Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Nuclear and High Energy Physics journal rankings 2002
53 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Nuclear and High Energy Physics has 53 ranked journals in 2002. The median journal has an OJR of 0.50, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.05 on 2001; Q1 starts at OJR 0.91. The top three are Physics Reports, Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, and Journal of High Energy Physics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. 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 1999–2001, the window the 2002 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.
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy (8)
53 ranked journals
Filters
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 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 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 2002. | Compare |
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1Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.31Q1 | 11.35 3.55 up from 2001 | 308 | 34% | $6,240 | ||
2Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 3.27Q1 | 3.43 1.09 down from 2001 | 116 | 100% | — | ||
3Journal of High Energy PhysicsOASpringer Nature · Italy | 2.90Q1 | 6.97 0.84 up from 2001 | 1,498 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
4Nuclear Physics BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 5.09 0.13 up from 2001 | 2,272 | 88% | $0 listed | ||
5Physics Letters BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q1 | 3.65 0.05 down from 2001 | 4,220 | 88% | $0 listed | ||
6Astroparticle PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.50Q1 | 3.62 0.26 up from 2001 | 236 | 63% | $2,920 | ||
7Nuclear FusionOAIOP Publishing | 1.48Q1 | 2.75 0.08 down from 2001 | 563 | 62% | $2,595 | ||
8Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fieldsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.33Q1 | 3.88 0.34 up from 2001 | 5,765 | 96% | — | ||
9Progress in Particle and Nuclear PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.25Q1 | 1.93no change | 170 | 21% | $4,780 | ||
10Computer Physics CommunicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.17Q1 | 1.26 0.12 down from 2001 | 763 | 24% | $4,160 | ||
11The European Physical Journal COASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.16Q1 | 2.38 0.62 up from 2001 | 1,522 | 86% | $0 listed | ||
12Review of Scientific InstrumentsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.09Q1 | 1.41 0.16 up from 2001 | 2,549 | 10% | — | ||
13Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle ScienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.01Q1 | 5.68 0.32 down from 2001 | 47 | 62% | — | ||
14Physics of PlasmasAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.91Q1 | 2.14 0.04 up from 2001 | 1,904 | 15% | — | ||
15Plasma Physics and Controlled FusionIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 2.58 0.73 up from 2001 | 569 | 63% | $3,325 | ||
16Concepts in Magnetic ResonanceWiley · United States | 0.86Q2 | 1.63 0.39 up from 2001 | 105 | 9% | — | ||
17Progress of Theoretical PhysicsOxford University Press · Japan | 0.83Q2 | 1.39 0.24 up from 2001 | 505 | 76% | — | ||
18The European Physical Journal ASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.74Q2 | 1.04 0.12 down from 2001 | 580 | 32% | $3,990 | ||
19Physical Review CAmerican Physical Society · United States | 0.67Q2 | 2.03 0.12 up from 2001 | 2,613 | 56% | — | ||
| 0.63Q2 | 1.03 0.10 up from 2001 | 4,487 | 15% | $2,620 | |||
21International Journal of Modern Physics AWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.60Q2 | 0.85 0.21 down from 2001 | 1,161 | 52% | — | ||
22Nuclear Physics AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.60Q2 | 1.08 0.14 down from 2001 | 2,670 | 44% | $2,590 | ||
23Few-Body SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.57Q2 | 0.82 0.17 up from 2001 | 74 | 31% | $2,290 | ||
24Fusion Engineering and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.57Q2 | 0.95 0.23 up from 2001 | 1,080 | 5% | $2,810 | ||
25Fusion TechnologyAmerican Nuclear Society · United States | 0.54Q2 | 0.61 0.06 down from 2001 | 569 | — | — | ||
26Socio-Environmental Systems ModelingOAPublisher not listed | 0.53Q2 | 0.07 0.03 down from 2001 | 1,422 | 100% | — | ||
27Journal of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States | 0.50Q2 | 0.28 0.10 down from 2001 | 2,285 | 74% | — | ||
