175 Physics and Astronomy journals in ORBIT Tier 1 with at least 10 papers in 2025. ORBIT Tier 1: top quarter of Physics and Astronomy by citation impact, our own ranking. Not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
As of 2 October 2026. From OpenAlex, Crossref and DOAJ. ORBIT Tier is our own ranking within a field, not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
| Journal | ISSN | Papers in 2025 | ORBIT Tier | Fee to publish | Open access | DOAJ | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physical review. B./Physical review. B | 2469-9950 | 6,071 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Physical review. D/Physical review. D. | 2470-0010 | 5,552 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| The Astrophysical Journal | 0004-637X | 4,166 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,00,339 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 0004-6361 | 4,086 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | France |
| Physical Review Letters | 0031-9007 | 3,317 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Physica Scripta | 0031-8949 | 3,094 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Applied Physics Letters | 0003-6951 | 2,798 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Journal of High Energy Physics | 1029-8479 | 2,716 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Italy |
| Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics | 1463-9076 | 2,544 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| The Journal of Chemical Physics | 0021-9606 | 2,325 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 0035-8711 | 2,296 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,94,475 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Physical review. E | 2470-0045 | 2,137 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Optics & Laser Technology | 0030-3992 | 2,078 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Life | 2075-1729 | 1,966 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,99,844 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Journal of Applied Physics | 0021-8979 | 1,948 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Optics Letters | 0146-9592 | 1,892 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| AIP Advances | 2158-3226 | 1,762 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,73,391 to publish | Yes | Yes | United States |
| The European Physical Journal C | 1434-6044 | 1,516 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Germany |
| Qeios | 2632-3834 | 1,323 | 1 | Fee not published | Yes | No | United Kingdom |
| Entropy | 1099-4300 | 1,309 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,99,844 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| The Journal of Physical Chemistry B | 1520-5207 | 1,282 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| The European Physical Journal Plus | 2190-5444 | 1,271 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Optics Communications | 0030-4018 | 1,215 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| The Journal of Physical Chemistry A | 1089-5639 | 1,186 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Physica B Condensed Matter | 0921-4526 | 1,137 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Advances in Space Research | 0273-1177 | 1,115 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | 1475-7508 | 1,111 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation | 1549-9618 | 1,057 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| The Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2041-8205 | 978 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,82,874 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Physics of Plasmas | 1070-664X | 950 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Physics Letters B | 0370-2693 | 892 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| Acta Astronautica | 0094-5765 | 830 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Medical Physics | 0094-2405 | 807 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials | 0304-8853 | 803 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications | 0378-4371 | 777 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| The Astronomical Journal | 0004-6256 | 711 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,00,339 to publish | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics | 2169-9380 | 693 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Chemical Physics Letters | 0009-2614 | 661 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering | 2327-4697 | 636 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Nuclear Fusion | 0029-5515 | 584 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,90,013 to publish | Yes | Yes | |
| Physics in Medicine and Biology | 0031-9155 | 583 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Communications Physics | 2399-3650 | 543 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,90,707 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems | 2329-924X | 531 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Computational and Theoretical Chemistry | 2210-271X | 509 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Nuclear Physics B | 0550-3213 | 494 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| ChemPhysChem | 1439-4235 | 464 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Frontiers in Physics | 2296-424X | 455 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,94,078 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Computer Physics Communications | 0010-4655 | 451 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Classical and Quantum Gravity | 0264-9381 | 447 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Results in Physics | 2211-3797 | 447 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,12,886 to publish | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| Universe | 2218-1997 | 421 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,76,779 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Chemical Physics | 0301-0104 | 418 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Nature Physics | 1745-2473 | 418 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Physics of the Dark Universe | 2212-6864 | 410 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 0067-0049 | 407 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,00,339 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Solid State Communications | 0038-1098 | 403 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Geophysical Research Planets | 2169-9097 | 397 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| SciPost Physics | 2542-4653 | 395 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| Chinese Physics C | 1674-1137 | 387 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Computational Chemistry | 0192-8651 | 361 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Icarus | 0019-1035 | 358 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Molecular Modeling | 0948-5023 | 351 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Chinese Physics Letters | 0256-307X | 350 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery | 0885-8977 | 348 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| International Journal of Theoretical Physics | 0020-7748 | 331 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Annals of Physics | 0003-4916 | 328 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| The Planetary Science Journal | 2632-3338 | 309 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,50,240 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Brazilian Journal of Physics | 0103-9733 | 308 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Brazil |
| The European Physical Journal A | 1434-6001 | 297 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Nature Astronomy | 2397-3366 | 292 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos | 0218-1274 | 286 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | Singapore |
| Superconductor Science and Technology | 0953-2048 | 278 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| The European Physical Journal B | 1434-6028 | 261 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | France |
| Journal of Crystal Growth | 0022-0248 | 256 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Nuclear Science and Techniques | 1001-8042 | 245 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | China |
| Space Weather | 1542-7390 | 239 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,88,986 to publish | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment | 1742-5468 | 230 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Modern Physics Letters B | 0217-9849 | 224 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | Singapore |
| Faraday Discussions | 1359-6640 | 220 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Physica E Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures | 1386-9477 | 214 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| The Open Journal of Astrophysics | 2565-6120 | 214 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Ireland |
| Acta Oncologica | 0284-186X | 208 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,50,314 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Meteoritics and Planetary Science | 1086-9379 | 207 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Radiation Oncology | 1748-717X | 206 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,03,641 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Communications in Theoretical Physics | 0253-6102 | 205 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | China |
| Journal of Computational Science | 1877-7503 | 188 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | 0004-6280 | 187 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of High Energy Astrophysics | 2214-4048 | 182 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Solar Physics | 0038-0938 | 181 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| International Journal of Quantum Chemistry | 0020-7608 | 179 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Synchrotron Radiation | 0909-0495 | 175 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,64,904 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia | 1323-3580 | 172 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Australia |
| Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media | 2162-3449 | 170 | 1 | Fee not published | Yes | No | United States |
| Pramana | 0304-4289 | 165 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| General Relativity and Gravitation | 0001-7701 | 164 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment | 1533-0338 | 163 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,55,271 to publish | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology | 2190-4286 | 160 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Germany |
| Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan | 0004-6264 | 159 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Plasma Physics | 0022-3778 | 158 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data | 1556-4681 | 153 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
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