This web page aims to provide a latest list of top Physics%20and%20Astronomy 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 Nature Switzerland AG | 25225820 | 9.34 |
| 2 | Advances in Optics and Photonics | Optica Publishing Group | 19438206 | 8.332 |
| 3 | Nature Physics | Nature Publishing Group | 17452473 | 7.955 |
| 4 | Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports | Elsevier BV | 0927796X | 6.842 |
| 5 | Physical Review X | American Physical Society | 21603308 | 6.267 |
| 6 | Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15454479, 00664189 | 6.237 |
| 7 | Materials Today | Elsevier | 13697021 | 6.194 |
| 8 | Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science | Annual Reviews Inc. | 1638998 | 5.985 |
| 9 | Physics Reports | Elsevier | 3701573 | 5.691 |
| 10 | Advanced Functional Materials | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 1616301X | 5.565 |
| 11 | Light: Science and Applications | Nature Publishing Group | 20477538 | 5.406 |
| 12 | Nature Communications | Nature Publishing Group | 20411723 | 5.116 |
| 13 | Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics | Elsevier | 1466410 | 4.855 |
| 14 | Advanced Photonics | SPIE | 25775421 | 4.787 |
| 15 | ACS Nano | American Chemical Society | 1936086X, 19360851 | 4.728 |
| 16 | Reports on Progress in Physics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616633, 00344885 | 4.467 |
| 17 | PhotoniX | Springer | 26621991 | 4.445 |
| 18 | Annals of PDE | Springer Science + Business Media | 21992576, 25245317 | 4.425 |
| 19 | PRX Quantum | American Physical Society | 26913399 | 4.415 |
| 20 | Applied Physics Reviews | AIP Publishing LLC | 19319401 | 4.143 |
| 21 | Optica | Optica Publishing Group | 23342536 | 4.096 |
| 22 | Advanced Science | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 21983844 | 4.086 |
| 23 | Nano Letters | American Chemical Society | 15306992, 15306984 | 3.54 |
| 24 | AVS Quantum Science | American Institute of Physics | 26390213 | 3.413 |
| 25 | ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | Elsevier | 9242716 | 3.308 |
| 26 | npj Quantum Information | Nature Partner Journals | 20566387 | 3.305 |
| 27 | Surface Science Reports | Elsevier | 01675729, 1879274X | 3.204 |
| 28 | Laser and Photonics Reviews | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 18638880, 18638899 | 3.147 |
| 29 | Physical Review Letters | American Physical Society | 10797114, 00319007 | 3.118 |
| 30 | IEEE Wireless Communications Letters | IEEE Communications Society | 21622345, 21622337 | 3.092 |
| 31 | IUCrJ | International Union of Crystallography | 20522525 | 3.072 |
| 32 | Reviews of Modern Physics | American Physical Society | 00346861, 15390756 | 20.343 |
| 33 | Opto-Electronic Advances | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 20964579 | 2.913 |
| 34 | Reviews in Physics | Elsevier BV | 24054283 | 2.811 |
| 35 | Materials Today Physics | Elsevier Ltd. | 25425293 | 2.767 |
| 36 | Quantum | Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 2521327X | 2.702 |
| 37 | npj 2D Materials and Applications | Nature Publishing Group | 23977132 | 2.665 |
| 38 | Cell Reports Physical Science | Cell Press | 26663864 | 2.598 |
| 39 | Advanced Optical Materials | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 21951071 | 2.524 |
| 40 | Progress in Quantum Electronics | Elsevier Ltd. | 796727 | 2.513 |
| 41 | NPG Asia Materials | Nature Publishing Group | 18844057, 18844049 | 2.501 |
| 42 | Nano Research | Tsinghua University Press | 19980124, 19980000 | 2.486 |
| 43 | Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (C) Analyse Non Lineaire | European Mathematical Society Publishing House | 18731430, 02941449 | 2.473 |
| 44 | Forum of Mathematics, Pi | Cambridge University Press | 20505086 | 2.436 |
| 45 | Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy | Elsevier | 00796565, 18733301 | 2.423 |
| 46 | Quantum Science and Technology | Institute of Physics Publishing | 20589565 | 2.341 |
| 47 | Materials Today Nano | Elsevier Ltd. | 25888420 | 2.338 |
| 48 | IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15582221, 0018926X | 2.317 |
| 49 | Solar RRL | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 2367198X | 2.24 |
| 50 | npj Quantum Materials | Nature Publishing Group | 23974648 | 2.221 |
| 51 | Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | Elsevier | 457825 | 2.218 |
| 52 | Photoacoustics | Elsevier GmbH | 22135979 | 2.134 |
| 53 | Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 10627995, 1099159X | 2.132 |
| 54 | Photonics Research | Optica Publishing Group | 23279125 | 2.124 |
| 55 | ACS Photonics | American Chemical Society | 23304022 | 2.113 |
| 56 | Nanophotonics | Walter de Gruyter | 21928614, 21928606 | 2.013 |
| 57 | Nature Materials | Nature Publishing Group | 14764660, 14761122 | 13.874 |
| 58 | Nature Nanotechnology | Nature Publishing Group | 17483387, 17483395 | 13.141 |
