This web page aims to provide a latest list of top Physics journals. The journals are Web of Science (SCI) indexed with high impact factor. Moreover, the listed journals are UGC CARE approved, Scopus indexed. The journals are sorted based on Scopus SJR score.
| S. No. | Journal Title | Publisher | ISSN | SJR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nature Reviews Physics | Springer International Publishing | 25225820 | 9.803 |
| 2 | Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 19475454, 19475462 | 9.795 |
| 3 | Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15454479, 00664189 | 8.258 |
| 4 | Advances in Optics and Photonics | Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) | 19438206 | 7.982 |
| 5 | Nature Physics | Nature Publishing Group | 17452473 | 7.125 |
| 6 | Materials Science and Engineering R: Reports | Elsevier B.V. | 0927796X | 7.056 |
| 7 | Physical Review X | American Physical Society | 21603308 | 6.415 |
| 8 | Materials Today | Elsevier B.V. | 13697021, 18734103 | 5.755 |
| 9 | Physics Reports | Elsevier B.V. | 3701573 | 5.735 |
| 10 | Reports on Progress in Physics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616633, 00344885 | 5.666 |
| 11 | Advanced Functional Materials | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 1616301X | 5.439 |
| 12 | PRX Quantum | American Physical Society | 26913399 | 5.341 |
| 13 | Light: Science and Applications | Nature Publishing Group | 20477538 | 5.018 |
| 14 | Advanced Photonics | SPIE | 25775421 | 4.777 |
| 15 | Nature Communications | Nature Research | 20411723 | 4.761 |
| 16 | PhotoniX | Springer International Publishing | 26621991 | 4.514 |
| 17 | ACS Nano | American Chemical Society | 1936086X, 19360851 | 4.497 |
| 18 | Advances in Physics | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14606976, 00018732 | 4.468 |
| 19 | Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 1466410 | 4.428 |
| 20 | Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science | Annual Reviews Inc. | 1638998 | 3.95 |
| 21 | Advanced Science | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 21983844 | 3.775 |
| 22 | Opto-Electronic Advances | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 20964579 | 3.557 |
| 23 | ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | Elsevier B.V. | 9242716 | 3.48 |
| 24 | Optica | Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) | 23342536 | 3.08 |
| 25 | Nano Letters | American Chemical Society | 15306992, 15306984 | 2.967 |
| 26 | Annals of PDE | Springer Science + Business Media | 21992576, 25245317 | 2.932 |
| 27 | Applied Physics Reviews | American Institute of Physics | 19319401 | 2.904 |
| 28 | Physical Review Letters | American Physical Society | 10797114, 00319007 | 2.856 |
| 29 | Innovation Materials | 29598737 | 2.772 | |
| 30 | npj Quantum Information | Nature Partner Journals | 20566387 | 2.73 |
| 31 | Probability and Mathematical Physics | Mathematical Sciences Publishers | 26900998, 26901005 | 2.722 |
| 32 | Opto-Electronic Science | 20970382 | 2.681 | |
| 33 | Laser and Photonics Reviews | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 18638880, 18638899 | 2.679 |
| 34 | npj 2D Materials and Applications | Nature Publishing Group | 23977132 | 2.565 |
| 35 | Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (C) Analyse Non Lineaire | European Mathematical Society Publishing House | 18731430, 02941449 | 2.562 |
| 36 | Quantum | Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 2521327X | 2.526 |
| 37 | SciPost Physics Lecture Notes | SciPost Foundation | 25901990 | 2.462 |
| 38 | Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | Elsevier B.V. | 457825 | 2.412 |
| 39 | Physics of Life Reviews | Elsevier B.V. | 18731457, 15710645 | 2.384 |
| 40 | Nano Research | Tsinghua University Press | 19980124, 19980000 | 2.367 |
| 41 | Progress in Quantum Electronics | Elsevier Ltd | 796727 | 2.343 |
| 42 | Journal of High Energy Astrophysics | Elsevier B.V. | 22144048 | 2.32 |
| 43 | Materials Today Physics | Elsevier Ltd | 25425293 | 2.278 |
| 44 | Surface Science Reports | Elsevier B.V. | 01675729, 1879274X | 2.241 |
| 45 | IEEE Wireless Communications Letters | IEEE Communications Society | 21622345, 21622337 | 2.24 |
| 46 | Advances in Physics: X | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 23746149 | 2.237 |
| 47 | Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics | Oxford University Press | 20503911 | 2.219 |
| 48 | International Journal of Mechanical Sciences | Elsevier Ltd | 207403 | 2.188 |
| 49 | Ultrafast Science | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 20970331, 27658791 | 2.179 |
