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Physical Review A
Physics and astronomy
Among the 48 physics and astronomy journals in this index it has the 8th highest h-index and the 29th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
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Where its authors come from
Share of the 9 931 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| China | 31% |
| United States | 19% |
| Germany | 11% |
| India | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 6% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 99% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Quantum Information and Cryptography | 19% |
| Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates | 11% |
| Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture | 11% |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics | 7% |
| Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications | 6% |
| Quantum Mechanics and Applications | 6% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning for quantum technologies (2023, 160 citations)
- Performance comparison of optimization methods on variational quantum algorithms (2023, 112 citations)
- Quantum simulation of partial differential equations: Applications and detailed analysis (2023, 95 citations)
- Stabilizer entropies are monotones for magic-state resource theory (2024, 91 citations)
- Optimal control methods for quantum batteries (2023, 86 citations)
Official rankings
Many evaluations use a national or commercial list rather than raw citation counts. We don't reproduce those lists here; check the journal on each one directly (search for ISSN 0556-2791):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
Similar journals
- Physical Review Letters
- Nature Physics
- Reviews of Modern Physics
- Reports on Progress in Physics
- IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
- Physics Reports
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