| 59 | Advances in Physics | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14606976, 00018732 | 12.034 |
| 60 | Nature Photonics | Nature Publishing Group | 17494885 | 11.774 |
| 61 | Living Reviews in Relativity | Springer International Publishing AG | 14338351, 23673613 | 11.561 |
| 62 | Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 19475454, 19475462 | 10.644 |
| 63 | Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics | Oxford University Press | 20503911 | 1.958 |
| 64 | APL Photonics | AIP Publishing LLC | 23780967 | 1.949 |
| 65 | SciPost Physics | SciPost Foundation | 25424653 | 1.897 |
| 66 | Advances in Physics: X | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 23746149 | 1.895 |
| 67 | IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15579670, 00189480 | 1.892 |
| 68 | Physics of Life Reviews | Elsevier | 18731457, 15710645 | 1.848 |
| 69 | Communications Physics | Springer Nature | 23993650 | 1.844 |
| 70 | Physical Review Research | American Physical Society | 26431564 | 1.824 |
| 71 | Selecta Mathematica, New Series | Birkhauser Verlag Basel | 10221824 | 1.784 |
| 72 | Scripta Materialia | Elsevier Ltd. | 13596462 | 1.756 |
| 73 | Journal of Computational Physics | Academic Press Inc. | 10902716, 00219991 | 1.753 |
| 74 | Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics | Elsevier | 3702693 | 1.704 |
| 75 | Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | Elsevier Ltd. | 225096 | 1.691 |
| 76 | Progress in Surface Science | Elsevier Ltd. | 796816 | 1.677 |
| 77 | Advanced Nonlinear Studies | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG | 21690375, 15361365 | 1.676 |
| 78 | Materials Science & Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing | Elsevier BV | 9215093 | 1.667 |
| 79 | International Journal of Thermofluids | Elsevier BV | 26662027 | 1.643 |
| 80 | Physical Review D | American Physical Society | 24700010, 24700029 | 1.639 |
| 81 | Progress in Solid State Chemistry | Elsevier Ltd. | 796786 | 1.633 |
| 82 | 2D Materials | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 20531583 | 1.631 |
| 83 | Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 15476561, 10408436 | 1.627 |
| 84 | Quantum Topology | European Mathematical Society Publishing House | 1664073X, 1663487X | 1.585 |
| 85 | Synthesis Lectures on Image, Video, and Multimedia Processing | Morgan and Claypool Publishers | 15598136 | 1.584 |
| 86 | Computing and Software for Big Science | Springer Nature | 25102044 | 1.578 |
| 87 | Advanced Quantum Technologies | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 25119044 | 1.577 |
| 88 | International Journal of Mechanical Sciences | Elsevier Ltd. | 207403 | 1.532 |
| 89 | European Physical Journal C | Springer New York | 14346052, 14346044 | 1.526 |
| 90 | Microsystems and Nanoengineering | Nature Publishing Group | 20557434 | 1.515 |
| 91 | Journal of Lightwave Technology | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15582213, 07338724 | 1.514 |
| 92 | SciPost Physics Core | Institute of Economic Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University | 26669366 | 1.494 |
| 93 | Physical Review Applied | American Physical Society | 23317019 | 1.492 |
| 94 | Nonlinearity | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 09517715, 13616544 | 1.491 |
| 95 | Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical | Elsevier | 09254005, 19448201 | 1.482 |
| 96 | Physical Review B | American Physical Society | 24699950, 24699969 | 1.468 |
| 97 | Nuclear Fusion | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 17414326, 00295515 | 1.447 |
| 98 | Nuclear Data Sheets | Academic Press Inc. | 00903752, 10959904 | 1.432 |
| 99 | JPhys Materials | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 25157639 | 1.423 |
| 100 | Communications in Mathematical Physics | Springer New York | 14320916, 00103616 | 1.413 |
| 101 | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Cambridge University Press | 14697645, 00221120 | 1.409 |
| 102 | Forum of Mathematics, Sigma | Cambridge University Press | 20505094 | 1.402 |
| 103 | Mass Spectrometry Reviews | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 10982787, 02777037 | 1.395 |
| 104 | Chaos, Solitons and Fractals | Elsevier Ltd. | 9600779 | 1.393 |
| 105 | Journal of Sound and Vibration | Academic Press Inc. | 10958568, 0022460X | 1.376 |
| 106 | International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer | Elsevier Ltd. | 179310 | 1.369 |
| 107 | Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616471, 09543899 | 1.357 |
| 108 | Contemporary Physics | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 00107514, 13665812 | 1.342 |
| 109 | Rare Metals | Springer International Publishing AG | 10010521, 18677185 | 1.326 |
| 110 | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | Elsevier Ltd. | 3603199 | 1.318 |