Physical Sciences
454 journals in P1.03 Physical Sciences (Natural Sciences), ranked by PNCI. Snapshot September 2026. How the ranking works.
| Rank | Journal | PNCI | Percentile | Citation Quartile | POSI Zone | AJR | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/454 | Living Reviews in Relativity Springer Science+Business Media, ISSN 1433-8351 | 12.76 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 2/454 | Reviews of Modern Physics American Physical Society, ISSN 0034-6861 | 12.21 | 99.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 3/454 | Living Reviews in Solar Physics Springer Nature, ISSN 1614-4961 | 7.93 | 99.4 | Provisional C-Q1 | No zone | – | Provisional |
| 4/454 | Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics Annual Reviews, ISSN 0066-4146 | 7.80 | 99.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 5/454 | Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics Annual Reviews, ISSN 1947-5454 | 7.01 | 99.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 6/454 | The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review Springer Science+Business Media, ISSN 0935-4956 | 6.41 | 98.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 7/454 | Nature Photonics Nature Portfolio, ISSN 1749-4885 | 6.05 | 98.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 8/454 | New Astronomy Reviews Elsevier BV, ISSN 1387-6473 | 5.09 | 98.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 9/454 | Physics Reports Elsevier BV, ISSN 0370-1573 | 4.70 | 98.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 10/454 | Nature Nature Portfolio, ISSN 0028-0836 | 4.70 | 97.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 11/454 | Nature Reviews Physics Nature Portfolio, ISSN 2522-5820 | 4.23 | 97.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 12/454 | Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics Elsevier BV, ISSN 0146-6410 | 4.15 | 97.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 13/454 | Reports on Progress in Physics IOP Publishing, ISSN 0034-4885 | 4.12 | 97.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 14/454 | Photonics Insights Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, ISSN 2791-1748 | 3.92 | 97.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 15/454 | Physical Review X American Physical Society, ISSN 2160-3308 | 3.34 | 96.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 16/454 | Nature Physics Nature Portfolio, ISSN 1745-2473 | 2.87 | 96.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 17/454 | The Astrophysical Journal Letters IOP Publishing, ISSN 2041-8205 | 2.86 | 96.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 18/454 | npj Spintronics Springer Science+Business Media, ISSN 2948-2119 | 2.72 | 96.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 19/454 | Optica Optica Publishing Group, ISSN 2334-2536 | 2.61 | 95.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 20/454 | Physical Review Letters American Physical Society, ISSN 0031-9007 | 2.48 | 95.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 21/454 | Ultrafast Science American Association for the Advancement of Science, ISSN 2097-0331 | 2.46 | 95.5 | Provisional C-Q1 | No zone | – | Provisional |
| 22/454 | Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science Annual Reviews, ISSN 0163-8998 | 2.44 | 95.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 23/454 | Progress in Quantum Electronics Elsevier BV, ISSN 0079-6727 | 2.16 | 95.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 24/454 | The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Institute of Physics, ISSN 0067-0049 | 2.10 | 94.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 25/454 | Physics of the Dark Universe Elsevier BV, ISSN 2212-6864 | 2.05 | 94.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 26/454 | Space Science Reviews Springer Science+Business Media, ISSN 0038-6308 | 2.02 | 94.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 27/454 | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Institute of Physics, ISSN 1475-7508 | 2.00 | 94.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 28/454 | Nature Astronomy Nature Portfolio, ISSN 2397-3366 | 2.00 | 93.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 29/454 | Superconductivity Elsevier BV, ISSN 2772-8307 | 1.98 | 93.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 30/454 | Computer Physics Communications Elsevier BV, ISSN 0010-4655 | 1.93 | 93.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 31/454 | Rivista Del Nuovo Cimento Springer Science+Business Media, ISSN 0393-697X | 1.90 | 93.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 32/454 | npj Quantum Materials Nature Portfolio, ISSN 2397-4648 | 1.86 | 93.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 33/454 | Journal of High Energy Astrophysics Elsevier BV, ISSN 2214-4048 | 1.76 | 92.