Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Field ranking · 2009
Physics and Astronomy journal rankings 2009
273 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Physics and Astronomy has 273 ranked journals in 2009. The median journal has an OJR of 0.68, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2008; Q1 starts at OJR 1.32. The top three are Reviews of Modern Physics, Advances In Physics, and Physics Reports.
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 in Physics and Astronomy (8)
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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% | — | ||
2Advances In PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 14.52Q1 | 23.47 6.00 up from 2008 | 31 | 80% | — | ||
3Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.91Q1 | 17.40 0.32 up from 2008 | 174 | 51% | $6,240 | ||
4Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.51Q1 | 11.49 0.36 down from 2008 | 121 | 66% | $4,680 | ||
5The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 6.91Q1 | 13.31 1.11 down from 2008 | 461 | 95% | $4,499 | ||
6Nature PhysicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.55Q1 | 7.90 0.56 up from 2008 | 891 | 41% | $12,690 | ||
7Progress in Surface ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.80Q1 | 8.91 3.18 up from 2008 | 37 | 14% | $4,130 | ||
8Nature PhotonicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.61Q1 | 6.82 1.66 up from 2008 | 593 | 19% | $12,690 | ||
9International Reviews in Physical ChemistryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.22Q1 | 5.68 1.14 down from 2008 | 59 | 22% | — | ||
10Physical Review LettersAmerican Physical Society · United States | 4.20Q1 | 7.52 0.52 up from 2008 | 11,831 | 66% | $3,750 | ||
11The Astronomical JournalOAInstitute of Physics · United States | 2.51Q1 | 4.63 0.38 down from 2008 | 1,389 | 99% | $4,499 | ||
12SIAM ReviewSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 2.47Q1 | 3.16 0.63 up from 2008 | 121 | 14% | — | ||
13New Journal of PhysicsOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 3.86 0.20 up from 2008 | 1,498 | 100% | $2,610 | ||
14Space Science ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.45Q1 | 4.71 1.69 up from 2008 | 492 | 31% | $5,290 | ||
15Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle PhysicsInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 2.44Q1 | 6.28 0.17 down from 2008 | 843 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
16Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society LettersOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 4.31 0.06 down from 2008 | 465 | 93% | $1,451 | ||
17Journal of Chemical Theory and ComputationAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.41Q1 | 4.95 0.43 up from 2008 | 612 | 25% | $4,500 | ||
18Nuclear Physics BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.30Q1 | 4.90 0.87 up from 2008 | 1,192 | 87% | $0 listed | ||
19Physics Letters BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.22Q1 | 4.77 0.87 up from 2008 | 2,875 | 92% | $0 listed | ||
20The Astrophysical JournalOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 6.76 0.37 up from 2008 | 8,577 | 99% | $4,499 | ||
21Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 5.43 0.20 up from 2008 | 4,287 | 95% | $3,046 | ||
22Laser Physics LettersIOP Publishing · Germany | 2.12Q1 | 5.40 1.40 up from 2008 | 416 | 56% | $3,325 | ||
23Astroparticle PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.09Q1 | 4.04 0.56 up from 2008 | 292 | 82% | $2,920 | ||
24Annals of PhysicsElsevier BV · United States | 2.08Q1 | 2.90 0.30 up from 2008 | 382 | 66% | $3,160 | ||
25Annual Review of Astronomy and AstrophysicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.93Q1 | 27.14 2.99 up from 2008 | 41 | 63% | — | ||
26Contemporary PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 2.13 0.11 down from 2008 | 77 | 37% | — | ||
27Reviews in Mineralogy and GeochemistryMineralogical Society of America · United States | 1.87Q1 | 2.47 0.55 down from 2008 | 147 | 15% | — | ||
28Journal of Computational ChemistryWiley · United States | 1.86Q1 | 3.39 0.07 down from 2008 | 829 | 19% | $4,520 | ||
29Journal of High Energy PhysicsOASpringer Nature · Italy | 1.86Q1 | 5.89 0.84 up from 2008 | 3,560 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
30Europhysics Letters (EPL)Institute of Physics · France | 1.86Q1 | 3.29 1.05 up from 2008 | 2,047 | 85% | $1,895 | ||
31SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical SystemsSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.82Q1 | 2.49 0.86 up from 2008 | 115 | 48% | — | ||
32Journal of Nonlinear ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.81Q1 | 2.21 0.25 up from 2008 | 65 | 50% | $3,290 | ||
33Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 1.79Q1 | 2.69 0.29 down from 2008 | 86 | 100% | — | ||
34Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and ExperimentInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 2.67 0.38 up from 2008 | 704 | 89% | $3,290 | ||
35Astronomy and AstrophysicsOAEDP Sciences · France | 1.76Q1 | 4.18 0.13 up from 2008 | 5,955 | 99% | $1,865 | ||
36Proceedings of the IEEE International Frequency Control SymposiumInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.76Q1 | 0.62 0.09 up from 2008 | 282 | — | — | ||
37Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fieldsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.74Q1 | 5.09 0.03 down from 2008 | 7,580 | 98% | — | ||
38Medical PhysicsWiley · United States | 1.72Q1 | 2.97 0.37 down from 2008 | 1,710 | 10% | $3,360 | ||
39Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 1.95 0.06 down from 2008 | 575 | 31% | — | ||
40Nuclear Data SheetsElsevier BV · United States | 1.70Q1 | 1.19 4.83 down from 2008 | 100 | 4% | $3,240 | ||
41Publications of the Astronomical Society of the PacificInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 2.74 0.32 down from 2008 | 417 | 87% | $3,325 | ||
42IcarusElsevier BV · United States | 1.65Q1 | 3.93 0.24 up from 2008 | 1,031 | 21% | $3,810 | ||
43Publications of the Astronomical Society of JapanOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 4.65 0.52 up from 2008 | 507 | 74% | $2,398 | ||
44Physical Review BAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.60Q1 | 3.69 0.34 up from 2008 | 17,427 | 54% | $2,675 | ||
45Solar PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.59Q1 | 3.75 0.81 up from 2008 | 567 | 45% | $4,190 | ||
46Publications of the Astronomical Society of AustraliaCambridge University Press · Australia | 1.59Q1 | 3.28 1.03 up from 2008 | 78 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
47Nonlinear DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.57Q1 | 1.56 0.09 up from 2008 | 530 | 16% | $4,790 | ||
48Physical Review AAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.53Q1 | 3.12 0.22 up from 2008 | 7,071 | 63% | $2,675 | ||
49Superconductor Science and TechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 2.95 0.78 up from 2008 | 975 | 50% | $3,325 | ||
50Progress in Particle and Nuclear PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.52Q1 | 2.80 0.05 down from 2008 | 199 | 52% | $4,780 |
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.
82 additional Physics and Astronomy 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
- 273
- Window papers (baseline)
- 337,594 +11.9% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.681 +1.3% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 36Comparison-group list (36)
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 | 220 | 234 | 232 | 241 | 243 | 250 | 252 | 261 | 269 | 273 | 276 | 291 | 303 | 310 | 321 | 324 | 334 | 343 | 348 | 367 | 380 | 379 | 368 | 368 | 361 | 358 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 239,411 | 246,506 | 254,602 | 264,968 | 276,497 | 287,864 | 301,824 | 318,045 | 328,993 | 337,594 | 340,171 | 347,983 | 354,503 | 362,347 | 368,160 | 376,730 | 379,807 | 383,796 | 380,664 | 378,685 | 375,462 | 371,519 | 367,990 | 360,929 | 353,510 | 350,521 | |
| Median OJR | 0.58340 | 0.56 | 0.57 | 0.58338 | 0.602 | 0.627 | 0.67 | 0.683 | 0.643 | 0.681 | 0.69 | 0.648 | 0.653 | 0.634 | 0.675 | 0.71 | 0.662 | 0.660 | 0.631 | 0.614 | 0.640 | 0.613 | 0.59 | 0.652 | 0.600 | 0.62 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 6.4% | 293 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.285 per 1,000 | 278 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +0.6% | 326 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 73.4% | 358 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,000 | 213 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 30.1% | 348 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 358 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.61 | 352 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 38.3% | 358 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 48.2% | 356 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.