New impact factor for Physics of the Dark Universe

As every year this time of the year, the annual Journal Citation Reports, and with it the updated journal impact factors (IF), have been made publicly available. Physics of the Dark Universe (PDU), the journal for which I am Editor, performed exceptionally well, rising from the 2024 IF of 6.4 to the 2025 IF of (drum roll please) 7.4! This number is outstanding for journals in the field, placing us for many years running now at a level competitive with PRD (5.3), PLB (5.0), JCAP (6.4), ApJ (5.7), MNRAS (5.2), and A&A (6.1), just to mention a few. This confirms PDU’s positive trend, and the high impact of the papers we publish. I am particularly satisfied since these figures reflect the impact of papers published in 2023 and 2024, covering the period during which I was Editor.