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 34/454 | SciPost Physics Lecture Notes SciPost.org, ISSN 2590-1990 | 1.76 | 92.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 35/454 | Reviews in Physics Elsevier BV, ISSN 2405-4283 | 1.69 | 92.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 36/454 | Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy Springer Science+Business Media, ISSN 1869-1927 | 1.68 | 92.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 37/454 | Astronomy and Astrophysics EDP Sciences, ISSN 1432-0746 | 1.67 | 92.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 38/454 | Qeios ISSN 2632-3834 | 1.62 | 91.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 39/454 | Surface Science Reports Elsevier BV, ISSN 0167-5729 | 1.61 | 91.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 40/454 | SciPost Physics SciPost.org, ISSN 2542-4653 | 1.59 | 91.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 41/454 | Chaos, Solitons & Fractals Elsevier BV, ISSN 0960-0779 | 1.59 | 91.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 42/454 | Communications Physics Nature Portfolio, ISSN 2399-3650 | 1.59 | 90.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 43/454 | Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation American Chemical Society, ISSN 1549-9618 | 1.54 | 90.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 44/454 | The Astrophysical Journal IOP Publishing, ISSN 1538-4357 | 1.53 | 90.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 45/454 | Physical review. D/Physical review. D. American Physical Society, ISSN 2470-0010 | 1.48 | 90.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 46/454 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Institute of Physics, ISSN 0004-6280 | 1.45 | 90.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 47/454 | The Astronomical Journal Institute of Physics, ISSN 1538-3881 | 1.44 | 89.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 48/454 | Journal of High Energy Physics Springer Nature, ISSN 1029-8479 | 1.42 | 89.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 49/454 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press, ISSN 1365-2966 | 1.38 | 89.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 50/454 | Chinese Journal of Physics Elsevier BV, ISSN 0577-9073 | 1.37 | 89.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 51/454 | AAPPS bulletin Springer Nature, ISSN 0218-2203 | 1.30 | 88.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 52/454 | Frontiers of Physics Higher Education Press, ISSN 2095-0462 | 1.30 | 88.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 53/454 | Physics Letters B Elsevier BV, ISSN 1873-2445 | 1.30 | 88.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 54/454 | The European Physical Journal C Springer Science+Business Media, ISSN 1434-6052 | 1.28 | 88.2 | Provisional C-Q1 | No zone | – | Provisional |
| 55/454 | Newton Elsevier BV, ISSN 2950-6360 | 1.28 | 88.0 | Provisional C-Q1 | No zone | – | Provisional |
| 56/454 | Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics Springer Science+Business Media, ISSN 2367-3192 | 1.24 | 87.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 57/454 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters Oxford University Press, ISSN 1745-3925 | 1.23 | 87.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 58/454 | Physical Review Applied American Physical Society, ISSN 2331-7019 | 1.22 | 87.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 59/454 | The Open Journal of Astrophysics ISSN 2565-6120 | 1.19 | 87.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 60/454 | Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation Elsevier BV, ISSN 1007-5704 | 1.18 | 86.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 61/454 | Chinese Physics Letters Institute of Physics, ISSN 0256-307X | 1.16 | 86.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 62/454 | Physical Review Research American Physical Society, ISSN 2643-1564 | 1.15 | 86.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 63/454 | High Power Laser Science and Engineering Cambridge University Press, ISSN 2052-3289 | 1.15 | 86.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 64/454 | Matter and Radiation at Extremes American Institute of Physics, ISSN 2468-080X | 1.15 | 86.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 65/454 | Space Weather American Geophysical Union, ISSN 1542-7390 | 1.12 | 85.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 66/454 | Nuclear Science and Techniques Springer Nature, ISSN 1001-8042 | 1.10 | 85.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 67/454 | Results in Physics Elsevier BV, ISSN 2211-3797 | 1.10 | 85.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 68/454 | The Planetary Science Journal Institute of Physics, ISSN 2632-3338 | 1.10 | 85.