Physics: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)

Rank	Journal	Impact Factor
1	Nature Reviews Materials	ca. 79.8
2	Nature Energy	ca. 49.7
3	Reviews of Modern Physics	ca. 45.9
4	Nature Reviews Physics	ca. 44.8
5	Nature Catalysis	ca. 42.8
6	Joule	ca. 38.6
7	Nature Nanotechnology	ca. 38.1
8	Nature Materials	ca. 37.2
9	Nature Electronics	ca. 33.7
10	Energy & Environmental Science	ca. 32.4
11	Nature Photonics	ca. 32.3
12	Progress in Energy and Combustion Science	ca. 32
13	Materials Science & Engineering R-Reports	ca. 31.6
-	Nano-Micro Letters	ca. 31.6
15	Nature Climate Change	ca. 29.6
16	Electrochemical Energy Reviews	ca. 28.4
17	Advanced Materials	ca. 27.4
18	Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics	ca. 25.4
19	Advances in Optics and Photonics	ca. 25.2
-	Reviews of Geophysics	ca. 25.2
21	Advanced Energy Materials	ca. 24.4
22	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	ca. 23.9
23	Proceedings of the IEEE	ca. 23.2
-	Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials	ca. 23.2
25	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	ca. 20.8
26	Advanced Photonics	ca. 20.6
27	Coordination Chemistry Reviews	ca. 20.3
28	Applied Catalysis B-Environmental	ca. 20.2
29	Carbon Energy	ca. 19.5
30	ACS Energy Letters	ca. 19.3
31	Reports on Progress in Physics	ca. 19
32	Energy Storage Materials	ca. 18.9
33	Advanced Functional Materials	ca. 18.5
34	Nature Physics	ca. 17.6
35	Nano Energy	ca. 16.8
36	Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews	ca. 16.3
37	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine	ca. 16.2
38	Advances in Colloid and Interface Science	ca. 15.9
39	ACS Nano	ca. 15.8
40	Opto-Electronic Advances	ca. 15.3
41	eTransportation	ca. 15
42	Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics	ca. 14.5
43	Advanced Science	ca. 14.3
-	Annual Review of Marine Science	ca. 14.3
-	Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics	ca. 14.3
46	Journal of Energy Chemistry	ca. 14
-	International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture	ca. 14
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles	ca. 14
49	IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications	ca. 13.8
50	Physics of Life Reviews	ca. 13.7