| 50 | npj Quantum Materials | Nature Publishing Group | 23974648 | 2.166 |
| 51 | Advanced Nonlinear Studies | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 21690375, 15361365 | 2.157 |
| 52 | NPG Asia Materials | Nature Publishing Group | 18844057, 18844049 | 2.152 |
| 53 | Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 15476561, 10408436 | 2.127 |
| 54 | Cell Reports Physical Science | Cell Press | 26663864 | 2.098 |
| 55 | IEEE Journal of Microwaves | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 26928388 | 2.085 |
| 56 | Combustion and Flame | Elsevier Inc. | 00102180, 15562921 | 2.015 |
| 57 | Reviews of Modern Physics | American Physical Society | 00346861, 15390756 | 18.08 |
| 58 | Nature Nanotechnology | Nature Publishing Group | 17483387, 17483395 | 14.612 |
| 59 | Living Reviews in Relativity | Springer International Publishing AG | 14338351, 23673613 | 14.562 |
| 60 | Nature Materials | Nature Publishing Group | 14764660, 14761122 | 14.204 |
| 61 | Nature Photonics | Nature Publishing Group | 17494885 | 11.546 |
| 62 | eLight | Springer | 26628643, 20971710 | 11.392 |
| 63 | Advanced Optical Materials | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 21951071 | 1.995 |
| 64 | Photonics Research | Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) | 23279125 | 1.994 |
| 65 | ACS Photonics | American Chemical Society | 23304022 | 1.992 |
| 66 | Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 10627995, 1099159X | 1.968 |
| 67 | Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy | Elsevier B.V. | 00796565, 18733301 | 1.967 |
| 68 | Progress in Surface Science | Elsevier Ltd | 796816 | 1.956 |
| 69 | Materials Science and Engineering: A | Elsevier Ltd | 9215093 | 1.955 |
| 70 | Computer Physics Communications | Elsevier B.V. | 104655 | 1.946 |
| 71 | Device | Cell Press | 26669986 | 1.924 |
| 72 | Quantum Science and Technology | Institute of Physics Publishing | 20589565 | 1.911 |
| 73 | Reviews in Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 24054283 | 1.903 |
| 74 | Microsystems and Nanoengineering | Nature Publishing Group | 20557434 | 1.891 |
| 75 | Materials Today Nano | Elsevier Ltd | 25888420 | 1.83 |
| 76 | Scripta Materialia | Acta Materialia Inc | 13596462 | 1.829 |
| 77 | IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15579670, 00189480 | 1.827 |
| 78 | Communications Physics | Springer Nature | 23993650 | 1.776 |
| 79 | Nanophotonics | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 21928614, 21928606 | 1.765 |
| 80 | Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | Elsevier Ltd | 225096 | 1.757 |
| 81 | Rare Metals | Springer International Publishing | 10010521, 18677185 | 1.756 |
| 82 | Superconductivity | Elsevier B.V. | 27728307 | 1.724 |
| 83 | IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15582221, 0018926X | 1.718 |
| 84 | Progress in Solid State Chemistry | Elsevier Ltd | 796786 | 1.711 |
| 85 | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | Elsevier Ltd | 3603199 | 1.685 |
| 86 | Journal of Computational Physics | Academic Press Inc. | 10902716, 00219991 | 1.685 |
| 87 | Photoacoustics | Elsevier GmbH | 22135979 | 1.651 |
| 88 | SciPost Physics | SciPost Foundation | 25424653 | 1.61 |
| 89 | Physical Review Research | American Physical Society | 26431564 | 1.593 |
| 90 | JPhys Photonics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 25157647 | 1.576 |
| 91 | Fortschritte der Physik | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 15213978, 00158208 | 1.549 |
| 92 | Solar RRL | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 2367198X | 1.544 |
| 93 | Journal of Sound and Vibration | Academic Press | 10958568, 0022460X | 1.534 |
| 94 | APL Photonics | American Institute of Physics | 23780967 | 1.53 |
| 95 | Progress in Electromagnetics Research | Electromagnetics Academy | 10704698 | 1.523 |
| 96 | Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical | Elsevier B.V. | 09254005, 19448201 | 1.509 |
| 97 | Communications in Mathematical Physics | Springer New York | 14320916, 00103616 | 1.506 |
| 98 | Physical Review Physics Education Research | American Physical Society | 24699896 | 1.497 |
| 99 | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Cambridge University Press | 14697645, 00221120 | 1.471 |
| 100 | ISPRS Open Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | Elsevier B.V. | 26673932 | 1.463 |
| 101 | Physical Review D | American Physical Society | 24700010, 24700029 | 1.458 |
| 102 | Computing and Software for Big Science | Springer Nature | 25102044 | 1.449 |
