Physics: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The 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	TQCC
1	Progress in Energy and Combustion Science	108
2	Reviews of Modern Physics	97
3	Electrochemical Energy Reviews	96
4	Advances in Optics and Photonics	81
5	Nano-Micro Letters	67
6	Joule	58
7	Nature Catalysis	57
8	Nature Nanotechnology	55
9	Energy & Environmental Science	54
10	Nature Reviews Materials	53
11	Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics	52
12	Coordination Chemistry Reviews	50
-	Nature Energy	50
14	Applied Catalysis B-Environmental	49
15	Nature Materials	46
-	Nature Photonics	46
17	Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry	45
18	Reviews of Geophysics	44
19	Advanced Materials	43
-	Advances in Colloid and Interface Science	43
-	Nano Energy	43
22	Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews	42
23	Advanced Energy Materials	40
24	Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics	39
25	International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture	38
26	Journal of Energy Chemistry	37
-	Applied Mechanics Reviews	37
-	ACS Energy Letters	37
29	International Journal of Plasticity	34
-	Light-Science & Applications	34
-	Carbon Energy	34
32	Progress in Aerospace Sciences	33
33	Opto-Electronic Advances	32
34	npj Flexible Electronics	31
-	ACS Nano	31
36	Applied Energy	30
-	eTransportation	30
38	Sustainable Cities and Society	29
-	Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science	29
-	Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems	29
-	Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials	29
-	Materials Science & Engineering R-Reports	29
-	Energy Storage Materials	29
44	Nano Convergence	28
-	Annual Review of Biophysics	28
-	ACS Catalysis	28
-	Green Energy & Environment	28
-	Energy Conversion and Management	28
49	Nature Electronics	27
-	Advanced Functional Materials	27

-	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	27
52	Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C-Photochemistry Reviews	26
-	Current Climate Change Reports	26
-	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	26
-	Biosensors & Bioelectronics	26
56	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	25
-	Journal of Colloid and Interface Science	25
-	Journal of Nanobiotechnology	25
-	Annual Review of Marine Science	25
-	IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid	25
-	Carbon	25
-	IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications	25
-	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	25
64	Medical Image Analysis	24
-	Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering	24
-	Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics	24
67	Ultrasonics Sonochemistry	23
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles	23
-	Reports on Progress in Physics	23
-	Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences	23
-	Fuel Processing Technology	23
-	Nature Climate Change	23
-	Nature Physics	23
-	International Journal of Mechanical Sciences	23
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems	23
-	PRX Quantum	23
77	Nano Today	22
-	Nature Structural & Molecular Biology	22
-	Energy Policy	22
-	Nature Reviews Physics	22
-	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications	22
-	Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering	22
-	Bioresource Technology	22
-	Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry	22
-	Current Opinion in Chemical Biology	22
-	Energy	22
87	Petroleum Exploration and Development	21
-	Journal of Energy Storage	21
-	IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging	21
90	Nano Research	20
-	Optica	20
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Systems	20
-	Investigative Radiology	20
-	Proceedings of the IEEE	20
-	Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical	20
-	Progress in Quantum Electronics	20
-	Fuel	20
-	npj Computational Materials	20
-	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy	20
-	Renewable Energy	20
-	Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing	20
-	Applied Physics Reviews	20
103	Tribology International	19
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology	19
-	Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy	19
-	Advanced Photonics	19
-	Expert Systems With Applications	19
-	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics	19
-	Photoacoustics	19
-	Physical Review X	19
-	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy	19
-	International Journal of Fatigue	19
-	ACS Sensors	19
-	Catalysis Reviews-Science and Engineering	19
-	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology	19
-	Energy Reports	19
117	Nano Letters	18
-	Internet of Things	18
-	Astrophysical Journal Letters	18
-	ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces	18
-	Composite Structures	18
-	Pattern Recognition	18
-	npj 2D Materials and Applications	18
-	Microsystems & Nanoengineering	18
-	Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences	18
126	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	17
-	Physical Review Letters	17
-	Applied Surface Science	17
-	Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica	17
-	Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science	17
-	Energy and Buildings	17
-	Energy Strategy Reviews	17
-	Small	17
-	Solar Energy	17
-	Journal of Digital Imaging	17
-	Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing	17
-	Earth System Science Data	17
-	IEEE Systems Journal	17
139	Thin-Walled Structures	16
-	Plasmonics	16
-	Journal of Power Sources	16
-	Advanced Science	16
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Reviews on Cancer	16
-	Biosensors-Basel	16
-	Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering	16
-	Earths Future	16
-	IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters	16
-	Urban Climate	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	16
-	Catalysis Communications	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	16
154	International Journal of Impact Engineering	15
-	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	15
-	Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics	15
-	Seminars in Nuclear Medicine	15
-	Journal of Materials Chemistry A	15
-	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells	15
-	Space Science Reviews	15
-	Radiology	15
-	Surface & Coatings Technology	15
-	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	15
-	Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids	15
-	IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics	15
-	Engineering Failure Analysis	15
-	Neuroimage	15
-	npj Quantum Information	15
-	International Journal of Nanomedicine	15
-	International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer	15
-	Journal of Materiomics	15
-	Advanced Healthcare Materials	15
-	Mechanism and Machine Theory	15
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing	15
-	Chemistry of Materials	15

-	Energy for Sustainable Development	15
-	Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence	15
178	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	14
-	npj Quantum Materials	14
-	Journal of Alloys and Compounds	14
-	Scripta Materialia	14
-	Journal of Catalysis	14
-	Propulsion and Power Research	14
-	Journal of Nuclear Medicine	14
-	Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science	14
-	Catalysis Today	14
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	14
-	IEEE Internet of Things Journal	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation	14
-	Colloids and Surfaces B-Biointerfaces	14
-	Optical and Quantum Electronics	14
-	Multimedia Tools and Applications	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology	14
-	IEEE Wireless Communications	14
-	Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis	14
-	International Journal of Coal Geology	14
-	International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems	14
-	International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control	14
-	Progress in Electromagnetics Research-PIER	14

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