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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Reviews of Modern Physics	104
-	Electrochemical Energy Reviews	104
3	Advances in Optics and Photonics	95
4	Progress in Energy and Combustion Science	92
5	Nano-Micro Letters	66
6	Joule	58
-	Energy & Environmental Science	58
8	Nature Catalysis	55
9	Nature Reviews Materials	54
-	Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics	54
-	Nature Nanotechnology	54
12	Coordination Chemistry Reviews	51
13	Applied Catalysis B-Environmental	48
14	Nature Energy	47
15	Nature Photonics	46
16	Nature Materials	45
17	Advanced Materials	44
-	Advances in Colloid and Interface Science	44
-	Reviews of Geophysics	44
20	Applied Mechanics Reviews	42
-	Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews	42
-	Nano Energy	42
23	International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture	40
-	Advanced Energy Materials	40
25	Journal of Energy Chemistry	37
-	Progress in Aerospace Sciences	37
-	ACS Energy Letters	37
28	Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics	35
-	International Journal of Plasticity	35
-	Opto-Electronic Advances	35
31	eTransportation	33
-	Carbon Energy	33
-	Materials Science & Engineering R-Reports	33
34	Applied Energy	32
-	Light-Science & Applications	32
-	ACS Nano	32
37	Annual Review of Biophysics	31
-	Annual Review of Marine Science	31
-	Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science	31
40	Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems	30
-	Sustainable Cities and Society	30
42	Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry	29
-	Green Energy & Environment	29
-	ACS Catalysis	29
-	Energy Conversion and Management	29
-	Energy Storage Materials	29
-	Current Climate Change Reports	29
48	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	28
-	Advanced Functional Materials	28
-	Nano Convergence	28

-	Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics	28
-	Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters	28
53	Nature Electronics	27
-	npj Flexible Electronics	27
-	Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials	27
56	IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications	26
-	Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences	26
-	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	26
-	Biosensors & Bioelectronics	26
60	Ultrasonics Sonochemistry	25
-	International Journal of Mechanical Sciences	25
-	Journal of Colloid and Interface Science	25
-	Journal of Nanobiotechnology	25
-	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	25
-	Medical Image Analysis	25
-	Carbon	25
67	IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid	24
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles	24
-	PRX Quantum	24
70	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems	23
-	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications	23
-	Nano Today	23
-	Nature Structural & Molecular Biology	23
-	Energy	23
-	Current Opinion in Chemical Biology	23
-	Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering	23
-	Fuel Processing Technology	23
-	Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering	23
-	Bioresource Technology	23
-	Nature Physics	23
81	IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging	22
-	Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry	22
-	Nature Climate Change	22
-	Nature Reviews Physics	22
-	Energy Policy	22
86	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology	21
-	Journal of Energy Storage	21
-	Petroleum Exploration and Development	21
-	Energy Reports	21
-	Investigative Radiology	21
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Systems	21
-	Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical	21
-	Applied Physics Reviews	21
-	Renewable Energy	21
95	Tribology International	20
-	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy	20
-	Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C-Photochemistry Reviews	20
-	Advanced Photonics	20
-	Optica	20
-	Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences	20
-	Catalysis Reviews-Science and Engineering	20
-	Fuel	20
-	Expert Systems With Applications	20
-	Photoacoustics	20
-	npj Computational Materials	20
-	Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing	20
107	International Journal of Fatigue	19
-	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy	19
-	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology	19
-	Nano Research	19
-	Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy	19
-	Reports on Progress in Physics	19
-	Internet of Things	19
-	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics	19
-	Pattern Recognition	19
-	ACS Sensors	19
-	Physical Review X	19
-	Composite Structures	19
119	Nano Letters	18
-	ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces	18
-	Small	18
-	Solar Energy	18
-	Applied Surface Science	18
-	Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica	18
-	Astrophysical Journal Letters	18
-	Catalysis Communications	18
-	npj 2D Materials and Applications	18
-	Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing	18
-	Energy and Buildings	18
-	Energy Strategy Reviews	18
-	Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science	18
132	Thin-Walled Structures	17
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	17
-	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	17
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics	17
-	International Journal of Nanomedicine	17
-	IEEE Systems Journal	17
-	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	17
-	Plasmonics	17
-	Biosensors-Basel	17
-	Progress in Quantum Electronics	17
-	Physical Review Letters	17
-	Advanced Science	17
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Reviews on Cancer	17
-	Journal of Power Sources	17
-	Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering	17
-	Microsystems & Nanoengineering	17
148	IEEE Wireless Communications	16
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing	16
-	Journal of Materials Chemistry A	16
-	Proceedings of the IEEE	16
-	Earth System Science Data	16
-	Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence	16
-	Urban Climate	16
-	International Journal of Impact Engineering	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	16
-	IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters	16
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	16
-	Journal of Materiomics	16
-	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells	16
-	Space Science Reviews	16
-	Advanced Healthcare Materials	16
-	Earths Future	16
-	Engineering Failure Analysis	16
165	Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis	15
-	International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control	15
-	International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer	15
-	IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification	15
-	IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology	15
-	Journal of Nuclear Medicine	15
-	Heritage Science	15
-	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	15
-	Radiology	15
-	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	15
-	Chemistry of Materials	15

-	Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids	15
-	Energy for Sustainable Development	15
-	IEEE Internet of Things Journal	15
-	Frontiers in Energy	15
-	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	15
-	IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics	15
-	Scripta Materialia	15
-	Seminars in Nuclear Medicine	15
-	Progress in Electromagnetics Research-PIER	15
-	Neuroimage	15
-	npj Quantum Information	15
-	Surface & Coatings Technology	15
-	Batteries-Basel	15
-	Optical and Quantum Electronics	15
-	Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics	15
-	Multimedia Tools and Applications	15
-	Mechanism and Machine Theory	15
193	International Journal of Coal Geology	14
-	International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	14
-	Journal of Catalysis	14
-	Propulsion and Power Research	14
-	Bioenergy Research	14
-	Weather and Climate Extremes	14
-	Journal of Alloys and Compounds	14

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