Most-cited articles by year
Physical Review Letters
American Physical Society · ISSN 0031-9007 · 146,542 works in OpenAlex · h-index 980
Lists by publication year
Each list ranks the articles Physical Review Letters published that year by citations counted in OpenAlex on the snapshot date. Ranks are frozen once published.
- 2024Top 100 of 2,480 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2023Top 100 of 2,146 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2022Top 100 of 2,093 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2021Top 100 of 2,415 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2020Top 100 of 2,827 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2019Top 100 of 2,723 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2018Top 100 of 2,864 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2017Top 100 of 2,605 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2016Top 100 of 2,462 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
About these lists
Physical Review Letters published between 2,093 and 2,864 eligible articles a year in the years covered, so each list shows the top 100. Every entry shows its rank, the share of the year’s cohort it beats, its citation count and, where OpenAlex has one, the abstract. Authors can claim an entry for a badge and a CV line, or ask to have their name withheld.
Read the methodology for cohort rules, exclusions and the snapshot policy.
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