Top 50 articles in physics, chemistry & materials science

The Nature Communications team is pleased to announce the most read* articles from 2018 in the fields of physics, chemistry and materials science. Featuring authors from around the world, these papers highlight valuable research from an international community.
Top 50 articles in physics, chemistry & materials science
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In 2018, Nature Communications published over 5,000 articles. We have put together new collections of our Top 50 articles across physics and across chemistry and materials science from last year, covering the fields of nanoscience, energy materials, computing, electronic devices and much more.

Congratulations to all authors who contributed to these highly valuable research papers!

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*Based on data from altmetric.com, covering January-December 2018.



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