Physics, Multidisciplinary: Journal Rankings

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Physical Review Letters	106
2	Nature Physics	76
3	Chaos Solitons & Fractals	69
4	Nature Reviews Physics	63
5	PRX Quantum	61
6	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	60
-	Reviews of Modern Physics	60
8	Physical Review X	56
9	Results in Physics	50
10	Physica Scripta	47
11	SciPost Physics	46
12	Chinese Journal of Physics	45
-	Quantum	45
-	Communications Physics	45
15	European Physical Journal Plus	43
-	Science China-Physics Mechanics & Astronomy	43
-	Entropy	43
18	Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications	41
19	Reports on Progress in Physics	40
20	Frontiers in Physics	36
-	Classical and Quantum Gravity	36
22	Physics Letters A	35
23	Soft Matter	33
24	Chinese Physics Letters	31
-	New Journal of Physics	31
-	Annals of Physics	31
27	Quantum Science and Technology	30
28	Frontiers of Physics	28
-	Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical	28
30	Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena	27
-	Communications in Theoretical Physics	27
-	Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics	27
33	European Physical Journal-Special Topics	26
-	Waves in Random and Complex Media	26
35	EPL	25
-	Chinese Physics B	25
37	General Relativity and Gravitation	23
38	Annalen der Physik	22
39	Indian Journal of Physics	21
-	Journal of the Physical Society of Japan	21
41	Matter and Radiation at Extremes	20
42	Open Physics	19
-	Brazilian Journal of Physics	19
44	Wave Motion	18
45	Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics	17
46	Advances in Physics-X	16
47	Physics Today	15
-	Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section A-A Journal of Physical Sciences	15
49	JETP Letters	13
-	Acta Physica Sinica	13

-	Physics-Uspekhi	13
52	Foundations of Physics	12
-	Journal of the Korean Physical Society	12
-	Annales Henri Poincare	12
-	Canadian Journal of Physics	12
-	Comptes Rendus Physique	12
-	European Journal of Physics	12
-	Theoretical and Mathematical Physics	12
59	American Journal of Physics	11
60	Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics	10
-	Physics Teacher	10
62	Acta Physica Polonica A	9
-	Journal of Contemporary Physics-Armenian Academy of Sciences	9
-	Physics of Wave Phenomena	9
-	Russian Physics Journal	9
66	Revista Mexicana de Fisica	8
-	Contemporary Physics	8
-	Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute	8
69	Few-Body Systems	7
-	High Pressure Research	7
-	Moscow University Physics Bulletin	7
-	Acta Physica Polonica B	7
73	Lithuanian Journal of Physics	6
74	Doklady Physics	5
75	Physics World	3