Nature Reviews Physics

Nature Reviews Physics is an online-only review journal published by Nature Portfolio, launched in January 2019, covering all areas of fundamental and applied physics, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 46.6《自然综述：物理学》（Nature Reviews Physics）是（Nature Portfolio）出版的纯在线综述期刊，2019 年 1 月创刊，覆盖基础与应用物理各领域，2025 年期刊影响因子为 46.6。

Scope

• It publishes high-quality technical reference, review and commentary articles in all areas of fundamental and applied physics, appearing online only该刊刊载基础与应用物理各领域的高质量技术参考、综述与评论文章，纯在线出版。
• Topics covered include atomic, molecular and optical physics, biophysics, condensed matter and materials physics, fluid dynamics and general physics覆盖领域包括原子、分子与光学物理，生物物理，凝聚态与材料物理，流体动力学与普通物理学。^[1]
• They also include gravitation, cosmology and astrophysics, high-energy physics covering particles and fields as well as accelerators and beams, nuclear physics and plasma physics亦包括引力、宇宙学与天体物理，涵盖粒子与场、加速器与束流的高能物理，核物理与等离子体物理。
• Further areas are mathematical physics, nonlinear dynamics, statistical physics, and quantum mechanics, information and technologies其他领域还包括数学物理、非线性动力学、统计物理，以及量子力学、量子信息与量子技术。
• The journal also covers photonics, networks, physical chemistry, polymers and soft matter, and techniques and instrumentation该刊还覆盖光子学、网络、物理化学、高分子与软物质，以及技术与仪器。^[2]
• It covers software and data analysis, and considers physics and society as well as the history of physics该刊覆盖软件与数据分析，并关注物理学与社会以及物理学史。
• Content types include Reviews, Perspectives, Roadmaps, Technical Reviews, Expert Recommendations, Comments, Editorials, Research Highlights, Features and News & Views文章类型包括综述、观点、路线图、技术综述、专家建议、评论、社论、研究亮点、特写与新闻观点。

History

• It was launched in January 2019 by Springer Nature as an exclusively online journal and publishes monthly该刊由（Springer Nature）于 2019 年 1 月创刊，为纯在线期刊，按月出版。
• It is part of the Nature Reviews portfolio of journals该刊是《自然综述》系列（Nature Reviews）期刊之一。
• Its founding Chief Editor was Iulia Georgescu, previously an editor at Nature Physics其创刊主编为 Iulia Georgescu，此前为（Nature Physics）编辑。
• Because it is published online only, review-type articles appear as soon as they are ready, weeks before they would appear in a specific issue由于纯在线出版，综述类文章一经就绪即发表，可比进入某一具体刊期提前数周与读者见面。
• It introduced article types unusual within the portfolio, notably Roadmaps and Technical Reviews, alongside Expert Recommendations该刊引入了在本系列中较为特殊的文章类型，尤其是路线图与技术综述，以及专家建议。
• Its electronic international standard serial number is 2522-5820, and the correct abbreviation for abstracting and indexing is Nat. Rev. Phys.其电子国际标准连续出版物号为 2522-5820，文摘与索引规范缩写为 Nat. Rev. Phys.。
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 31.068 in 2021 and 36.273 in 2022, then rose to 39.5 in 2024 and stands at 46.6 in 2025, ranking first among 191 applied physics journals其期刊影响因子 2021 年为 31.068、2022 年为 36.273，其后升至 2024 年的 39.5，2025 年为 46.6，在 191 种应用物理期刊中排名第一。

Editors

• Like other Nature titles, the journal has no external academic editors, and all editorial decisions are made by a dedicated team of full-time professional editors与其他（Nature）系列期刊一样，该刊不设外部学术编辑，所有编辑决定均由专职全职专业编辑团队作出。
• The Chief Editor is Nina Meinzer, who became Chief Editor in 2024 after five years at Nature Physics and previously worked at Nature Communications, and who specialises in optical physics and metamaterials现任主编为 Nina Meinzer，她于 2024 年出任主编，此前在（Nature Physics）工作五年、更早任职于（Nature Communications），专长光学物理与超材料。
• Nina Meinzer holds a doctorate from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Exeter, and is based in the London officeNina Meinzer 于卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院（Karlsruhe Institute of Technology）取得博士学位，并在埃克塞特大学（University of Exeter）从事博士后研究，常驻伦敦办公室。
• The Senior Editor is Ankita Anirban, who joined in 2020 and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge on the electronic transport properties of topological insulators高级编辑为 Ankita Anirban，2020 年加入，其剑桥大学（University of Cambridge）博士研究聚焦拓扑绝缘体的电子输运性质。
• Kate Clements serves as an Associate EditorKate Clements 任副编辑。
• The majority of content is commissioned, but the journal welcomes proposals, and under Nature Portfolio policy peer review is single-anonymised by default with a double-anonymised option大部分内容为约稿，但该刊欢迎投稿提案，依照（Nature Portfolio）政策，同行评审默认单盲，并设有双盲选项。