| 103 | International Journal of Thermofluids | Elsevier B.V. | 26662027 | 1.429 |
| 104 | MRS Bulletin | Springer International Publishing AG | 08837694, 19381425 | 1.386 |
| 105 | AAPPS Bulletin | Springer | 02182203, 23094710 | 1.379 |
| 106 | Materials for Quantum Technology | Institute of Physics | 26334356 | 1.361 |
| 107 | European Physical Journal C | 14346052, 14346044 | 1.343 | |
| 108 | 2D Materials | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 20531583 | 1.338 |
| 109 | Materials Characterization | Elsevier Inc. | 10445803 | 1.338 |
| 110 | Nuclear Fusion | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 17414326, 00295515 | 1.337 |
| 111 | La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 18269850, 0393697X | 1.335 |
| 112 | Advanced Devices and Instrumentation | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 27679713 | 1.316 |
| 113 | Applied Surface Science | Elsevier B.V. | 1694332 | 1.31 |
| 114 | AVS Quantum Science | American Institute of Physics | 26390213 | 1.31 |
| 115 | Physical Review B | American Physical Society | 24699950, 24699969 | 1.303 |
| 116 | International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer | Elsevier Ltd | 179310 | 1.299 |
| 117 | Journal of Lightwave Technology | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15582213, 07338724 | 1.294 |
| 118 | Mass Spectrometry Reviews | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 10982787, 02777037 | 1.294 |
| 119 | Physical Review Applied | American Physical Society | 23317019 | 1.288 |
| 120 | Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics | Elsevier B.V. | 1678442 | 1.276 |
| 121 | Nonlinearity | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 09517715, 13616544 | 1.262 |
| 122 | Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation | Elsevier B.V. | 2632241 | 1.244 |
| 123 | EPJ Quantum Technology | SpringerOpen | 26624400, 21960763 | 1.242 |
| 124 | Polymer Degradation and Stability | Elsevier Ltd | 1413910 | 1.237 |
| 125 | Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics | Birkhauser Verlag Basel | 14226928, 14226952 | 1.23 |
| 126 | Advanced Quantum Technologies | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 25119044 | 1.223 |
| 127 | Pure and Applied Analysis | Mathematical Sciences Publishers | 25785885, 25785893 | 1.223 |
| 128 | Surface and Coatings Technology | Elsevier B.V. | 2578972 | 1.211 |
| 129 | Journal of the Energy Institute | Elsevier B.V. | 17460220, 17439671 | 1.208 |
| 130 | Wear | Elsevier B.V. | 431648 | 1.204 |
| 131 | IUCrJ | International Union of Crystallography | 20522525 | 1.201 |
| 132 | Chinese Physics Letters | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 17413540, 0256307X | 1.199 |
| 133 | Frontiers of Physics | Higher Education Press Limited Company | 20950462, 20950470 | 1.174 |
| 134 | Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616471, 09543899 | 1.17 |
| 135 | International Journal of Thermal Sciences | Elsevier Masson s.r.l. | 12900729 | 1.16 |
| 136 | Classical and Quantum Gravity | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616382, 02649381 | 1.154 |
| 137 | SciPost Physics Core | Institute of Economic Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University | 26669366 | 1.138 |
| 138 | Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China (English Edition) | Nonferrous Metals Society of China | 10036326, 22103384 | 1.119 |
| 139 | JPhys Materials | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 25157639 | 1.11 |
| 140 | ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing | Association for Computing Machinery | 26436817 | 1.105 |
| 141 | Physical Review C | American Physical Society | 24699985, 24699993 | 1.096 |
| 142 | Superconductor Science and Technology | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 09532048, 13616668 | 1.095 |
| 143 | NDT and E International | Elsevier Ltd | 9638695 | 1.091 |
| 144 | European Polymer Journal | Elsevier Ltd | 143057 | 1.076 |
| 145 | International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer | Elsevier Ltd | 7351933 | 1.063 |
| 146 | International Journal of Solids and Structures | Elsevier Ltd | 207683 | 1.056 |
| 147 | Frontiers in Remote Sensing | Frontiers Media SA | 26736187 | 1.052 |
| 148 | Mathematics in Engineering | American Institute of Mathematical Sciences | 26403501 | 1.051 |
| 149 | IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 26891808 | 1.045 |
| 150 | npj Microgravity | Nature Publishing Group | 23738065 | 1.045 |
| 151 | Quantum Topology | European Mathematical Society Publishing House | 1664073X, 1663487X | 1.043 |
