Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Field ranking · 2011
Physics and Astronomy journal rankings 2011
291 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Physics and Astronomy has 291 ranked journals in 2011. The median journal has an OJR of 0.65, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.05 on 2010; Q1 starts at OJR 1.24. The top three are Reviews of Modern Physics, Physics Reports, and Reports on Progress in Physics.
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.
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 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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1Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 30.05Q1 | 47.47 7.83 down from 2010 | 161 | 84% | — | ||
2Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 14.59Q1 | 23.81 4.72 up from 2010 | 116 | 42% | $6,240 | ||
3Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.29Q1 | 16.89 2.24 up from 2010 | 116 | 82% | $4,680 | ||
4SIAM ReviewSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 8.23Q1 | 11.67 4.61 up from 2010 | 116 | 22% | — | ||
5The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 6.90Q1 | 15.05 1.31 down from 2010 | 415 | 98% | $4,499 | ||
6Nature PhotonicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.55Q1 | 11.82 2.76 up from 2010 | 813 | 25% | $12,690 | ||
7Nature PhysicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.41Q1 | 10.86 1.42 up from 2010 | 902 | 44% | $12,690 | ||
8Progress in Surface ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.64Q1 | 9.17 1.97 down from 2010 | 31 | 0% | $4,130 | ||
9Laser Physics LettersIOP Publishing · Germany | 4.96Q1 | 11.05 4.87 up from 2010 | 434 | 47% | $3,325 | ||
10Physical Review LettersAmerican Physical Society · United States | 3.96Q1 | 7.59 0.01 up from 2010 | 11,086 | 73% | $3,750 | ||
11The Astrophysical Journal LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.61Q1 | 7.01 0.32 down from 2010 | 804 | 99% | $2,400 | ||
12International Reviews in Physical ChemistryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.53Q1 | 6.61 0.13 up from 2010 | 50 | 8% | — | ||
13Space Science ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.79Q1 | 4.08 0.63 down from 2010 | 401 | 42% | $5,290 | ||
14Journal of Chemical Theory and ComputationAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.75Q1 | 5.87 0.42 up from 2010 | 919 | 27% | $4,500 | ||
15Reviews in Mineralogy and GeochemistryMineralogical Society of America · United States | 2.68Q1 | 3.83 0.28 down from 2010 | 99 | 6% | — | ||
16Advances in High Energy PhysicsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 5.33 3.26 up from 2010 | 30 | 100% | $1,550 | ||
17New Journal of PhysicsOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 4.58 0.43 up from 2010 | 2,349 | 100% | $2,610 | ||
18Nuclear Physics BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.38Q1 | 5.07 0.14 down from 2010 | 999 | 87% | $0 listed | ||
19The Astrophysical JournalOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 6.54 0.22 up from 2010 | 8,936 | 98% | $4,499 | ||
20Internet MathematicsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 2.34Q1 | 4.00 2.28 up from 2010 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
20The Astronomical JournalOAInstitute of Physics · United States | 2.34Q1 | 4.55 0.10 up from 2010 | 1,202 | 98% | $4,499 | ||
22Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society LettersOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 4.39 0.10 up from 2010 | 573 | 95% | $1,451 | ||
23Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle PhysicsInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 5.58 1.17 down from 2010 | 1,163 | 99% | $3,290 | ||
24Journal of Computational ChemistryWiley · United States | 2.09Q1 | 5.06 1.08 up from 2010 | 824 | 23% | $4,520 | ||
25Physics Letters BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.09Q1 | 4.16 0.76 down from 2010 | 2,835 | 91% | $0 listed | ||
26Annual Review of Astronomy and AstrophysicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.04Q1 | 30.00 0.14 down from 2010 | 48 | 53% | — | ||
27Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical SimulationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 2.69 0.03 up from 2010 | 1,176 | 11% | $3,710 | ||
28Computer Physics CommunicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.02Q1 | 3.23 0.37 up from 2010 | 880 | 42% | $4,160 | ||
29Publications of the Astronomical Society of the PacificInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 3.73 0.80 up from 2010 | 406 | 96% | $3,325 | ||
30Journal Club for Condensed Matter PhysicsPublisher not listed | 1.90Q1 | 2.88no 2010 value | 34 | 100% | — | — | |
31Astroparticle PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 4.15 0.11 up from 2010 | 275 | 86% | $2,920 | ||
32Astronomy and AstrophysicsOAEDP Sciences · France | 1.80Q1 | 4.78 0.50 up from 2010 | 5,760 | 99% | $1,865 | ||
33Annals of PhysicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.79Q1 | 2.73 0.17 down from 2010 | 375 | 77% | $3,160 | ||
34Advances in AstronomyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 2.89 1.03 up from 2010 | 105 | 100% | $1,130 | ||
35Journal of High Energy PhysicsOASpringer Nature · Italy | 1.77Q1 | 6.07 0.06 down from 2010 | 3,981 | 99% | $0 listed | ||
36Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 4.86 0.24 down from 2010 | 5,229 | 95% | $3,046 | ||
37Journal of Nonlinear ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.74Q1 | 1.66 0.19 down from 2010 | 69 | 65% | $3,290 | ||
38Journal of InstrumentationInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 1.74 1.96 down from 2010 | 587 | 92% | $3,290 | ||
39Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 2.24 0.33 up from 2010 | 616 | 35% | — | ||
40Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear ScienceAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.71Q1 | 2.71 0.49 up from 2010 | 647 | 38% | — | ||
41The European Physical Journal COASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.69Q1 | 4.04 0.89 up from 2010 | 1,005 | 93% | $0 listed | ||
42Radiation OncologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 3.37 0.14 down from 2010 | 237 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
43Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern PhysicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 2.87 1.83 up from 2010 | 106 | 24% | $2,700 | ||
44SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical SystemsSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.61Q1 | 1.85 0.10 down from 2010 | 168 | 31% | — | ||
45Applied Mathematics LettersElsevier BV · United States | 1.60Q1 | 1.59 0.17 up from 2010 | 870 | 98% | $3,800 | ||
46Medical PhysicsWiley · United States | 1.57Q1 | 2.78 0.11 down from 2010 | 2,054 | 10% | $3,360 | ||
47Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 4.46 2.75 up from 2010 | 999 | 81% | $3,325 | ||
48Color and Imaging ConferenceUnited States | 1.55Q1 | 0.52 0.22 down from 2010 | 172 | 97% | — | ||
49IcarusElsevier BV · United States | 1.54Q1 | 3.69 0.18 up from 2010 | 1,156 | 29% | $3,810 | ||
50Classical and Quantum GravityIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 3.46 0.20 up from 2010 | 1,557 | 90% | $3,325 |
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.
81 additional Physics and Astronomy 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
- 291
- Window papers (baseline)
- 347,983 +5.8% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.648 +0.8% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 36Comparison-group list (36)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.