Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics journal rankings 2009
73 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics has 73 ranked journals in 2009. The median journal has an OJR of 0.86, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2008; Q1 starts at OJR 1.45. The top three are Reviews of Modern Physics, Reports on Progress in Physics, and Nature Physics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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)
73 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 26.15Q1 | 36.89 3.44 up from 2008 | 107 | 65% | — | ||
2Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.51Q1 | 11.49 0.36 down from 2008 | 121 | 66% | $4,680 | ||
3Nature PhysicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.55Q1 | 7.90 0.56 up from 2008 | 891 | 41% | $12,690 | ||
4Progress in Surface ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.80Q1 | 8.91 3.18 up from 2008 | 37 | 14% | $4,130 | ||
5Nature PhotonicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.61Q1 | 6.82 1.66 up from 2008 | 593 | 19% | $12,690 | ||
6International Reviews in Physical ChemistryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.22Q1 | 5.68 1.14 down from 2008 | 59 | 22% | — | ||
7Physical Review LettersAmerican Physical Society · United States | 4.20Q1 | 7.52 0.52 up from 2008 | 11,831 | 66% | $3,750 | ||
8New Journal of PhysicsOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 3.86 0.20 up from 2008 | 1,498 | 100% | $2,610 | ||
9Journal of Chemical Theory and ComputationAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.41Q1 | 4.95 0.43 up from 2008 | 612 | 25% | $4,500 | ||
10Laser Physics LettersIOP Publishing · Germany | 2.12Q1 | 5.40 1.40 up from 2008 | 416 | 56% | $3,325 | ||
11Annals of PhysicsElsevier BV · United States | 2.08Q1 | 2.90 0.30 up from 2008 | 382 | 66% | $3,160 | ||
12Journal of Computational ChemistryWiley · United States | 1.86Q1 | 3.39 0.07 down from 2008 | 829 | 19% | $4,520 | ||
13Europhysics Letters (EPL)Institute of Physics · France | 1.86Q1 | 3.29 1.05 up from 2008 | 2,047 | 85% | $1,895 | ||
14Proceedings of the IEEE International Frequency Control SymposiumInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.76Q1 | 0.62 0.09 up from 2008 | 282 | — | — | ||
15Physical Review BAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.60Q1 | 3.69 0.34 up from 2008 | 17,427 | 54% | $2,675 | ||
16Physical Review AAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.53Q1 | 3.12 0.22 up from 2008 | 7,071 | 63% | $2,675 | ||
17Journal of the Optical Society of America BOptica Publishing Group · United States | 1.48Q1 | 2.56 0.26 up from 2008 | 1,101 | 19% | — | ||
18Color and Imaging ConferenceUnited States | 1.48Q1 | 0.48 0.06 down from 2008 | 181 | 96% | — | ||
19The Journal of Physical Chemistry AAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.45Q1 | 3.05 0.04 up from 2008 | 5,030 | 11% | — | ||
20The Journal of Chemical PhysicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.42Q2 | 3.20 0.02 down from 2008 | 8,298 | 29% | $3,500 | ||
21Physics Letters AElsevier BV | 1.39Q2 | 2.05 0.09 up from 2008 | 3,326 | 25% | $2,150 | ||
22Journal of Physics A Mathematical and GeneralInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.39Q2 | 0.00 1.72 down from 2008 | 1,131 | — | — | ||
23BiointerphasesAmerican Institute of Physics · Germany | 1.30Q2 | 2.90 0.32 up from 2008 | 103 | 100% | — | ||
24Applied Physics BSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.29Q2 | 2.27 0.01 up from 2008 | 1,265 | 13% | $4,090 | ||
25Journal of Physics A Mathematical and TheoreticalInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 1.79 0.29 up from 2008 | 2,418 | 79% | $3,325 | ||
26Conference on Colour in Graphics Imaging and VisionSociety for Imaging Science and Technology | 1.19Q2 | 0.40 0.06 up from 2008 | 214 | — | — | ||
27Laser ChemistryHindawi Publishing Corporation · Netherlands | 1.17Q2 | 1.00 0.95 down from 2008 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
28Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 2.04 0.04 up from 2008 | 1,554 | 57% | $3,325 | ||
29Journal of the Optical Society of America AOptica Publishing Group · United States | 1.11Q2 | 2.09 0.03 up from 2008 | 1,167 | 17% | — | ||
30The European Physical Journal BSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 1.08Q2 | 1.64 0.01 up from 2008 | 1,253 | 48% | $3,490 | ||
31Atomic Data and Nuclear Data TablesElsevier BV · United States | 1.08Q2 | 1.70 0.12 down from 2008 | 70 | 10% | $3,030 | ||
32Comptes Rendus PhysiqueOAAcadémie des sciences · France | 0.95Q2 | 1.30 0.05 up from 2008 | 321 | 31% | — | ||
33Journal of Optics A Pure and Applied OpticsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 1.43 0.33 down from 2008 | 759 | 18% | — | ||
34Annual Review of Physical ChemistryAnnual Reviews · United States | 0.94Q2 | 9.28 3.87 down from 2008 | 98 | 0% | — | ||
35Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative TransferElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.88Q2 | 2.32 0.60 up from 2008 | 584 | 7% | $2,870 | ||
36Molecular PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 1.65 0.13 up from 2008 | 895 | 28% | — | ||
37The European Physical Journal DSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 0.86Q2 | 1.49 0.20 up from 2008 | 850 | 29% | $3,790 | ||
38Contributions to Plasma PhysicsWiley · Germany | 0.86Q3 | 1.63 0.31 up from 2008 | 257 | 11% | $2,930 | ||
39Journal of the European Optical Society Rapid PublicationsOASpringer Nature | 0.74Q3 | 1.28 0.25 up from 2008 | 104 | 100% | $1,921 | ||
40Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics LettersPleiades Publishing · United States | 0.70Q3 | 1.30 0.16 up from 2008 | 879 | 25% | — | ||
41Chinese PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.65Q3 | 1.04 0.37 down from 2008 | 1,167 | — | — | ||
42Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional ImagingPublisher not listed | 0.65Q3 | 0.18no 2008 value | 61 | — | — | — | |
43Journal of Molecular Structure THEOCHEMElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.60Q3 | 1.16 0.09 down from 2008 | 1,541 | 4% | — | ||
44Foundations of PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.57Q3 | 0.93 0.06 down from 2008 | 244 | 64% | $2,390 | ||
45Journal of Modern OpticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 0.97 0.09 down from 2008 | 794 | 22% | — | ||
46Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related PhenomenaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.51Q3 | 0.88 0.07 down from 2008 | 389 | 8% | $3,170 | ||
47Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern PhysicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.49Q3 | 0.78 0.19 down from 2008 | 132 | 19% | $2,700 | ||
48Canadian Journal of PhysicsNRC Research Press · Canada | 0.46Q3 | 0.86 0.17 up from 2008 | 384 | 15% | — | ||
49Journal of Theoretical and Computational ChemistryWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.46Q3 | 0.91 0.27 up from 2008 | 244 | 5% | — | ||
50Color Research & ApplicationWiley · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.81 0.10 down from 2008 | 251 | 5% | $3,180 |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics78
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics73
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics61
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics31
- Radiation24
- Condensed Matter Physics6
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
18 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 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 73
- Window papers (baseline)
- 112,436 +11.8% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.86 +6.3% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.