title: Nature Reviews Physics
text: # Nature Reviews Physics
  
  Nature Reviews Physics is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio. It was established in 2019 as an online-only journal. The editor-in-chief is Iulia Georgescu.
  
  ## Scope
  
  The journal publishes reviews, perspective, roadmap, technical review, expert recommendation, comment, year in review, viewpoint, and feature in all areas of fundamental and applied physics. Specific materials of interest will include, but are not limited to:
  
  * 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
  
  ## Impact factor
  
  According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 36.273, ranking it 3rd out of 161 journals in the category "Physics, Applied" and 2nd out of 86 journals in the category "Physics, Multidisciplinary".
  
  