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Physical Review Letters
Physics and astronomy
Among the 48 physics and astronomy journals in this index it has the 1st highest h-index and the 8th 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 10 318 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 37% |
| China | 28% |
| Germany | 22% |
| France | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 13% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 99% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Topological Materials and Phenomena | 6% |
| Quantum Information and Cryptography | 6% |
| Quantum many-body systems | 5% |
| Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | 4% |
| Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates | 4% |
| Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism | 3% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment (2023, 690 citations)
- Broken Kramers Degeneracy in Altermagnetic MnTe (2024, 439 citations)
- Achievement of Target Gain Larger than Unity in an Inertial Fusion Experiment (2024, 434 citations)
- First Dark Matter Search with Nuclear Recoils from the XENONnT Experiment (2023, 427 citations)
- Spontaneous Anomalous Hall Effect Arising from an Unconventional Compensated Magnetic Phase in a Semiconductor (2023, 402 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 0031-9007):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
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