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 69/454 | Nuclear Fusion IOP Publishing, ISSN 0029-5515 | 1.09 | 84.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 70/454 | Ukrainian Journal of Physical Optics ISSN 1609-1833 | 1.08 | 84.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 71/454 | Fortschritte der Physik Wiley, ISSN 0015-8208 | 1.08 | 84.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 72/454 | AVS Quantum Science ISSN 2639-0213 | 1.04 | 84.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 73/454 | Progress in Surface Science Elsevier BV, ISSN 0079-6816 | 1.03 | 84.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 74/454 | Advances in Space Research Elsevier BV, ISSN 0273-1177 | 1.03 | 83.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 75/454 | APL Computational Physics ISSN 3066-0017 | 1.02 | 83.6 | Provisional C-Q1 | No zone | – | Provisional |
| 76/454 | Physical review. B./Physical review. B American Physical Society, ISSN 2469-9950 | 1.02 | 83.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 77/454 | Materials for Quantum Technology IOP Publishing, ISSN 2633-4356 | 1.01 | 83.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 78/454 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia Cambridge University Press, ISSN 1323-3580 | 1.01 | 82.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 79/454 | Applied Physics Letters American Institute of Physics, ISSN 0003-6951 | 0.99 | 82.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 80/454 | Physica B Condensed Matter Elsevier BV, ISSN 0921-4526 | 0.99 | 82.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 81/454 | Classical and Quantum Gravity IOP Publishing, ISSN 0264-9381 | 0.99 | 82.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 82/454 | Journal of Geophysical Research Planets Wiley, ISSN 2169-9097 | 0.98 | 82.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 83/454 | Galaxies Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, ISSN 2075-4434 | 0.98 | 81.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 84/454 | Superconductor Science and Technology IOP Publishing, ISSN 0953-2048 | 0.98 | 81.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 85/454 | The Journal of Chemical Physics American Institute of Physics, ISSN 0021-9606 | 0.98 | 81.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 86/454 | Quantum Frontiers Springer Science+Business Media, ISSN 2731-6106 | 0.94 | 81.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 87/454 | Astroparticle Physics Elsevier BV, ISSN 0927-6505 | 0.94 | 80.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 88/454 | Experimental Astronomy Springer Science+Business Media, ISSN 0922-6435 | 0.94 | 80.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 89/454 | Nuclear Physics B Elsevier BV, ISSN 1873-1562 | 0.93 | 80.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 90/454 | Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications Elsevier BV, ISSN 0378-4371 | 0.93 | 80.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 91/454 | Optics Letters Optica Publishing Group, ISSN 0146-9592 | 0.93 | 80.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 92/454 | Journal of Synchrotron Radiation Wiley, ISSN 0909-0495 | 0.92 | 79.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 93/454 | SciPost Physics Codebases ISSN 2949-804X | 0.92 | 79.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 94/454 | Icarus Elsevier BV, ISSN 0019-1035 | 0.91 | 79.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 95/454 | SciPost Physics Core SciPost.org, ISSN 2666-9366 | 0.91 | 79.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 96/454 | Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science American Institute of Physics, ISSN 1054-1500 | 0.90 | 79.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 97/454 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan Oxford University Press, ISSN 0004-6264 | 0.90 | 78.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 98/454 | Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics University of Oxford, ISSN 2050-3911 | 0.88 | 78.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 99/454 | Solid State Communications Elsevier BV, ISSN 0038-1098 | 0.88 | 78.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 100/454 | Physical Review C American Institute of Physics, ISSN 0556-2813 | 0.87 | 78.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
CITATION-RANK-1.0. Provisional rankings (dashed) have 10–19 eligible items or items from a single publication year, and carry no zone. 636 further journals in this category have citation data but no rank (too few items, incomplete citation coverage, or category too small); their PNCI is shown on their journal pages.