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 | 9.588 |
| 2 | Advances in Optics and Photonics | Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) | 19438206 | 8.026 |
| 3 | eLight | Springer | 26628643, 20971710 | 7.423 |
| 4 | Nature Physics | Nature Research | 17452473, 17452481 | 6.581 |
| 5 | Physical Review X | American Physical Society | 21603308 | 6.494 |
| 6 | Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15454479, 00664189 | 6.119 |
| 7 | Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 1466410 | 5.361 |
| 8 | Physics Reports | Elsevier B.V. | 3701573 | 5.32 |
| 9 | PRX Quantum | American Physical Society | 26913399 | 5.222 |
| 10 | Advanced Functional Materials | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 16163028, 1616301X | 5.022 |
| 11 | Light: Science and Applications | Springer Nature | 20477538, 20955545 | 4.946 |
| 12 | Materials Today | Elsevier B.V. | 13697021, 18734103 | 4.909 |
| 13 | Nature Communications | Nature Research | 20411723 | 4.904 |
| 14 | Advanced Photonics | SPIE | 25775421 | 4.365 |
| 15 | Materials Science and Engineering R: Reports | Elsevier B.V. | 0927796X | 4.184 |
| 16 | ACS Nano | American Chemical Society | 1936086X, 19360851 | 4.102 |
| 17 | Reports on Progress in Physics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616633, 00344885 | 3.983 |
| 18 | PhotoniX | Springer International Publishing | 26621991 | 3.949 |
| 19 | Forum of Mathematics, Pi | Cambridge University Press | 20505086 | 3.787 |
| 20 | ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | Elsevier B.V. | 9242716 | 3.694 |
| 21 | Opto-Electronic Science | 20970382 | 3.494 | |
| 22 | Superconductivity | Elsevier B.V. | 27728307 | 3.472 |
| 23 | Annals of PDE | Springer Science + Business Media | 21992576, 25245317 | 3.464 |
| 24 | Opto-Electronic Advances | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 20964579 | 3.315 |
| 25 | Advanced Science | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 21983844 | 3.288 |
| 26 | Optica | Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) | 23342536 | 2.995 |
| 27 | Probability and Mathematical Physics | Mathematical Sciences Publishers | 26900998, 26901005 | 2.819 |
| 28 | Physical Review Letters | American Physical Society | 10797114, 00319007 | 2.79 |
| 29 | Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (C) Analyse Non Lineaire | European Mathematical Society Publishing House | 18731430, 02941449 | 2.783 |
| 30 | npj Spintronics | Springer Nature | 29482119 | 2.78 |
| 31 | npj Quantum Information | Nature Partner Journals | 20566387 | 2.697 |
| 32 | Nano Letters | American Chemical Society | 15306992, 15306984 | 2.594 |
| 33 | Progress in Quantum Electronics | Elsevier Ltd | 796727 | 2.589 |
| 34 | Applied Physics Reviews | American Institute of Physics | 19319401 | 2.54 |
| 35 | Advances in Physics: X | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 23746149 | 2.522 |
| 36 | Laser and Photonics Reviews | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 18638880, 18638899 | 2.455 |
| 37 | npj 2D Materials and Applications | Nature Publishing Group | 23977132 | 2.384 |
| 38 | Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science | Annual Reviews Inc. | 1638998 | 2.362 |
| 39 | Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | Elsevier B.V. | 457825 | 2.323 |
| 40 | npj Quantum Materials | Nature Publishing Group | 23974648 | 2.285 |
| 41 | NPJ Nanophotonics | Springer Nature | 2948216X | 2.171 |
| 42 | International Journal of Mechanical Sciences | Elsevier Ltd | 207403 | 2.101 |
| 43 | Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 10627995, 1099159X | 2.091 |
| 44 | Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy | Elsevier B.V. | 00796565, 18733301 | 2.09 |
| 45 | Quantum | Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 2521327X | 2.068 |
| 46 | Advanced Nonlinear Studies | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 21690375, 15361365 | 2.066 |
| 47 | Device | Cell Press | 26669986 | 2.066 |
| 48 | Physics of Life Reviews | Elsevier B.V. | 18731457, 15710645 | 2.064 |
| 49 | Computing and Software for Big Science | Springer Nature | 25102044 | 2.055 |
| 50 | Microsystems and Nanoengineering | Nature Publishing Group | 20557434 | 2.007 |
| 51 | Living Reviews in Relativity | Springer International Publishing AG | 14338351, 23673613 | 14.227 |
| 52 | Nature Materials | Nature Publishing Group | 14764660, 14761122 | 13.131 |
| 53 | Nature Nanotechnology | Nature Research | 17483387, 17483395 | 13.056 |
| 54 | Reviews of Modern Physics | American Physical Society | 00346861, 15390756 | 13.041 |
| 55 | Nature Photonics | Nature Research | 17494885, 17494893 | 12.491 |
