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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Peer review in a changing world368
Hares and hounds351
Tracking a long-duration gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model340
Ultrafast magneto-optical measurements for probing magnon–phonon interactions in nanomagnets283
Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging278
Ultrathin waveguides for 2D photonic integrated circuits275
Challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning for high-energy physics229
Characterization and control of non-Markovian quantum noise225
Exascale image processing for next-generation beamlines in advanced light sources214
How fast ions mitigate turbulence and enhance confinement in tokamak fusion plasmas210
Photoemission electron microscopy for 2D materials203
Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage199
Science in the age of large language models198
A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics195
Controlling complex networks with complex nodes193
Tree of light190
Navigating an incomplete network using a map187
Physicists and the first computing revolution185
Meet the Nature Reviews Physics 2023 team163
Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation155
Characterizing gravitational-wave sources with likelihood reweighting146
A fully connected Ising machine using standard technology146
100 Years of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics144
Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials142
Drying droplets at a printhead nozzle140
Diffusion metamaterials140
Did you check for ravens?134
From swarms to films133
Droplets in cell nuclei are controlled by chromatin128
Intervening in networks to make minorities more visible122
How spin-off companies can play a role in science communication121
Visualizing big science projects120
Harnessing the power of chemically active sheets in solution119
100 years of ferroelectricity115
Quantum photonics with layered 2D materials112
Nanoscale magnetic field imaging for 2D materials110
Imaging whole-brain activity to understand behaviour109
Advancing molecular simulation with equivariant interatomic potentials109
What human mobility data tell us about COVID-19 spread104
Fresh perspectives on the foundations of quantum physics103
50 years of quantum spin liquids102
Quantum sensing for particle physics101
25 years of small-world network theory100
Uptake of ride-sharing schemes98
More and different at the interface97
JWST sees little red dots93
Indian space science missions92
Computational scientists should consider climate impacts and grant agencies should reward them91
New approaches to dark matter detection89
Publisher Correction: Rydberg states of alkali atoms in atomic vapour as SI-traceable field probes and communications receivers87
Principles for demonstrating condensed phase optical refrigeration86
Programmable metasurfaces for future photonic artificial intelligence85
15 years of topological insulators83
Physical limits in electromagnetism83
The attoscience of strong-field-driven solids83
Applications of single photons to quantum communication and computing79
The transformative potential of machine learning for experiments in fluid mechanics78
Multidimensional nanoscopic chiroptics75
Mechanical properties of human tumour tissues and their implications for cancer development75
Tidal disruption events and high-energy neutrino coincidences73
The physics of fizz71
Shifting sands of hardware and software in exascale quantum mechanical simulations71
An AI-toolkit to develop and share research into new materials71
Artificial dynamical effects in quantum field theory70
Supersolidity in ultracold dipolar gases67
Point defects in metal halide perovskites65
Magnetism, symmetry and spin transport in van der Waals layered systems62
Algae patterns58
Calling all early-career physicists58
Rashba-like physics in condensed matter57
Quantum sensors for biomedical applications57
The role of particle shape in computational modelling of granular matter56
Collective motion strategies of sheep55
Nobel 1944: resonance method for measuring nuclear magnetic moments55
70 years at the high-energy frontier with the CERN accelerator complex53
Topological phonons in graphene51
W boson mass is worth the wait49
Data sharing varies across physics45
Physics in Latin America44
Faster Monte Carlo simulations of systems with long-range interactions43
Progress in quantum teleportation42
Current numbers of qubits and their uses41
Dual topological insulator found in superlattice41
Benchmarking quantum computers41
Blowing bubbles from a reservoir41
Author Correction: Optimizing the dynamic pair distribution function method for inelastic neutron spectrometry38
Visualizing twisted 2D materials with electron channelling contrast imaging37
70 years of CERN37
Liquid-metal experiments on geophysical and astrophysical phenomena35
The Stern–Gerlach experiment at 10035
Hydride superconductivity is here to stay34
Author Correction: High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy33
A century of Compton scattering33
An open-source initiative would benefit quantum computing31
Scientists need a break too30
Dynamics of electricity exchange markets29
Magnetic resonance elastography from fundamental soft-tissue mechanics to diagnostic imaging29
High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy29
How technology made condensed matter physics boring28
Discovery of the odderon28
Physics words with surprising origins28
Nobel 1983: chemistry and evolution of stars28
What we’ve learned about flying less for conferences27
Nobel 1923: determining the charge of the electron27
The climate emergency demands scientists take action and here’s how26
Probing surface motion above ambient temperature with helium spin-echo spectroscopy26
Publisher Correction: Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate25
Engineered dissipation for quantum information science25
Non-equilibrium Bose–Einstein condensation in photonic systems25
An AI pipeline to investigate the binding properties of poorly annotated molecules25
Wigner’s friend and relational objectivity25
Nobel 1943: magnetic moment of the proton24
Topological thermal transport24
Spinning a strong yarn23
Fire ant rafts23
Five books that put physics in context23
A meeting point for art and science22
Starting a conversation about social issues in optics and photonics22
Generative AI and science communication in the physical sciences22
Strong evidence for the discovery of a gravitational wave background22
