Physics: 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	Advanced Materials	203
2	Advanced Functional Materials	155
3	ACS Nano	151
4	Applied Catalysis B-Environmental	147
5	Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews	143
6	Advanced Energy Materials	138
7	Coordination Chemistry Reviews	131
8	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	124
9	Energy & Environmental Science	121
10	Renewable Energy	120
11	Energy	118
12	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy	114
13	Expert Systems With Applications	113
14	Sensors	112
15	Small	110
-	Nature Nanotechnology	110
-	Nature Materials	110
18	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems	109
-	Journal of Colloid and Interface Science	109
20	ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces	107
21	Applied Energy	105
-	Bioresource Technology	105
23	Physical Review Letters	103
24	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	102
25	Carbon	101
26	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications	95
27	Fuel	94
28	Nano Letters	93
29	Energy Conversion and Management	92
30	Energies	90
31	Nature Photonics	88
-	Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing	88
33	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics	87
34	Journal of Alloys and Compounds	86
35	Journal of Molecular Liquids	85
36	Biosensors & Bioelectronics	84
-	Nano Research	84
38	Applied Surface Science	82
-	Nature Physics	82
-	Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical	82
-	IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications	82
-	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	82
-	Materials	82
-	Astrophysical Journal	82
45	Nature Climate Change	81
-	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology	81
47	Pattern Recognition	80
-	Astronomy & Astrophysics	80
49	Energy Policy	79
-	Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence	79

51	IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics	78
-	IEEE Sensors Journal	78
-	Journal of Nanobiotechnology	78
54	Radiology	77
-	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	77
-	Journal of Power Sources	77
57	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society	76
-	Advances in Colloid and Interface Science	76
59	Astrophysical Journal Letters	75
-	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	75
-	Applied Thermal Engineering	75
-	IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology	75
63	Medical Image Analysis	74
64	Nano Today	73
-	IEEE Transactions on Communications	73
66	IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid	72
67	IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control	71
68	Energy and Buildings	70
69	Ocean Engineering	68
-	International Journal of Mechanical Sciences	68
-	Chemistry of Materials	68
-	IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging	68
73	International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems	67
-	Composite Structures	67
75	Neuroimage	66
-	International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer	66
-	Solar Energy	66
78	Journal of High Energy Physics	65
-	Energy & Fuels	65
-	Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering	65
-	Proceedings of the IEEE	65
82	Journal of Molecular Structure	64
-	Chaos Solitons & Fractals	64
-	Ultrasonics Sonochemistry	64
85	Optics and Laser Technology	63
-	International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer	63
-	Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing	63
-	Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters	63
89	Nonlinear Dynamics	62
-	Colloids and Surfaces A-Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects	62
-	Laser & Photonics Reviews	62
-	Multimedia Tools and Applications	62
-	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation	62
-	Earth System Science Data	62
95	IEEE Transactions on Power Systems	61
96	IEEE Wireless Communications	60
-	Inorganic Chemistry	60
-	Computers & Electrical Engineering	60
99	Automatica	59
-	Thin-Walled Structures	59
-	Electrochimica Acta	59
-	Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering	59
103	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	58
-	Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series	58
-	IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement	58
-	Environmental Research Letters	58
107	Progress in Energy and Combustion Science	57
-	International Journal of Plasticity	57
-	IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics	57
-	International Journal of Energy Research	57
111	Reviews of Modern Physics	56
-	Nanoscale	56
-	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics	56
-	Optics Express	56
115	Applied Physics Reviews	55
-	Tribology International	55
-	JACC-Cardiovascular Imaging	55
118	Inorganic Chemistry Communications	54
-	Nature Structural & Molecular Biology	54
-	Physics of Fluids	54
-	Colloids and Surfaces B-Biointerfaces	54
-	Combustion and Flame	54
-	European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging	54
-	Computer Networks	54
-	Fuel Processing Technology	54
126	IEEE Systems Journal	53
-	IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems	53
-	Optik	53
-	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy	53
130	Aerospace Science and Technology	52
-	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells	52
-	Surface & Coatings Technology	52
-	Scripta Materialia	52
-	International Journal of Nanomedicine	52
-	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters	52
-	Engineering Failure Analysis	52
-	Applied Physics Letters	52
-	Sensors and Actuators A-Physical	52
-	IEEE Communications Magazine	52
-	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	52
141	Applied Mathematical Modelling	51
-	Optical Materials	51
-	IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications	51
-	Electric Power Systems Research	51
-	Journal of Lightwave Technology	51
-	Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation	51
147	Journal of Computational Physics	50
-	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers	50
-	Langmuir	50
-	Astronomical Journal	50
-	Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy	50
-	Journal of Catalysis	50
153	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	49
-	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	49
-	International Journal of Fatigue	49
-	Journal of Physical Chemistry C	49
-	Optical and Quantum Electronics	49
-	Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids	49
-	Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing	49
160	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	48
-	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing	48
-	Computer Communications	48
-	Diamond and Related Materials	48
164	Catalysis Today	47
-	Chinese Journal of Aeronautics	47
-	International Journal of Thermal Sciences	47
-	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing	47
-	Chinese Journal of Physics	47
-	Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics	47
-	Physics Letters B	47
171	Silicon	46
-	Ocean & Coastal Management	46
-	International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture	46
-	Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis	46
-	IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion	46

176	Journal of Applied Physics	45
-	Journal of Chemical Physics	45
-	International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics	45
-	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	45
-	Biomass & Bioenergy	45
-	Minerals Engineering	45
-	IEEE Network	45
-	Engineering Fracture Mechanics	45
-	Journal of the Electrochemical Society	45
-	Journal of Nuclear Medicine	45
186	Optics Letters	44
-	IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques	44
-	Science China-Physics Mechanics & Astronomy	44
-	Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry	44
-	Journal of Sound and Vibration	44
191	Radiation Physics and Chemistry	43
-	Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications	43
-	Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A-Chemistry	43
-	Materials Science & Engineering R-Reports	43
-	Applied Acoustics	43
-	Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering	43
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery	43
-	IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits	43
-	Entropy	43
-	European Physical Journal C	43

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