Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Domain ranking · 2008
Physical Sciences journal rankings 2008
4,244 ranked journals · Domain
Physical Sciences has 4,244 ranked journals in 2008. The median journal has an OJR of 0.85, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2007; Q1 starts at OJR 1.57. The top three are ACM Computing Surveys, Reviews of Modern Physics, and ACM Transactions on Information and System Security.
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.
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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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1ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 31.44Q1 | 23.88 0.75 down from 2007 | 36 | 14% | — | ||
2Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 26.21Q1 | 33.45 3.43 down from 2007 | 110 | 87% | — | ||
3ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 13.82Q1 | 4.60 5.83 down from 2007 | 44 | 13% | — | ||
4Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 13.48Q1 | 14.70 4.06 down from 2007 | 34 | 6% | $6,150 | ||
5Digest of technical papers/Digest of technical papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits ConferenceInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 13.36Q1 | 5.50no 2007 value | 84 | 6% | — | ||
6Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 13.14Q1 | 13.77 1.04 down from 2007 | 53 | 5% | $6,040 | ||
7Advances In PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 12.94Q1 | 17.48 6.11 up from 2007 | 33 | 89% | — | ||
8ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 11.97Q1 | 8.11 3.60 down from 2007 | 39 | 11% | — | ||
9Journal of Web SemanticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.67Q1 | 8.51 0.08 down from 2007 | 90 | 25% | $1,700 | ||
10ACM Transactions on Computer SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 11.50Q1 | 9.22 0.74 down from 2007 | 36 | 19% | — | ||
11Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 11.42Q1 | 10.33 2.80 up from 2007 | 57 | 7% | $6,990 | ||
12Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.07Q1 | 17.08 0.44 down from 2007 | 197 | 53% | $6,240 | ||
13Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 10.90Q1 | 18.47 4.89 up from 2007 | 125 | 7% | $6,500 | ||
14ACM Transactions on Sensor NetworksAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 10.61Q1 | 9.36 1.10 up from 2007 | 57 | 14% | — | ||
15IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 10.31Q1 | 6.97 4.06 down from 2007 | 56 | 9% | $2,645 | ||
16Surface Science ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.15Q1 | 12.56 5.06 up from 2007 | 57 | 4% | $4,440 | ||
17IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 9.92Q1 | 8.01 0.11 up from 2007 | 729 | 14% | $2,645 | ||
18Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics · United States | 9.89Q1 | 5.67 0.96 up from 2007 | 97 | 67% | — | ||
19ACM Transactions on GraphicsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.88Q1 | 6.74 5.90 down from 2007 | 487 | 12% | — | ||
20IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 9.34Q1 | 4.58 0.02 up from 2007 | 992 | 12% | $2,645 | ||
21AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.31Q1 | 4.34 0.72 up from 2007 | 800 | 12% | $3,760 | ||
22Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 9.01Q1 | 13.63 1.70 up from 2007 | 755 | 25% | $12,690 | ||
23Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 8.44Q1 | 13.82 1.81 down from 2007 | 349 | 18% | $4,500 | ||
24Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.42Q1 | 11.85 1.05 down from 2007 | 141 | 71% | $4,680 | ||
25ACM Transactions on Database SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.41Q1 | 4.28 3.91 down from 2007 | 92 | 7% | — | ||
26ACM Transactions on Internet TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.16Q1 | 4.87 0.58 down from 2007 | 66 | 14% | — | ||
27Transportation ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 7.82Q1 | 3.07 0.44 down from 2007 | 125 | 11% | — | ||
28IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.70Q1 | 6.07 0.62 down from 2007 | 175 | 9% | $2,645 | ||
29Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 7.45Q1 | 7.26 3.15 down from 2007 | 96 | 23% | $3,970 | ||
30International Journal of Computer VisionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.44Q1 | 7.00 0.13 down from 2007 | 289 | 29% | $4,090 | ||
31IEEE Industrial Electronics MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.41Q1 | 4.05no 2007 value | 111 | 3% | — | — | |
32Journal of Field RoboticsWiley · United States | 7.41Q1 | 4.16 1.02 up from 2007 | 121 | 33% | $3,590 | ||
33Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 7.34Q1 | 9.91 0.41 up from 2007 | 45 | 24% | $3,880 | ||
34Journal of Research on Technology in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 7.33Q1 | 3.12 0.05 down from 2007 | 74 | 0% | — | ||
35Data Mining and Knowledge DiscoverySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.25Q1 | 4.82 0.31 up from 2007 | 88 | 13% | $3,190 | ||
36ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.21Q1 | 7.30 0.69 up from 2007 | 270 | 11% | — | ||
37IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.11Q1 | 5.19 0.16 up from 2007 | 260 | 6% | $2,645 | ||
38Proceedings/Proceedings - International Conference on Software EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.04Q1 | 5.87no 2007 value | 63 | — | — | — | |
39The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 6.96Q1 | 14.42 6.43 up from 2007 | 423 | 93% | $4,499 | ||
40Journal of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.90Q1 | 5.33 1.37 down from 2007 | 93 | 14% | — | ||
41Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.87Q1 | 2.27 0.23 down from 2007 | 80 | 12% | $2,290 | ||
42ACM Transactions on Computer-Human InteractionAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.85Q1 | 5.94 2.28 down from 2007 | 56 | 11% | — | ||
43Particle and Fibre ToxicologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 6.85Q1 | 8.32 0.03 up from 2007 | 39 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
44IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.84Q1 | 7.17 0.65 up from 2007 | 680 | 12% | $2,645 | ||
45IEE Proceedings - Radar Sonar and NavigationUnited Kingdom | 6.78Q1 | 2.27 0.14 down from 2007 | 123 | — | — | ||
46IEEE Transactions on RoboticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.73Q1 | 4.53 0.02 down from 2007 | 399 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
47IEEE Wireless CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.72Q1 | 5.34 1.21 down from 2007 | 230 | 11% | $2,995 | ||
48Applied Mechanics ReviewsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 6.64Q1 | 5.25 1.73 up from 2007 | 58 | 5% | — | ||
49IEEE Transactions on Neural NetworksInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.63Q1 | 5.23 2.17 down from 2007 | 521 | 7% | — | ||
50IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 6.57Q1 | 3.42 0.25 down from 2007 | 540 | 9% | $2,645 |
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.
1,540 additional Physical Sciences 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
- 4,244
- Window papers (baseline)
- 4,493,645 +25.5% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.85 +5.5% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 544
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 | 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.