Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Domain ranking · 2006
Physical Sciences journal rankings 2006
3,772 ranked journals · Domain
Physical Sciences has 3,772 ranked journals in 2006. The median journal has an OJR of 0.83, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2005; Q1 starts at OJR 1.51. The top three are ACM Computing Surveys, Reviews of Modern Physics, and ACM Transactions on Information and System Security.
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.
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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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1ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 22.85Q1 | 17.63 3.97 down from 2005 | 38 | 12% | — | ||
2Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 22.81Q1 | 33.38 2.45 up from 2005 | 104 | 54% | — | ||
3ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 17.58Q1 | 11.06 4.19 up from 2005 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
4Journal of Web SemanticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 14.30Q1 | 9.03 2.94 down from 2005 | 71 | 32% | $1,700 | ||
5Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics · United States | 13.78Q1 | 8.28 0.76 down from 2005 | 81 | 60% | — | ||
6Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 13.33Q1 | 22.00 9.96 up from 2005 | 39 | 8% | $6,150 | ||
7ACM Transactions on GraphicsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 13.19Q1 | 13.16 2.42 up from 2005 | 341 | 12% | — | ||
8ACM Transactions on Internet TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 13.01Q1 | 6.63 2.62 down from 2005 | 49 | 4% | — | ||
9ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 12.82Q1 | 6.74 1.39 down from 2005 | 36 | 6% | — | ||
10Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 11.48Q1 | 12.92 2.74 down from 2005 | 102 | 0% | $6,500 | ||
11IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 10.75Q1 | 5.24 0.23 up from 2005 | 309 | 5% | $2,645 | ||
12International Journal of Computer VisionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 10.32Q1 | 16.88 8.67 up from 2005 | 184 | 14% | $4,090 | ||
13IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 9.68Q1 | 8.15 2.33 up from 2005 | 143 | 8% | $2,645 | ||
14Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.51Q1 | 15.33 9.91 up from 2005 | 52 | 14% | $6,040 | ||
15IEEE Transactions on Mobile ComputingIEEE Computer Society · United States | 9.40Q1 | 7.61 0.92 up from 2005 | 153 | 5% | $2,645 | ||
16Internet MathematicsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 9.29Q1 | 10.06 1.56 up from 2005 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
17IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 9.23Q1 | 5.29 2.27 up from 2005 | 1,028 | 7% | $2,645 | ||
18IEEE Transactions on Robotics and AutomationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 9.13Q1 | 7.21 2.99 up from 2005 | 180 | — | — | ||
19ACM Transactions on Database SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.11Q1 | 8.92 2.51 up from 2005 | 64 | 14% | — | ||
20Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 8.98Q1 | 3.23 1.03 up from 2005 | 58 | 8% | $2,290 | ||
21IEEE/ACM Transactions on NetworkingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.95Q1 | 7.27 2.62 down from 2005 | 291 | 6% | $2,495 | ||
22IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 8.88Q1 | 8.87 1.11 up from 2005 | 580 | 9% | $2,645 | ||
23AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.86Q1 | 4.10 1.17 up from 2005 | 781 | 7% | $3,760 | ||
24Transportation ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 8.85Q1 | 4.13 1.11 up from 2005 | 108 | 14% | — | ||
25IEEE Transactions on Industrial InformaticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.70Q1 | 5.40no 2005 value | 30 | 4% | $2,645 | — | |
26IEEE Wireless CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.70Q1 | 8.12 1.60 up from 2005 | 193 | 6% | $2,995 | ||
27Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 8.55Q1 | 12.08 0.11 down from 2005 | 41 | 21% | $3,880 | ||
28ACM Transactions on Computer SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.35Q1 | 7.39 0.12 up from 2005 | 35 | 13% | — | ||
29Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 8.17Q1 | 7.62 1.06 down from 2005 | 72 | 23% | $3,290 | ||
30Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 8.10Q1 | 12.26 2.78 up from 2005 | 716 | 17% | $12,690 | ||
31Data Mining and Knowledge DiscoverySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 8.08Q1 | 4.09 0.72 down from 2005 | 64 | 13% | $3,190 | ||
32The VLDB JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 7.70Q1 | 5.29 2.11 down from 2005 | 77 | 17% | $2,990 | ||
33The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 7.70Q1 | 10.05 4.18 down from 2005 | 440 | 92% | $4,499 | ||
34Machine LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.57Q1 | 6.19 0.02 up from 2005 | 126 | 99% | $3,290 | ||
35Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 7.44Q1 | 15.17 3.53 up from 2005 | 310 | 7% | $4,500 | ||
36IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.42Q1 | 8.65 2.73 up from 2005 | 42 | 12% | $2,645 | ||
37Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.33Q1 | 10.05 0.97 up from 2005 | 245 | 37% | $6,240 | ||
38Proceedings of the IEEEInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.21Q1 | 6.59 0.47 up from 2005 | 554 | 4% | $2,645 | ||
39Journal of CryptologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 7.17Q1 | 5.32 0.44 down from 2005 | 55 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
40SIAM ReviewSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 7.11Q1 | 3.03 3.05 down from 2005 | 138 | 19% | — | ||
41TechnometricsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.04Q1 | 6.39 2.65 up from 2005 | 417 | 4% | — | ||
42Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 7.03Q1 | 9.33 2.53 up from 2005 | 92 | 8% | $3,970 | ||
43Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.00Q1 | 6.92 1.82 up from 2005 | 50 | 22% | $6,990 | ||
44IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.98Q1 | 6.44 0.83 down from 2005 | 551 | 7% | $2,645 | ||
45The Knowledge Engineering ReviewCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 6.98Q1 | 1.59 2.54 down from 2005 | 95 | 12% | $3,550 | ||
46ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.77Q1 | 5.40 2.07 down from 2005 | 229 | 4% | — | ||
47Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.72Q1 | 10.23 1.40 up from 2005 | 144 | 74% | $4,680 | ||
48ACM Transactions on Computer-Human InteractionAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.63Q1 | 5.88 1.66 up from 2005 | 56 | 13% | — | ||
49International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.55Q1 | 6.62 0.65 up from 2005 | 47 | 0% | $4,400 | ||
50ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.53Q1 | 2.36 3.24 down from 2005 | 169 | 3% | — |
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.
1,388 additional Physical Sciences 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
- 3,772
- Window papers (baseline)
- 3,872,505 +25.2% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 0.83 +5.2% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 544
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 | 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.