New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Physics, Fluids & Plasmas

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Physics of Fluids54
2 Journal of Fluid Mechanics43
3 Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation39
4 Nuclear Fusion38
5 Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics36
6 Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena29
7 Physics of Plasmas28
8 Plasma Sources Science & Technology27
9 Physical Review Fluids26
10 Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science24
- IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science24
12 Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion21
13 European Journal of Mechanics B-Fluids20
- Journal of Plasma Physics20
15 Plasma Processes and Polymers19
16 Microfluidics and Nanofluidics18
17 Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing17
18 Biomicrofluidics16
19 Plasma Science & Technology15
20 Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids13
21 Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics12
- International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids12
- Plasma Physics Reports12
24 Contributions to Plasma Physics11
25 Fluid Dynamics10
- Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics10
27 Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics9
28 Fluid Dynamics Research8
- Journal of Turbulence8
30 International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics7
31 Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics6
- High Energy Density Physics6
33 Magnetohydrodynamics3
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