Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics journal rankings 2004
65 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics has 65 ranked journals in 2004. The median journal has an OJR of 0.64, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2003; Q1 starts at OJR 1.36. The top three are Reviews of Modern Physics, Reports on Progress in Physics, and Physical Review Letters.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. 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 2001–2003, the window the 2004 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)
65 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 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 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 2004. | Compare |
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1Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 23.70Q1 | 36.38 6.03 up from 2003 | 105 | 69% | — | ||
2Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.63Q1 | 7.67 0.32 down from 2003 | 118 | 76% | $4,680 | ||
3Physical Review LettersAmerican Physical Society · United States | 4.09Q1 | 6.70 0.06 down from 2003 | 9,560 | 59% | $3,750 | ||
4International Reviews in Physical ChemistryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 4.97 1.42 up from 2003 | 64 | 0% | — | ||
5Atomic Data and Nuclear Data TablesElsevier BV · United States | 2.21Q1 | 1.86 2.17 down from 2003 | 66 | 13% | $3,030 | ||
6Physical review. B, Condensed matterAmerican Physical Society · United States | 2.19Q1 | 3.18 0.16 up from 2003 | 14,796 | — | — | ||
7Color and Imaging ConferenceUnited States | 1.94Q1 | 0.59 0.09 up from 2003 | 183 | 97% | — | ||
8New Journal of PhysicsOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 2.83no change | 297 | 100% | $2,610 | ||
9Progress in Surface ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 1.75 1.20 down from 2003 | 136 | 0% | $4,130 | ||
10Journal of the Optical Society of America BOptica Publishing Group · United States | 1.59Q1 | 2.58 0.62 up from 2003 | 914 | 15% | — | ||
11The Journal of Physical Chemistry AAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.50Q1 | 2.60 0.12 down from 2003 | 4,532 | 5% | — | ||
12Journal of Computational ChemistryWiley · United States | 1.45Q1 | 2.92 0.16 up from 2003 | 622 | 5% | $4,520 | ||
13Europhysics Letters (EPL)Institute of Physics · France | 1.45Q1 | 2.14 0.13 up from 2003 | 1,620 | 83% | $1,895 | ||
14The Journal of Chemical PhysicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.44Q1 | 3.07 0.10 up from 2003 | 7,866 | 21% | $3,500 | ||
15Annals of PhysicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.42Q1 | 2.44 0.06 up from 2003 | 294 | 61% | $3,160 | ||
16Physical Review AAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.39Q1 | 2.82 0.14 up from 2003 | 4,896 | 43% | $2,675 | ||
17Applied Physics BSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.36Q1 | 2.14 0.37 up from 2003 | 873 | 14% | $4,090 | ||
18Journal of the Optical Society of America AOptica Publishing Group · United States | 1.25Q2 | 2.02 0.05 up from 2003 | 840 | 16% | — | ||
19Conference on Colour in Graphics Imaging and VisionSociety for Imaging Science and Technology | 1.20Q2 | 0.41 0.09 down from 2003 | 124 | 96% | — | ||
20Annual Review of Physical ChemistryAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.08Q2 | 12.31 1.92 up from 2003 | 66 | 3% | — | ||
21Waves in Random MediaTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 2.05 0.88 up from 2003 | 101 | 16% | — | ||
22Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative TransferElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.97Q2 | 1.67 0.01 down from 2003 | 812 | 5% | $2,870 | ||
23Journal of Optics B Quantum and Semiclassical OpticsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 1.48 0.39 up from 2003 | 470 | 61% | — | ||
24The European Physical Journal BSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 0.96Q2 | 1.17 0.04 up from 2003 | 1,361 | 46% | $3,490 | ||
25Molecular PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 1.39 0.15 down from 2003 | 1,003 | 7% | — | ||
26Physics Letters AElsevier BV | 0.91Q2 | 1.39 0.05 up from 2003 | 2,801 | 25% | $2,150 | ||
27Journal of Physics A Mathematical and GeneralInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 1.45 0.05 up from 2003 | 2,834 | 76% | — | ||
