Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Radiation journal rankings 2003
16 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Radiation has 16 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR rose 0.14 on 2002 to 0.51, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.81. The top three are Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, Medical Physics, and Radiation Measurements.
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)
16 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 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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1Journal of Synchrotron RadiationOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 1.97 1.26 up from 2002 | 539 | 98% | $3,180 | ||
2Medical PhysicsWiley · United States | 1.34Q1 | 2.06 0.25 down from 2002 | 993 | 14% | $3,360 | ||
3Radiation MeasurementsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 1.15 0.34 up from 2002 | 479 | 2% | $3,690 | ||
4Applied Radiation and IsotopesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.81Q1 | 0.99 0.07 up from 2002 | 927 | 4% | $3,220 | ||
5Medical dosimetryElsevier BV · United States | 0.81Q2 | 0.83 0.13 up from 2002 | 141 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
6Journal of Applied Clinical Medical PhysicsOAWiley · United States | 0.75Q2 | 0.94 0.21 up from 2002 | 160 | 100% | $900 | ||
7Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and AtomsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.71Q2 | 1.02no change | 3,065 | 6% | $2,810 | ||
8X-Ray SpectrometryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.70Q2 | 0.81 0.11 up from 2002 | 241 | 17% | $3,250 | ||
9Journal of Neutron ResearchIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.33Q3 | 0.20 0.08 up from 2002 | 91 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
10Synchrotron Radiation NewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.31Q3 | 0.35no change | 178 | 4% | — | ||
11Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.22Q3 | 0.31 0.15 up from 2002 | 72 | 3% | $3,140 | ||
12International Journal of PIXEWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.17Q3 | 0.18 0.05 up from 2002 | 75 | 10% | — | ||
13Neutron NewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.15Q4 | 0.14 0.02 up from 2002 | 174 | 5% | — | ||
14NukleonikaOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.08Q4 | 0.10 0.24 down from 2002 | 141 | 0% | $800 | ||
15Journal of Medical PhysicsOAMedknow · India | 0.03Q4 | 0.03 0.05 down from 2002 | 40 | 0% | — | ||
16Reports of Practical Oncology & RadiotherapyOAElsevier BV · Poland | 0.02Q4 | 0.03 0.03 up from 2002 | 75 | 100% | $1,713 |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Radiation 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.
7 additional Radiation 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
- 16
- Window papers (baseline)
- 11,952 +7.9% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.515 +12.6% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 15 | 17 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 19 | 19 | 21 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 22 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 30 | 29 | 29 | 28 | 26 | 26 | 25 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 11,078 | 10,951 | 11,565 | 11,952 | 12,534 | 13,156 | 13,955 | 14,795 | 15,366 | 15,760 | 16,753 | 17,542 | 18,222 | 18,291 | 18,988 | 20,280 | 21,135 | 21,436 | 21,528 | 21,634 | 21,625 | 20,843 | 20,058 | 19,001 | 18,525 | 18,640 | |
| Median OJR | 0.457 | 0.44 | 0.377 | 0.515 | 0.522 | 0.385 | 0.32 | 0.27 | 0.31 | 0.34 | 0.375 | 0.5639 | 0.535 | 0.54 | 0.5641 | 0.513 | 0.575 | 0.587 | 0.521 | 0.532 | 0.569 | 0.458 | 0.478 | 0.49 | 0.481 | 0.589 |
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.