Journal rankings · indicator year 2000
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Field ranking · 2000
Physics and Astronomy journal rankings 2000
220 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Physics and Astronomy has 220 ranked journals in 2000. The median journal has an OJR of 0.58, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.05. The top three are Reviews of Modern Physics, Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, and Reports on Progress in 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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1Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 10.86Q1 | 12.13no 1999 value | 166 | 36% | — | — | |
2Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 10.10Q1 | 13.94no 1999 value | 113 | 100% | — | — | |
3Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.62Q1 | 8.72no 1999 value | 88 | 66% | $4,680 | — | |
4Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.55Q1 | 6.40no 1999 value | 339 | 40% | $6,240 | — | |
5Physical Review LettersAmerican Physical Society · United States | 4.39Q1 | 6.17no 1999 value | 8,554 | 50% | $3,750 | — | |
6The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 4.16no 1999 value | 336 | 87% | $4,499 | — | |
7International Reviews in Physical ChemistryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.74Q1 | 4.48no 1999 value | 43 | 0% | — | — | |
8Journal of High Energy PhysicsOASpringer Nature · Italy | 3.51Q1 | 5.88no 1999 value | 605 | 100% | $0 listed | — | |
9Progress in Surface ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.12Q1 | 3.00no 1999 value | 86 | 0% | $4,130 | — | |
10SIAM ReviewSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 2.60Q1 | 1.61no 1999 value | 156 | 7% | — | — | |
11The Astronomical JournalOAInstitute of Physics · United States | 2.45Q1 | 3.81no 1999 value | 1,435 | 97% | $4,499 | — | |
12The Astrophysical JournalOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 5.16no 1999 value | 6,746 | 96% | $4,499 | — | |
13Color and Imaging ConferenceUnited States | 2.40Q1 | 0.46no 1999 value | 171 | 92% | — | — | |
14Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear ScienceAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 2.24Q1 | 2.22no 1999 value | 259 | 12% | — | — | |
15New AstronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.20Q1 | 2.10no 1999 value | 136 | 48% | $2,690 | — | |
16Nuclear Physics BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 4.11no 1999 value | 2,483 | 92% | $0 listed | — | |
17Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 3.29no 1999 value | 2,939 | 86% | $3,046 | — | |
18Physics Letters BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 3.66no 1999 value | 4,798 | 87% | $0 listed | — | |
19Astroparticle PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.81Q1 | 3.01no 1999 value | 244 | 70% | $2,920 | — | |
20Publications of the Astronomical Society of the PacificInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 2.31no 1999 value | 543 | 91% | $3,325 | — | |
21Springer USPublisher not listed | 1.77Q1 | 1.11no 1999 value | 30 | 0% | — | — | |
22Physics TodayAIP Publishing · United States | 1.77Q1 | 1.24no 1999 value | 1,563 | 51% | — | — | |
23The Journal of Physical Chemistry AAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.73Q1 | 2.60no 1999 value | 4,515 | 5% | — | — | |
24The Journal of Chemical PhysicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.72Q1 | 3.08no 1999 value | 7,396 | 14% | $3,500 | — | |
25Physical review. B, Condensed matterAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.64Q1 | 2.83no 1999 value | 13,448 | 36% | — | — | |
26Journal of Nonlinear ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.61Q1 | 1.21no 1999 value | 65 | 12% | $3,290 | — | |
27IcarusElsevier BV · United States | 1.61Q1 | 2.82no 1999 value | 603 | 8% | $3,810 | — | |
28Europhysics Letters (EPL)Institute of Physics · France | 1.60Q1 | 2.05no 1999 value | 1,379 | 79% | $1,895 | — | |
29Applied Physics BSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.56Q1 | 1.71no 1999 value | 678 | 5% | $4,090 | — | |
30The European Physical Journal BSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 1.56Q1 | 1.72no 1999 value | 919 | 45% | $3,490 | — | |
31Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 1.33no 1999 value | 569 | 15% | — | — | |
