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Reports on Progress in Physics
Physics and astronomy
Among the 48 physics and astronomy journals in this index it has the 15th highest h-index and the 6th 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 358 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| China | 32% |
| United States | 28% |
| Germany | 16% |
| United Kingdom | 11% |
| France | 10% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 98% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Topological Materials and Phenomena | 7% |
| Quantum Information and Cryptography | 6% |
| Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | 5% |
| 2D Materials and Applications | 4% |
| Advanced Condensed Matter Physics | 4% |
| Quantum many-body systems | 3% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- Many-body localization in the age of classical computing * (2024, 143 citations)
- Mechanical metamaterials (2023, 134 citations)
- Topological phononic metamaterials (2023, 126 citations)
- A comprehensive review of quantum machine learning: from NISQ to fault tolerance (2024, 95 citations)
- Observation of quantum entanglement in top quark pair production in proton–proton collisions at s=13 TeV (2024, 95 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 0034-4885):
- 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
- Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
- Physical Review A
- Physics Reports
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