TOP PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS – PHYSICS

Top Peer Reviewed Journals – Physics

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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. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Acoustics Imaging Science & Photographic Technology Optics Physics, Applied Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical Physics, Condensed Matter

7. Physics, Fluids & Plasmas 8. Physics, Mathematical 9. Physics, Multidisciplinary 10. Physics, Nuclear 11. Physics, Particles & Fields

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

17.75

19.43

20.39

19.19

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

12.38

12.38

PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS Nature Physics

Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics PROGRESS IN SURFACE SCIENCE ANNUAL REVIEW OF NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE SCIENCE Laser & Photonics Reviews

7.91

10.36

8.63

8.97

11.96

7.88

6.45

8.76

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 MATERIALS SCIENCES

5.16

6.14

9.46

6.92

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

4.52

4.52

Advances in High Energy Physics

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

4.66

3.33

4.00

Solid State Physics NUCLEAR FUSION

4.27

3.3

4.09

3.89

NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS ADVANCES IN ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

3.31

3.84

4.17

3.77

3.08

4.94

3.29

3.77

3.55

3.84

3.84

3.74

LASER AND PARTICLE BEAMS PHYSICAL REVIEW B

3.65 3.47

3.77

LASER PHYSICS

3.65 3.69

3.64

3.6

3.60

OPTICS EXPRESS PROGRESS IN PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS PHYSICAL REVIEW C

3.27

3.75

3.58

3.53

3.55

4.02

2.61

3.39

3.47

3.41

3.3

CHAOS SOLITONS & FRACTALS

3.31

OPTICS LETTERS

3.05

3.31

3.39

3.25

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

2.74

3.24

3.63

3.20

4.17

3.15

3.02

3.09

3.32

3.14

MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS QUANTUM INFORMATION & COMPUTATION JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY

3.03

3.25

3

3.09

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 REFERENCE DATA

2.09

3.21

3.17

2.82

ANNALS OF PHYSICS

2.67

2.91

2.85

2.81

2.3

3.26

2.78

2.78

3.24

2.08

2.70

2.12

2.98

COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICSTHEORY AND EXPERIMENT Applied Physics Express

3.39 3.31

2.98

2.67

2.67

2.22

2.77

3.01

2.67

JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

2.57

2.9

2.36

2.61

EPL

2.89

2.75

2.17

2.60

SUPERCONDUCTOR SCIENCE &

2.69

2.4

2.66

2.58

TECHNOLOGY GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION Physica Status Solidi-Rapid Research Letters JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals and Applications JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER SOLID STATE IONICS

2.61

2.53

2.4

2.46

2.73

2.53

2.56

2.81

2.21

2.53

2.33

2.72

2.53

2.45

2.77

2.50

2.29

2.57

2.48 2.3

2.18

2.13

2.75

2.48 2.88

2.45 2.44

2.33

2.54

2.44

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 PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PHYSICS-USPEKHI

2.38 2.38

2.21

2.52

2.37

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

2.34

2.32

2.33

2.32

2.14

2.31

IEEE Photonics Journal PHYSICS OF PLASMAS Physical Review Special Topics-Physics Education Research JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

2.47

2.3 2.08

APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS ATOMIC DATA AND NUCLEAR DATA TABLES INVERSE PROBLEMS

2.30

2.1

2.54

2.24

2.24

2.18

2.21

2.18

2.19 2.16

2.19 2.17

2.13

JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS

2.08

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

2.07

2.09

JOURNAL OF LUMINESCENCE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E

2.38

2.09

2.13 2.18

2.12

2.16

2.12

2.1

2.10 2.09

Communications in Computational Physics

2.07

CHAOS

2.07 2.07

COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

2.07

2.06

2.06

2.03

2.03

Year – 2009 Journal REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS Nature Photonics ADVANCES IN PHYSICS PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS Nature Physics ANNUAL REVIEW OF NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE SCIENCE REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS Living Reviews in Relativity PROGRESS IN SURFACE SCIENCE ACTA PHYSICA SLOVACA PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS Laser & Photonics Reviews LASER PHYSICS LETTERS CRITICAL REVIEWS IN SOLID STATE AND MATERIALS SCIENCES PHYSICS LETTERS B PHYSICAL REVIEW D PHYSICS TODAY NUCLEAR PHYSICS B NUCLEAR FUSION Journal of Physical Chemistry C APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS PROGRESS IN PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS RIVISTA DEL NUOVO CIMENTO PHYSICAL REVIEW B PHYSICAL REVIEW C CHAOS SOLITONS & FRACTALS NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS OPTICS EXPRESS ADVANCES IN ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS OPTICS LETTERS MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY QUANTUM INFORMATION & COMPUTATION

