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Nature Physics
Physics and astronomy
Among the 48 physics and astronomy journals in this index it has the 10th highest h-index and the 4th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
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Where its authors come from
Share of the 1 610 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 39% |
| Germany | 18% |
| China | 13% |
| Japan | 11% |
| France | 10% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 97% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Topological Materials and Phenomena | 6% |
| Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism | 5% |
| Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates | 5% |
| Quantum Information and Cryptography | 5% |
| Advanced Condensed Matter Physics | 4% |
| Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture | 4% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- High-temperature superconductivity with zero resistance and strange-metal behaviour in La3Ni2O7−δ (2024, 308 citations)
- Probabilistic error cancellation with sparse Pauli–Lindblad models on noisy quantum processors (2023, 303 citations)
- Observation of temporal reflection and broadband frequency translation at photonic time interfaces (2023, 254 citations)
- A metallic room-temperature d-wave altermagnet (2025, 245 citations)
- Double-slit time diffraction at optical frequencies (2023, 214 citations)
Official rankings
Many evaluations use a national or commercial list rather than raw citation counts. We don't reproduce those lists here; check the journal on each one directly (search for ISSN 1745-2473):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
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- Physical Review Letters
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