| 152 | IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 27719588, 2771957X | 1.038 |
| 153 | Communications in Computational Physics | Global Science Press | 18152406, 19917120 | 1.036 |
| 154 | Surfaces and Interfaces | Elsevier B.V. | 24680230 | 1.036 |
| 155 | Physical Review A | American Physical Society | 24699934, 24699926 | 1.033 |
| 156 | Journal of Synchrotron Radiation | International Union of Crystallography | 16005775, 09090495 | 1.029 |
| 157 | Sensors and Actuators Reports | Elsevier B.V. | 26660539 | 1.025 |
| 158 | Quantum Frontiers | Springer International Publishing | 27316106 | 1.022 |
| 159 | IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 1077260X, 15584542 | 1.012 |
| 160 | Microporous and Mesoporous Materials | Elsevier B.V. | 13871811 | 1.003 |
| 161 | LEUKOS - Journal of Illuminating Engineering Society of North America | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 15502724, 15502716 | 1 |
| 162 | Optics and Laser Technology | Elsevier Ltd | 303992 | 1 |
| 163 | ChemPhysMater | KeAi Communications Co. | 27725715, 20970323 | 0.995 |
| 164 | High Power Laser Science and Engineering | Cambridge University Press | 20954719, 20523289 | 0.991 |
| 165 | Communications in Number Theory and Physics | International Press, Inc. | 19314523, 19314531 | 0.988 |
| 166 | GAMM Mitteilungen | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 09367195, 15222608 | 0.988 |
| 167 | Journal of Nuclear Materials | Elsevier B.V. | 223115 | 0.984 |
| 168 | IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 24697311 | 0.978 |
| 169 | Nanoscale Advances | Royal Society of Chemistry | 25160230 | 0.974 |
| 170 | Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616587, 07413335 | 0.973 |
| 171 | Optics Letters | Optica Publishing Group | 01469592, 15394794 | 0.971 |
| 172 | Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics | Elsevier Ltd | 02668920, 18784275 | 0.97 |
| 173 | Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics | Springer | 23673192 | 0.961 |
| 174 | Chinese Physics C | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 16741137 | 0.96 |
| 175 | Liquid Crystals Reviews | Taylor and Francis Inc. | 21680418, 21680396 | 0.96 |
| 176 | Matter and Radiation at Extremes | American Institute of Physics | 24682047, 2468080X | 0.953 |
| 177 | Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Physik | Birkhauser Verlag Basel | 14209039, 00442275 | 0.953 |
| 178 | Annales Henri Poincare | Birkhauser Verlag Basel | 14240637, 14240661 | 0.947 |
| 179 | Journal of Semiconductors | IOS Press BV | 16744926 | 0.945 |
| 180 | Physical Review Materials | American Physical Society | 24759953 | 0.945 |
| 181 | Materials Research Bulletin | Elsevier Ltd | 255408 | 0.943 |
| 182 | Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena | Elsevier B.V. | 1672789 | 0.94 |
| 183 | IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 189375 | 0.939 |
| 184 | New Journal of Physics | Institute of Physics | 13672630 | 0.936 |
| 185 | Journal of Molecular Liquids | Elsevier B.V. | 18733166, 01677322 | 0.935 |
| 186 | Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation with Applications | 27918564 | 0.932 | |
| 187 | International Journal of Multiphase Flow | Elsevier B.V. | 3019322 | 0.93 |
| 188 | Optics Express | Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) | 10944087 | 0.93 |
| 189 | Fire Safety Journal | Elsevier Ltd | 3797112 | 0.914 |
| 190 | Photonic Sensors | Springer China | 21907439, 16749251 | 0.908 |
| 191 | Multiscale Modeling and Simulation | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publications | 15403459, 15403467 | 0.906 |
| 192 | Journal of Spectral Theory | European Mathematical Society Publishing House | 1664039X, 16640403 | 0.9 |
| 193 | Optics and Lasers in Engineering | Elsevier Ltd | 1438166 | 0.9 |
| 194 | Physics of Fluids | American Institute of Physics | 10706631, 10897666 | 0.9 |
| 195 | Inverse Problems | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 2665611 | 0.898 |
| 196 | Applied Physics Letters | American Institute of Physics | 10773118, 00036951 | 0.896 |
| 197 | Biomedical Optics Express | Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) | 21567085 | 0.896 |
| 198 | Journal of Noncommutative Geometry | European Mathematical Society Publishing House | 16616960, 16616952 | 0.894 |
| 199 | Letters in Mathematical Physics | Springer Netherlands | 03779017, 15730530 | 0.892 |
| 200 | Experimental and Computational Multiphase Flow | Tsinghua University Press | 26618877, 26618869 | 0.891 |