Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Nuclear and High Energy Physics journal rankings 2003
55 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Nuclear and High Energy Physics has 55 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.47, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 1.00. The top three are Physics Reports, Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, and Nuclear Physics B.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. 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 2000–2002, the window the 2003 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)
55 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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.04Q1 | 10.44 0.91 down from 2002 | 285 | 34% | $6,240 | ||
2Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 2.74Q1 | 4.20 0.76 up from 2002 | 93 | 97% | — | ||
3Nuclear Physics BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.57Q1 | 5.33 0.24 up from 2002 | 2,203 | 83% | $0 listed | ||
4Journal of High Energy PhysicsOASpringer Nature · Italy | 2.38Q1 | 6.67 0.29 down from 2002 | 1,875 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
5Physics Letters BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.82Q1 | 3.86 0.21 up from 2002 | 4,090 | 87% | $0 listed | ||
6Astroparticle PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.77Q1 | 3.58 0.03 down from 2002 | 215 | 72% | $2,920 | ||
7The European Physical Journal COASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.53Q1 | 3.28 0.89 up from 2002 | 1,036 | 77% | $0 listed | ||
8Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fieldsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.44Q1 | 4.44 0.56 up from 2002 | 6,094 | 96% | — | ||
9Progress in Particle and Nuclear PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.35Q1 | 2.65 0.72 up from 2002 | 169 | 24% | $4,780 | ||
10Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle ScienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.17Q1 | 7.85 2.17 up from 2002 | 43 | 43% | — | ||
11Nuclear FusionOAIOP Publishing | 1.15Q1 | 3.26 0.51 up from 2002 | 530 | 66% | $2,595 | ||
12Computer Physics CommunicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.13Q1 | 1.35 0.08 up from 2002 | 958 | 26% | $4,160 | ||
13Plasma Physics and Controlled FusionIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.03Q1 | 2.79 0.22 up from 2002 | 608 | 65% | $3,325 | ||
14Review of Scientific InstrumentsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.00Q1 | 1.34 0.07 down from 2002 | 2,539 | 13% | — | ||
15Concepts in Magnetic ResonanceWiley · United States | 0.99Q2 | 1.10 0.53 down from 2002 | 114 | — | — | ||
16The European Physical Journal ASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.89Q2 | 1.61 0.57 up from 2002 | 698 | 31% | $3,990 | ||
17Progress of Theoretical PhysicsOxford University Press · Japan | 0.87Q2 | 1.51 0.12 up from 2002 | 482 | 86% | — | ||
18Physics of PlasmasAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.85Q2 | 2.05 0.10 down from 2002 | 2,024 | 15% | — | ||
19Physical Review CAmerican Physical Society · United States | 0.79Q2 | 2.43 0.40 up from 2002 | 2,546 | 59% | — | ||
20Nuclear Physics AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.67Q2 | 1.52 0.44 up from 2002 | 2,467 | 38% | $2,590 | ||
| 0.66Q2 | 1.32 0.29 up from 2002 | 4,686 | 18% | $2,620 | |||
22Few-Body SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.64Q2 | 0.87 0.06 up from 2002 | 91 | 74% | $2,290 | ||
23Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.56Q2 | 1.31 0.24 up from 2002 | 717 | 73% | $3,325 | ||
24Journal of Plasma PhysicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.55Q2 | 0.68 0.13 up from 2002 | 182 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
25Journal of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States | 0.55Q2 | 0.38 0.09 up from 2002 | 2,554 | 78% | — | ||
26Springer USPublisher not listed | 0.48Q2 | 0.27 0.13 down from 2002 | 34 | 0% | — | ||
27International Journal of Modern Physics AWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.48Q2 | 0.86 0.01 up from 2002 | 1,322 | 55% | — | ||
28Fusion Engineering and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.47Q2 | 0.98 0.03 up from 2002 | 1,148 | 4% | $2,810 | ||
29Socio-Environmental Systems ModelingOAPublisher not listed | 0.46Q3 | 0.09 0.02 up from 2002 | 1,335 | 100% | — | ||
30Fusion TechnologyAmerican Nuclear Society · United States | 0.44Q3 | 0.74 0.12 up from 2002 | 412 | — | — | ||
31Laser and Particle BeamsOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.39Q3 | 0.55 0.19 up from 2002 | 268 | 12% | $3,550 | ||
32Human BiologyWayne State University Press · United States | 0.37Q3 | 0.46 0.25 up from 2002 | 449 | 10% | — | ||
33Nuclear Data SheetsElsevier BV · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.49 0.07 up from 2002 | 61 | 0% | $3,240 | ||
34International Journal of Modern Physics EWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.32Q3 | 0.74 0.23 up from 2002 | 123 | 35% | — | ||
35Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings SupplementsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.32Q3 | 0.71 0.10 down from 2002 | 2,903 | 51% | — | ||
36Plasma Physics ReportsPleiades Publishing · Russia | 0.24Q3 | 0.45 0.06 up from 2002 | 399 | 3% | — | ||
37Journal of Fusion EnergySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.19Q3 | 0.22 0.02 down from 2002 | 50 | 5% | $3,990 | ||
38Canadian acousticsOACanadian Acoustical Association · Canada | 0.18Q3 | 0.08 0.03 up from 2002 | 203 | 100% | — | ||
39Czechoslovak Journal of PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.17Q3 | 0.28 0.02 up from 2002 | 865 | 11% | — | ||
40Surveys In High Energy PhysicsTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.17Q3 | 0.18no change | 53 | 31% | — | ||
41Physics of Atomic NucleiPleiades Publishing · Russia | 0.17Q3 | 0.28 0.07 down from 2002 | 853 | 27% | — | ||
42Australasian Journal of ParamedicineOAAustralia | 0.15Q3 | 0.09 0.06 up from 2002 | 611 | 46% | — | ||
43Nuclear Physics NewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.13Q4 | 0.16 0.05 down from 2002 | 99 | 2% | — | ||
44Acta Physica Polonica BOAJagiellonian University · Poland | 0.13Q4 | 0.21 0.11 up from 2002 | 307 | 0% | — | ||
45Multiparticle DynamicsPublisher not listed | 0.12Q4 | 0.07 0.07 up from 2002 | 103 | 26% | — | ||
46Fundamental InteractionsPublisher not listed | 0.11Q4 | 0.02no 2002 value | 41 | 10% | — | — | |
47Plasma devices and operationsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.11Q4 | 0.18 0.08 up from 2002 | 59 | 3% | — | ||
48Plasma Science and TechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.09Q4 | 0.24 0.06 up from 2002 | 220 | 41% | — | ||
49Acta Physica Hungarica A) Heavy Ion PhysicsAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 0.06Q4 | 0.15no change | 157 | 24% | — | ||
50Open Research (University of Surrey)OAWiley · China | 0.04Q4 | 0.02 0.03 down from 2002 | 869 | 1% | $3,000 |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Nuclear and High Energy Physics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics68
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics65
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics55
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics30
- Radiation16
- Condensed Matter Physics7
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
12 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 2000–2002, 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: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 55
- Window papers (baseline)
- 43,795 +11.7% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.47 -13.9% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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.