Most-cited articles by year
Physics Today
AIP Publishing · ISSN 0031-9228 · 54,624 works in OpenAlex · h-index 462
Lists by publication year
Each list ranks the articles Physics Today published that year by citations counted in OpenAlex on the snapshot date. Ranks are frozen once published.
- 2024Top 50 of 334 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2023Top 50 of 372 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2022Top 50 of 434 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2021Top 50 of 467 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2020Top 50 of 473 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2019Top 50 of 510 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2018Top 50 of 627 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2017Top 50 of 798 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2016Top 50 of 1,586 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
About these lists
Physics Today published between 334 and 1,586 eligible articles a year in the years covered, so each list shows the top 50. 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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