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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Physical Review Letters	105
2	Nature Physics	84
3	Chaos Solitons & Fractals	67
4	Nature Reviews Physics	66
5	PRX Quantum	60
6	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	59
7	Physical Review X	57
8	Reviews of Modern Physics	56
9	Results in Physics	49
10	Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications	47
-	Chinese Journal of Physics	47
12	European Physical Journal Plus	45
-	Entropy	45
14	Quantum	44
-	Science China-Physics Mechanics & Astronomy	44
16	SciPost Physics	43
17	Physica Scripta	41
18	Communications Physics	40
19	Reports on Progress in Physics	39
20	Classical and Quantum Gravity	35
21	Waves in Random and Complex Media	34
-	Physics Letters A	34
23	Soft Matter	33
-	Frontiers in Physics	33
25	New Journal of Physics	31
-	Annals of Physics	31
27	Quantum Science and Technology	30
28	Chinese Physics Letters	29
29	Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical	28
-	Chinese Physics B	28
-	Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena	28
32	Frontiers of Physics	27
-	European Physical Journal-Special Topics	27
34	Communications in Theoretical Physics	25
35	EPL	24
-	Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics	24
37	Journal of the Physical Society of Japan	22
-	Quantum Information Processing	22
-	Annalen der Physik	22
-	Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics	22
41	Matter and Radiation at Extremes	20
-	Indian Journal of Physics	20
-	General Relativity and Gravitation	20
44	Open Physics	19
45	Advances in Physics-X	18
-	Wave Motion	18
-	Brazilian Journal of Physics	18
48	Physics-Uspekhi	16
49	Physics Today	15
50	JETP Letters	14

-	Acta Physica Sinica	14
52	Pramana-Journal of Physics	13
-	Few-Body Systems	13
-	Journal of the Korean Physical Society	13
-	Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section A-A Journal of Physical Sciences	13
56	International Journal of Theoretical Physics	12
-	Foundations of Physics	12
-	Canadian Journal of Physics	12
59	Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics	11
-	American Journal of Physics	11
-	Annales Henri Poincare	11
-	European Journal of Physics	11
63	Theoretical and Mathematical Physics	10
64	Physics of Wave Phenomena	9
-	Physics Teacher	9
-	Contemporary Physics	9
67	Russian Physics Journal	8
-	Acta Physica Polonica A	8
69	Journal of Contemporary Physics-Armenian Academy of Sciences	7
-	Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute	7
-	High Pressure Research	7
-	Moscow University Physics Bulletin	7
-	Revista Mexicana de Fisica	7
74	Acta Physica Polonica B	6
75	Doklady Physics	5
-	Lithuanian Journal of Physics	5
77	Physics World	3