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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Physical Review Letters	102
2	Nature Physics	84
3	Chaos Solitons & Fractals	66
4	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	57
5	Reviews of Modern Physics	55
6	Chinese Journal of Physics	46
7	Science China-Physics Mechanics & Astronomy	45
8	Entropy	44
-	Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications	44
10	Physica Scripta	41
11	Classical and Quantum Gravity	38
-	Reports on Progress in Physics	38
13	Physics Letters A	33
-	Waves in Random and Complex Media	33
15	New Journal of Physics	31
16	Soft Matter	30
-	Chinese Physics Letters	30
-	Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical	30
19	Annals of Physics	29
-	Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena	29
21	Chinese Physics B	27
-	European Physical Journal-Special Topics	27
23	Communications in Theoretical Physics	25
24	Quantum Information Processing	24
-	EPL	24
-	Journal of the Physical Society of Japan	24
27	Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics	23
28	Annalen der Physik	22
29	Physics-Uspekhi	21
30	General Relativity and Gravitation	20
31	Indian Journal of Physics	18
-	Wave Motion	18
-	Brazilian Journal of Physics	18
34	Pramana-Journal of Physics	16
35	JETP Letters	15
-	International Journal of Theoretical Physics	15
37	Physics Today	14
38	Acta Physica Sinica	13
-	Journal of the Korean Physical Society	13
-	Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section A-A Journal of Physical Sciences	13
-	Canadian Journal of Physics	13
42	Annales Henri Poincare	12
-	Foundations of Physics	12
44	European Journal of Physics	11
-	Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics	11
46	American Journal of Physics	10
-	Theoretical and Mathematical Physics	10
48	Acta Physica Polonica A	8
-	Russian Physics Journal	8
-	Physics of Wave Phenomena	8

-	Physics Teacher	8
-	Revista Mexicana de Fisica	8
53	Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute	7
-	Contemporary Physics	7
-	Journal of Contemporary Physics-Armenian Academy of Sciences	7
-	Moscow University Physics Bulletin	7
57	Acta Physica Polonica B	6
-	Doklady Physics	6
-	High Pressure Research	6
60	Lithuanian Journal of Physics	4
61	Physics World	3