Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Domain ranking · 2009
Physical Sciences journal rankings 2009
4,490 ranked journals · Domain
Physical Sciences has 4,490 ranked journals in 2009. The median journal has an OJR of 0.87, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2008; Q1 starts at OJR 1.57. The top three are ACM Computing Surveys, Reviews of Modern Physics, and ACM Transactions on the Web.
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.
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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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1ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 36.34Q1 | 22.18 1.70 down from 2008 | 41 | 10% | — | ||
2Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 26.15Q1 | 36.89 3.44 up from 2008 | 107 | 65% | — | ||
3ACM Transactions on the WebAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 18.61Q1 | 9.06 0.13 up from 2008 | 34 | 0% | — | ||
4Advances In PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 14.52Q1 | 23.47 6.00 up from 2008 | 31 | 80% | — | ||
5Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 14.35Q1 | 19.42 5.65 up from 2008 | 54 | 0% | $6,040 | ||
6ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 14.04Q1 | 6.75 1.36 down from 2008 | 48 | 26% | — | ||
7Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 13.76Q1 | 9.28 1.05 down from 2008 | 70 | 4% | $6,990 | ||
8Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 13.65Q1 | 26.20 7.74 up from 2008 | 111 | 3% | $6,500 | ||
9Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.91Q1 | 17.40 0.32 up from 2008 | 174 | 51% | $6,240 | ||
10Journal of Web SemanticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.67Q1 | 11.45 2.94 up from 2008 | 78 | 12% | $1,700 | ||
11Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.37Q1 | 14.69no change | 40 | 5% | $6,150 | ||
12Digest of technical papers/Digest of technical papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits ConferenceInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 10.68Q1 | 4.87 0.63 down from 2008 | 119 | — | — | ||
13ACM Transactions on Computer SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 10.22Q1 | 8.30 0.91 down from 2008 | 35 | 8% | — | ||
14Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics · United States | 9.84Q1 | 7.72 2.05 up from 2008 | 104 | 72% | — | ||
15ACM Transactions on GraphicsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.83Q1 | 7.40 0.66 up from 2008 | 519 | 13% | — | ||
16IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 9.73Q1 | 4.30 0.03 up from 2008 | 320 | 8% | $2,645 | ||
17Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 9.57Q1 | 17.42 3.79 up from 2008 | 769 | 26% | $12,690 | ||
18Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 9.57Q1 | 20.29 6.47 up from 2008 | 438 | 27% | $4,500 | ||
19ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.56Q1 | 7.51 0.21 up from 2008 | 288 | 10% | — | ||
20ACM Transactions on Sensor NetworksAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.41Q1 | 6.91 2.44 down from 2008 | 70 | 16% | — | ||
21AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.32Q1 | 4.62 0.28 up from 2008 | 928 | 14% | $3,760 | ||
22Surface Science ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.09Q1 | 13.48 0.92 up from 2008 | 46 | 15% | $4,440 | ||
23IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 8.74Q1 | 7.76 0.25 down from 2008 | 810 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
24IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.72Q1 | 7.35 0.38 up from 2008 | 68 | 8% | $2,645 | ||
25Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.50Q1 | 3.28 0.82 up from 2008 | 57 | 5% | $5,860 | ||
26ACM Transactions on Internet TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.31Q1 | 5.39 0.52 up from 2008 | 63 | 0% | — | ||
27ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from DataAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.73Q1 | 7.84 0.09 down from 2008 | 32 | 7% | — | ||
28IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.66Q1 | 4.60 0.02 up from 2008 | 1,010 | 15% | $2,645 | ||
29IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.62Q1 | 7.40 0.22 up from 2008 | 649 | 11% | $2,645 | ||
30IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.55Q1 | 6.46 0.39 up from 2008 | 209 | 9% | $2,645 | ||
31Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.51Q1 | 11.49 0.36 down from 2008 | 121 | 66% | $4,680 | ||
32ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.50Q1 | 4.33 1.96 down from 2008 | 47 | 10% | — | ||
33International Journal of Computer VisionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.27Q1 | 8.03 1.02 up from 2008 | 316 | 34% | $4,090 | ||
34Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 7.24Q1 | 9.29 0.62 down from 2008 | 72 | 40% | $3,880 | ||
35Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.14Q1 | 3.55 0.84 down from 2008 | 101 | 31% | $3,290 | ||
36Proceedings of the VLDB EndowmentAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.10Q1 | 5.21no 2008 value | 167 | 8% | — | — | |
37Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.05Q1 | 2.81 0.53 up from 2008 | 100 | 17% | $2,290 | ||
38ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.05Q1 | 4.21 0.39 down from 2008 | 74 | 0% | — | ||
39Annals of MathematicsPrinceton University · United States | 7.01Q1 | 4.68 0.11 down from 2008 | 144 | 86% | — | ||
40The VLDB JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 7.01Q1 | 5.82 0.75 up from 2008 | 124 | 21% | $2,990 | ||
41Applied Mechanics ReviewsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 6.93Q1 | 3.18 2.07 down from 2008 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
42The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 6.91Q1 | 13.31 1.11 down from 2008 | 461 | 95% | $4,499 | ||
43IEEE Transactions on RoboticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.85Q1 | 5.68 1.15 up from 2008 | 402 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
44Communications of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.70Q1 | 4.22 0.24 up from 2008 | 886 | 20% | — | ||
45Acta MathematicaOAMittag-Leffler Institute · Netherlands | 6.57Q1 | 3.90 0.52 up from 2008 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
46Proceedings/Proceedings - International Conference on Software EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.47Q1 | 6.30 0.43 up from 2008 | 63 | — | — | ||
47Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.45Q1 | 3.26 1.34 up from 2008 | 115 | 22% | $4,040 | ||
48IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.40Q1 | 3.53 0.22 down from 2008 | 219 | 14% | $2,645 | ||
49Proceedings - International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture/ProceedingsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.35Q1 | 6.50no 2008 value | 32 | — | — | — | |
50The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.33Q1 | 5.36 0.25 up from 2008 | 207 | 21% | $4,400 |
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.
1,565 additional Physical Sciences 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
- 4,490
- Window papers (baseline)
- 4,800,486 +24.0% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.8694 +5.3% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 544
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 |
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| 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.