51	Nano Convergence	ca. 13.4
52	Nano Today	ca. 13.2
53	Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science	ca. 13
-	Small	ca. 13
55	Nature Astronomy	ca. 12.9
56	JACC-Cardiovascular Imaging	ca. 12.8
-	Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C-Photochemistry Reviews	ca. 12.8
58	Nature Structural & Molecular Biology	ca. 12.5
59	npj Flexible Electronics	ca. 12.3
60	Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science	ca. 12.2
-	Applied Mechanics Reviews	ca. 12.2
62	Radiology	ca. 12.1
63	Applied Physics Reviews	ca. 11.9
64	Physical Review X	ca. 11.6
65	Progress in Aerospace Sciences	ca. 11.5
66	ACS Catalysis	ca. 11.3
-	Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences	ca. 11.3
68	IEEE Wireless Communications	ca. 10.9
69	Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica	ca. 10.8
-	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	ca. 10.8
71	Journal of Materials Chemistry A	ca. 10.7
-	Biosensors & Bioelectronics	ca. 10.7
-	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	ca. 10.7
-	Small Methods	ca. 10.7
-	Medical Image Analysis	ca. 10.7
76	Journal of Nanobiotechnology	ca. 10.6
77	Carbon	ca. 10.5
-	Sustainable Cities and Society	ca. 10.5
79	Annual Review of Biophysics	ca. 10.4
80	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	ca. 10.2
-	Journal of High Energy Astrophysics	ca. 10.2
82	Facta Universitatis-Series Mechanical Engineering	ca. 10.1
-	Applied Energy	ca. 10.1
84	Materials Today Physics	ca. 10
-	Advanced Healthcare Materials	ca. 10
86	Energy Conversion and Management	ca. 9.9
87	Laser & Photonics Reviews	ca. 9.8
88	Radiologia Medica	ca. 9.7
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Reviews on Cancer	ca. 9.7
-	Bioresource Technology	ca. 9.7
91	Nano Letters	ca. 9.6
-	Clinical Nuclear Medicine	ca. 9.6
93	Nano Research	ca. 9.5
94	Journal of Colloid and Interface Science	ca. 9.4
-	IEEE Signal Processing Magazine	ca. 9.4
-	International Journal of Plasticity	ca. 9.4
-	npj Computational Materials	ca. 9.4
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	ca. 9.4
99	Catalysis Reviews-Science and Engineering	ca. 9.3
-	PRX Quantum	ca. 9.3
-	Energy Policy	ca. 9.3
-	Current Climate Change Reports	ca. 9.3
103	Journal of Nuclear Medicine	ca. 9.1
-	npj 2D Materials and Applications	ca. 9.1
-	Space Science Reviews	ca. 9.1
106	Renewable Energy	ca. 9
-	Materials Today Energy	ca. 9
-	Energy	ca. 9
109	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications	ca. 8.9
-	IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging	ca. 8.9
-	Journal of Energy Storage	ca. 8.9
-	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	ca. 8.9
113	Astrophysical Journal Letters	ca. 8.8
114	Progress in Surface Science	ca. 8.7
-	Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems	ca. 8.7
-	Ultrasonics Sonochemistry	ca. 8.7
-	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing	ca. 8.7
118	IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid	ca. 8.6
-	Sustainable Materials and Technologies	ca. 8.6
-	Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series	ca. 8.6
-	European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging	ca. 8.6
-	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy	ca. 8.6
123	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	ca. 8.5
124	Optica	ca. 8.4
-	Journal of Materiomics	ca. 8.4
126	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology	ca. 8.3
-	IEEE Communications Magazine	ca. 8.3
-	ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces	ca. 8.3
129	Surface Science Reports	ca. 8.2
-	ACS Sensors	ca. 8.2
-	Materials Today Nano	ca. 8.2
-	IEEE Internet of Things Journal	ca. 8.2
133	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy	ca. 8.1
-	Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences	ca. 8.1
-	Communications Earth & Environment	ca. 8.1
-	Journal of Power Sources	ca. 8.1
-	Physical Review Letters	ca. 8.1
138	Advanced Optical Materials	ca. 8
-	Nanoscale Horizons	ca. 8
-	Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical	ca. 8
-	Progress in Photovoltaics	ca. 8
142	Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing	ca. 7.9
-	Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science	ca. 7.9
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems	ca. 7.9
-	Current Opinion in Electrochemistry	ca. 7.9
-	Energy Strategy Reviews	ca. 7.9
147	Advances in Physics-X	ca. 7.7
148	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	ca. 7.5
-	Expert Systems With Applications	ca. 7.5
-	Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence	ca. 7.5
-	Pattern Recognition	ca. 7.5
-	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics	ca. 7.5
153	Progress in Quantum Electronics	ca. 7.4
154	Science China-Information Sciences	ca. 7.3
-	Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy	ca. 7.3
-	Microsystems & Nanoengineering	ca. 7.3
-	Earths Future	ca. 7.3
158	Fuel Processing Technology	ca. 7.2
-	IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification	ca. 7.2
-	Chemistry of Materials	ca. 7.2
-	IEEE Transactions on Communications	ca. 7.2
-	Computer Physics Communications	ca. 7.2
163	Photoacoustics	ca. 7.1
-	International Journal of Mechanical Sciences	ca. 7.1
-	Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments	ca. 7.1
166	Investigative Radiology	ca. 7
-	Journal of Physics-Energy	ca. 7
168	Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering	ca. 6.9
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology	ca. 6.9
-	Current Opinion in Chemical Biology	ca. 6.9
-	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	ca. 6.9
-	CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems	ca. 6.9
-	Mass Spectrometry Reviews	ca. 6.9
174	IEEE Network	ca. 6.8
175	European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging	ca. 6.7

-	Fuel	ca. 6.7
177	Photonics Research	ca. 6.6
-	npj Quantum Information	ca. 6.6
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics	ca. 6.6
-	International Journal of Nanomedicine	ca. 6.6
-	Energy and Buildings	ca. 6.6
182	IEEE Transactions on Power Systems	ca. 6.5
-	ACS Photonics	ca. 6.5
-	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	ca. 6.5
-	Circulation-Cardiovascular Imaging	ca. 6.5
-	Frontiers of Physics	ca. 6.5
-	Journal of Catalysis	ca. 6.5
-	Nanophotonics	ca. 6.5
-	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	ca. 6.5
190	Science China-Physics Mechanics & Astronomy	ca. 6.4
-	International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer	ca. 6.4
-	Case Studies in Thermal Engineering	ca. 6.4
-	Advances in Climate Change Research	ca. 6.4
-	International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics	ca. 6.4
195	Applied Surface Science	ca. 6.3
-	Friction	ca. 6.3
-	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells	ca. 6.3
-	Composite Structures	ca. 6.3
-	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	ca. 6.3
200	IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control	ca. 6.2

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