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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Physical Review Letters	105
2	Nature Physics	78
3	Chaos Solitons & Fractals	66
4	Nature Reviews Physics	63
5	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	60
-	PRX Quantum	60
7	Reviews of Modern Physics	59
8	Physical Review X	56
9	Results in Physics	50
10	Chinese Journal of Physics	48
11	Physica Scripta	45
-	Quantum	45
-	SciPost Physics	45
-	Communications Physics	45
15	European Physical Journal Plus	44
-	Entropy	44
17	Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications	42
18	Science China-Physics Mechanics & Astronomy	41
-	Reports on Progress in Physics	41
20	Physics Letters A	35
21	Frontiers in Physics	34
-	Classical and Quantum Gravity	34
23	Quantum Science and Technology	32
24	New Journal of Physics	31
25	Soft Matter	30
-	Chinese Physics Letters	30
-	Annals of Physics	30
28	Frontiers of Physics	29
-	Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical	29
-	Waves in Random and Complex Media	29
31	Communications in Theoretical Physics	27
32	Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena	26
-	European Physical Journal-Special Topics	26
-	Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics	26
-	Chinese Physics B	26
36	EPL	25
37	Annalen der Physik	24
38	General Relativity and Gravitation	22
39	Indian Journal of Physics	21
-	Journal of the Physical Society of Japan	21
41	Brazilian Journal of Physics	20
-	Matter and Radiation at Extremes	20
43	Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics	19
-	Advances in Physics-X	19
45	Open Physics	17
-	Wave Motion	17
47	Physics Today	15
48	JETP Letters	14
-	Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section A-A Journal of Physical Sciences	14
50	Few-Body Systems	12

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