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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Physics	77
2	Physical Review Letters	76
3	Chaos Solitons & Fractals	69
4	Nature Reviews Physics	62
5	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	61
6	PRX Quantum	60
7	Physical Review X	55
8	Reviews of Modern Physics	54
9	Results in Physics	51
10	Physica Scripta	47
11	Quantum	45
-	SciPost Physics	45
-	Communications Physics	45
14	Chinese Journal of Physics	44
15	Science China-Physics Mechanics & Astronomy	43
-	European Physical Journal Plus	43
17	Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications	42
-	Entropy	42
19	Reports on Progress in Physics	40
20	Frontiers in Physics	36
21	Physics Letters A	35
-	Classical and Quantum Gravity	35
23	Soft Matter	33
24	New Journal of Physics	31
-	Chinese Physics Letters	31
-	Quantum Science and Technology	31
27	Frontiers of Physics	30
28	Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical	28
-	Waves in Random and Complex Media	28
-	Communications in Theoretical Physics	28
31	Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics	27
-	Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena	27
-	Annals of Physics	27
34	European Physical Journal-Special Topics	26
35	Chinese Physics B	24
-	EPL	24
37	General Relativity and Gravitation	23
38	Annalen der Physik	22
39	Journal of the Physical Society of Japan	21
-	Indian Journal of Physics	21
41	Matter and Radiation at Extremes	20
42	Open Physics	19
43	Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics	17
-	Wave Motion	17
-	Advances in Physics-X	17
46	Brazilian Journal of Physics	16
47	Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section A-A Journal of Physical Sciences	15
48	Physics Today	14
49	Theoretical and Mathematical Physics	12
-	Acta Physica Sinica	12

-	Annales Henri Poincare	12
-	Comptes Rendus Physique	12
-	Foundations of Physics	12
-	JETP Letters	12
55	Physics-Uspekhi	11
-	American Journal of Physics	11
-	Canadian Journal of Physics	11
-	European Journal of Physics	11
-	Journal of the Korean Physical Society	11
60	Physics Teacher	10
61	Physics of Wave Phenomena	9
-	Russian Physics Journal	9
-	Acta Physica Polonica A	9
-	Contemporary Physics	9
-	Few-Body Systems	9
66	Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute	8
67	Moscow University Physics Bulletin	7
-	Revista Mexicana de Fisica	7
-	Acta Physica Polonica B	7
-	High Pressure Research	7
71	Lithuanian Journal of Physics	6
72	Physics World	3