Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Field ranking · 2002
Physics and Astronomy journal rankings 2002
232 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Physics and Astronomy has 232 ranked journals in 2002. The median journal has an OJR of 0.57, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2001; Q1 starts at OJR 1.06. The top three are Advances In Physics, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Reports on Progress in 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 in Physics and Astronomy (8)
Up to Physical Sciences232 ranked journals
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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 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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1Advances In PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 11.69Q1 | 10.45 6.30 down from 2001 | 37 | 16% | — | ||
2Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 11.52Q1 | 21.91 9.67 up from 2001 | 164 | 60% | — | ||
3Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.64Q1 | 7.14 1.73 down from 2001 | 105 | 81% | $4,680 | ||
4Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.31Q1 | 11.35 3.55 up from 2001 | 308 | 34% | $6,240 | ||
5Progress in Surface ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.91Q1 | 3.31 3.69 down from 2001 | 73 | 8% | $4,130 | ||
6Physical Review LettersAmerican Physical Society · United States | 4.46Q1 | 6.67 0.09 up from 2001 | 9,091 | 57% | $3,750 | ||
7SIAM ReviewSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 3.86Q1 | 2.14 0.05 up from 2001 | 125 | 12% | — | ||
8The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 3.37Q1 | 4.25 0.62 down from 2001 | 405 | 87% | $4,499 | ||
9Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 3.27Q1 | 3.43 1.09 down from 2001 | 116 | 100% | — | ||
10Journal of High Energy PhysicsOASpringer Nature · Italy | 2.90Q1 | 6.97 0.84 up from 2001 | 1,498 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
11Color and Imaging ConferenceUnited States | 2.88Q1 | 0.66 0.03 down from 2001 | 181 | 98% | — | ||
12International Reviews in Physical ChemistryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.81Q1 | 3.39 1.30 down from 2001 | 63 | 6% | — | ||
13The Astronomical JournalOAInstitute of Physics · United States | 2.75Q1 | 4.84 0.09 up from 2001 | 1,541 | 99% | $4,499 | ||
14Nuclear Physics BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 5.09 0.13 up from 2001 | 2,272 | 88% | $0 listed | ||
15The Astrophysical JournalOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 5.63 0.39 down from 2001 | 7,220 | 97% | $4,499 | ||
16Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 4.10 0.45 down from 2001 | 2,910 | 92% | $3,046 | ||
17IcarusElsevier BV · United States | 2.03Q1 | 3.55 0.78 up from 2001 | 674 | 7% | $3,810 | ||
18New AstronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.03Q1 | 2.66 0.30 down from 2001 | 133 | 52% | $2,690 | ||
19Atomic Data and Nuclear Data TablesElsevier BV · United States | 1.93Q1 | 3.17 1.25 up from 2001 | 74 | 6% | $3,030 | ||
20Publications of the Astronomical Society of the PacificInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 2.46 0.44 down from 2001 | 564 | 89% | $3,325 | ||
21Physics Letters BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q1 | 3.65 0.05 down from 2001 | 4,220 | 88% | $0 listed | ||
22Medical PhysicsWiley · United States | 1.76Q1 | 2.31 0.30 up from 2001 | 997 | 14% | $3,360 | ||
23Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear ScienceAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.73Q1 | 2.18 0.09 up from 2001 | 261 | 19% | — | ||
24Europhysics Letters (EPL)Institute of Physics · France | 1.70Q1 | 2.30 0.01 up from 2001 | 1,425 | 80% | $1,895 | ||
25Physical review. B, Condensed matterAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.63Q1 | 2.98 0.06 up from 2001 | 14,464 | 44% | — | ||
26The Journal of Chemical PhysicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.61Q1 | 2.97 0.09 down from 2001 | 7,754 | 17% | $3,500 | ||
27Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 1.59 0.23 up from 2001 | 516 | 14% | — | ||
28The European Physical Journal ESpringer Science+Business Media · France | 1.59Q1 | 1.71 0.40 up from 2001 | 276 | 37% | $3,153 | ||
29The Journal of Physical Chemistry AAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.58Q1 | 2.58 0.07 up from 2001 | 4,658 | 4% | — | ||
30Physica D Nonlinear PhenomenaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.57Q1 | 1.85 0.16 up from 2001 | 715 | 25% | $3,640 | ||
31Astronomy and AstrophysicsOAEDP Sciences · France | 1.57Q1 | 3.28no 2001 value | 1,814 | 99% | $1,865 | — | |
32Journal of Nonlinear ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.54Q1 | 1.70 0.29 up from 2001 | 66 | 15% | $3,290 | ||
33New Journal of PhysicsOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 1.63 1.13 down from 2001 | 83 | 100% | $2,610 | ||
34Annual Review of Astronomy and AstrophysicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.53Q1 | 14.09 1.38 up from 2001 | 50 | 50% | — | ||
35Exergy An International JournalElsevier BV · France | 1.53Q1 | 1.74no 2001 value | 31 | 0% | — | — | |
36Astroparticle PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.50Q1 | 3.62 0.26 up from 2001 | 236 | 63% | $2,920 | ||
37Nuclear FusionOAIOP Publishing | 1.48Q1 | 2.75 0.08 down from 2001 | 563 | 62% | $2,595 | ||
38Applied Physics BSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.47Q1 | 1.64 0.11 down from 2001 | 871 | 7% | $4,090 | ||
39Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.41Q1 | 2.22 0.12 up from 2001 | 6,455 | 43% | — | ||
40Physical 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% | — | ||
41The European Physical Journal BSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 1.32Q1 | 1.47 0.18 down from 2001 | 1,429 | 58% | $3,490 | ||
42Physical Review AAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.30Q1 | 2.64 0.08 up from 2001 | 4,408 | 50% | $2,675 | ||
43Physics TodayAIP Publishing · United States | 1.30Q1 | 0.82 0.25 down from 2001 | 1,536 | 21% | — | ||
44Journal of the Optical Society of America BOptica Publishing Group · United States | 1.29Q1 | 1.68 0.30 down from 2001 | 794 | 12% | — | ||
45Progress in Particle and Nuclear PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.25Q1 | 1.93no change | 170 | 21% | $4,780 | ||
46Planetary and Space ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.22Q1 | 1.69 0.16 up from 2001 | 385 | 5% | $3,680 | ||
47Journal of Computational ChemistryWiley · United States | 1.20Q1 | 1.98 0.05 up from 2001 | 669 | 6% | $4,520 | ||
48Computer Physics CommunicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.17Q1 | 1.26 0.12 down from 2001 | 763 | 24% | $4,160 | ||
49The European Physical Journal COASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.16Q1 | 2.38 0.62 up from 2001 | 1,522 | 86% | $0 listed | ||
50Waves in Random MediaTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.13Q1 | 1.10 0.13 down from 2001 | 117 | 6% | — |
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.
65 additional Physics and Astronomy 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
- 232
- Window papers (baseline)
- 254,602 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.57 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 36Comparison-group list (36)
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 | 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.