Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Domain ranking · 2011
Physical Sciences journal rankings 2011
4,878 ranked journals · Domain
Physical Sciences has 4,878 ranked journals in 2011. The median journal has an OJR of 0.86, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2010; Q1 starts at OJR 1.57. The top three are ACM Computing Surveys, Reviews of Modern Physics, and ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. 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 2008–2010, the window the 2011 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 2010. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2008–2010 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 2002 to 2011. | Compare |
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1ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 33.99Q1 | 26.12 0.40 down from 2010 | 57 | 29% | — | ||
2Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 30.05Q1 | 47.47 7.83 down from 2010 | 161 | 84% | — | ||
3ACM SIGKDD Explorations NewsletterAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 20.35Q1 | 24.32 11.91 up from 2010 | 67 | 7% | — | ||
4International Journal on Semantic Web and Information SystemsOAIGI Global · United States | 16.53Q1 | 15.17 5.84 up from 2010 | 43 | 11% | — | ||
5Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 15.77Q1 | 17.04 1.84 up from 2010 | 73 | 8% | $6,990 | ||
6Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 14.59Q1 | 23.81 4.72 up from 2010 | 116 | 42% | $6,240 | ||
7Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 14.45Q1 | 24.93 0.83 up from 2010 | 137 | 14% | $6,500 | ||
8IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 13.68Q1 | 6.39 1.33 up from 2010 | 103 | 12% | $2,645 | ||
9IEEE Transactions on Smart GridInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 12.92Q1 | 13.98no 2010 value | 53 | 5% | $2,645 | — | |
10Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 12.58Q1 | 23.43 0.32 up from 2010 | 514 | 36% | $4,500 | ||
11ACM Transactions on the WebAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 12.29Q1 | 6.63 2.20 down from 2010 | 52 | 12% | — | ||
12Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 12.24Q1 | 4.28 1.07 down from 2010 | 84 | 36% | $2,290 | ||
13Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 11.99Q1 | 15.95 1.28 down from 2010 | 53 | 16% | $6,040 | ||
14IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 11.88Q1 | 11.91 1.42 down from 2010 | 136 | 12% | $2,645 | ||
15Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.76Q1 | 17.79 8.60 down from 2010 | 59 | 10% | $6,150 | ||
16ACM Transactions on GraphicsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 11.35Q1 | 8.88 2.26 down from 2010 | 527 | 8% | — | ||
17Surface Science ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.55Q1 | 12.12 7.35 down from 2010 | 40 | 13% | $4,440 | ||
18Journal of Web SemanticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.17Q1 | 7.07 3.37 down from 2010 | 90 | 27% | $1,700 | ||
19Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 9.98Q1 | 19.42 2.29 up from 2010 | 776 | 28% | $12,690 | ||
20Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 9.54Q1 | 18.94 9.66 up from 2010 | 70 | 50% | $3,880 | ||
21Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.29Q1 | 16.89 2.24 up from 2010 | 116 | 82% | $4,680 | ||
22AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.16Q1 | 5.52 0.62 up from 2010 | 1,026 | 13% | $3,760 | ||
23Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.00Q1 | 4.15 1.85 down from 2010 | 69 | 4% | $3,940 | ||
24Digest of technical papers/Digest of technical papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits ConferenceInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.91Q1 | —no 2010 value | 35 | 0% | — | ||
25IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 8.85Q1 | 8.55 0.73 up from 2010 | 773 | 12% | $2,645 | ||
26IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.75Q1 | 7.18 0.44 down from 2010 | 220 | 11% | $2,645 | ||
27ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.73Q1 | 5.48 0.46 down from 2010 | 48 | 18% | — | ||
28Journal of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.56Q1 | 7.17 0.31 down from 2010 | 97 | 15% | — | ||
29International Journal of Security and NetworksInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 8.55Q1 | 6.66 4.59 up from 2010 | 66 | 0% | — | ||
30ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.46Q1 | 2.64 8.35 down from 2010 | 280 | 9% | — | ||
31SIAM ReviewSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 8.23Q1 | 11.67 4.61 up from 2010 | 116 | 22% | — | ||
32IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 8.23Q1 | 4.58 0.09 down from 2010 | 284 | 18% | $2,645 | ||
33Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.95Q1 | 4.41 0.52 up from 2010 | 71 | 5% | $5,860 | ||
34IBM Systems JournalInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.73Q1 | —no 2010 value | 53 | — | — | ||
35Acta MathematicaOAMittag-Leffler Institute · Netherlands | 7.66Q1 | 4.96 1.59 down from 2010 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
36Earthquake SpectraSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.61Q1 | 1.40 4.04 down from 2010 | 145 | 7% | $4,400 | ||
37User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.60Q1 | 7.43 0.86 up from 2010 | 35 | 62% | $3,290 | ||
38Proceedings - International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture/ProceedingsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.43Q1 | —no 2010 value | 32 | — | — | ||
39International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.37Q1 | 9.81 3.03 up from 2010 | 43 | 0% | $4,400 | ||
40Transportation ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 7.26Q1 | 3.73 1.28 up from 2010 | 130 | 25% | — | ||
41Journal of Research on Technology in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 7.23Q1 | 5.05 1.75 up from 2010 | 60 | 0% | — | ||
42ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.21Q1 | 5.08 0.63 down from 2010 | 92 | 13% | — | ||
43Proceedings of the VLDB EndowmentAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.05Q1 | 5.78 0.30 down from 2010 | 529 | 4% | — | ||
44International Journal of AeroacousticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.05Q1 | 2.24 0.06 down from 2010 | 81 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
45IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.04Q1 | 7.51 2.76 up from 2010 | 386 | 6% | $2,645 | ||
46The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 6.90Q1 | 15.05 1.31 down from 2010 | 415 | 98% | $4,499 | ||
47IEEE Transactions on RoboticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.83Q1 | 5.52 0.25 down from 2010 | 398 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
48SIAM Journal on Imaging SciencesSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 6.81Q1 | 8.09 0.50 up from 2010 | 122 | 27% | — | ||
49Nano LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 6.67Q1 | 13.73 0.93 up from 2010 | 2,573 | 25% | $4,500 | ||
50International Journal of Computer VisionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.64Q1 | 6.90 0.74 up from 2010 | 286 | 30% | $4,090 |
Citations made in 2011. Corpus-wide, 75.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
1,738 additional Physical Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2008–2010, 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: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 4,878
- Window papers (baseline)
- 5,354,164 +19.1% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.86 +1.8% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 544
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2008–2010 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.