Physics Reports: impact and ranking
Physics Reports has a 2-year mean citedness of 16.2 in OpenAlex, which ranks #119 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 462. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 16.2 #119 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 462 #124 of 18,122
- Citations
- 848k #455 of 18,122
- Works
- 6.1k 139.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Physics Reports?
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 Reports: 16.2, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Physics Reports #119 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.7%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Physics Reports?
OpenAlex gives Physics Reports an h-index of 462: 462 of its papers have each been cited at least 462 times. That ranks #124 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Physics Reports publish?
OpenAlex records 6,085 works in Physics Reports from 1971 to 2026, cited 848,056 times in all, 139.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #455 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Physics Reports
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- Netherlands
- ISSN-L
- 0370-1573
- In OpenAlex
- 1971 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Physics Reports as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$6,240.
- OpenAlex record
- S48633963
Journals ranked near Physics Reports
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Physics Reports on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 109 | The Journal of Finance | 16.8 | 672 |
| 111 | American Economic Review | 16.6 | 616 |
| 112 | Applied Catalysis B: Environmental | 16.6 | 397 |
| 122 | Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews | 16.1 | 434 |
| 126 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 15.9 | 560 |
| 131 | Angewandte Chemie International Edition | 15.7 | 733 |
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.