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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

3.09

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

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