| 56 | Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 19475454, 19475462 | 10.044 |
| 57 | Innovation Materials | Innovation Press | 29598737 | 1.987 |
| 58 | Nano Research | Tsinghua University Press | 19980124, 19980000 | 1.98 |
| 59 | Selecta Mathematica, New Series | Springer International Publishing | 10221824, 14209020 | 1.925 |
| 60 | IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15582221, 0018926X | 1.924 |
| 61 | Combustion and Flame | Elsevier Inc. | 00102180, 15562921 | 1.899 |
| 62 | IEEE Wireless Communications Letters | IEEE Communications Society | 21622345, 21622337 | 1.894 |
| 63 | Rare Metals | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 10010521, 18677185 | 1.887 |
| 64 | SciPost Physics Lecture Notes | SciPost Foundation | 25901990 | 1.887 |
| 65 | IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15579670, 00189480 | 1.867 |
| 66 | Journal of High Energy Astrophysics | Elsevier B.V. | 22144048 | 1.859 |
| 67 | Materials Today Physics | Elsevier Ltd | 25425293 | 1.841 |
| 68 | Photonics Research | Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) | 23279125 | 1.836 |
| 69 | Materials Science and Engineering: A | Elsevier Ltd | 9215093 | 1.83 |
| 70 | ACS Photonics | American Chemical Society | 23304022 | 1.816 |
| 71 | Reviews in Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 24054283 | 1.793 |
| 72 | Cell Reports Physical Science | Cell Press | 26663864 | 1.784 |
| 73 | Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 15476561, 10408436 | 1.766 |
| 74 | Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | Elsevier Ltd | 225096 | 1.766 |
| 75 | NPG Asia Materials | Nature Publishing Group | 18844057, 18844049 | 1.759 |
| 76 | Advanced Optical Materials | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 21951071 | 1.713 |
| 77 | Surface Science Reports | Elsevier B.V. | 01675729, 1879274X | 1.706 |
| 78 | Nanophotonics | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 21928614, 21928606 | 1.691 |
| 79 | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | Elsevier Ltd | 3603199 | 1.659 |
| 80 | Communications Physics | Springer Nature | 23993650 | 1.641 |
| 81 | Forum of Mathematics, Sigma | Cambridge University Press | 20505094 | 1.635 |
| 82 | Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science - Proceedings | IEEE Computer Society | 2725428 | 1.613 |
| 83 | JPhys Photonics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 25157647 | 1.611 |
| 84 | Progress in Surface Science | Elsevier Ltd | 796816 | 1.588 |
| 85 | Physical Review Physics Education Research | American Physical Society | 24699896 | 1.586 |
| 86 | Ultrafast Science | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 20970331, 27658791 | 1.573 |
| 87 | Computer Physics Communications | Elsevier B.V. | 104655 | 1.564 |
| 88 | Photoacoustics | Elsevier GmbH | 22135979 | 1.557 |
| 89 | Journal of Computational Physics | Academic Press Inc. | 10902716, 00219991 | 1.552 |
| 90 | La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 18269850, 0393697X | 1.545 |
| 91 | ISPRS Open Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | Elsevier B.V. | 26673932 | 1.543 |
| 92 | PRX Energy | American Physical Society | 27685608 | 1.535 |
| 93 | Pure and Applied Analysis | Mathematical Sciences Publishers | 25785885, 25785893 | 1.507 |
| 94 | Scripta Materialia | Acta Materialia Inc | 13596462 | 1.505 |
| 95 | SciPost Physics | SciPost Foundation | 25424653 | 1.502 |
| 96 | Quantum Science and Technology | Institute of Physics Publishing | 20589565 | 1.492 |
| 97 | APL Photonics | American Institute of Physics | 23780967 | 1.488 |
| 98 | Materials Today Nano | Elsevier Ltd | 25888420 | 1.474 |
| 99 | ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing | Association for Computing Machinery | 26436817 | 1.45 |
| 100 | Mass Spectrometry Reviews | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 10982787, 02777037 | 1.439 |
| 101 | Physical Review Research | American Physical Society | 26431564 | 1.387 |
| 102 | Progress in Solid State Chemistry | Elsevier Ltd | 796786 | 1.352 |
| 103 | International Journal of Thermofluids | Elsevier B.V. | 26662027 | 1.348 |
| 104 | Superconductor Science and Technology | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 09532048, 13616668 | 1.344 |
| 105 | Journal of Sound and Vibration | Academic Press | 10958568, 0022460X | 1.331 |
| 106 | Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical | Elsevier B.V. | 09254005, 19448201 | 1.331 |
| 107 | Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics | Elsevier B.V. | 1678442 | 1.317 |
| 108 | Wear | Elsevier B.V. | 431648 | 1.304 |
| 109 | Materials Characterization | Elsevier Inc. | 10445803 | 1.291 |