Impact Factor 33.14 22.86 19.63

Ranking 1/275 2/275 3/275

17.75

4/275

15.49 11.96 11.44 10.6 7.91 7.45 7.32 6.01 5.81 5.5

5/275 6/275 7/275 8/275 9/275 10/275 11/275 12/275 13/275 14/275

5.16

15/275

5.08 4.92 4.43 4.34 4.27 4.22 3.55 3.55 3.5 3.47 3.47 3.31 3.31 3.27

16/275 17/275 18/275 19/275 20/275 21/275 22/275 22/275 24/275 25/275 25/275 27/275 27/275 29/275

3.08

30/275

3.05 3.03 3.02 2.98

31/275 32/275 33/275 34/275

EPL PHYSICAL REVIEW A CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C SUPERCONDUCTOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ANNALS OF PHYSICS JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT PROGRESS IN OPTICS JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY PHYSICS-USPEKHI GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN Physica Status Solidi-Rapid Research Letters PHYSICS OF PLASMAS PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION PHYSICAL REVIEW E PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES Applied Physics Express JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY SOLID STATE IONICS Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals and Applications JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL REFERENCE DATA JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BOPTICAL PHYSICS JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS Communications in Computational Physics JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

2.89 2.86 2.78 2.78 2.74 2.69 2.67

35/275 36/275 37/275 37/275 39/275 40/275 41/275

2.67

41/275

2.66 2.64 2.62 2.61 2.57 2.56 2.47 2.4 2.4 2.38 2.36 2.36

43/275 44/275 45/275 46/275 47/275 48/275 49/275 50/275 50/275 52/275 53/275 53/275

2.3

55/275

2.29

56/275

2.22 2.18 2.16 2.13

57/275 58/275 59/275 60/275

2.12

61/275

2.09

62/275

2.08

63/275

2.08 2.07 2.07 2.06 2.03

63/275 65/275 65/275 67/275 68/275

Year – 2010 Journal REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Impact Factor 51.69

Ranking 1/293

Nature Photonics ADVANCES IN PHYSICS PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS Nature Physics REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS Living Reviews in Relativity PROGRESS IN SURFACE SCIENCE Laser & Photonics Reviews Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS CRITICAL REVIEWS IN SOLID STATE AND MATERIALS SCIENCES JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS LASER PHYSICS LETTERS PHYSICS LETTERS B PHYSICAL REVIEW D Advances In Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics Solid State Physics NUCLEAR PHYSICS B Journal of Physical Chemistry C PHYSICS TODAY Progress in Optics PROGRESS IN PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS PHYSICAL REVIEW B OPTICS EXPRESS LASER AND PARTICLE BEAMS PHYSICAL REVIEW C OPTICS LETTERS NUCLEAR FUSION ACTA PHYSICA SLOVACA MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL REFERENCE DATA JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY ANNALS OF PHYSICS JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN PHYSICAL REVIEW A Physica Status Solidi-Rapid Research Letters Applied Physics Express

26.5 21.21

2/293 3/293

19.43

4/293

18.43 13.85 12.62 10.36 9.31 7.88 7.62

5/293 6/293 7/293 8/293 9/293 10/293 11/293

6.14

12/293

6.04 6.01 5.25 4.96 4.94 4.66 4.64 4.52 4.43 4.2 4.02 3.84 3.84 3.77 3.75 3.65 3.41 3.31 3.3 3.25 3.25 3.24 3.24

13/293 14/293 15/293 16/293 17/293 18/293 19/293 20/293 21/293 22/293 23/293 24/293 24/293 26/293 27/293 28/293 29/293 30/293 31/293 32/293 32/293 34/293 34/293

