Reviews of Modern Physics: impact and ranking
Reviews of Modern Physics has a 2-year mean citedness of 35.2 in OpenAlex, which ranks #13 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 618. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 35.2 #13 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 618 #36 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.5M #204 of 18,122
- Works
- 3.7k 411.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Reviews of Modern Physics?
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 Reviews of Modern Physics: 35.2, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Reviews of Modern Physics #13 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.1%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Reviews of Modern Physics?
OpenAlex gives Reviews of Modern Physics an h-index of 618: 618 of its papers have each been cited at least 618 times. That ranks #36 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Reviews of Modern Physics publish?
OpenAlex records 3,664 works in Reviews of Modern Physics from 1929 to 2026, cited 1,506,645 times in all, 411.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #204 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Reviews of Modern Physics
- Publisher
- American Physical Society
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0034-6861
- In OpenAlex
- 1929 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Reviews of Modern Physics as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- rmp.aps.org
- OpenAlex record
- S73260565
Journals ranked near Reviews of Modern Physics
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Reviews of Modern Physics on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Chemical Society Reviews | 45.5 | 761 |
| 6 | Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | 44.2 | 621 |
| 9 | Cell | 41.4 | 1,217 |
| 15 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 35.0 | 486 |
| 16 | Cancer Cell | 34.8 | 484 |
| 20 | Nature Medicine | 32.8 | 762 |
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.