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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Physical Review Letters	104
2	Nature Physics	84
3	Chaos Solitons & Fractals	67
4	Nature Reviews Physics	65
5	PRX Quantum	60
6	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	59
7	Reviews of Modern Physics	56
-	Physical Review X	56
9	Results in Physics	53
10	Chinese Journal of Physics	47
11	Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications	46
12	European Physical Journal Plus	45
13	Entropy	44
-	Science China-Physics Mechanics & Astronomy	44
15	Quantum	43
16	Physica Scripta	42
-	SciPost Physics	42
18	Communications Physics	41
19	Reports on Progress in Physics	38
20	Classical and Quantum Gravity	37
21	Frontiers in Physics	34
22	Waves in Random and Complex Media	33
-	Physics Letters A	33
24	Quantum Science and Technology	32
-	Soft Matter	32
26	Annals of Physics	31
-	New Journal of Physics	31
28	Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena	29
29	Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical	28
-	European Physical Journal-Special Topics	28
31	Chinese Physics B	27
-	Frontiers of Physics	27
-	Chinese Physics Letters	27
34	Communications in Theoretical Physics	25
35	EPL	24
-	Quantum Information Processing	24
-	Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics	24
38	Annalen der Physik	22
-	Journal of the Physical Society of Japan	22
-	Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics	22
41	Matter and Radiation at Extremes	20
-	General Relativity and Gravitation	20
-	Indian Journal of Physics	20
44	Advances in Physics-X	18
-	Physics-Uspekhi	18
-	Brazilian Journal of Physics	18
-	Open Physics	18
-	Wave Motion	18
49	Few-Body Systems	14
-	Pramana-Journal of Physics	14

-	JETP Letters	14
-	Physics Today	14
53	International Journal of Theoretical Physics	13
-	Acta Physica Sinica	13
-	Journal of the Korean Physical Society	13
56	Foundations of Physics	12
-	Annales Henri Poincare	12
-	Canadian Journal of Physics	12
-	Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section A-A Journal of Physical Sciences	12
60	Theoretical and Mathematical Physics	11
-	European Journal of Physics	11
-	Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics	11
63	American Journal of Physics	10
64	Physics Teacher	9
-	Acta Physica Polonica A	9
66	Physics of Wave Phenomena	8
-	Russian Physics Journal	8
68	Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute	7
-	High Pressure Research	7
-	Journal of Contemporary Physics-Armenian Academy of Sciences	7
-	Contemporary Physics	7
-	Moscow University Physics Bulletin	7
73	Acta Physica Polonica B	6
-	Revista Mexicana de Fisica	6
75	Doklady Physics	5
76	Lithuanian Journal of Physics	4
77	Physics World	3