Physics, Multidisciplinary: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01)

Rank	Journal	Papers
1	Physica Scripta	9580
2	Physical Review Letters	9399
3	Entropy	6283
4	Chaos Solitons & Fractals	4957
5	European Physical Journal Plus	4784
6	Chinese Physics B	4311
7	Results in Physics	3681
8	Frontiers in Physics	3620
9	Soft Matter	3475
10	Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications	3282
11	Acta Physica Sinica	3098
12	Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical	2285
13	New Journal of Physics	2276
14	Physics Letters A	2256
15	Physics World	1711
16	Nature Physics	1639
17	Classical and Quantum Gravity	1612
18	Chinese Journal of Physics	1556
19	European Physical Journal-Special Topics	1521
20	Communications Physics	1507
21	Indian Journal of Physics	1501
22	Waves in Random and Complex Media	1477
23	EPL	1447
24	SciPost Physics	1416
25	Physics Teacher	1350
26	Quantum	1275
27	Journal of the Physical Society of Japan	1249
28	Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena	1189
29	Journal of the Korean Physical Society	1172
30	Russian Physics Journal	1147
31	JETP Letters	1098
32	Annals of Physics	1032
33	Chinese Physics Letters	987
34	Physical Review X	948
35	Physics Today	944
36	Science China-Physics Mechanics & Astronomy	942
37	Communications in Theoretical Physics	909
38	PRX Quantum	908
39	Brazilian Journal of Physics	863
40	Annalen der Physik	830
41	Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics	714
42	Acta Physica Polonica A	707
43	Quantum Science and Technology	677
44	Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute	670
45	American Journal of Physics	655
46	European Journal of Physics	652
47	Moscow University Physics Bulletin	616
48	General Relativity and Gravitation	582
49	Theoretical and Mathematical Physics	530
50	Annales Henri Poincare	512

51	Nature Reviews Physics	511
52	Wave Motion	487
53	Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics	485
54	Physics-Uspekhi	468
55	Revista Mexicana de Fisica	461
56	Frontiers of Physics	447
57	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	437
58	Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section A-A Journal of Physical Sciences	414
59	Canadian Journal of Physics	400
60	Open Physics	390
61	Foundations of Physics	377
62	Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics	366
-	Quantum Information Processing	366
64	International Journal of Theoretical Physics	255
65	Matter and Radiation at Extremes	231
66	Journal of Contemporary Physics-Armenian Academy of Sciences	227
67	Reports on Progress in Physics	221
68	Doklady Physics	214
69	Contemporary Physics	199
70	Pramana-Journal of Physics	195
71	Few-Body Systems	186
72	Physics of Wave Phenomena	185
73	Acta Physica Polonica B	162
74	Reviews of Modern Physics	140
75	Lithuanian Journal of Physics	103
-	High Pressure Research	103
77	Advances in Physics-X	102