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Physics Letters B
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Among the 48 physics and astronomy journals in this index it has the 9th highest h-index and the 20th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
Where its authors come from
Share of the 3 349 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| China | 27% |
| United States | 17% |
| Germany | 12% |
| Italy | 11% |
| India | 11% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 99% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Black Holes and Theoretical Physics | 16% |
| Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | 15% |
| Nuclear physics research studies | 14% |
| Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | 13% |
| Cosmology and Gravitation Theories | 12% |
| High-Energy Particle Collisions Research | 8% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- Assessing observational constraints on dark energy (2024, 143 citations)
- Turning in the landscape: A new mechanism for generating primordial black holes (2023, 137 citations)
- Regular black holes from pure gravity (2025, 118 citations)
- Light rings and shadows of static black holes in effective quantum gravity (2024, 105 citations)
- Gravitational waves from domain wall collapse, and application to nanohertz signals with QCD-coupled axions (2024, 102 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 0370-2693):
- 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
- Nuclear Physics B
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Physics Reports
- Physical Review Letters
- Reviews of Modern Physics
- Reports on Progress in Physics
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