Physics Journals

Top Journals (SCI)

[Review journals]

• Reviews of Modern Physics [of USA]
• Physics Reports

[Research journals]

• Physical Review Letters [PRL; of USA]
• Physical Review D [PRD] [also PRA, PRB, PRC, PRE, PRX; of USA]
• Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics [JCAP, of SISSA-Italy]
• Journal of High Energy Physics [JHEP, of SISSA-Italy]
• Physics Letters B [PLB]
• Classical and Quantum Gravity [CQG of UK]
• Nuclear Physics B [NPB]
• Communications in Mathematical Physics [CMP; Math > Phys]
• Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics [Math > Phys]
• Journal of Mathematical Physics [JMP; Math ~ Phys]
• The Astrophysical Journal [also Letters section]
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society [MNRAS; of UK]
• European Physical Journal C [EPJC; of Italy]

Other Journals (SCI and SCIE)

1. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics [Review; of USA]
2. Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science [Review; of USA]
3. Reports on Progress in Physics [Review]
4. Lectures Notes in Physics [Book Style; Review]
5. Fortschritte der Physik [of Germany; English Translation: Progress of Physics]
6. Living Reviews in Relativity [of Germany; Open Access]
7. Letters in Mathematical Physics [LMP; Math > Phys]
8. Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry [Math > Phys]
9. Journal of Geometry and Physics [Math > Phys]
10. Journal of Computational Physics
11. Computer Physics Communications [includes many papers on computer methods in physics written in Mathematica, FORTRAN, C++, Maple, Matlab, Python, etc.]
12. Annales Henri Poincare [of France, Math > Phys]
13. Journal of Physics A [JPA; of UK]
14. Proceedings of the Royal Society A [of UK]
15. Annals of Physics [New York]
16. Annalen der Physik [Berlin; of Germany]
17. New Journal of Physics [of Germany]
18. Europhysics Letters
19. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics [of Japan]
20. International Journal Modern Physics D [IJMPD]
21. Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
22. Journal of Physics G [JPG]
23. General Relativity and Gravitation [GRG]
24. Astrophysics and Space Science [ASS]
25. Nuclear Physics A [NPA]
26. Physica A
27. Physica D
28. Astroparticle Physics
29. Physics Letters A [PLA]
30. Journal of Statistical Physics [JSP]
31. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment [JSAT; of SISSA-Italy]
32. JETP Letters [both in Russian and English; most of old papers can be freely downloaded via a link]
33. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (TMP) [both in Russian and English]
34. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics (JETP) [both in Russian and English]
35. Physics-Uspekhi [Review; both in Russian and English]
36. Physics of Atomic Nuclei [of Russia]
37. Physics of Particles and Nuclei [of Russia]
38. Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters [of Russia]
39. Gravitation and Cosmology [of Russia]
40. Russia Physics Journal [both in Russian and English]
41. Russia Journal of Mathematical Physics [of Russia; Math > Phys]
42. Annals of Nuclear Energy
43. Foundations of Physics
44. International Journal of Theoretical Physics
45. Canadian Journal of Physics [of Canada]
46. The European Physical Journal Plus
47. Central European Journal of Physics
48. Acta Physica Polonica B [of Poland]
49. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan [of Japan]
50. International Journal Modern Physics A [IJMPA]
51. Modern Physics Letters A [MPLA]
52. New Astronomy
53. International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics
54. Reviews in Mathematical Physics
55. Chinese Journal of Physics [of Taiwan, not China]
56. Pramana-Journal of Physics [of India]
57. Indian Journal of Physics [of India]
58. Physica Scripta [of Sweden]
59. Communication in Theoretical Physics [of China]
60. Chinese Physics Letters [of China]
61. Chinese Physics C [of China]
62. Journal of the Korean Physical Society [of Korea]
63. Analysis and Mathematical Physics [Math > Phys]
64. Frontiers of Physics
65. Brazilian Journal of Physics [of Brazil]
66. Few-Body Systems
67. Advances in High Energy Physics [New Journal; Open Access]
68. Advances in Astronomy [New Journal; Open Access]
69. SIGMA [Open Access; Math > Phys]
70. Frontiers in Physics [New Journal; Open Access]
71. Advances in Mathematical Physics [New Journal; Open Access]
72. Journal of Gravity [New Journal; Open Access]
73. Physics of the Dark Universe [New Journal; Open Access]
74. Journal of High Energy Astrophysics [New Journal; Open Access]
75. Results in Physics [New Journal; Open Access]
76. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Physics [of Iran; New Journal; Open Access]
77. Journal of Computational Methods in Physics [New Journal; Open Access]
78. Entropy [New Journal; Open Access]
79. Galaxies [New Journal; Open Access]
80. Universe [New Journal; Open Access]
81. SciPost Physics [New Journal; Open Access; built to be a leading physics journal]

* Note: This list is a personal view and does not include many other journals in the physics literature. However, all journals listed above are widely accepted in the physics community. To check whether a journal is SCI (or SCIE) journal or not, please visit the link Master Journal List (SCI & SCIE). Note that preprint versions of many published papers in these journals have been posted into the ArXiv website. However, in order to get exact information you should read the published version of papers you are interested in. Before submitting your paper to a physics journal for publication, you should check whether your research field coincides with the journal's scope. And you should be aware of the fact that each journal has its own publication style (template), which you can download from its website. Your draft should be in the typical form of a journal you will submit. In order to figure out how to edit your draft correctly, the best way is following some its newest papers. Latex is a very professional program to type your draft. Most of physics (and science) journals use latex to edit their papers.