Physical Review Letters

130.4k papers and 9.8M indexed citations i.

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The 130.4k papers published in Physical Review Letters in the last decades have received a total of 9.8M indexed citations. Papers published in Physical Review Letters usually cover Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (69.4k papers), Condensed Matter Physics (29.7k papers) and Nuclear and High Energy Physics (24.3k papers) specifically the topics of Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (15.5k papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (13.9k papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (11.1k papers). The most active scholars publishing in Physical Review Letters are John P. Perdew, Kieron Burke, Matthias Ernzerhof, Steven Weinberg, F. D. M. Haldane, Frank Wilczek, C. L. Kane, J. B. Pendry, Eli Yablonovitch and Michele Parrinello.

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Fields of papers published in Physical Review Letters

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries where authors publish in Physical Review Letters

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in Physical Review Letters. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in Physical Review Letters with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Physical Review Letters more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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