Physics Letters A: impact and ranking
Physics Letters A has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.03 in OpenAlex, which ranks #3,983 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 269. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.03 #3,983 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 269 #701 of 18,122
- Citations
- 995k #385 of 18,122
- Works
- 54k 18.6 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Physics Letters 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 Physics Letters A: 3.03, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Physics Letters A #3,983 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 Physics Letters A?
OpenAlex gives Physics Letters A an h-index of 269: 269 of its papers have each been cited at least 269 times. That ranks #701 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Physics Letters A publish?
OpenAlex records 53,614 works in Physics Letters A from 1962 to 2026, cited 995,244 times in all, 18.6 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #385 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Physics Letters A
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- ISSN-L
- 0375-9601
- In OpenAlex
- 1962 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Physics Letters A as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$2,150.
- OpenAlex record
- S104875562
Journals ranked near Physics Letters A
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Physics Letters A on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,883 | Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology | 3.09 | 340 |
| 3,887 | Geophysical Journal International | 3.09 | 293 |
| 3,935 | Journal of Nutrition | 3.06 | 372 |
| 4,001 | European Journal of Cancer | 3.02 | 298 |
| 4,027 | American Heart Journal | 3.00 | 297 |
| 4,029 | Physical Review A | 3.00 | 457 |
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.