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 2019-03-01 to 2023-03-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Reviews of Modern Physics	319
2	Materials Science & Engineering R-Reports	208
3	Progress in Energy and Combustion Science	202
4	Nature Reviews Materials	189
5	Reports on Progress in Physics	155
6	Joule	148
7	Energy & Environmental Science	139
8	Electrochemical Energy Reviews	129
9	Nature Materials	119
10	Nature Energy	107
11	Advanced Materials	106
12	Reviews of Geophysics	100
13	Nature Nanotechnology	99
-	Nature Catalysis	99
15	Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences	98
16	Coordination Chemistry Reviews	97
17	Annual Review of Biophysics	96
18	Advanced Energy Materials	95
19	Nature Photonics	94
-	Annual Review of Marine Science	94
21	Carbon Energy	93
-	Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics	93
23	Advances in Optics and Photonics	90
-	Applied Catalysis B-Environmental	90
25	ACS Energy Letters	89
26	Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics	88
27	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	82
-	Nano Energy	82
29	Nano-Micro Letters	81
-	Energy Storage Materials	81
31	Light-Science & Applications	79
32	Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews	78
33	Applied Physics Reviews	69
34	Advanced Functional Materials	67
-	eTransportation	67
-	Catalysis Reviews-Science and Engineering	67
37	Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C-Photochemistry Reviews	66
38	npj Flexible Electronics	65
-	Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science	65
40	ACS Nano	64
-	Advances in Colloid and Interface Science	64
42	Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics	63
43	Nano Today	60
44	Nature Climate Change	59
-	Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry	59
-	Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy	59
47	Nature Electronics	58
48	ACS Catalysis	57
49	Current Opinion in Chemical Biology	56
-	Progress in Quantum Electronics	56
-	Advanced Science	56
52	Medical Image Analysis	55
-	Nature Structural & Molecular Biology	55
-	Nature Physics	55
55	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Reviews on Cancer	54
-	Journal of Materials Chemistry A	54
57	Progress in Aerospace Sciences	52
58	IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid	51
59	Applied Energy	50
-	Biosensors & Bioelectronics	50
-	npj Computational Materials	50
62	Bioresource Technology	49
-	Small Methods	49
64	IEEE Wireless Communications	48
-	Nature Reviews Physics	48
-	Nano Letters	48
67	Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics	46
-	Neuroimage	46
-	Small	46
-	Energy Conversion and Management	46
-	npj Quantum Information	46
72	Current Climate Change Reports	45
-	Nanoscale Horizons	45
74	Nano Research	44
-	Optica	44
-	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	44
77	Journal of Energy Chemistry	43
78	Chemistry of Materials	42
-	Journal of Catalysis	42
-	Photoacoustics	42
-	Opto-Electronic Advances	42
-	Proceedings of the IEEE	42
83	npj 2D Materials and Applications	41
-	IEEE Internet of Things Journal	41
-	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics	41
-	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy	41
-	ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces	41
-	Applied Mechanics Reviews	41
89	Mass Spectrometry Reviews	40
-	Carbon	40
-	Physics in Medicine and Biology	40
-	Journal of Power Sources	40
93	Seminars in Radiation Oncology	39
-	Ultrasonics Sonochemistry	39
-	Sustainable Cities and Society	39
96	IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications	38
-	International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture	38
-	Renewable Energy	38
-	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	38
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	38
-	Physical Review X	38
-	Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences	38
-	Space Science Reviews	38
104	Materials Today Nano	37
-	Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science	37
-	Energy Strategy Reviews	37
-	Materials Today Physics	37
-	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	37
-	Advanced Optical Materials	37
-	Microsystems & Nanoengineering	37
111	IEEE Transactions on Power Systems	36
-	Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical	36
-	Laser & Photonics Reviews	36
-	Journal of Colloid and Interface Science	36
-	Surveys in Geophysics	36
-	International Journal of Plasticity	36
-	IEEE Network	36
-	Plasma Sources Science & Technology	36
-	Physical Review Letters	36
-	Advanced Healthcare Materials	36
121	Nano Convergence	35
-	Energy	35
-	Physiological Measurement	35
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology	35
-	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	35
126	Energy Policy	34
-	Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing	34
-	ACS Sensors	34
-	Green Energy & Environment	34
-	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	34
-	Pattern Recognition	34
132	Fuel Processing Technology	33
-	Internet of Things	33
-	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics	33
-	Earths Future	33
-	Journal of Nuclear Medicine	33
-	Advanced Photonics	33
-	Expert Systems With Applications	33
-	International Journal of Fatigue	33
140	IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging	32
-	Limnology and Oceanography Letters	32
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics	32
-	Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence	32
-	Fuel	32
-	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	32
-	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	32
-	Radiology	32
148	Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems	31
-	Applied Catalysis A-General	31
-	Earth and Planetary Science Letters	31
-	Nanoscale	31
-	Radiographics	31
-	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells	31
-	Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering	31
-	Biotechnology for Biofuels	31
-	European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging	31
157	Biomass & Bioenergy	30
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems	30
-	Electrochimica Acta	30
-	Applied Surface Science	30
-	Progress in Surface Science	30
-	Weather and Climate Extremes	30
-	Solar RRL	30
-	Journal of Nanobiotechnology	30
-	ACS Photonics	30
-	Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis	30
-	Solid State Ionics	30
168	Materials Today Energy	29
-	Energy and Buildings	29
-	Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials	29
-	Journal of Energy Storage	29
-	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy	29
-	Current Opinion in Electrochemistry	29
-	Structure	29
-	International Journal of Nanomedicine	29
-	Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B-Biology	29
-	Lab on a Chip	29
-	Tellus Series B-Chemical and Physical Meteorology	29
-	Icarus	29
-	Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry	29
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Basis of Disease	29
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	29
-	Journal of High Energy Physics	29
-	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications	29
-	IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology	29
-	Photonics Research	29
-	Advanced Electronic Materials	29
188	Nature Astronomy	28
-	FlatChem	28
-	Catalysis Today	28
-	Scripta Materialia	28
-	Investigative Radiology	28
-	Astrophysical Journal	28
-	Automatica	28
-	APL Materials	28
-	Geoscience Letters	28
-	Solar Energy	28
-	npj Quantum Materials	28
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms	28
-	Environmental Research Letters	28

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