Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Subfield ranking · 2006
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics journal rankings 2006
68 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics has 68 ranked journals in 2006. The median journal has an OJR of 0.81, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2005; Q1 starts at OJR 1.45. The top three are Reviews of Modern Physics, Reports on Progress in Physics, and Physical Review Letters.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2006. 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 2003–2005, the window the 2006 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)
68 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 2005. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2003–2005 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 2006. | Compare |
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1Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 22.81Q1 | 33.38 2.45 up from 2005 | 104 | 54% | — | ||
2Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.72Q1 | 10.23 1.40 up from 2005 | 144 | 74% | $4,680 | ||
3Physical Review LettersAmerican Physical Society · United States | 4.10Q1 | 7.12no change | 10,929 | 63% | $3,750 | ||
4International Reviews in Physical ChemistryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 6.21 1.54 down from 2005 | 46 | 10% | — | ||
5Nature PhysicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 3.93no 2005 value | 103 | 30% | $12,690 | — | |
6New Journal of PhysicsOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 3.89 0.32 up from 2005 | 642 | 100% | $2,610 | ||
7Journal of Computational ChemistryWiley · United States | 2.18Q1 | 4.84 0.83 up from 2005 | 598 | 20% | $4,520 | ||
8Physical review. B, Condensed matterAmerican Physical Society · United States | 2.08Q1 | —no 2005 value | 4,731 | — | — | ||
9Progress in Surface ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 5.50 3.12 up from 2005 | 118 | 0% | $4,130 | ||
10Journal of Chemical Theory and ComputationAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.88Q1 | 3.55 0.12 down from 2005 | 166 | 15% | $4,500 | ||
11Waves in Random MediaTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 2.33 0.19 up from 2005 | 85 | — | — | ||
12Atomic Data and Nuclear Data TablesElsevier BV · United States | 1.79Q1 | 2.81 0.85 up from 2005 | 61 | 7% | $3,030 | ||
13Physical Review BAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.60Q1 | 3.33 0.40 up from 2005 | 11,315 | 47% | $2,675 | ||
14Annals of PhysicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.59Q1 | 2.56 0.19 up from 2005 | 369 | 69% | $3,160 | ||
15The Journal of Physical Chemistry AAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.54Q1 | 2.93 0.03 up from 2005 | 4,680 | 6% | — | ||
16Journal of the Optical Society of America BOptica Publishing Group · United States | 1.51Q1 | 2.30 0.01 up from 2005 | 898 | 16% | — | ||
17Color and Imaging ConferenceUnited States | 1.45Q1 | 0.56 0.12 up from 2005 | 176 | 97% | — | ||
18Physical Review AAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.45Q2 | 3.08 0.08 up from 2005 | 5,472 | 47% | $2,675 | ||
19Europhysics Letters (EPL)Institute of Physics · France | 1.42Q2 | 2.27 0.09 up from 2005 | 1,746 | 82% | $1,895 | ||
20The Journal of Chemical PhysicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.40Q2 | 3.10 0.11 down from 2005 | 8,482 | 21% | $3,500 | ||
21Applied Physics BSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.32Q2 | 2.18 0.07 up from 2005 | 1,014 | 13% | $4,090 | ||
22Journal of the Optical Society of America AOptica Publishing Group · United States | 1.26Q2 | 2.18 0.09 up from 2005 | 831 | 14% | — | ||
23Journal of Optics B Quantum and Semiclassical OpticsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 1.41 0.07 down from 2005 | 582 | — | — | ||
24The European Physical Journal BSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 1.10Q2 | 1.82 0.05 up from 2005 | 1,203 | 53% | $3,490 | ||
25Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative TransferElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.04Q2 | 1.51 0.24 down from 2005 | 906 | 13% | $2,870 | ||
26Journal of Physics A Mathematical and GeneralInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 1.73 0.13 up from 2005 | 2,847 | 80% | — | ||
27Physics Letters AElsevier BV | 1.02Q2 | 1.51 0.02 down from 2005 | 3,337 | 25% | $2,150 | ||
28Journal of Optics A Pure and Applied OpticsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 1.67 0.45 up from 2005 | 598 | 9% | — | ||
29The European Physical Journal DSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 0.98Q2 | 1.74 0.35 up from 2005 | 873 | 26% | $3,790 | ||
30Annual Review of Physical ChemistryAnnual Reviews · United States | 0.98Q2 | 10.48 4.64 down from 2005 | 69 | 15% | — | ||
31Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 2.00 0.16 up from 2005 | 1,403 | 54% | $3,325 | ||
32Comptes Rendus PhysiqueOAAcadémie des sciences · France | 0.91Q2 | 1.41 0.09 down from 2005 | 345 | 41% | — | ||
33Molecular PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 1.68 0.27 up from 2005 | 929 | 12% | — | ||
34Physics-UspekhiInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 1.29 0.36 up from 2005 | 367 | 13% | — | ||
35Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern PhysicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.78Q3 | 0.95 0.81 down from 2005 | 120 | 12% | $2,700 | ||
36Conference on Colour in Graphics Imaging and VisionSociety for Imaging Science and Technology | 0.72Q3 | 0.31 0.06 down from 2005 | 100 | 100% | — | ||
37Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related PhenomenaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.70Q3 | 1.14 0.12 up from 2005 | 810 | 7% | $3,170 | ||
38Journal of Theoretical and Computational ChemistryWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.69Q3 | 0.93 0.17 down from 2005 | 166 | 1% | — | ||
39Contributions to Plasma PhysicsWiley · Germany | 0.60Q3 | 1.18 0.02 up from 2005 | 223 | 9% | $2,930 | ||
40Foundations of PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.60Q3 | 0.91 0.10 up from 2005 | 284 | 45% | $2,390 | ||
41Laser Physics LettersIOP Publishing · Germany | 0.60Q3 | 1.31 0.37 up from 2005 | 245 | 68% | $3,325 | ||
42Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics LettersPleiades Publishing · United States | 0.57Q3 | 0.95 0.03 up from 2005 | 899 | 25% | — | ||
43Journal of Molecular Structure THEOCHEMElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.54Q3 | 0.95 0.03 up from 2005 | 2,090 | 4% | — | ||
44Annalen der PhysikWiley · Germany | 0.51Q3 | 0.85 0.05 up from 2005 | 365 | 22% | $3,840 | ||
45Canadian Journal of PhysicsNRC Research Press · Canada | 0.50Q3 | 0.86 0.16 up from 2005 | 316 | 28% | — | ||
46Journal of Modern OpticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.47Q3 | 0.90 0.33 up from 2005 | 1,138 | 18% | — | ||
47Zeitschrift für Naturforschung ADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.44Q3 | 0.63 0.04 up from 2005 | 399 | 100% | $2,712 | ||
48Color Research & ApplicationWiley · United States | 0.40Q3 | 0.87 0.04 down from 2005 | 268 | 4% | $3,180 | ||
49e-Journal of Surface Science and NanotechnologyOAJapan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science · Japan | 0.40Q3 | 0.66 0.13 down from 2005 | 171 | 100% | $93 | ||
50Chinese Physics LettersInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 0.36Q3 | 1.11 0.02 down from 2005 | 2,228 | 64% | $2,500 |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics74
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics68
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics54
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics31
- Radiation19
- Condensed Matter Physics6
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
Citations made in 2006. Corpus-wide, 71.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
17 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 2003–2005, 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: 2006. Publication window: 2003–2005. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 68
- Window papers (baseline)
- 100,546 +12.9% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 0.807 +25.6% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2003–2005 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.