Journal rankings · indicator year 2006

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Subfield ranking · 2006

Radiation journal rankings 2006

19 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy

Indicator year

Radiation has 19 ranked journals in 2006. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2005 to 0.32, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.82. The top three are Medical Physics, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, and Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2006. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

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.

8% of Physics and Astronomy

Median OJR

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.

0.32-0.06 vs 2005

This subfieldAll 0.84World 1.00

Open-access journals

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.

32%

All fields: 15%

Median listed APC

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.

$3,160

Median positive listed APC: $3,160 among 14 journals. 5 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields of Physics and Astronomy (8)

19 ranked journals

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Quartile

Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

Access

APC (list price)

Publisher country

Radiation ranking, 2006
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. OJR	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.
1Medical PhysicsWiley · United States	2.15Q1	3.25 0.13 up from 2005	1,294	4%	$3,360
2Journal of Synchrotron RadiationOAWiley · United Kingdom	1.29Q1	2.09 0.23 up from 2005	335	100%	$3,180
3Journal of Applied Clinical Medical PhysicsOAWiley · United States	1.02Q1	1.15 0.10 up from 2005	232	100%	$900
4Radiation MeasurementsElsevier BV · United Kingdom	0.89Q1	0.98 0.11 down from 2005	712	6%	$3,690
5X-Ray SpectrometryWiley · United Kingdom	0.82Q1	1.26 0.20 down from 2005	251	7%	$3,250
6Applied Radiation and IsotopesElsevier BV · United Kingdom	0.68Q2	1.07 0.30 up from 2005	884	4%	$3,220
7Medical dosimetryElsevier BV · United States	0.63Q2	0.44 0.04 up from 2005	212	0%	$2,500
8Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and AtomsElsevier BV · Netherlands	0.62Q2	0.90 0.21 down from 2005	4,418	7%	$2,810
9Journal of Neutron ResearchIOS Press · Netherlands	0.38Q2	0.26 0.02 down from 2005	132	7%	$4,150
10Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands	0.32Q2	0.45 0.05 down from 2005	105	1%	$3,140
11Nuclear Technology and Radiation ProtectionOAVinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences · Serbia	0.20Q3	0.29 0.31 down from 2005	56	100%	$161
12International Journal of PIXEWorld Scientific · Singapore	0.17Q3	0.46 0.18 up from 2005	88	15%	—
13Neutron NewsTaylor & Francis · United States	0.16Q3	0.25 0.11 up from 2005	133	10%	—
14NukleonikaOADe Gruyter Open · Poland	0.14Q3	0.26 0.08 up from 2005	182	1%	$800
15Synchrotron Radiation NewsTaylor & Francis · United States	0.11Q3	0.13 0.08 down from 2005	175	0%	—
16Iranian Journal of radiation research/Iranian journal of radiation researchIran	0.06Q4	0.09 0.07 down from 2005	76	0%	—
17Journal of Radiotherapy in PracticeCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	0.03Q4	0.06no change	47	38%	$3,550
18Reports of Practical Oncology & RadiotherapyOAElsevier BV · Poland	0.02Q4	0.09 0.02 up from 2005	95	100%	$1,713
19Journal of Medical PhysicsOAMedknow · India	0.00Q4	0.00no change	33	100%	—

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.

4 additional Radiation 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2006. Publication window: 2003–2005. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals: 19
Window papers (baseline): 13,955 +16.8% from indicator year 2003
Median OJR: 0.32 -37.6% from indicator year 2003
Rising journals (2025): 4

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.

Category by indicator year
Measure	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	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.