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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Physical Review Letters	107
2	Nature Physics	78
3	Chaos Solitons & Fractals	67
4	Nature Reviews Physics	61
-	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	61
6	PRX Quantum	60
7	Reviews of Modern Physics	58
8	Physical Review X	56
9	Results in Physics	50
10	Chinese Journal of Physics	48
11	Physica Scripta	46
12	Quantum	45
-	SciPost Physics	45
-	Communications Physics	45
15	Entropy	43
-	European Physical Journal Plus	43
17	Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications	42
-	Science China-Physics Mechanics & Astronomy	42
19	Reports on Progress in Physics	40
20	Frontiers in Physics	35
21	Classical and Quantum Gravity	34
-	Physics Letters A	34
23	Soft Matter	32
24	New Journal of Physics	31
-	Quantum Science and Technology	31
26	Annals of Physics	30
-	Chinese Physics Letters	30
28	Frontiers of Physics	29
29	Waves in Random and Complex Media	28
-	Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical	28
31	Communications in Theoretical Physics	27
-	Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena	27
33	European Physical Journal-Special Topics	26
-	Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics	26
35	Annalen der Physik	24
-	Chinese Physics B	24
-	EPL	24
38	General Relativity and Gravitation	22
39	Indian Journal of Physics	21
-	Journal of the Physical Society of Japan	21
41	Matter and Radiation at Extremes	20
-	Brazilian Journal of Physics	20
43	Advances in Physics-X	18
-	Open Physics	18
45	Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics	17
-	Wave Motion	17
47	Physics Today	15
48	Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section A-A Journal of Physical Sciences	14
-	JETP Letters	14
50	Physics-Uspekhi	12

-	European Journal of Physics	12
-	Acta Physica Sinica	12
-	Annales Henri Poincare	12
-	Comptes Rendus Physique	12
-	Foundations of Physics	12
56	Theoretical and Mathematical Physics	11
-	American Journal of Physics	11
-	Canadian Journal of Physics	11
-	Journal of the Korean Physical Society	11
60	Few-Body Systems	10
-	Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics	10
62	Physics Teacher	9
-	Russian Physics Journal	9
-	Contemporary Physics	9
-	Physics of Wave Phenomena	9
-	Acta Physica Polonica A	9
67	Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute	8
-	Journal of Contemporary Physics-Armenian Academy of Sciences	8
69	Revista Mexicana de Fisica	7
-	Moscow University Physics Bulletin	7
71	Acta Physica Polonica B	6
-	High Pressure Research	6
-	Lithuanian Journal of Physics	6
74	Doklady Physics	5
75	Physics World	3