Journal rankings · indicator year 2000
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Domain ranking · 2000
Physical Sciences journal rankings 2000
2,978 ranked journals · Domain
Physical Sciences has 2,978 ranked journals in 2000. The median journal has an OJR of 0.68, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.22. The top three are Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Surface Science Reports, and Reviews of Modern Physics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2000. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 1999. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1997–1999 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2000. | Compare |
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1Data Mining and Knowledge DiscoverySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 15.10Q1 | 5.83no 1999 value | 46 | 0% | $3,190 | — | |
2Surface Science ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.06Q1 | 14.61no 1999 value | 36 | 17% | $4,440 | — | |
3Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 10.86Q1 | 12.13no 1999 value | 166 | 36% | — | — | |
4Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 10.10Q1 | 13.94no 1999 value | 113 | 100% | — | — | |
5ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.14Q1 | 3.14no 1999 value | 41 | 100% | — | — | |
6Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference DataAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 8.44Q1 | 6.07no 1999 value | 58 | 0% | — | — | |
7Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 8.10Q1 | 10.41no 1999 value | 284 | 5% | $4,500 | — | |
8Catalysis ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 7.90Q1 | 6.25no 1999 value | 31 | 10% | — | — | |
9Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 7.71Q1 | 9.61no 1999 value | 56 | 50% | $3,880 | — | |
10ACM Transactions on Computer SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.15Q1 | 3.70no 1999 value | 34 | 92% | — | — | |
11ACM Transactions on Database SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.83Q1 | 3.58no 1999 value | 37 | 100% | — | — | |
12IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.62Q1 | 3.84no 1999 value | 62 | 8% | $2,645 | — | |
13Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.62Q1 | 8.72no 1999 value | 88 | 66% | $4,680 | — | |
14IEEE/ACM Transactions on NetworkingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.51Q1 | 3.60no 1999 value | 226 | 6% | $2,495 | — | |
15IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 6.46Q1 | 3.80no 1999 value | 207 | 9% | $2,645 | — | |
16Journal of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.24Q1 | 5.06no 1999 value | 97 | 91% | — | — | |
17Journal of Artificial Intelligence ResearchOAAI Access Foundation · United States | 6.13Q1 | 3.63no 1999 value | 67 | 100% | — | — | |
18Communications of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.89Q1 | 2.56no 1999 value | 840 | 75% | — | — | |
19IEEE Personal CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.80Q1 | 3.70no 1999 value | 122 | 4% | — | — | |
20Machine LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.78Q1 | 3.24no 1999 value | 147 | 90% | $3,290 | — | |
21International Journal on Digital LibrariesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 5.77Q1 | 1.22no 1999 value | 46 | 4% | $2,990 | — | |
22ACM Transactions on GraphicsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.74Q1 | 3.96no 1999 value | 40 | 100% | — | — | |
23Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.59Q1 | 5.42no 1999 value | 38 | 7% | $6,150 | — | |
24IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer GraphicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.31Q1 | 4.22no 1999 value | 79 | 3% | $2,645 | — | |
25Acta MathematicaOAMittag-Leffler Institute · Netherlands | 5.24Q1 | 3.35no 1999 value | 49 | 100% | — | — | |
26Applied GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.19Q1 | 0.73no 1999 value | 105 | 0% | $3,220 | — | |
27IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 5.18Q1 | 3.52no 1999 value | 432 | 5% | $2,645 | — | |
28IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.88Q1 | 3.13no 1999 value | 135 | 5% | $2,995 | — | |
29ACM Transactions on Computer-Human InteractionAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.76Q1 | 3.87no 1999 value | 35 | 45% | — | — | |
30International Journal of Computer VisionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.73Q1 | 3.50no 1999 value | 183 | 7% | $4,090 | — | |
31Oxidation of MetalsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.60Q1 | 1.61no 1999 value | 152 | 0% | $3,590 | — | |
