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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Physical Review Letters	103
2	Nature Physics	84
3	Nature Reviews Physics	65
-	Chaos Solitons & Fractals	65
5	PRX Quantum	60
6	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	58
7	Physical Review X	56
-	Reviews of Modern Physics	56
9	Results in Physics	53
10	Chinese Journal of Physics	47
11	Entropy	45
-	Science China-Physics Mechanics & Astronomy	45
13	Quantum	44
-	European Physical Journal Plus	44
-	Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications	44
16	SciPost Physics	43
17	Communications Physics	42
18	Physica Scripta	41
19	Reports on Progress in Physics	39
20	Classical and Quantum Gravity	37
21	Frontiers in Physics	34
22	Physics Letters A	33
-	Waves in Random and Complex Media	33
24	New Journal of Physics	32
25	Quantum Science and Technology	31
-	Soft Matter	31
27	Annals of Physics	30
28	Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena	29
-	Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical	29
30	Frontiers of Physics	28
31	Chinese Physics Letters	27
-	European Physical Journal-Special Topics	27
-	Chinese Physics B	27
34	Communications in Theoretical Physics	25
35	Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics	24
-	EPL	24
-	Quantum Information Processing	24
38	Journal of the Physical Society of Japan	23
39	Annalen der Physik	22
40	Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics	21
41	General Relativity and Gravitation	20
-	Matter and Radiation at Extremes	20
43	Indian Journal of Physics	19
-	Physics-Uspekhi	19
45	Brazilian Journal of Physics	18
-	Open Physics	18
-	Wave Motion	18
48	Advances in Physics-X	17
49	JETP Letters	15
-	Pramana-Journal of Physics	15

51	Physics Today	14
-	International Journal of Theoretical Physics	14
53	Canadian Journal of Physics	13
-	Journal of the Korean Physical Society	13
-	Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section A-A Journal of Physical Sciences	13
-	Acta Physica Sinica	13
-	Few-Body Systems	13
58	Annales Henri Poincare	12
59	Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics	11
-	Foundations of Physics	11
61	European Journal of Physics	10
-	American Journal of Physics	10
-	Theoretical and Mathematical Physics	10
64	Acta Physica Polonica A	9
65	Physics of Wave Phenomena	8
-	Physics Teacher	8
-	Russian Physics Journal	8
68	Contemporary Physics	7
-	Moscow University Physics Bulletin	7
-	Revista Mexicana de Fisica	7
-	Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute	7
-	Journal of Contemporary Physics-Armenian Academy of Sciences	7
73	Doklady Physics	6
-	High Pressure Research	6
-	Acta Physica Polonica B	6
76	Lithuanian Journal of Physics	4
77	Physics World	3