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Open access

Physical Review Letters

American Physical Society (APS)
American Physical Society (APS)
ISSN: 00319007, 10797114
SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q1
Impact factor
8.1
SJR
3.040
CiteScore
16.5
Categories
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
Areas
Physics and Astronomy
Years of issue
1958-2025
journal names
Physical Review Letters
PHYS REV LETT
Publications
138 588
Citations
11 205 070
h-index
862
Publications
12 333
Citations
2 626 030
Top-3 citing journals
Physical Review B
Physical Review B (1158672 citations)
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters (679251 citations)
Physical Review A
Physical Review A (535932 citations)
Top-3 organizations
University of Tokyo
University of Tokyo (3026 publications)
Université Paris-Saclay
Université Paris-Saclay (357 publications)
University of Tokyo
University of Tokyo (341 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (66342 publications)
Germany (21657 publications)
France (13752 publications)
USA (4363 publications)
China (2585 publications)
Germany (2415 publications)

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Physical Review B
1158672 citations, 10.34%
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679251 citations, 6.06%
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535932 citations, 4.78%
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46936 citations, 0.42%
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43259 citations, 0.39%
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28659 citations, 0.26%
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28148 citations, 0.25%
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28007 citations, 0.25%
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27327 citations, 0.24%
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26387 citations, 0.24%
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25947 citations, 0.23%
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25454 citations, 0.23%
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American Physical Society (APS)
3434409 citations, 30.65%
Elsevier
1756484 citations, 15.68%
Springer Nature
1200026 citations, 10.71%
IOP Publishing
1112330 citations, 9.93%
AIP Publishing
697946 citations, 6.23%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
406841 citations, 3.63%
Wiley
342361 citations, 3.06%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
198508 citations, 1.77%
Optica Publishing Group
178316 citations, 1.59%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
167965 citations, 1.5%
Taylor & Francis
137458 citations, 1.23%
World Scientific
131358 citations, 1.17%
MDPI
107716 citations, 0.96%
Pleiades Publishing
86448 citations, 0.77%
Cambridge University Press
75037 citations, 0.67%
Physical Society of Japan
73065 citations, 0.65%
Oxford University Press
49104 citations, 0.44%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
42665 citations, 0.38%
EDP Sciences
37300 citations, 0.33%
American Astronomical Society
36938 citations, 0.33%
Japan Society of Applied Physics
32093 citations, 0.29%
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26985 citations, 0.24%
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26288 citations, 0.23%
The Royal Society
22839 citations, 0.2%
Annual Reviews
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Frontiers Media S.A.
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Walter de Gruyter
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Stichting SciPost
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14730 citations, 0.13%
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3462 citations, 0.03%
Societa Italiana di Fisica
3123 citations, 0.03%
The Surface Science Society of Japan
3007 citations, 0.03%
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2993 citations, 0.03%
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2827 citations, 0.03%
Beilstein-Institut
2796 citations, 0.02%
Steklov Mathematical Institute
2767 citations, 0.02%
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2699 citations, 0.02%
Japan Institute of Metals
2606 citations, 0.02%
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
2540 citations, 0.02%
The Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research (JSPF)
2466 citations, 0.02%
Scientific Research Publishing
2366 citations, 0.02%
Copernicus
2303 citations, 0.02%
IntechOpen
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American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
2170 citations, 0.02%
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Biophysical Society
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Social Science Electronic Publishing
1496 citations, 0.01%
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MIT Press
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1337 citations, 0.01%
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1052 citations, 0.01%
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