3.21

36/293

3.11 3.09 3.05 2.91 2.9 2.86 2.81 2.77

37/293 38/293 39/293 40/293 41/293 42/293 43/293 44/293

Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals and Applications EPL EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL A PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION SOLID STATE IONICS IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES RIVISTA DEL NUOVO CIMENTO SUPERCONDUCTOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY RHEOLOGICA ACTA PHYSICAL REVIEW E JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS IEEE Photonics Journal JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION PHYSICS OF PLASMAS COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS Physical Review Special Topics-Physics Education Research JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY PHYSICS-USPEKHI APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ATOMIC DATA AND NUCLEAR DATA TABLES ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING INVERSE PROBLEMS JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BOPTICAL PHYSICS

2.75 2.75 2.59 2.55 2.53 2.49 2.48 2.46

45/293 45/293 47/293 48/293 49/293 50/293 51/293 52/293

2.45

53/293

2.44 2.4 2.38 2.35 2.34 2.34 2.33 2.33 2.32 2.3 2.3 2.25 2.24 2.24 2.21 2.18

54/293 55/293 56/293 57/293 58/293 58/293 60/293 60/293 62/293 63/293 63/293 65/293 66/293 66/293 68/293 69/293

2.18

69/293

2.13 2.1 2.09

71/293 72/293 73/293

2.09

73/293

Year – 2011 Journal REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS ADVANCES IN PHYSICS Nature Photonics PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS Nature Physics Living Reviews in Relativity

Impact Factor 43.93 37 29.27

Ranking 1/299 2/299 3/299

20.39

4/299

18.96 17.46

5/299 6/299

REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics LASER PHYSICS LETTERS CRITICAL REVIEWS IN SOLID STATE AND MATERIALS SCIENCES PROGRESS IN SURFACE SCIENCE Laser & Photonics Reviews PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science Progress in Optics JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS PHYSICS TODAY Journal of Physical Chemistry C NUCLEAR PHYSICS B PHYSICAL REVIEW D Advances in High Energy Physics JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS NUCLEAR FUSION PHYSICS LETTERS B APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS PHYSICAL REVIEW B EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C LASER PHYSICS OPTICS EXPRESS OPTICS LETTERS Solid State Physics CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY PHYSICAL REVIEW C Advances In Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL REFERENCE DATA Applied Physics Express MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING PHYSICAL REVIEW A ANNALS OF PHYSICS PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

14.72 12.38 9.97

7/299 8/299 9/299

9.46

10/299

8.63 7.38 7.37 6.45 5.95 5.83 5.64 4.8 4.66 4.55 4.52

11/299 12/299 13/299 14/299 15/299 16/299 17/299 18/299 19/299 20/299 21/299

4.17

22/299

4.17 4.09 3.95 3.84 3.69 3.63 3.6 3.58 3.39 3.33 3.32 3.3 3.29 3.26

22/299 24/299 25/299 26/299 27/299 28/299 29/299 30/299 31/299 32/299 33/299 34/299 35/299 36/299

3.17

37/299

3.01 3 2.97

38/299 39/299 40/299

2.88

41/299

2.87 2.85 2.82 2.78

42/299 43/299 44/299 45/299

2.77

46/299

PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION SUPERCONDUCTOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY SOLID STATE IONICS PROGRESS IN PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS RIVISTA DEL NUOVO CIMENTO JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN IEEE Photonics Journal JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS PHYSICAL REVIEW E Physica Status Solidi-Rapid Research Letters EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL A IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BOPTICAL PHYSICS EPL JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS ACTA PHYSICA SLOVACA ATOMIC DATA AND NUCLEAR DATA TABLES PHYSICS-USPEKHI PHYSICS OF PLASMAS JOURNAL OF LUMINESCENCE CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS CHAOS

2.73 2.72 2.66 2.64 2.61 2.57 2.54 2.54 2.52 2.36 2.32 2.31 2.29 2.25 2.21 2.19 2.19 2.18

47/299 48/299 49/299 50/299 51/299 52/299 53/299 53/299 55/299 56/299 57/299 58/299 59/299 60/299 61/299 62/299 62/299 64/299

2.18

64/299

2.17 2.16 2.16 2.16 2.15 2.14 2.1 2.08 2.07

66/299 67/299 67/299 67/299 70/299 71/299 72/299 73/299 74/299