Physics Today: impact and ranking
Physics Today has a 2-year mean citedness of 0.70 in OpenAlex, which ranks #11,301 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 461. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.70 #11,301 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 461 #125 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1M #381 of 18,122
- Works
- 55k 18.3 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Physics Today?
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 Today: 0.70, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Physics Today #11,301 of 18,122 journals, in the top 62%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Physics Today?
OpenAlex gives Physics Today an h-index of 461: 461 of its papers have each been cited at least 461 times. That ranks #125 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Physics Today publish?
OpenAlex records 54,613 works in Physics Today from 1930 to 2026, cited 1,000,838 times in all, 18.3 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #381 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Physics Today
- Publisher
- AIP Publishing
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0031-9228
- In OpenAlex
- 1930 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Physics Today as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.physicstoday.org
- OpenAlex record
- S180907581
Journals ranked near Physics Today
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Physics Today on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11,033 | CHEST Journal | 0.75 | 407 |
| 11,170 | SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series | 0.72 | 209 |
| 11,171 | Gastroenterology | 0.72 | 585 |
| 11,460 | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 0.66 | 508 |
| 11,632 | The Journal of Immunology | 0.63 | 530 |
| 11,682 | The American Journal of Gastroenterology | 0.62 | 336 |
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.