Aims & Scope

Nature Reviews Physics is an online-only journal publishing high-quality technical reference, review and commentary articles in all areas of fundamental and applied physics.

Topics covered in the journal include:

  • Atomic, molecular and optical physics
  • Biophysics
  • Condensed matter and materials physics
  • Fluid dynamics
  • General physics
  • Gravitation, cosmology and astrophysics
  • High-energy physics (particles and fields, accelerators and beams)
  • Mathematical physics
  • Networks
  • Nonlinear dynamics
  • Nuclear physics
  • Photonics
  • Physical chemistry
  • Plasma physics
  • Polymers and soft matter
  • Quantum mechanics, information and technologies
  • Software and data analysis
  • Statistical physics
  • Techniques and instrumentation
  • Physics and society, and history of physics