Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics journal rankings 2008
70 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics has 70 ranked journals in 2008. The median OJR rose 0.11 on 2007 to 0.89, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.44. The top three are Reviews of Modern Physics, Reports on Progress in Physics, and Nature Physics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. 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 2005–2007, the window the 2008 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)
70 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 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 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 2008. | Compare |
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1Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 26.21Q1 | 33.45 3.43 down from 2007 | 110 | 87% | — | ||
2Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.42Q1 | 11.85 1.05 down from 2007 | 141 | 71% | $4,680 | ||
3Nature PhysicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.00Q1 | 7.34 0.94 up from 2007 | 689 | 39% | $12,690 | ||
4Progress in Surface ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.61Q1 | 5.72 1.57 down from 2007 | 41 | 20% | $4,130 | ||
5International Reviews in Physical ChemistryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.50Q1 | 6.83 0.43 down from 2007 | 54 | 5% | — | ||
6Physical Review LettersAmerican Physical Society · United States | 4.07Q1 | 7.01 0.11 down from 2007 | 11,606 | 67% | $3,750 | ||
7Nature PhotonicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.94Q1 | 5.16 2.88 up from 2007 | 319 | 14% | $12,690 | ||
8Journal of Computational ChemistryWiley · United States | 2.34Q1 | 3.46 0.88 down from 2007 | 708 | 12% | $4,520 | ||
9New Journal of PhysicsOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 3.65 0.13 up from 2007 | 1,062 | 100% | $2,610 | ||
10Journal of Chemical Theory and ComputationAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.08Q1 | 4.52 0.65 up from 2007 | 537 | 21% | $4,500 | ||
11Annals of PhysicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.76Q1 | 2.60 0.16 up from 2007 | 390 | 71% | $3,160 | ||
12Proceedings of the IEEE International Frequency Control SymposiumInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.74Q1 | 0.53no 2007 value | 282 | — | — | — | |
13Color and Imaging ConferenceUnited States | 1.65Q1 | 0.54 0.05 down from 2007 | 177 | 97% | — | ||
14Physical Review BAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.57Q1 | 3.35 0.05 down from 2007 | 17,755 | 52% | $2,675 | ||
15Europhysics Letters (EPL)Institute of Physics · France | 1.54Q1 | 2.24 0.14 down from 2007 | 1,882 | 82% | $1,895 | ||
16The Journal of Physical Chemistry AAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.49Q1 | 3.00 0.15 up from 2007 | 4,978 | 9% | — | ||
17Physical Review AAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.44Q1 | 2.90 0.07 down from 2007 | 6,627 | 63% | $2,675 | ||
18Atomic Data and Nuclear Data TablesElsevier BV · United States | 1.44Q1 | 1.83 1.10 down from 2007 | 65 | 7% | $3,030 | ||
19Journal of the Optical Society of America BOptica Publishing Group · United States | 1.44Q2 | 2.29 0.08 up from 2007 | 1,079 | 15% | — | ||
20The Journal of Chemical PhysicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.41Q2 | 3.22 0.16 up from 2007 | 8,314 | 24% | $3,500 | ||
21Applied Physics BSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.33Q2 | 2.26 0.05 down from 2007 | 1,157 | 13% | $4,090 | ||
22Physics Letters AElsevier BV | 1.33Q2 | 1.97 0.16 up from 2007 | 3,531 | 25% | $2,150 | ||
23Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative TransferElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.22Q2 | 1.71 0.32 down from 2007 | 683 | 7% | $2,870 | ||
24Laser Physics LettersIOP Publishing · Germany | 1.21Q2 | 4.00 1.66 up from 2007 | 367 | 55% | $3,325 | ||
25Journal of Physics A Mathematical and GeneralInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.21Q2 | 1.72 0.12 down from 2007 | 2,020 | — | — | ||
26Journal of Optics A Pure and Applied OpticsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 1.76 0.13 down from 2007 | 684 | 14% | — | ||
27Journal of Optics B Quantum and Semiclassical OpticsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 0.00 1.78 down from 2007 | 178 | — | — | ||
28Journal of the Optical Society of America AOptica Publishing Group · United States | 1.16Q2 | 2.06 0.16 up from 2007 | 1,134 | 18% | — | ||
29BiointerphasesAmerican Institute of Physics · Germany | 1.13Q2 | 2.58 0.78 up from 2007 | 50 | 100% | — | ||
30Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 2.00 0.10 down from 2007 | 1,525 | 51% | $3,325 | ||
31Journal of Physics A Mathematical and TheoreticalInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 1.51 0.21 down from 2007 | 1,228 | 81% | $3,325 | ||
32The European Physical Journal BSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 1.00Q2 | 1.64 0.12 up from 2007 | 1,218 | 51% | $3,490 | ||
33Chinese PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 1.41 0.02 up from 2007 | 1,587 | — | — | ||
34The European Physical Journal DSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 0.97Q2 | 1.28 0.40 down from 2007 | 931 | 31% | $3,790 | ||
35Molecular PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 1.52 0.13 down from 2007 | 962 | 28% | — | ||
36Annual Review of Physical ChemistryAnnual Reviews · United States | 0.89Q3 | 13.15 5.30 up from 2007 | 81 | 21% | — | ||
37Conference on Colour in Graphics Imaging and VisionSociety for Imaging Science and Technology | 0.88Q3 | 0.35 0.14 up from 2007 | 95 | 96% | — | ||
38Comptes Rendus PhysiqueOAAcadémie des sciences · France | 0.84Q3 | 1.25 0.27 up from 2007 | 345 | 32% | — | ||
39Foundations of PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.68Q3 | 0.99 0.21 down from 2007 | 277 | 63% | $2,390 | ||
40Journal of Modern OpticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.68Q3 | 1.05 0.06 down from 2007 | 682 | 17% | — | ||
41Journal of the European Optical Society Rapid PublicationsOASpringer Nature | 0.67Q3 | 1.03 0.09 up from 2007 | 64 | 100% | $1,921 | ||
42Contributions to Plasma PhysicsWiley · Germany | 0.67Q3 | 1.32 0.17 up from 2007 | 221 | 8% | $2,930 | ||
43Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern PhysicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 0.98 0.25 down from 2007 | 120 | 12% | $2,700 | ||
44Journal of Molecular Structure THEOCHEMElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.61Q3 | 1.25 0.27 up from 2007 | 1,673 | 3% | — | ||
45Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics LettersPleiades Publishing · United States | 0.59Q3 | 1.14 0.17 up from 2007 | 815 | 28% | — | ||
46Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related PhenomenaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.57Q3 | 0.94 0.13 up from 2007 | 717 | 4% | $3,170 | ||
47Canadian Journal of PhysicsNRC Research Press · Canada | 0.52Q3 | 0.69 0.29 down from 2007 | 299 | 14% | — | ||
48Color Research & ApplicationWiley · United States | 0.51Q3 | 0.91 0.26 up from 2007 | 260 | 8% | $3,180 | ||
49Laser PhysicsIOP Publishing · Russia | 0.48Q3 | 0.83 0.06 up from 2007 | 477 | 4% | $3,325 | ||
50Annalen der PhysikWiley · Germany | 0.48Q3 | 0.79 0.13 down from 2007 | 305 | 22% | $3,840 |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics78
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics70
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics62
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics30
- Radiation23
- Condensed Matter Physics6
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
19 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 2005–2007, 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: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 70
- Window papers (baseline)
- 110,735 +15.7% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.89 +16.1% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 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.