| 110 | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Cambridge University Press | 14697645, 00221120 | 1.283 |
| 111 | Journal of Lightwave Technology | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15582213, 07338724 | 1.276 |
| 112 | Physical Review D | American Physical Society | 24700010, 24700029 | 1.272 |
| 113 | Nuclear Fusion | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 17414326, 00295515 | 1.27 |
| 114 | MRS Bulletin | Springer Nature | 08837694, 19381425 | 1.266 |
| 115 | Communications in Mathematical Physics | Springer New York | 14320916, 00103616 | 1.254 |
| 116 | Physical Review Applied | American Physical Society | 23317019 | 1.253 |
| 117 | Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 3702693 | 1.249 |
| 118 | Polymer Degradation and Stability | Elsevier Ltd | 1413910 | 1.246 |
| 119 | Physical Review B | American Physical Society | 24699950, 24699969 | 1.235 |
| 120 | Advanced Devices and Instrumentation | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 27679713 | 1.225 |
| 121 | International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer | Elsevier Ltd | 179310 | 1.224 |
| 122 | Surface and Coatings Technology | Elsevier B.V. | 2578972 | 1.219 |
| 123 | NDT and E International | Elsevier Ltd | 9638695 | 1.2 |
| 124 | Fortschritte der Physik | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 15213978, 00158208 | 1.192 |
| 125 | Frontiers in Remote Sensing | Frontiers Media SA | 26736187 | 1.192 |
| 126 | Nonlinearity | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 09517715, 13616544 | 1.19 |
| 127 | Food Physics | KeAi Publishing Communications Ltd. | 29500699 | 1.174 |
| 128 | Journal of the Energy Institute | Elsevier B.V. | 17460220, 17439671 | 1.169 |
| 129 | European Physical Journal C | 14346052, 14346044 | 1.161 | |
| 130 | Solar RRL | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 2367198X | 1.161 |
| 131 | Liquid Crystals Reviews | Taylor and Francis Inc. | 21680418, 21680396 | 1.149 |
| 132 | Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation | Elsevier B.V. | 2632241 | 1.145 |
| 133 | Experimental and Computational Multiphase Flow | Tsinghua University Press | 26618877, 26618869 | 1.13 |
| 134 | npj Microgravity | Nature Publishing Group | 23738065 | 1.124 |
| 135 | Chaos, Solitons and Fractals | Elsevier Ltd | 9600779 | 1.123 |
| 136 | AVS Quantum Science | American Institute of Physics | 26390213 | 1.122 |
| 137 | Physical Review C | American Physical Society | 24699985, 24699993 | 1.12 |
| 138 | Applied Surface Science | Elsevier B.V. | 1694332 | 1.117 |
| 139 | Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics | Springer International Publishing | 14226928, 14226952 | 1.113 |
| 140 | 2D Materials | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 20531583 | 1.09 |
| 141 | Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics | Oxford University Press | 20503911 | 1.087 |
| 142 | Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy | Science China Press | 18691927, 16747348 | 1.077 |
| 143 | IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 1077260X, 15584542 | 1.073 |
| 144 | Progress in Electromagnetics Research | Electromagnetics Academy | 15598985, 10704698 | 1.064 |
| 145 | IUCrJ | International Union of Crystallography | 20522525 | 1.061 |
| 146 | Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China (English Edition) | Nonferrous Metals Society of China | 10036326, 22103384 | 1.059 |
| 147 | European Polymer Journal | Elsevier Ltd | 143057 | 1.058 |
| 148 | Advances in Physics | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14606976, 00018732 | 1.056 |
| 149 | Multiscale Modeling and Simulation | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publications | 15403459, 15403467 | 1.055 |
| 150 | Technical Digest - International Electron Devices Meeting | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 1631918 | 1.046 |
| 151 | IEEE Journal of Microwaves | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 26928388 | 1.045 |
| 152 | Frontiers of Physics | Higher Education Press Limited Company | 20950462, 20950470 | 1.033 |
| 153 | High Power Laser Science and Engineering | Cambridge University Press | 20954719, 20523289 | 1.033 |
| 154 | Materials for Quantum Technology | Institute of Physics | 26334356 | 1.033 |
| 155 | AAPPS Bulletin | Springer | 02182203, 23094710 | 1.029 |
| 156 | Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables | Elsevier Inc. | 10902090, 0092640X | 1.024 |
| 157 | European Journal of Mechanics, A/Solids | Elsevier B.V. | 9977538 | 1.023 |
| 158 | International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer | Elsevier Ltd | 7351933 | 1.023 |
