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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Physics	77
2	Physical Review Letters	76
3	Chaos Solitons & Fractals	69
4	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	61
5	Physical Review X	55
6	Reviews of Modern Physics	54
7	Results in Physics	51
8	Physica Scripta	47
9	Chinese Journal of Physics	44
10	Science China-Physics Mechanics & Astronomy	43
-	European Physical Journal Plus	43
12	Entropy	42
-	Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications	42
14	Reports on Progress in Physics	40
15	Physics Letters A	35
-	Classical and Quantum Gravity	35
17	Soft Matter	33
18	Quantum Science and Technology	31
-	Chinese Physics Letters	31
-	New Journal of Physics	31
21	Frontiers of Physics	30
22	Waves in Random and Complex Media	28
-	Communications in Theoretical Physics	28
-	Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical	28
25	Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena	27
-	Annals of Physics	27
-	Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics	27
28	European Physical Journal-Special Topics	26
29	EPL	24
-	Chinese Physics B	24
31	General Relativity and Gravitation	23
32	Annalen der Physik	22
33	Indian Journal of Physics	21
-	Journal of the Physical Society of Japan	21
35	Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics	17
-	Wave Motion	17
37	Brazilian Journal of Physics	16
38	Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section A-A Journal of Physical Sciences	15
39	Physics Today	14
40	Theoretical and Mathematical Physics	12
-	Annales Henri Poincare	12
-	Foundations of Physics	12
-	Acta Physica Sinica	12
-	Comptes Rendus Physique	12
-	JETP Letters	12
46	American Journal of Physics	11
-	Canadian Journal of Physics	11
-	Physics-Uspekhi	11
-	European Journal of Physics	11
-	Journal of the Korean Physical Society	11

51	Physics Teacher	10
52	Contemporary Physics	9
-	Few-Body Systems	9
-	Russian Physics Journal	9
-	Acta Physica Polonica A	9
-	Physics of Wave Phenomena	9
57	Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute	8
58	Revista Mexicana de Fisica	7
-	Acta Physica Polonica B	7
-	Moscow University Physics Bulletin	7
-	High Pressure Research	7
62	Lithuanian Journal of Physics	6
63	Physics World	3