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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Physical Review Letters	103
2	Nature Physics	82
3	Chaos Solitons & Fractals	64
4	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	58
5	Reviews of Modern Physics	56
6	Chinese Journal of Physics	47
7	Science China-Physics Mechanics & Astronomy	44
8	Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications	43
-	Entropy	43
10	Physica Scripta	41
11	Classical and Quantum Gravity	39
12	Reports on Progress in Physics	38
13	Physics Letters A	34
14	Waves in Random and Complex Media	32
15	New Journal of Physics	31
16	Chinese Physics Letters	30
17	Soft Matter	29
-	Annals of Physics	29
-	Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical	29
20	European Physical Journal-Special Topics	28
-	Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena	28
22	Chinese Physics B	27
23	Quantum Information Processing	25
-	Communications in Theoretical Physics	25
-	Journal of the Physical Society of Japan	25
26	EPL	24
27	Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics	23
28	Annalen der Physik	21
29	General Relativity and Gravitation	20
-	Physics-Uspekhi	20
31	Wave Motion	18
-	Indian Journal of Physics	18
33	Brazilian Journal of Physics	17
-	Pramana-Journal of Physics	17
35	JETP Letters	15
-	International Journal of Theoretical Physics	15
37	Physics Today	14
38	Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section A-A Journal of Physical Sciences	13
-	Annales Henri Poincare	13
-	Few-Body Systems	13
41	Canadian Journal of Physics	12
-	Journal of the Korean Physical Society	12
-	Acta Physica Sinica	12
-	Foundations of Physics	12
45	American Journal of Physics	10
-	Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics	10
-	Theoretical and Mathematical Physics	10
-	European Journal of Physics	10
49	Russian Physics Journal	8
-	Acta Physica Polonica A	8

-	Physics of Wave Phenomena	8
-	Physics Teacher	8
53	Revista Mexicana de Fisica	7
-	Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute	7
-	Contemporary Physics	7
-	Journal of Contemporary Physics-Armenian Academy of Sciences	7
57	Acta Physica Polonica B	6
-	Doklady Physics	6
-	High Pressure Research	6
-	Moscow University Physics Bulletin	6
61	Lithuanian Journal of Physics	4
62	Physics World	3