovoltaics43
Review of performance metrics of spin qubits in gated semiconducting nanostructures39
First-principles calculations for Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction38
Making clean electrical contacts on 2D transition metal dichalcogenides37
Big science in India36
A snapshot of 202336
A new century of quantum physics34
Physics words with surprising origins33
Should artificial intelligence be interpretable to humans?33
Forging personal connections with science through storytelling32
How to assess the carbon footprint of a large-scale physics project30
Author Correction: Hot carrier photovoltaics in van der Waals heterostructures30
Characterizing gravitational-wave sources with likelihood reweighting29
Probing surface motion above ambient temperature with helium spin-echo spectroscopy28
An AI pipeline to investigate the binding properties of poorly annotated molecules28
Probing charge density in materials with atomic resolution in real space27
High-accuracy electronic structure calculations with QMCPACK27
100 Years of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics27
The hidden sustainability cost of the reproducibility crisis26
How promoting domestic electricity became physics outreach26
Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation25
Nanoscale diamond quantum sensors for many-body physics24
The spectrum of early career physics23
Cycling Fermi arc electrons with Weyl orbits23
Learning quantum states from their classical shadows23
Nobel 1983: chemistry and evolution of stars22
Physics of exotic nuclei22
Nobel 1943: magnetic moment of the proton22
The early days of Monte Carlo methods22
Nobel 1923: determining the charge of the electron22
From physics to art and back22
Engagement opportunities on the continuum between science and policy21
How technology made condensed matter physics boring21
50 years of Penrose tilings21
Navigating an incomplete network using a map21
Physicists and the first computing revolution20
Bird nest packing20
Dynamics of electricity exchange markets20
Tree of light20
Looking back at 202419
The mechanics of emus’ unusual gait19
How to teach climate change in a physics classroom19
A model for changing land use18
A fully connected Ising machine using standard technology18
What we’ve learned about flying less for conferences18
Neutrino physics over the two decades since the first SNO result17
The difficult but necessary role of political engagement for scientists17
Physics does not exist in a vacuum17
Discovery of the odderon17
Controlling light with air17
Why review Reviews17
To reform peer review, we need to understand its past16
In fusion, collaboration is both a necessity and an opportunity16
A festival of cosmic fireworks16
How can we make science more rigorous?16
A year to celebrate quantum physics16
The rise of data-driven modelling15
The climate emergency demands scientists take action and here’s how14
How a one-off public engagement event turned into an international science festival14
Anyons in quantum Hall interferometry13
Science should inspire, but visions need nuance13
Nobel 1924: the physics of precision13
Making the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology happen13
Precision isotope-shift spectroscopy for new physics searches and nuclear insights13
A milestone in fusion research is reached12
Meet the Nature Reviews Physics 2023 team12
Author Correction: Scanning near-field infrared microscopy12
Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials11
Engineered dissipation for quantum information science11
Diffusion metamaterials11
The physics of optical computing11
The potential and global outlook of integrated photonics for quantum technologies10
Single-molecule FRET for probing nanoscale biomolecular dynamics10
Wigner’s friend and relational objectivity10
The physics of 3D printing with light9
Morphogenesis beyond in vivo9
Automated reproducible workflows and data provenance with AiiDA9
Topological defects in biological matter9
Non-equilibrium Bose–Einstein condensation in photonic systems8
How multiscale curvature couples forces to cellular functions8
How to verify the precision of density-functional-theory implementations via reproducible and universal workflows8
Topological thermal transport8
Rigor with machine learning from field theory to the Poincaré conjecture8
The superconducting diode effect8
Thouless pumping and topology8
Proliferating active matter8
Quantum enhancement in generative models7
Superconductivity, superfluidity and quantum geometry in twisted multilayer systems7
A meeting point for art and science7
How the Bell tests changed quantum physics7
Farewells and hellos at Nature Reviews Physics7
Fresh perspectives on the foundations of quantum physics7
Dipolar many-body complexes and their interactions in stacked 2D heterobilayers7
25 years of small-world network theory6
Fire ant rafts6
Black scientists at Bell Labs6
Seventy-five years of quantum electrodynamics6
From swarms to films6
Delivering fusion energy needs bold decisions and sustained commitment6
Did you check for ravens?6
Spinning a strong yarn6
The Higgs announcement as open science6
50 years of quantum spin liquids6
How to incorporate climate change into high-school physics6
RF dressing with two-component fermions in optical lattices6
No sign of sterile neutrinos but anomalies remain6
Droplets in cell nuclei are controlled by chromatin6
Entanglement between a pair of top quarks5
Hidden in plain sight5
Ten books for ten years of Higgs5
Learning the flow5
Fantastic titles and where to find them5
Drying droplets at a printhead nozzle5
Elongated cells in 3D clusters are more motile5
Freezing droplets that de-ice themselves5
Optical superlattices in quantum gas microscopy4
US–China relations in a historical context4
30 years of exoplanet detections4
Nanoscale laser writing of 3D ferroelectric domains in lithium niobate4
AI is no substitute for having something to say4
Generative AI and science communication in the physical sciences4
Harnessing the power of chemically active sheets in solution4
75 years of the path integral formulation4
Intervening in networks to make minorities more visible4
Five books that put physics in context4
Building a brighter future for Africa with the African Light Source4
Why a culture of brilliance is bad for physics4
Physics should acknowledge its environmental impact and act on it4
A century of matter waves4
Can a dual mandate be a model for the global governance of AI?4
Advancing molecular simulation with equivariant interatomic potentials3
How to optimize high-order harmonic generation in gases3
How high-energy physics plans its future3
Starting a conversation about social issues in optics and photonics3
Publisher Correction: Physics of exotic nuclei3
The co-evolution of computational physics and high-performance computing3
Strong evidence for the discovery of a gravitational wave background3
New directions in hypernuclear physics3
Theoretical tools for understanding the climate crisis from Hasselmann’s programme and beyond3
Publisher Correction: Polariton condensates for classical and quantum computing3
What human mobility data tell us about COVID-19 spread3
Directed percolation and the transition to turbulence3
Sustainable heat harvesting via thermal nonlinearity3
Meetings managed3
Laser trapping and manipulation of exciton–polariton quantum fluids3
Mapping the landscape for graphene commercialization3
How spin-off companies can play a role in science communication3
Visualizing big science projects3
Photophysical properties of materials for high-speed photodetection2
Roadmap on machine learning glassy dynamics2
Advances in machine-learning-based sampling motivated by lattice quantum chromodynamics2
A survey on the complexity of learning quantum states2
A series of fast-paced advances in Quantum Error Correction2
The importance of documenting failure2
Entropy, irreversibility and inference at the foundations of statistical physics2
Nanoscale magnetic field imaging for 2D materials2
A fresh understanding of the Mpemba effect2
Analogue simulations of quantum gravity with fluids2
Neural operators for accelerating scientific simulations and design2
Impact of high growth rates on the microstructure and vortex pinning of high-temperature superconducting coated conductors2
Imaging whole-brain activity to understand behaviour2
Optical superoscillation technologies beyond the diffraction limit2
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