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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Physical Review Letters	105
2	Nature Physics	84
3	Chaos Solitons & Fractals	67
4	Nature Reviews Physics	66
5	PRX Quantum	60
6	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	59
7	Physical Review X	57
8	Reviews of Modern Physics	56
9	Results in Physics	49
10	Chinese Journal of Physics	47
-	Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications	47
12	Entropy	45
-	European Physical Journal Plus	45
14	Quantum	44
-	Science China-Physics Mechanics & Astronomy	44
16	SciPost Physics	43
17	Physica Scripta	41
18	Communications Physics	40
19	Reports on Progress in Physics	39
20	Classical and Quantum Gravity	35
21	Physics Letters A	34
-	Waves in Random and Complex Media	34
23	Frontiers in Physics	33
-	Soft Matter	33
25	Annals of Physics	31
-	New Journal of Physics	31
27	Quantum Science and Technology	30
28	Chinese Physics Letters	29
29	Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena	28
-	Chinese Physics B	28
-	Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical	28
32	European Physical Journal-Special Topics	27
-	Frontiers of Physics	27
34	Communications in Theoretical Physics	25
35	Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics	24
-	EPL	24
37	Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics	22
-	Annalen der Physik	22
-	Journal of the Physical Society of Japan	22
-	Quantum Information Processing	22
41	General Relativity and Gravitation	20
-	Indian Journal of Physics	20
-	Matter and Radiation at Extremes	20
44	Open Physics	19
45	Brazilian Journal of Physics	18
-	Wave Motion	18
-	Advances in Physics-X	18
48	Physics-Uspekhi	16
49	Physics Today	15
50	Acta Physica Sinica	14

-	JETP Letters	14
52	Journal of the Korean Physical Society	13
-	Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section A-A Journal of Physical Sciences	13
-	Few-Body Systems	13
-	Pramana-Journal of Physics	13
56	Canadian Journal of Physics	12
-	Foundations of Physics	12
-	International Journal of Theoretical Physics	12
59	American Journal of Physics	11
-	Annales Henri Poincare	11
-	European Journal of Physics	11
-	Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics	11
63	Theoretical and Mathematical Physics	10
64	Contemporary Physics	9
-	Physics of Wave Phenomena	9
-	Physics Teacher	9
67	Acta Physica Polonica A	8
-	Russian Physics Journal	8
69	Moscow University Physics Bulletin	7
-	Revista Mexicana de Fisica	7
-	Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute	7
-	High Pressure Research	7
-	Journal of Contemporary Physics-Armenian Academy of Sciences	7
74	Acta Physica Polonica B	6
75	Lithuanian Journal of Physics	5
-	Doklady Physics	5
77	Physics World	3