28Journal of Plasma PhysicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 0.55 0.07 down from 2001 | 208 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
29Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.44Q3 | 1.07 0.25 up from 2001 | 744 | 80% | $3,325 | ||
30Human BiologyWayne State University Press · United States | 0.40Q3 | 0.21 0.02 down from 2001 | 393 | 14% | — | ||
31Physics of Particles and NucleiPleiades Publishing · United States | 0.37Q3 | 0.00 0.84 down from 2001 | 33 | 0% | — | ||
32Laser and Particle BeamsOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.37Q3 | 0.35no change | 246 | 16% | $3,550 | ||
33Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings SupplementsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.36Q3 | 0.82 0.07 up from 2001 | 3,253 | 40% | — | ||
34Nuclear Data SheetsElsevier BV · United States | 0.32Q3 | 0.41 0.23 up from 2001 | 72 | 5% | $3,240 | ||
35International Journal of Modern Physics EWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.25Q3 | 0.51no change | 113 | 16% | — | ||
36Plasma Physics ReportsPleiades Publishing · Russia | 0.24Q3 | 0.39 0.14 up from 2001 | 352 | 5% | — | ||
37Czechoslovak Journal of PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.20Q3 | 0.25 0.06 down from 2001 | 837 | 10% | — | ||
38Physics of Atomic NucleiPleiades Publishing · Russia | 0.18Q3 | 0.34 0.12 up from 2001 | 712 | 20% | — | ||
39Plasma devices and operationsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.14Q3 | 0.10 0.15 down from 2001 | 62 | 0% | — | ||
40Nuclear Physics NewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.13Q3 | 0.21 0.08 up from 2001 | 100 | 0% | — | ||
41Surveys In High Energy PhysicsTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.11Q4 | 0.18 0.32 down from 2001 | 53 | 23% | — | ||
42Plasma Science and TechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.11Q4 | 0.18 0.11 down from 2001 | 158 | 43% | — | ||
43Canadian acousticsOACanadian Acoustical Association · Canada | 0.11Q4 | 0.05 0.01 up from 2001 | 183 | 100% | — | ||
44Journal of Fusion EnergySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.09Q4 | 0.24 0.21 up from 2001 | 52 | 0% | $3,990 | ||
45Open Research (University of Surrey)OAWiley · China | 0.09Q4 | 0.06 0.02 up from 2001 | 768 | 1% | $3,000 | ||
46Acta Physica Polonica BOAJagiellonian University · Poland | 0.07Q4 | 0.11 0.02 up from 2001 | 269 | 0% | — | ||
47Acta Physica Hungarica A) Heavy Ion PhysicsAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 0.07Q4 | 0.15no 2001 value | 75 | 11% | — | ||
48Australasian Journal of ParamedicineOAAustralia | 0.04Q4 | 0.03 0.02 up from 2001 | 442 | 41% | — | ||
49Talk given atPublisher not listed | 0.03Q4 | 0.04 0.01 up from 2001 | 40 | 0% | — | ||
50Journal of the Arkansas Academy of ScienceOAArkansas Academy of Science · United States | 0.03Q4 | 0.01no change | 531 | 100% | $300 |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Nuclear and High Energy Physics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics62
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics62
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics53
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics31
- Radiation18
- Condensed Matter Physics6
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
15 additional Nuclear and High Energy Physics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1999–2001, 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: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 53
- Window papers (baseline)
- 42,909 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.503 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 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 | 53 | 54 | 53 | 55 | 55 | 54 | 54 | 58 | 62 | 61 | 62 | 68 | 68 | 66 | 67 | 67 | 68 | 71 | 71 | 69 | 74 | 76 | 75 | 69 | 64 | 65 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 39,221 | 40,935 | 42,909 | 43,795 | 45,983 | 46,695 | 50,220 | 52,179 | 54,354 | 55,711 | 56,975 | 59,147 | 61,090 | 63,612 | 65,297 | 66,208 | 66,181 | 67,942 | 67,814 | 66,805 | 63,894 | 62,108 | 61,567 | 63,106 | 62,910 | 62,149 | |
| Median OJR | 0.542 | 0.458 | 0.503 | 0.47 | 0.456 | 0.52 | 0.549 | 0.543 | 0.455 | 0.547 | 0.505 | 0.53 | 0.497 | 0.675 | 0.71 | 0.73 | 0.668 | 0.65 | 0.62 | 0.51 | 0.59 | 0.538 | 0.56 | 0.63 | 0.60 | 0.61 |
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.