Top Peer Reviewed Journals – Physics
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Top Peer Reviewed Journals – Physics Presented to Iowa State University Presented by Thomson Reuters Physics The subject discipline for Physics is made of 11 narrow subject categories from the Web of Science. The 11 categories that make up Physics are: 1. Acoustics 7. Physics, Fluids & Plasmas 2. Imaging Science & Photographic Technology 8. Physics, Mathematical 3. Optics 9. Physics, Multidisciplinary 4. Physics, Applied 10. Physics, Nuclear 5. Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical 11. Physics, Particles & Fields 6. Physics, Condensed Matter The chart below provides an ordered view of the top peer reviewed journals within the 1st quartile for Physics based on Impact Factors (IF), three year averages and their quartile ranking. Journal 2009 IF 2010 IF 2011 IF Average IF REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS 33.14 51.69 43.93 42.92 Nature Photonics 22.86 26.5 29.27 26.21 ADVANCES IN PHYSICS 19.63 21.21 37 25.95 PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF 17.75 19.43 20.39 19.19 PHYSICS LETTERS Nature Physics 15.49 18.43 18.96 17.63 Living Reviews in Relativity 10.6 12.62 17.46 13.56 REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS 11.44 13.85 14.72 13.34 Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 12.38 12.38 PROGRESS IN SURFACE SCIENCE 7.91 10.36 8.63 8.97 ANNUAL REVIEW OF NUCLEAR AND 11.96 7.88 6.45 8.76 PARTICLE SCIENCE Laser & Photonics Reviews 5.81 9.31 7.38 7.50 PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 7.32 7.62 7.37 7.44 LASER PHYSICS LETTERS 5.5 6.01 9.97 7.16 CRITICAL REVIEWS IN SOLID STATE AND 5.16 6.14 9.46 6.92 MATERIALS SCIENCES JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS 6.01 6.04 5.83 5.96 PHYSICS TODAY 4.43 4.43 5.64 4.83 PHYSICAL REVIEW D 4.92 4.96 4.55 4.81 PHYSICS LETTERS B 5.08 5.25 3.95 4.76 NUCLEAR PHYSICS B 4.34 4.64 4.66 4.55 Advances in High Energy Physics 4.52 4.52 Journal of Physical Chemistry C 4.22 4.52 4.8 4.51 ACTA PHYSICA SLOVACA 7.45 3.25 2.16 4.29 PROGRESS IN OPTICS 2.66 4.2 5.95 4.27 Solid State Physics 4.66 3.33 4.00 NUCLEAR FUSION 4.27 3.3 4.09 3.89 NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 3.31 3.84 4.17 3.77 ADVANCES IN ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND 3.08 4.94 3.29 3.77 OPTICAL PHYSICS APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 3.55 3.84 3.84 3.74 LASER AND PARTICLE BEAMS 3.65 3.65 PHYSICAL REVIEW B 3.47 3.77 3.69 3.64 LASER PHYSICS 3.6 3.60 OPTICS EXPRESS 3.27 3.75 3.58 3.53 PROGRESS IN PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR 3.55 4.02 2.61 3.39 PHYSICS PHYSICAL REVIEW C 3.47 3.41 3.3 3.39 CHAOS SOLITONS & FRACTALS 3.31 3.31 OPTICS LETTERS 3.05 3.31 3.39 3.25 EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C 2.74 3.24 3.63 3.20 JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND 2.12 4.17 3.15 PARTICLE PHYSICS CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY 3.02 3.09 3.32 3.14 MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS 3.03 3.25 3 3.09 QUANTUM INFORMATION & 2.98 2.98 COMPUTATION JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY 2.64 3.11 2.97 2.91 PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2.78 3.05 2.82 2.88 PHYSICAL REVIEW A 2.86 2.86 2.87 2.86 RIVISTA DEL NUOVO CIMENTO 3.5 2.44 2.57 2.84 JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL 2.09 3.21 3.17 2.82 REFERENCE DATA ANNALS OF PHYSICS 2.67 2.91 2.85 2.81 COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS 2.3 3.26 2.78 CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS 2.78 3.24 2.08 2.70 JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS- 2.67 2.67 THEORY AND EXPERIMENT Applied Physics Express 2.22 2.77 3.01 2.67 JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF 2.57 2.9 2.36 2.61 JAPAN EPL 2.89 2.75 2.17 2.60 SUPERCONDUCTOR SCIENCE & 2.69 2.4 2.66 2.58 TECHNOLOGY GENERAL RELATIVITY