Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Domain ranking · 2003
Physical Sciences journal rankings 2003
3,456 ranked journals · Domain
Physical Sciences has 3,456 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.78, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 1.45. The top three are Progress in Materials Science, Reviews of Modern Physics, and ACM Transactions on Information and System Security.
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.
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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 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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1Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 20.77Q1 | 12.29 1.68 up from 2002 | 33 | 0% | $6,040 | ||
2Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 20.05Q1 | 30.35 8.44 up from 2002 | 98 | 60% | — | ||
3ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 14.33Q1 | 7.83 1.47 up from 2002 | 42 | 0% | — | ||
4Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 13.40Q1 | 11.06 0.22 down from 2002 | 47 | 0% | $6,150 | ||
5ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 11.10Q1 | 20.38 15.17 up from 2002 | 80 | 7% | — | ||
6Surface Science ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.60Q1 | 9.67 2.94 down from 2002 | 39 | 4% | $4,440 | ||
7Data Mining and Knowledge DiscoverySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 10.29Q1 | 6.48 1.15 up from 2002 | 43 | 9% | $3,190 | ||
8Advances In PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 10.17Q1 | 9.37 1.08 down from 2002 | 47 | 20% | — | ||
9IEEE Personal CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 10.04Q1 | 9.77 3.31 up from 2002 | 94 | 0% | — | ||
10ACM Transactions on Computer-Human InteractionAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.98Q1 | 4.70 4.43 down from 2002 | 46 | 7% | — | ||
11Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 9.74Q1 | 12.35 0.68 down from 2002 | 334 | 2% | $4,500 | ||
12User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.46Q1 | 7.93 0.83 up from 2002 | 41 | 18% | $3,290 | ||
13IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 9.43Q1 | 7.64 1.05 up from 2002 | 404 | 11% | $2,645 | ||
14ACM Transactions on Computer SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.37Q1 | 8.81 2.27 up from 2002 | 38 | 23% | — | ||
15IEEE Signal Processing MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.87Q1 | 7.59 1.17 up from 2002 | 103 | 9% | — | ||
16ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.82Q1 | 6.08 2.21 up from 2002 | 38 | 36% | — | ||
17IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.78Q1 | 5.59 1.11 down from 2002 | 144 | 6% | $2,995 | ||
18Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 8.69Q1 | 11.58 4.21 up from 2002 | 51 | 48% | $3,880 | ||
19Machine LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 8.58Q1 | 5.71 0.73 up from 2002 | 158 | 88% | $3,290 | ||
20Human-Computer InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 8.50Q1 | 7.07 2.01 up from 2002 | 37 | 6% | — | ||
21Bulletin of the American Mathematical SocietyOAAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 8.46Q1 | 5.64 2.54 up from 2002 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
22Evolutionary ComputationThe MIT Press · United States | 8.33Q1 | 3.13 2.04 down from 2002 | 72 | 6% | — | ||
23Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 8.28Q1 | 3.44 3.61 down from 2002 | 51 | 7% | $3,290 | ||
24Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.04Q1 | 10.44 0.91 down from 2002 | 285 | 34% | $6,240 | ||
25IEEE/ACM Transactions on NetworkingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.98Q1 | 6.61 0.39 up from 2002 | 203 | 5% | $2,495 | ||
26The VLDB JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 7.76Q1 | 8.32 2.57 up from 2002 | 66 | 4% | $2,990 | ||
27IEEE Pervasive ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.53Q1 | 5.24no 2002 value | 54 | 2% | $2,995 | — | |
28Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.34Q1 | 7.04 1.35 up from 2002 | 135 | 5% | $6,500 | ||
29ACM Transactions on GraphicsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.27Q1 | 5.71 2.94 up from 2002 | 101 | 8% | — | ||
30The International Journal of High Performance Computing ApplicationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.21Q1 | 6.90 2.68 up from 2002 | 87 | 3% | $4,400 | ||
31Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.03Q1 | 4.14 0.51 down from 2002 | 49 | 0% | $6,990 | ||
32ACM Transactions on Database SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.95Q1 | 4.92 0.44 down from 2002 | 36 | 6% | — | ||
33Digest of technical papers/Digest of technical papers - IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided DesignAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.76Q1 | 2.46no 2002 value | 117 | — | — | — | |
34IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 6.60Q1 | 4.48 0.06 up from 2002 | 221 | 12% | $2,645 | ||
35Journal of CryptologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 6.39Q1 | 4.20 0.44 up from 2002 | 55 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
36ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.38Q1 | 2.85 3.36 down from 2002 | 200 | 2% | — | ||
37IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer GraphicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.28Q1 | 4.10 0.07 up from 2002 | 85 | 8% | $2,645 | ||
38ComputerIEEE Computer Society · United States | 6.27Q1 | 4.12 0.35 up from 2002 | 638 | 3% | $2,995 | ||
39ACM SIGMOD RecordAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.01Q1 | 3.59 0.01 up from 2002 | 302 | 13% | — | ||
40Journal of Composites for ConstructionAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 6.00Q1 | 1.73 0.26 up from 2002 | 118 | 2% | — | ||
41IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.91Q1 | 4.66 1.58 up from 2002 | 126 | 14% | $2,645 | ||
42IEEE Communications MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.82Q1 | 5.02 0.78 up from 2002 | 620 | 6% | $2,995 | ||
43Catalysis ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.80Q1 | 5.83 0.21 down from 2002 | 34 | 11% | — | ||
44Communications of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.80Q1 | 2.90 0.22 down from 2002 | 949 | 10% | — | ||
45Journal of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.76Q1 | 5.32 1.24 up from 2002 | 103 | 13% | — | ||
46AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.73Q1 | 2.47 0.37 up from 2002 | 713 | 6% | $3,760 | ||
47ArdeaNetherlands | 5.71Q1 | 5.32 4.89 up from 2002 | 45 | 0% | — | ||
48Artificial IntelligenceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.69Q1 | 3.65 0.06 up from 2002 | 241 | 100% | $4,260 | ||
49International Journal of Computer VisionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.69Q1 | 4.72 0.47 up from 2002 | 191 | 11% | $4,090 | ||
50ACM SIGKDD Explorations NewsletterAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.65Q1 | 3.11 1.32 down from 2002 | 108 | 5% | — |
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.
1,144 additional Physical Sciences 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
- 3,456
- Window papers (baseline)
- 3,093,298 +29.2% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.784 +14.8% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 544
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 | 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.