LibGuides: Physical sciences: High impact journals

High impact journals

The following list of journals are those with the highest Journal Impact Factor (JIF)* in the PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY category in the 2023 edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

1.	Reviews of modern physics
2.	Nature reviews physics
3.	Physics reports
4.	Reports on progress in physics
5.	Nature physics
6.	Physical review. X
7.	PRX quantum
8.	Physical review letters
9.	Cell reports physical science
10.	Advances in physics: X

Additional categories you can search in the field of PHYSICS in the 2023 edition of Journal Citation Reports is:

MECHANICS

*The JIF is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year. Please note that JIF is one metric for assessing the quality of research journals but not the only one.

Note: these results are based on data from the Web of Science Core collection only. For an in-depth explanation on its calculation and on Clarivate Journal Citation Reports please refer to this page.