32Annual Review of Materials ScienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 4.57Q1 | 4.47no 1999 value | 61 | 0% | — | — | |
33Econometrics JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.55Q1 | 2.19no 1999 value | 36 | 23% | $4,463 | — | |
34Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.55Q1 | 6.40no 1999 value | 339 | 40% | $6,240 | — | |
35ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.53Q1 | 3.54no 1999 value | 99 | 89% | — | — | |
36IETE Journal of EducationTaylor & Francis · India | 4.52Q1 | 0.00no 1999 value | 71 | 0% | — | — | |
37TechnometricsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.51Q1 | 2.59no 1999 value | 850 | 3% | — | — | |
38International Journal on Software Tools for Technology TransferSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.47Q1 | 1.08no 1999 value | 36 | 13% | $3,290 | — | |
39Journal of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 4.46Q1 | 2.55no 1999 value | 109 | 95% | — | — | |
40IEEE Communications MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.44Q1 | 2.45no 1999 value | 545 | 4% | $2,995 | — | |
41Physical Review LettersAmerican Physical Society · United States | 4.39Q1 | 6.17no 1999 value | 8,554 | 50% | $3,750 | — | |
42Bulletin of the American Mathematical SocietyOAAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 4.39Q1 | 2.30no 1999 value | 41 | 100% | — | — | |
43Journal of Intelligent Information SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.28Q1 | 1.88no 1999 value | 66 | 8% | $3,390 | — | |
44Artificial IntelligenceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.24Q1 | 2.61no 1999 value | 278 | 100% | $4,260 | — | |
45IEEE Control SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.22Q1 | 2.24no 1999 value | 151 | 2% | — | — | |
46Annals of MathematicsPrinceton University · United States | 4.16Q1 | 2.02no 1999 value | 142 | 9% | — | — | |
47ACM SIGMOD RecordAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.08Q1 | 2.68no 1999 value | 350 | 46% | — | — | |
48Journal of DocumentationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.07Q1 | 2.25no 1999 value | 80 | 11% | — | — | |
49Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 4.07Q1 | 3.87no 1999 value | 177 | 59% | $4,070 | — | |
50IEEE Intelligent Systems and their ApplicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.02Q1 | 2.58no 1999 value | 154 | 4% | — | — |
Citations made in 2000. Corpus-wide, 66.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
1,131 additional Physical Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1997–1999, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2000. Publication window: 1997–1999. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 2,978
- Window papers (baseline)
- 2,394,543 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Median OJR
- 0.683 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Rising journals (2025)
- 544
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1997–1999 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 2,978 | 3,130 | 3,308 | 3,456 | 3,568 | 3,676 | 3,772 | 3,984 | 4,244 | 4,490 | 4,657 | 4,878 | 5,152 | 5,440 | 5,715 | 5,957 | 6,138 | 6,264 | 6,379 | 6,515 | 6,592 | 6,653 | 6,729 | 6,756 | 6,753 | 6,689 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 2,394,543 | 2,616,266 | 2,843,810 | 3,093,298 | 3,313,683 | 3,580,201 | 3,872,505 | 4,185,648 | 4,493,645 | 4,800,486 | 5,075,806 | 5,354,164 | 5,648,473 | 5,894,389 | 6,132,497 | 6,314,481 | 6,413,369 | 6,301,559 | 5,933,082 | 5,573,353 | 5,450,875 | 5,628,343 | 5,801,009 | 5,736,495 | 5,650,353 | 5,795,472 | |
| Median OJR | 0.683 | 0.698 | 0.74 | 0.784 | 0.79 | 0.805 | 0.83 | 0.839 | 0.85 | 0.8694 | 0.8692 | 0.86 | 0.840 | 0.82 | 0.812 | 0.783 | 0.76 | 0.72 | 0.695 | 0.681 | 0.679 | 0.676 | 0.666 | 0.6623 | 0.6622 | 0.667 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.4% | 5,226 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 2.726 per 1,000 | 4,677 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +1.1% | 6,002 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 61.9% | 6,689 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,090 | 3,753 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 25.2% | 6,406 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 6,689 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.67 | 6,602 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 33.6% | 6,689 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 45.5% | 6,676 journals |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.