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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Hares and hounds382
Peer review in a changing world373
How fast ions mitigate turbulence and enhance confinement in tokamak fusion plasmas361
Characterization and control of non-Markovian quantum noise302
Ultrafast magneto-optical measurements for probing magnon–phonon interactions in nanomagnets300
Tracking a long-duration gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model236
Science in the age of large language models236
Photoemission electron microscopy for 2D materials235
A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics222
Challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning for high-energy physics222
Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging209
Exascale image processing for next-generation beamlines in advanced light sources209
Ultrathin waveguides for 2D photonic integrated circuits208
Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage202
Controlling complex networks with complex nodes195
Navigating an incomplete network using a map195
Physicists and the first computing revolution165
Tree of light161
A fully connected Ising machine using standard technology159
Characterizing gravitational-wave sources with likelihood reweighting153
Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials152
100 Years of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics152
Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation148
Diffusion metamaterials146
Meet the Nature Reviews Physics 2023 team146
Drying droplets at a printhead nozzle144
Did you check for ravens?135
What human mobility data tell us about COVID-19 spread132
Advancing molecular simulation with equivariant interatomic potentials130
25 years of small-world network theory130
Droplets in cell nuclei are controlled by chromatin127
Intervening in networks to make minorities more visible123
How spin-off companies can play a role in science communication115
Harnessing the power of chemically active sheets in solution115
From swarms to films115
Imaging whole-brain activity to understand behaviour111
Quantum sensing for particle physics107
Fresh perspectives on the foundations of quantum physics106
Nanoscale magnetic field imaging for 2D materials106
Quantum photonics with layered 2D materials105
50 years of quantum spin liquids104
More and different at the interface104
JWST sees little red dots98
Indian space science missions97
Uptake of ride-sharing schemes94
Meeting report: all-female speaker line-up in condensed matter93
Computational scientists should consider climate impacts and grant agencies should reward them91
Principles for demonstrating condensed phase optical refrigeration91
Programmable metasurfaces for future photonic artificial intelligence89
Multidimensional nanoscopic chiroptics88
Patently funny and possibly useful86
15 years of topological insulators85
The attoscience of strong-field-driven solids84
Mechanical properties of human tumour tissues and their implications for cancer development83
Physical limits in electromagnetism83
The transformative potential of machine learning for experiments in fluid mechanics79
Publisher Correction: Rydberg states of alkali atoms in atomic vapour as SI-traceable field probes and communications receivers79
New approaches to dark matter detection77
Tidal disruption events and high-energy neutrino coincidences75
Applications of single photons to quantum communication and computing75
The physics of fizz73
Supersolidity in ultracold dipolar gases70
Calling all early-career physicists69
Shifting sands of hardware and software in exascale quantum mechanical simulations69
Point defects in metal halide perovskites67
Artificial dynamical effects in quantum field theory66
Algae patterns61
Magnetism, symmetry and spin transport in van der Waals layered systems61
Quantum sensors for biomedical applications60
Rashba-like physics in condensed matter60
The role of particle shape in computational modelling of granular matter59
Data sharing varies across physics56
Topological phonons in graphene56
70 years at the high-energy frontier with the CERN accelerator complex51
Nobel 1944: resonance method for measuring nuclear magnetic moments46
W boson mass is worth the wait46
Faster Monte Carlo simulations of systems with long-range interactions46
Physics in Latin America44
Current numbers of qubits and their uses42
Collective motion strategies of sheep41
Benchmarking quantum computers41
Progress in quantum teleportation40
Dual topological insulator found in superlattice39
Visualizing twisted 2D materials with electron channelling contrast imaging38
Blowing bubbles from a reservoir37
70 years of CERN35
Author Correction: Optimizing the dynamic pair distribution function method for inelastic neutron spectrometry35
High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy34
A century of Compton scattering34
Hydride superconductivity is here to stay33
The Stern–Gerlach experiment at 10033
An open-source initiative would benefit quantum computing32
Scientists need a break too31
Author Correction: High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy30
How technology made condensed matter physics boring29
Physics words with surprising origins29
Magnetic resonance elastography from fundamental soft-tissue mechanics to diagnostic imaging29
Liquid-metal experiments on geophysical and astrophysical phenomena29
Probing surface motion above ambient temperature with helium spin-echo spectroscopy28
What we’ve learned about flying less for conferences28
Nobel 1923: determining the charge of the electron28
Dynamics of electricity exchange markets28
Nobel 1983: chemistry and evolution of stars28
An AI pipeline to investigate the binding properties of poorly annotated molecules27
Non-equilibrium Bose–Einstein condensation in photonic systems26
Wigner’s friend and relational objectivity26
Nobel 1943: magnetic moment of the proton26
Publisher Correction: Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate26
The climate emergency demands scientists take action and here’s how25
Topological thermal transport24
Fire ant rafts24
Engineered dissipation for quantum information science24
Spinning a strong yarn24
A meeting point for art and science23
Five books that put physics in context23
Generative AI and science communication in the physical sciences23
Mapping the landscape for graphene commercialization22
Strong evidence for the discovery of a gravitational wave background22
Starting a conversation about social issues in optics and photonics22
Directed percolation and the transition to turbulence21
