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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Physical Review Letters	104
2	Nature Physics	84
3	Chaos Solitons & Fractals	67
4	Nature Reviews Physics	65
5	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	61
6	PRX Quantum	59
7	Reviews of Modern Physics	57
8	Physical Review X	56
9	Results in Physics	49
10	Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications	47
11	Chinese Journal of Physics	45
-	European Physical Journal Plus	45
13	SciPost Physics	44
-	Entropy	44
15	Physica Scripta	43
-	Quantum	43
-	Science China-Physics Mechanics & Astronomy	43
18	Communications Physics	41
19	Reports on Progress in Physics	40
20	Classical and Quantum Gravity	34
-	Frontiers in Physics	34
-	Physics Letters A	34
23	Soft Matter	33
24	Waves in Random and Complex Media	32
-	New Journal of Physics	32
26	Annals of Physics	31
-	Quantum Science and Technology	31
28	Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical	29
-	Chinese Physics B	29
-	Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena	29
31	Chinese Physics Letters	28
-	European Physical Journal-Special Topics	28
33	Frontiers of Physics	27
34	Communications in Theoretical Physics	25
35	EPL	24
-	Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics	24
37	Annalen der Physik	23
38	Journal of the Physical Society of Japan	22
-	Quantum Information Processing	22
-	Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics	22
41	General Relativity and Gravitation	21
-	Indian Journal of Physics	21
43	Matter and Radiation at Extremes	20
44	Brazilian Journal of Physics	19
-	Open Physics	19
46	Wave Motion	18
-	Advances in Physics-X	18
48	Physics-Uspekhi	15
-	Physics Today	15
50	Acta Physica Sinica	14

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