Nature Physics

Nature Physics is a monthly peer-reviewed physics journal published by Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature), launched in 2005, covering all areas of pure and applied physics and reporting a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 18.0（Nature Physics）是由（Nature Portfolio）（Springer Nature）出版的月刊同行评审物理学期刊，2005 年创办，覆盖纯粹与应用物理学的所有领域，2025 年影响因子为 18.0。

Scope

• It publishes papers of the highest quality and significance in all areas of physics, pure and applied该刊刊载纯粹与应用物理学各领域中质量与重要性最高的论文。
• Its content reflects core physics disciplines while welcoming a broad range of topics whose central theme falls within physics内容反映核心物理学科，同时欢迎以物理为核心主题的广泛议题。
• Primary research appears in a single format, the Article原创研究仅设一种论文类型，即研究论文（Article）。
• It also publishes Review Articles, News & Views, Research Highlights, Commentaries, Book Reviews and Correspondence还刊载综述（Review Articles）、新闻与观点（News & Views）、研究亮点（Research Highlights）、评论（Commentaries）、书评（Book Reviews）与通信（Correspondence）。
• Covered areas include astrophysics and cosmology, high-energy and particle physics, nuclear physics and plasma physics覆盖领域包括天体物理与宇宙学、高能与粒子物理、核物理与等离子体物理。
• Further areas are atomic and molecular physics, chemical physics, biophysics and fluid dynamics还包括原子与分子物理、化学物理、生物物理与流体动力学。
• Others are electronics and device physics, nanotechnology, quantum physics and quantum technologies, optical physics and photonics还包括电子学与器件物理、纳米技术、量子物理与量子技术、光学物理与光子学。
• The journal also covers condensed-matter physics, soft condensed matter, statistical physics and thermodynamics, networks and complex systems, information theory and computation, and geophysics该刊还涵盖凝聚态物理、软凝聚态、统计物理与热力学、网络与复杂系统、信息论与计算以及地球物理。

History

• It was launched in October 2005, its first issue being Volume 1, Issue 1该刊于 2005 年 10 月创刊，创刊号为首卷第 1 期。^[1]
• It is published by Nature Portfolio, part of Springer Nature, with its editorial office in London该刊由（Nature Portfolio）出版，隶属（Springer Nature），编辑部位于伦敦。
• It appears monthly and serves a broad international readership across physics该刊按月出版，面向物理学界广泛的国际读者。
• Since January 2021 it is a Transformative Journal offering a gold open access option under a CC BY license自 2021 年 1 月起该刊为转换型期刊，提供金色开放获取选项，采用 CC BY 许可协议。
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 20.0 in 2021, 18.4 in 2024 and 18.0 in 2025, with a 2025 five-year Impact Factor of 21.5其影响因子 2021 年为 20.0，2024 年为 18.4，2025 年为 18.0，2025 年五年影响因子为 21.5。
• It is indexed in SCIE and Scopus, ranking Q1 in Physics, Multidisciplinary with a 2025 JIF rank of 4 out of 112该刊被（SCIE）与（Scopus）收录，在物理多学科类别为 Q1，2025 年 JIF 排名为 112 名中的第 4。
• SCImago reports an h-index of 367 for the journal（SCImago）记为 h 指数 367。

Editors

• Like other Nature journals it has no external editorial board and all decisions are made by full-time professional editors与（Nature）系列其他期刊一样，该刊不设外部编辑委员会，全部决定由全职专业编辑作出。
• Its Chief Editor is David Abergel, who is based in the Berlin office现任主编为（David Abergel），驻柏林编辑部。
• David Abergel joined the journal in 2017 after theoretical work on graphene, two-dimensional and topological materials（David Abergel）于 2017 年加入该刊，此前从事石墨烯、二维材料与拓扑材料的理论研究。
• Stefanie Reichert is a Senior Editor and Team Leader, based in Berlin（Stefanie Reichert）为资深编辑与团队负责人，驻柏林。
• Senior Editors include Leonardo Benini, Richard Brierley, Debarchan Das, Elizaveta Dubrovina and Lishu Wu资深编辑包括（Leonardo Benini）、（Richard Brierley）、（Debarchan Das）、（Elizaveta Dubrovina）与（Lishu Wu）。
• The team also spans the Milan, London and Shanghai offices, with Sonal Mistry handling optics and photonics content编辑团队还分布米兰、伦敦与上海，其中（Sonal Mistry）负责光学与光子学内容。