Physical Review A: impact and ranking
Physical Review A has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.00 in OpenAlex, which ranks #4,029 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 457. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.00 #4,029 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 457 #131 of 18,122
- Citations
- 3.5M #34 of 18,122
- Works
- 101k 35.0 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Physical Review A?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Physical Review A: 3.00, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Physical Review A #4,029 of 18,122 journals, in the top 22%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Physical Review A?
OpenAlex gives Physical Review A an h-index of 457: 457 of its papers have each been cited at least 457 times. That ranks #131 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Physical Review A publish?
OpenAlex records 101,200 works in Physical Review A from 1883 to 2026, cited 3,544,480 times in all, 35.0 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #34 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Physical Review A
- Publisher
- American Physical Society
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0556-2791
- In OpenAlex
- 1883 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Physical Review A as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$2,675.
- Website
- journals.aps.org/pra
- OpenAlex record
- S164566984
Journals ranked near Physical Review A
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Physical Review A on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,983 | Physics Letters A | 3.03 | 269 |
| 4,001 | European Journal of Cancer | 3.02 | 298 |
| 4,027 | American Heart Journal | 3.00 | 297 |
| 4,030 | Neuroscience | 3.00 | 370 |
| 4,036 | Virology | 3.00 | 283 |
| 4,038 | The Journal of Physical Chemistry A | 2.99 | 284 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.