Physical Review Letters: impact and ranking
Physical Review Letters has a 2-year mean citedness of 9.05 in OpenAlex, which ranks #483 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 978. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 9.05 #483 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 978 #9 of 18,122
- Citations
- 13.5M #6 of 18,122
- Works
- 146k 91.9 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Physical Review Letters?
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 Letters: 9.05, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Physical Review Letters #483 of 18,122 journals, in the top 3%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Physical Review Letters?
OpenAlex gives Physical Review Letters an h-index of 978: 978 of its papers have each been cited at least 978 times. That ranks #9 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Physical Review Letters publish?
OpenAlex records 146,416 works in Physical Review Letters from 1845 to 2026, cited 13,459,952 times in all, 91.9 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #6 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0031-9007
- In OpenAlex
- 1845 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Physical Review Letters as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,750.
- Website
- journals.aps.org/prl
- OpenAlex record
- S24807848
Journals ranked near Physical Review Letters
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Physical Review Letters on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 473 | Journal of Membrane Science | 9.11 | 347 |
| 474 | Small | 9.11 | 350 |
| 480 | Academy of Management Review | 9.09 | 573 |
| 497 | Strategic Management Journal | 8.92 | 519 |
| 505 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 8.84 | 1,165 |
| 512 | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces | 8.79 | 375 |
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.