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

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Progress in Energy and Combustion Science	103
2	Reviews of Modern Physics	94
3	Electrochemical Energy Reviews	93
4	Advances in Optics and Photonics	79
5	Nano-Micro Letters	65
6	Nature Catalysis	58
7	Joule	57
8	Nature Nanotechnology	55
9	Reviews of Geophysics	54
-	Nature Reviews Materials	54
11	Energy & Environmental Science	52
-	Coordination Chemistry Reviews	52
13	Nature Energy	51
-	Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics	51
15	Applied Catalysis B-Environmental	50
16	Nature Photonics	47
17	Nature Materials	46
18	Nano Energy	44
-	Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics	44
20	Advanced Materials	43
21	Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews	42
-	Advances in Colloid and Interface Science	42
23	Advanced Energy Materials	40
-	Annual Review of Biophysics	40
25	International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture	38
26	Journal of Energy Chemistry	37
-	ACS Energy Letters	37
28	Light-Science & Applications	36
-	Progress in Aerospace Sciences	36
30	Carbon Energy	35
31	International Journal of Plasticity	34
32	Applied Mechanics Reviews	33
33	Opto-Electronic Advances	32
-	npj Flexible Electronics	32
35	eTransportation	31
-	ACS Nano	31
-	Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials	31
38	Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry	30
-	Energy Storage Materials	30
-	Applied Energy	30
41	Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems	29
-	Sustainable Cities and Society	29
43	Nature Electronics	28
-	ACS Catalysis	28
-	Materials Science & Engineering R-Reports	28
-	Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science	28
47	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	27
-	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	27
-	Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C-Photochemistry Reviews	27
-	Green Energy & Environment	27

-	Energy Conversion and Management	27
-	Nano Convergence	27
-	Advanced Functional Materials	27
54	Biosensors & Bioelectronics	26
-	Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences	26
-	Current Climate Change Reports	26
57	Journal of Colloid and Interface Science	25
-	Journal of Nanobiotechnology	25
-	IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid	25
-	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	25
-	IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications	25
-	Medical Image Analysis	25
-	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	25
-	Carbon	25
65	Reports on Progress in Physics	24
-	Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering	24
-	Annual Review of Marine Science	24
68	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems	23
-	International Journal of Mechanical Sciences	23
-	Nature Physics	23
-	Nature Reviews Physics	23
-	Bioresource Technology	23
-	Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics	23
-	PRX Quantum	23
-	Current Opinion in Chemical Biology	23
-	Fuel Processing Technology	23
-	Progress in Quantum Electronics	23
-	Ultrasonics Sonochemistry	23
-	Energy Policy	23
80	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications	22
-	Nature Climate Change	22
-	Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry	22
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles	22
-	Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering	22
-	Nano Today	22
-	Nature Structural & Molecular Biology	22
87	Journal of Energy Storage	21
-	IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging	21
-	Energy	21
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Systems	21
-	Nano Research	21
-	Petroleum Exploration and Development	21
-	Catalysis Reviews-Science and Engineering	21
94	npj Computational Materials	20
-	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy	20
-	Applied Physics Reviews	20
-	Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical	20
-	Energy Reports	20
-	Investigative Radiology	20
-	Optica	20
-	Advanced Photonics	20
-	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics	20
-	Fuel	20
-	Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing	20
-	Renewable Energy	20
-	Proceedings of the IEEE	20
107	Physical Review X	19
-	International Journal of Fatigue	19
-	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy	19
-	Photoacoustics	19
-	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology	19
-	ACS Sensors	19
-	Composite Structures	19
-	Expert Systems With Applications	19
-	Tribology International	19
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology	19
117	npj 2D Materials and Applications	18
-	Pattern Recognition	18
-	Nano Letters	18
-	ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces	18
-	Applied Surface Science	18
-	Astrophysical Journal Letters	18
-	Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy	18
-	Microsystems & Nanoengineering	18
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	18
-	Energy Strategy Reviews	18
-	Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science	18
128	IEEE Systems Journal	17
-	Urban Climate	17
-	Earth System Science Data	17
-	Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences	17
-	Physical Review Letters	17
-	Internet of Things	17
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Reviews on Cancer	17
-	Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica	17
-	Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing	17
-	Small	17
-	Solar Energy	17
-	Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering	17
140	npj Quantum Information	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	16
-	Seminars in Nuclear Medicine	16
-	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells	16
-	Space Science Reviews	16
-	Journal of Power Sources	16
-	Energy for Sustainable Development	16
-	International Journal of Impact Engineering	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	16
-	Advanced Science	16
-	Biosensors-Basel	16
-	Thin-Walled Structures	16
-	Energy and Buildings	16
-	Catalysis Communications	16
-	Earths Future	16
157	Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis	15
-	International Journal of Coal Geology	15
-	Journal of Nuclear Medicine	15
-	International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer	15
-	International Journal of Nanomedicine	15
-	IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification	15
-	IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology	15
-	Journal of Materials Chemistry A	15
-	Neuroimage	15
-	Advanced Healthcare Materials	15
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing	15
-	Radiology	15
-	Surface & Coatings Technology	15
-	Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics	15
-	Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence	15
-	Journal of Materiomics	15
-	Journal of Digital Imaging	15
-	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	15
-	IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics	15

-	IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters	15
-	Mechanism and Machine Theory	15
-	Plasmonics	15
-	Engineering Failure Analysis	15
-	Chemistry of Materials	15
181	International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems	14
-	International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control	14
-	Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science	14
-	Optical and Quantum Electronics	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	14
-	Multimedia Tools and Applications	14
-	IEEE Wireless Communications	14
-	Nature Astronomy	14
-	Biochip Journal	14
-	Building Simulation	14
-	Applied Clay Science	14
-	Applied Thermal Engineering	14
-	Progress in Electromagnetics Research-PIER	14
-	Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids	14
-	Scripta Materialia	14
-	Colloid and Interface Science Communications	14
-	Colloids and Surfaces B-Biointerfaces	14
-	Catalysis Today	14
-	Journal of Alloys and Compounds	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control	14

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