| 159 | Classical and Quantum Gravity | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616382, 02649381 | 1.02 |
| 160 | IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 00189375, 1558187X | 1.013 |
| 161 | Nuclear Science and Techniques | Springer | 22103147, 10018042 | 1.007 |
| 162 | International Journal of Solids and Structures | Elsevier Ltd | 207683 | 1.002 |
| 163 | Sensors and Actuators Reports | Elsevier B.V. | 26660539 | 0.999 |
| 164 | Chinese Physics Letters | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 17413540, 0256307X | 0.998 |
| 165 | Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616587, 07413335 | 0.985 |
| 166 | IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine | IEEE Computer Society | 15584143, 10459243 | 0.975 |
| 167 | JPhys Materials | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 25157639 | 0.972 |
| 168 | EPJ Quantum Technology | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 26624400, 21960763 | 0.971 |
| 169 | Discover Nano | Springer | 27319229 | 0.961 |
| 170 | Quantum Frontiers | Springer International Publishing | 27316106 | 0.957 |
| 171 | Nanoscale Advances | Royal Society of Chemistry | 25160230 | 0.951 |
| 172 | ChemPhysMater | KeAi Communications Co. | 27725715, 20970323 | 0.948 |
| 173 | Journal of Spectral Theory | European Mathematical Society Publishing House | 1664039X, 16640403 | 0.946 |
| 174 | Ultramicroscopy | Elsevier B.V. | 03043991, 18792723 | 0.946 |
| 175 | IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 26891808 | 0.942 |
| 176 | Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616471, 09543899 | 0.941 |
| 177 | Journal of Synchrotron Radiation | International Union of Crystallography | 16005775, 09090495 | 0.937 |
| 178 | Surfaces and Interfaces | Elsevier B.V. | 24680230 | 0.93 |
| 179 | Advances in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics | Academic Press Inc. | 1049250X | 0.928 |
| 180 | Inverse Problems | Institute of Physics | 13616420, 02665611 | 0.926 |
| 181 | Annales Henri Poincare | Birkhauser | 14240637, 14240661 | 0.923 |
| 182 | Optics and Laser Technology | Elsevier Ltd | 303992 | 0.92 |
| 183 | Quantum Topology | European Mathematical Society Publishing House | 1664073X, 1663487X | 0.918 |
| 184 | Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry | Frontiers Media SA | 26734486 | 0.916 |
| 185 | Physical Review A | American Physical Society | 24699934, 24699926 | 0.914 |
| 186 | Fire Safety Journal | Elsevier Ltd | 3797112 | 0.913 |
| 187 | Matter and Radiation at Extremes | American Institute of Physics | 24682047, 2468080X | 0.906 |
| 188 | International Journal of Thermal Sciences | Elsevier Masson s.r.l. | 12900729 | 0.903 |
| 189 | SciPost Physics Core | SciPost Foundation | 26669366 | 0.902 |
| 190 | Journal of Plasma Physics | Cambridge University Press | 00223778, 14697807 | 0.897 |
| 191 | IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 27719588, 2771957X | 0.893 |
| 192 | Physical Review Materials | American Physical Society | 24759953 | 0.892 |
| 193 | Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics | Elsevier Ltd | 02668920, 18784275 | 0.892 |
| 194 | Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics | Springer New York | 09354964, 14322250 | 0.886 |
| 195 | Nano-Structures and Nano-Objects | Elsevier B.V. | 2352507X | 0.881 |
| 196 | Journal of Nuclear Materials | Elsevier B.V. | 223115 | 0.879 |
| 197 | Journal of Chemical Physics | American Institute of Physics | 10897690, 00219606 | 0.877 |
| 198 | Journal of Molecular Liquids | Elsevier B.V. | 18733166, 01677322 | 0.876 |
| 199 | Communications in Computational Physics | Global Science Press | 18152406, 19917120 | 0.872 |
| 200 | Materials Research Bulletin | Elsevier Ltd | 255408 | 0.867 |
| 201 | Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics | Springer | 23673192 | 0.866 |
| 202 | Applied Physics Letters | American Institute of Physics | 10773118, 00036951 | 0.856 |
| 203 | Journal of Hydrodynamics | Springer | 10016058, 18780342 | 0.856 |
| 204 | Microporous and Mesoporous Materials | Elsevier B.V. | 13871811 | 0.854 |
| 205 | Optics Letters | Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) | 01469592, 15394794 | 0.849 |
| 206 | Optics Express | Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) | 10944087 | 0.836 |
| 207 | Biomedical Optics Express | Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) | 21567085 | 0.831 |
| 208 | International Journal of Multiphase Flow | Elsevier B.V. | 3019322 | 0.829 |
| 209 | Metals and Materials International | Korean Institute of Metals and Materials | 15989623, 20054149 | 0.827 |
| 210 | Optics and Lasers in Engineering | Elsevier Ltd | 1438166 | 0.824 |