AND 2.61 2.53 2.57 GRAVITATION PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED 2.4 2.46 2.73 2.53 FUSION Physica Status Solidi-Rapid Research Letters 2.56 2.81 2.21 2.53 JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2.33 2.72 2.53 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL 2.29 2.45 2.77 2.50 PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM 2.48 2.48 ELECTRONICS ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY 2.3 2.18 2.88 2.45 AND REMOTE SENSING Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals 2.13 2.75 2.44 and Applications JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED 2.33 2.54 2.44 MATTER SOLID STATE IONICS 2.16 2.49 2.64 2.43 JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY 2.18 2.25 2.78 2.40 PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS 2.36 2.55 2.29 2.40 EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL A 2.59 2.19 2.39 RHEOLOGICA ACTA 2.38 2.38 PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & 2.38 2.21 2.52 2.37 TECHNOLOGY PHYSICS-USPEKHI 2.62 2.24 2.15 2.34 JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS 2.36 2.34 2.31 2.34 PHYSICAL REVIEW E 2.4 2.35 2.25 2.33 IEEE Photonics Journal 2.34 2.32 2.33 PHYSICS OF PLASMAS 2.47 2.32 2.14 2.31 Physical Review Special Topics-Physics 2.3 2.30 Education Research JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS 2.08 2.1 2.54 2.24 APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS 2.24 2.18 2.21 IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS 2.19 2.19 ATOMIC DATA AND NUCLEAR DATA 2.18 2.16 2.17 TABLES INVERSE PROBLEMS 2.13 2.13 JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF 2.08 2.09 2.18 2.12 AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 2.07 2.16 2.12 JOURNAL OF LUMINESCENCE 2.1 2.10 EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E 2.09 2.09 Communications in Computational Physics 2.07 2.07 CHAOS 2.07 2.07 COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL 2.06 2.06 PHYSICS Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical 2.03 2.03 Physics Year – 2009 Journal Impact Factor Ranking REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS 33.14 1/275 Nature Photonics 22.86 2/275 ADVANCES IN PHYSICS 19.63 3/275 PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS 17.75 4/275 LETTERS Nature Physics 15.49 5/275 ANNUAL REVIEW OF NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE SCIENCE 11.96 6/275 REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS 11.44 7/275 Living Reviews in Relativity 10.6 8/275 PROGRESS IN SURFACE SCIENCE 7.91 9/275 ACTA PHYSICA SLOVACA 7.45 10/275 PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 7.32 11/275 JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS 6.01 12/275 Laser & Photonics Reviews 5.81 13/275 LASER PHYSICS LETTERS 5.5 14/275 CRITICAL REVIEWS IN SOLID STATE AND MATERIALS 5.16 15/275 SCIENCES PHYSICS LETTERS B 5.08 16/275 PHYSICAL REVIEW D 4.92 17/275 PHYSICS TODAY 4.43 18/275 NUCLEAR PHYSICS B 4.34 19/275 NUCLEAR FUSION 4.27 20/275 Journal of Physical Chemistry C 4.22 21/275 APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 3.55 22/275 PROGRESS IN PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS 3.55 22/275 RIVISTA DEL NUOVO CIMENTO 3.5 24/275 PHYSICAL REVIEW B 3.47 25/275 PHYSICAL REVIEW C 3.47 25/275 CHAOS SOLITONS & FRACTALS 3.31 27/275 NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 3.31 27/275 OPTICS EXPRESS 3.27 29/275 ADVANCES IN ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL 3.08 30/275 PHYSICS OPTICS LETTERS 3.05 31/275 MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS 3.03 32/275 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY 3.02 33/275 QUANTUM INFORMATION & COMPUTATION 2.98 34/275 EPL 2.89 35/275 PHYSICAL REVIEW A 2.86 36/275 CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS 2.78 37/275 PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2.78 37/275 EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C 