28The European Physical Journal DSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 0.87Q2 | 1.29 0.09 up from 2003 | 902 | 25% | $3,790 | ||
29Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 1.65 0.01 up from 2003 | 1,472 | 51% | $3,325 | ||
30Journal of Theoretical and Computational ChemistryWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.76Q2 | 1.17 0.21 up from 2003 | 76 | 0% | — | ||
31Journal of Optics A Pure and Applied OpticsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.74Q2 | 1.04 0.13 up from 2003 | 505 | 15% | — | ||
32Comptes Rendus PhysiqueOAAcadémie des sciences · France | 0.67Q2 | 0.89 0.18 up from 2003 | 257 | 43% | — | ||
33Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related PhenomenaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.64Q2 | 1.11 0.12 down from 2003 | 568 | 3% | $3,170 | ||
34Foundations of PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.61Q3 | 1.03 0.24 up from 2003 | 288 | 36% | $2,390 | ||
35Physics-UspekhiInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 0.97 0.08 down from 2003 | 411 | 11% | — | ||
36Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics LettersPleiades Publishing · United States | 0.58Q3 | 0.90 0.12 up from 2003 | 906 | 26% | — | ||
37Laser PhysicsIOP Publishing · Russia | 0.55Q3 | 0.62 0.01 down from 2003 | 64 | 0% | $3,325 | ||
38Journal of Molecular Structure THEOCHEMElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.52Q3 | 1.01 0.04 down from 2003 | 1,794 | 6% | — | ||
39Single MoleculesWiley · Germany | 0.50Q3 | 1.35 0.47 up from 2003 | 160 | — | — | ||
40Canadian Journal of PhysicsNRC Research Press · Canada | 0.48Q3 | 0.76 0.14 up from 2003 | 452 | 10% | — | ||
41Journal of Modern OpticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.45Q3 | 0.70 0.07 down from 2003 | 1,077 | 14% | — | ||
42PhysChemCommRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 0.45Q3 | 0.83 0.23 up from 2003 | 69 | — | — | ||
43Journal of Experimental and Theoretical PhysicsPleiades Publishing · United States | 0.41Q3 | 0.65 0.10 up from 2003 | 733 | 13% | — | ||
44Color Research & ApplicationWiley · United States | 0.40Q3 | 0.77 0.11 up from 2003 | 298 | 4% | $3,180 | ||
45Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern PhysicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.40Q3 | 0.54 0.43 down from 2003 | 146 | 9% | $2,700 | ||
46Physical Review BAmerican Physical Society · United States | 0.36Q3 | 0.31 0.02 down from 2003 | 285 | 46% | $2,675 | ||
47Comptes Rendus de l Académie des Sciences - Series IV - Physics-AstrophysicsElsevier BV · France | 0.36Q3 | —no 2003 value | 142 | — | — | ||
48Zeitschrift für Naturforschung ADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.33Q3 | 0.47no change | 436 | 100% | $2,712 | ||
49Annalen der PhysikWiley · Germany | 0.32Q3 | 0.66 0.04 up from 2003 | 253 | 19% | $3,840 | ||
50Foundations of Physics LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.29Q4 | 0.59 0.21 up from 2003 | 170 | 28% | — |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics70
- 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 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
22 additional Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2001–2003, 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: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 65
- Window papers (baseline)
- 91,151 +5.1% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.640 +6.8% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 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 | 57 | 64 | 62 | 65 | 65 | 66 | 68 | 70 | 70 | 73 | 72 | 71 | 78 | 81 | 85 | 87 | 89 | 91 | 92 | 97 | 105 | 103 | 103 | 108 | 107 | 105 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 84,695 | 86,753 | 86,412 | 89,035 | 91,151 | 95,706 | 100,546 | 106,715 | 110,735 | 112,436 | 112,382 | 112,245 | 113,539 | 114,815 | 116,212 | 117,514 | 117,344 | 117,182 | 115,527 | 113,962 | 112,377 | 111,323 | 110,326 | 106,860 | 103,126 | 100,852 | |
| Median OJR | 0.710 | 0.60 | 0.59 | 0.642 | 0.640 | 0.77 | 0.807 | 0.783 | 0.89 | 0.86 | 0.84 | 0.95 | 0.83 | 0.778 | 0.82 | 0.813 | 0.79 | 0.80 | 0.76 | 0.75 | 0.706 | 0.67 | 0.662 | 0.68 | 0.657 | 0.70 |
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.