Theoretical tools for understanding the climate crisis from Hasselmann’s programme and beyond21
Orbital angular momentum lasers20
Fluctuating into a biofilm20
Noncommuting conserved charges in quantum thermodynamics and beyond20
Pushing big science frontiers in China20
Fifty years of ‘More is different’19
50 years of spin glass theory19
Spin-torque driven skyrmion resonance19
Drop friction18
Connecting physicists across Africa and the world18
Using Bayesian parameter estimation to learn more from data without black boxes18
Olfactory cues and memories in animal navigation17
Monte Carlo methods for impurity physics in ultracold Bose quantum gases17
Symmetry emerging from the algorithmic nature of evolution17
Janus-like magnetic particles for spin-controlled biological research17
Scientific biographies for the beach17
Publisher Correction: Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials17
The AI revolution is always just out of reach17
Microwave impedance microscopy and its application to quantum materials16
Machine learning in the search for new fundamental physics16
Collapsing bubbles with broken symmetry16
Introducing the Nature Reviews Physics Advisory Board16
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 precision measurement of the W boson mass and its impact on physics14
Multiscale modelling of twisted bilayers of 2D materials14
Radiacoustic imaging14
Forty years of stochastic resonance13
Morpho-Enhanced Polarization Microscopy13
The many facets of impact13
The physics of cats13
Challenges and opportunities in quantum optimization12
Shapes of ice and rock12
A 10 kg mechanical oscillator close to its motional ground state12
A brief history of nonlinear excitations12
Publisher Correction: Resonant anomalous X-ray reflectivity for revealing ion distributions near electrodes11
Too much efficiency leads to delays11
How the Cold War changed quantum education11
Forty years of the Ellis–Baldwin test11
Tips for writing opinion articles11
30 years of orbital angular momentum of light10
Yielding and plasticity in amorphous solids10
How to set up your first machine learning project in astronomy10
Precise measurement of neutron lifetime10
Nature Reviews Physics turns five10
Structure and flow of low-dimensional water10
Why we ask for synopses10
Making clean electrical contacts on 2D transition metal dichalcogenides9
Graph neural networks at the Large Hadron Collider9
Magnetic reconnection in the era of exascale computing and multiscale experiments9
Time irreversibility in active matter, from micro to macro9
Controlling water waves with artificial structures8
Anomalies in particle physics and their implications for physics beyond the standard model8
Big science in India8
On scientific understanding with artificial intelligence8
A festival of cosmic fireworks8
Review of performance metrics of spin qubits in gated semiconducting nanostructures8
The physics of 3D printing with light7
Rigor with machine learning from field theory to the Poincaré conjecture7
A milestone in fusion research is reached7
Thouless pumping and topology7
Physics of exotic nuclei6
The hidden sustainability cost of the reproducibility crisis6
The mechanics of emus’ unusual gait6
How multiscale curvature couples forces to cellular functions6
Should artificial intelligence be interpretable to humans?6
Nanoscale laser writing of 3D ferroelectric domains in lithium niobate5
Ten books for ten years of Higgs5
The physics of optical computing5
Elongated cells in 3D clusters are more motile5
Delivering fusion energy needs bold decisions and sustained commitment5
The Higgs announcement as open science5
Farewells and hellos at Nature Reviews Physics5
No sign of sterile neutrinos but anomalies remain5
Pervasive machine learning in physics4
Fractionalized electrons in moiré materials4
Preserving orbital angular momentum in scattering media4
Quantum computing for finance4
Defining physicists’ relationship with AI4
Non-Hermitian topology and exceptional-point geometries4
Physics should acknowledge its environmental impact and act on it4
Platforms for the realization and characterization of Tomonaga–Luttinger liquids4
How to optimize high-order harmonic generation in gases4
Ultrafast carrier dynamics of magnetic topological insulators4
Photophysical properties of materials for high-speed photodetection4
Publisher Correction: Polariton condensates for classical and quantum computing4
The importance of documenting failure4
Packing finite numbers of spheres efficiently4
A method for generating constrained surrogate power laws3
Walkable cities3
AI-driven research in pure mathematics and theoretical physics3
Determining intrinsic sensitivity and the role of multiple scattering in speckle metrology3
Applications of single photons in quantum metrology, biology and the foundations of quantum physics3
Author Correction: Multidimensional nanoscopic chiroptics3
A tiny titanium:sapphire laser on a chip3
Research needs both academia and industry3
Author Correction: Advances in artificial spin ice3
The surprising history of abstracts3
How to pitch a Review idea3
On the brink of a new era in nuclear fusion R&D3
70 years of Turing patterns3
Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate3
High-precision lattice QCD calculations of the muon anomalous magnetic moment3
Network renormalization3
Physics and the empirical gap of trustworthy AI3
The humanities can help make physics greener3
Scientific machine learning benchmarks3
Physics of the cryosphere3
Reviving a failed network through a single node3
Bringing quantum physics to new generations2
Quantum Zeno effect at 452
First-principles calculations for Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction2
Probing charge density in materials with atomic resolution in real space2
Science should inspire, but visions need nuance2
Neutrinos from explosive transients at the dawn of multi-messenger astronomy2
Engagement opportunities on the continuum between science and policy2
Petahertz electronics2
Replicability and the evolution of scientific norms2
Dequantizing algorithms to understand quantum advantage in machine learning2
Learning quantum states from their classical shadows2
An international physics conference in Ukraine2
90 years of the Wigner crystal2
A brief history of the ‘physicist’2
Quantum states and intertwining phases in kagome materials2
Ab initio methods for superconductivity2
Morphogenesis beyond in vivo2
The difficult but necessary role of political engagement for scientists2
50 years of Penrose tilings2
The superfluid-to-Mott insulator transition and the birth of experimental quantum simulation2
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