2.74 39/275 SUPERCONDUCTOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2.69 40/275 ANNALS OF PHYSICS 2.67 41/275 JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND 2.67 41/275 EXPERIMENT PROGRESS IN OPTICS 2.66 43/275 JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY 2.64 44/275 PHYSICS-USPEKHI 2.62 45/275 GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION 2.61 46/275 JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 2.57 47/275 Physica Status Solidi-Rapid Research Letters 2.56 48/275 PHYSICS OF PLASMAS 2.47 49/275 PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION 2.4 50/275 PHYSICAL REVIEW E 2.4 50/275 PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2.38 52/275 PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS 2.36 53/275 JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS 2.36 53/275 ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE 2.3 55/275 SENSING PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND 2.29 56/275 ENGINEERING SCIENCES Applied Physics Express 2.22 57/275 JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY 2.18 58/275 SOLID STATE IONICS 2.16 59/275 Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals and Applications 2.13 60/275 JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE 2.12 61/275 PHYSICS JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL REFERENCE 2.09 62/275 DATA JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B- 2.08 63/275 OPTICAL PHYSICS JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS 2.08 63/275 Communications in Computational Physics 2.07 65/275 JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 2.07 65/275 COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS 2.06 67/275 Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics 2.03 68/275 Year – 2010 Journal Impact Factor Ranking REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS 51.69 1/293 Nature Photonics 26.5 2/293 ADVANCES IN PHYSICS 21.21 3/293 PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS 19.43 4/293 LETTERS Nature Physics 18.43 5/293 REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS 13.85 6/293 Living Reviews in Relativity 12.62 7/293 PROGRESS IN SURFACE SCIENCE 10.36 8/293 Laser & Photonics Reviews 9.31 9/293 Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science 7.88 10/293 PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 7.62 11/293 CRITICAL REVIEWS IN SOLID STATE AND MATERIALS 6.14 12/293 SCIENCES JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS 6.04 13/293 LASER PHYSICS LETTERS 6.01 14/293 PHYSICS LETTERS B 5.25 15/293 PHYSICAL REVIEW D 4.96 16/293 Advances In Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics 4.94 17/293 Solid State Physics 4.66 18/293 NUCLEAR PHYSICS B 4.64 19/293 Journal of Physical Chemistry C 4.52 20/293 PHYSICS TODAY 4.43 21/293 Progress in Optics 4.2 22/293 PROGRESS IN PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS 4.02 23/293 APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 3.84 24/293 NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 3.84 24/293 PHYSICAL REVIEW B 3.77 26/293 OPTICS EXPRESS 3.75 27/293 LASER AND PARTICLE BEAMS 3.65 28/293 PHYSICAL REVIEW C 3.41 29/293 OPTICS LETTERS 3.31 30/293 NUCLEAR FUSION 3.3 31/293 ACTA PHYSICA SLOVACA 3.25 32/293 MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS 3.25 32/293 EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C 3.24 34/293 CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS 3.24 34/293 JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL REFERENCE 3.21 36/293 DATA JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY 3.11 37/293 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY 3.09 38/293 PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 3.05 39/293 ANNALS OF PHYSICS 2.91 40/293 JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 2.9 41/293 PHYSICAL REVIEW A 2.86 42/293 Physica Status Solidi-Rapid