32Physica D Nonlinear PhenomenaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.52Q1 | 1.61no 1999 value | 907 | 18% | $3,640 | — | |
33Annual Review of Astronomy and AstrophysicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.52Q1 | 11.40no 1999 value | 47 | 50% | — | — | |
34Medical PhysicsWiley · United States | 1.48Q1 | 2.02no 1999 value | 911 | 17% | $3,360 | — | |
35Contemporary PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 1.06no 1999 value | 93 | 8% | — | — | |
36Journal of Computational ChemistryWiley · United States | 1.39Q1 | 1.96no 1999 value | 702 | 8% | $4,520 | — | |
37Annals of PhysicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.37Q1 | 1.72no 1999 value | 279 | 43% | $3,160 | — | |
38Physical Review AAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.34Q1 | 2.51no 1999 value | 3,975 | 38% | $2,675 | — | |
39MRS Internet Journal of Nitride Semiconductor ResearchCambridge University Press · United States | 1.32Q1 | 1.80no 1999 value | 266 | 95% | — | — | |
40Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.32Q1 | 2.02no 1999 value | 5,721 | 39% | — | — | |
41Journal of the Optical Society of America AOptica Publishing Group · United States | 1.32Q1 | 1.51no 1999 value | 988 | 10% | — | — | |
42Journal of the Optical Society of America BOptica Publishing Group · United States | 1.32Q1 | 1.77no 1999 value | 1,087 | 14% | — | — | |
43Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative TransferElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.31Q1 | 1.89no 1999 value | 462 | 6% | $2,870 | — | |
44Computer Physics CommunicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.28Q1 | 1.22no 1999 value | 533 | 21% | $4,160 | — | |
45Publications of the Astronomical Society of JapanOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.23Q1 | 1.25no 1999 value | 257 | 54% | $2,398 | — | |
46Classical and Quantum GravityIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 1.98no 1999 value | 982 | 85% | $3,325 | — | |
47Solar PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.20Q1 | 1.49no 1999 value | 683 | 6% | $4,190 | — | |
48Progress in Particle and Nuclear PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.18Q1 | 1.88no 1999 value | 155 | 18% | $4,780 | — | |
49The European Physical Journal COASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.17Q1 | 1.83no 1999 value | 1,209 | 52% | $0 listed | — | |
50Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fieldsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.15Q1 | 3.14no 1999 value | 5,328 | 94% | — | — |
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.
61 additional Physics and Astronomy 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
- 220
- Window papers (baseline)
- 239,411 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Median OJR
- 0.58340 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Rising journals (2025)
- 36Comparison-group list (36)
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 | 220 | 234 | 232 | 241 | 243 | 250 | 252 | 261 | 269 | 273 | 276 | 291 | 303 | 310 | 321 | 324 | 334 | 343 | 348 | 367 | 380 | 379 | 368 | 368 | 361 | 358 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 239,411 | 246,506 | 254,602 | 264,968 | 276,497 | 287,864 | 301,824 | 318,045 | 328,993 | 337,594 | 340,171 | 347,983 | 354,503 | 362,347 | 368,160 | 376,730 | 379,807 | 383,796 | 380,664 | 378,685 | 375,462 | 371,519 | 367,990 | 360,929 | 353,510 | 350,521 | |
| Median OJR | 0.58340 | 0.56 | 0.57 | 0.58338 | 0.602 | 0.627 | 0.67 | 0.683 | 0.643 | 0.681 | 0.69 | 0.648 | 0.653 | 0.634 | 0.675 | 0.71 | 0.662 | 0.660 | 0.631 | 0.614 | 0.640 | 0.613 | 0.59 | 0.652 | 0.600 | 0.62 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 6.4% | 293 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.285 per 1,000 | 278 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +0.6% | 326 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 73.4% | 358 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,000 | 213 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 30.1% | 348 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 358 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.61 | 352 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 38.3% | 358 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 48.2% | 356 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.