Nature Physics
Last updated ISSN 1745-2473
Nature Physics is published by Nature Portfolio in physics and astronomy. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $12,690.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Nature Physics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Quantum and electron transport phenomena
- Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
- Topological Materials and Phenomena
- Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
- Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
- Graphene research and applications
- Quantum many-body systems
- Mechanical and Optical Resonators
- Quantum Mechanics and Applications
Key facts
| Publisher | Nature Portfolio |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1745-2473, 1745-2481 |
| Subject area | Physics and Astronomy |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $12,690 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 7,582 |
| Publishing since | 1973 |
| Journal website | www.nature.com/nphys/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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