Directed percolation and the transition to turbulence21
Mapping the landscape for graphene commercialization20
Orbital angular momentum lasers20
Theoretical tools for understanding the climate crisis from Hasselmann’s programme and beyond20
Author Correction: Cycling Fermi arc electrons with Weyl orbits19
Drop friction19
Pushing big science frontiers in China19
Fifty years of ‘More is different’19
Fluctuating into a biofilm19
Spin-torque driven skyrmion resonance18
Connecting physicists across Africa and the world18
Noncommuting conserved charges in quantum thermodynamics and beyond18
Symmetry emerging from the algorithmic nature of evolution17
The AI revolution is always just out of reach17
Scientific biographies for the beach17
Using Bayesian parameter estimation to learn more from data without black boxes17
Monte Carlo methods for impurity physics in ultracold Bose quantum gases17
Olfactory cues and memories in animal navigation16
Janus-like magnetic particles for spin-controlled biological research16
Publisher Correction: Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials16
Machine learning in the search for new fundamental physics15
Author Correction: Topological phenomena at defects in acoustic, photonic and solid-state lattices15
The precision measurement of the W boson mass and its impact on physics15
Microwave impedance microscopy and its application to quantum materials15
Collapsing bubbles with broken symmetry15
Solving Feynman’s sprinkler puzzle14
Introducing the Nature Reviews Physics Advisory Board14
The physics of cats14
Multiscale modelling of twisted bilayers of 2D materials13
The many facets of impact13
Challenges and opportunities in quantum optimization12
Shapes of ice and rock12
A brief history of nonlinear excitations12
Too much efficiency leads to delays12
Forty years of stochastic resonance12
Author Correction: Optical superoscillation technologies beyond the diffraction limit12
A 10 kg mechanical oscillator close to its motional ground state12
How the Cold War changed quantum education11
Why we ask for synopses11
Publisher Correction: Resonant anomalous X-ray reflectivity for revealing ion distributions near electrodes11
Forty years of the Ellis–Baldwin test11
Precise measurement of neutron lifetime11
Yielding and plasticity in amorphous solids10
Time irreversibility in active matter, from micro to macro10
Tips for writing opinion articles10
Graph neural networks at the Large Hadron Collider10
Nature Reviews Physics turns five10
Controlling water waves with artificial structures10
30 years of orbital angular momentum of light10
Structure and flow of low-dimensional water10
How to set up your first machine learning project in astronomy9
Anomalies in particle physics and their implications for physics beyond the standard model9
Making clean electrical contacts on 2D transition metal dichalcogenides9
Magnetic reconnection in the era of exascale computing and multiscale experiments9
The hidden sustainability cost of the reproducibility crisis8
Big science in India8
Review of performance metrics of spin qubits in gated semiconducting nanostructures8
Should artificial intelligence be interpretable to humans?8
Why review Reviews8
On scientific understanding with artificial intelligence8
Rigor with machine learning from field theory to the Poincaré conjecture8
A festival of cosmic fireworks8
The mechanics of emus’ unusual gait7
A milestone in fusion research is reached7
The physics of 3D printing with light7
The spectrum of early career physics7
The physics of optical computing7
Thouless pumping and topology6
Ten books for ten years of Higgs6
Physics of exotic nuclei6
How multiscale curvature couples forces to cellular functions6
The Higgs announcement as open science5
No sign of sterile neutrinos but anomalies remain5
Physics should acknowledge its environmental impact and act on it5
Delivering fusion energy needs bold decisions and sustained commitment5
Nanoscale laser writing of 3D ferroelectric domains in lithium niobate5
Publisher Correction: Polariton condensates for classical and quantum computing5
Farewells and hellos at Nature Reviews Physics5
Elongated cells in 3D clusters are more motile5
A method for generating constrained surrogate power laws4
Photophysical properties of materials for high-speed photodetection4
Quantum computing for finance4
Non-Hermitian topology and exceptional-point geometries4
Pervasive machine learning in physics4
Fractionalized electrons in moiré materials4
The importance of documenting failure4
Packing finite numbers of spheres efficiently4
Defining physicists’ relationship with AI4
Preserving orbital angular momentum in scattering media4
How to optimize high-order harmonic generation in gases4
The surprising history of abstracts3
Walkable cities3
Network renormalization3
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
The origins of massive black holes3
Physics and the empirical gap of trustworthy AI3
Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate3
Research needs both academia and industry3
Author Correction: Advances in artificial spin ice3
Reviving a failed network through a single node3
70 years of Turing patterns3
A tiny titanium:sapphire laser on a chip3
High-precision lattice QCD calculations of the muon anomalous magnetic moment3
The humanities can help make physics greener3
Ultrafast carrier dynamics of magnetic topological insulators3
AI-driven research in pure mathematics and theoretical physics3
How to pitch a Review idea3
Petahertz electronics3
Author Correction: Multidimensional nanoscopic chiroptics3
Quantum Zeno effect at 452
The superfluid-to-Mott insulator transition and the birth of experimental quantum simulation2
Physics of the cryosphere2
Quantum states and intertwining phases in kagome materials2
Replicability and the evolution of scientific norms2
The physics of breakfast2
Neutrinos from explosive transients at the dawn of multi-messenger astronomy2
Ab initio methods for superconductivity2
On the brink of a new era in nuclear fusion R&D2
Superconductivity in untwisted graphene2
Shaping the history of quantum physics to make women visible2
Assessing the skills gap for the UK’s quantum missions2
Art as a catalyst for promoting sustainable research2
A brief history of the ‘physicist’2
Scientific machine learning benchmarks2
Bringing quantum physics to new generations2
Contagion dynamics on higher-order networks2
Nobel 2003: superconductivity and superfluidity1
Author Correction: How research can steer academia towards a low-carbon future1
Early days of DMRG1
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