Journal rankings · indicator year 2001
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Domain ranking · 2001
Physical Sciences journal rankings 2001
3,130 ranked journals · Domain
Physical Sciences has 3,130 ranked journals in 2001. The median journal has an OJR of 0.70, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2000; Q1 starts at OJR 1.27. The top three are Advances In Physics, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, and Surface Science Reports.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2001. 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 1998–2000, the window the 2001 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 2000. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1998–2000, the window the 2001 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1998–2000 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 2001. | Compare |
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1Advances In PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 13.12Q1 | 16.75 4.75 up from 2000 | 30 | 5% | — | ||
2Data Mining and Knowledge DiscoverySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 12.97Q1 | 3.67 2.16 down from 2000 | 41 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
3Surface Science ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.87Q1 | 13.08 1.53 down from 2000 | 35 | 0% | $4,440 | ||
4ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 11.44Q1 | 6.12 1.95 up from 2000 | 30 | 7% | — | ||
5Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 10.76Q1 | 12.24 0.11 up from 2000 | 168 | 56% | — | ||
6Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 9.09Q1 | 10.90 0.49 up from 2000 | 330 | 2% | $4,500 | ||
7Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.00Q1 | 4.00 1.69 down from 2000 | 41 | 6% | $3,290 | ||
8Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.83Q1 | 8.87 0.15 up from 2000 | 95 | 75% | $4,680 | ||
9Catalysis ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 7.81Q1 | 8.33 2.08 up from 2000 | 30 | 0% | — | ||
10Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 7.45Q1 | 8.79 0.82 down from 2000 | 58 | 55% | $3,880 | ||
11Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.43Q1 | 6.62 1.20 up from 2000 | 37 | 0% | $6,150 | ||
12Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 7.37Q1 | 4.52 9.42 down from 2000 | 129 | 100% | — | ||
13Journal of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.27Q1 | 4.32 0.75 down from 2000 | 95 | 5% | — | ||
14ACM Transactions on Computer SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.02Q1 | 4.05 0.35 up from 2000 | 32 | 7% | — | ||
15IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 7.01Q1 | 3.03 0.77 down from 2000 | 213 | 15% | $2,645 | ||
16IEEE Personal CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.67Q1 | 3.79 0.09 up from 2000 | 135 | 4% | — | ||
17IEEE/ACM Transactions on NetworkingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.55Q1 | 4.55 0.96 up from 2000 | 209 | 6% | $2,495 | ||
18IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.55Q1 | 2.85 1.10 down from 2000 | 40 | — | $2,645 | ||
19Machine LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.51Q1 | 4.37 1.14 up from 2000 | 148 | 88% | $3,290 | ||
20The Shock and Vibration DigestSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.45Q1 | 0.92 0.77 down from 2000 | 35 | 0% | — | ||
21ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.17Q1 | 4.77 2.86 up from 2000 | 147 | 2% | — | ||
22ACM Transactions on Database SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.16Q1 | 4.00 0.42 up from 2000 | 36 | 13% | — | ||
23IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer GraphicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.88Q1 | 4.53 0.31 up from 2000 | 76 | 15% | $2,645 | ||
24Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.88Q1 | 7.80 1.39 up from 2000 | 327 | 33% | $6,240 | ||
25ACM Transactions on Computer-Human InteractionAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.87Q1 | 4.50 0.63 up from 2000 | 42 | 8% | — | ||
26Annual Review of Materials ScienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 5.77Q1 | 6.18 1.70 up from 2000 | 62 | — | — | ||
27Evolutionary ComputationThe MIT Press · United States | 5.76Q1 | 4.80 2.29 up from 2000 | 73 | 12% | — | ||
28Bulletin of the American Mathematical SocietyOAAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 5.72Q1 | 3.13 0.83 up from 2000 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
29ACM Transactions on GraphicsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.57Q1 | 2.73 1.23 down from 2000 | 38 | 20% | — | ||
30Journal of Composites for ConstructionAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 5.55Q1 | 1.35 0.30 up from 2000 | 89 | 4% | — | ||
31Journal of Artificial Intelligence ResearchOAAI Access Foundation · United States | 5.54Q1 | 4.02 0.40 up from 2000 | 68 | 100% | — | ||
32Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference DataAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 5.49Q1 | 4.48 1.60 down from 2000 | 62 | 13% | — | ||
33IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.46Q1 | 3.60 0.47 up from 2000 | 141 | 6% | $2,995 | ||
34Communications of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.41Q1 | 2.71 0.15 up from 2000 | 852 | 18% | — | ||
35ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.27Q1 | 3.83 0.29 up from 2000 | 93 | 94% | — | ||
36Journal of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 5.26Q1 | 3.06 0.51 up from 2000 | 116 | 96% | — | ||
37Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.26Q1 | 3.13 0.46 up from 2000 | 59 | 0% | $6,990 | ||
38IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.21Q1 | 3.91 0.07 up from 2000 | 68 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
39ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.16Q1 | 3.12 0.03 down from 2000 | 41 | 9% | — | ||
40Design StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.16Q1 | 1.87 0.17 up from 2000 | 90 | 24% | $4,570 | ||
41IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 4.94Q1 | 3.66 0.14 up from 2000 | 405 | 15% | $2,645 | ||
42Transportation ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 4.85Q1 | 1.37 0.17 up from 2000 | 96 | 6% | — | ||
43TechnometricsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.84Q1 | 3.49 0.90 up from 2000 | 871 | 4% | — | ||
44Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.77Q1 | 3.00 1.07 up from 2000 | 43 | 5% | $5,860 | ||
45ACM SIGKDD Explorations NewsletterAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.69Q1 | 1.90 0.22 down from 2000 | 62 | 0% | — | ||
46RadiocarbonCambridge University Press · United States | 4.63Q1 | 0.98 3.44 down from 2000 | 102 | 98% | $2,487 | ||
47User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.57Q1 | 3.25 0.77 up from 2000 | 32 | 50% | $3,290 | ||
48ACM SIGMOD RecordAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.52Q1 | 3.87 1.18 up from 2000 | 356 | 4% | — | ||
49Artificial IntelligenceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.50Q1 | 3.70 1.09 up from 2000 | 263 | 100% | $4,260 | ||
50Physical Review LettersAmerican Physical Society · United States | 4.46Q1 | 6.58 0.41 up from 2000 | 8,847 | 53% | $3,750 |
Citations made in 2001. Corpus-wide, 67.0% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
1,123 additional Physical Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1998–2000, 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: 2001. Publication window: 1998–2000. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 3,130
- Window papers (baseline)
- 2,616,266 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Median OJR
- 0.698 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Rising journals (2025)
- 544
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1998–2000 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.