Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Nuclear and High Energy Physics journal rankings 2012
68 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Nuclear and High Energy Physics has 68 ranked journals in 2012. The median journal has an OJR of 0.50, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2011; Q1 starts at OJR 1.09. The top three are Physics Reports, Nuclear Data Sheets, and Computer Physics Communications.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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)
68 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 15.42Q1 | 22.19 1.61 down from 2011 | 105 | 56% | $6,240 | ||
2Nuclear Data SheetsElsevier BV · United States | 2.42Q1 | 3.18 1.06 up from 2011 | 124 | 6% | $3,240 | ||
3Computer Physics CommunicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 3.14 0.08 down from 2011 | 897 | 44% | $4,160 | ||
4Nuclear Physics BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.29Q1 | 4.80 0.27 down from 2011 | 932 | 87% | $0 listed | ||
5The European Physical Journal COASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.19Q1 | 5.54 1.50 up from 2011 | 999 | 92% | $0 listed | ||
6Astroparticle PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.13Q1 | 4.84 0.69 up from 2011 | 279 | 82% | $2,920 | ||
7Physics Letters BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.07Q1 | 4.66 0.50 up from 2011 | 2,846 | 93% | $0 listed | ||
8Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 5.07 0.61 up from 2011 | 908 | 76% | $3,325 | ||
9Advances in High Energy PhysicsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 3.53 1.80 down from 2011 | 54 | 100% | $1,550 | ||
10Journal of High Energy PhysicsOASpringer Nature · Italy | 1.57Q1 | 5.73 0.34 down from 2011 | 4,355 | 98% | $0 listed | ||
11Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fieldsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.43Q1 | 4.53 0.01 up from 2011 | 8,803 | 98% | — | ||
12Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 1.37Q1 | 1.92 0.14 up from 2011 | 116 | 100% | — | ||
| 1.17Q1 | 0.36 0.36 up from 2011 | 301 | — | — | |||
14The European Physical Journal ASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.11Q1 | 2.42 0.06 up from 2011 | 518 | 58% | $3,990 | ||
15Physical Review CAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.11Q1 | 3.56 0.26 up from 2011 | 3,248 | 69% | — | ||
16Progress of Theoretical PhysicsOxford University Press · Japan | 1.09Q1 | 2.27 0.20 up from 2011 | 422 | 90% | — | ||
17Progress in Particle and Nuclear PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.09Q1 | 2.30 0.18 up from 2011 | 237 | 45% | $4,780 | ||
18Nuclear FusionOAIOP Publishing | 1.06Q2 | 3.05 0.76 down from 2011 | 833 | 65% | $2,595 | ||
19Plasma Physics and Controlled FusionIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 2.39 0.20 down from 2011 | 761 | 61% | $3,325 | ||
20The European Physical Journal Special TopicsSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 1.00Q2 | 1.68 0.06 down from 2011 | 578 | 55% | $3,790 | ||
21Review of Scientific InstrumentsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.95Q2 | 1.80 0.24 up from 2011 | 2,769 | 21% | — | ||
22International Journal of Modern Physics Conference SeriesOAWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.94Q2 | 0.30no 2011 value | 169 | 26% | — | — | |
23EPJ Web of ConferencesOAEDP Sciences · France | 0.91Q2 | 0.26 0.07 up from 2011 | 1,102 | 100% | — | ||
24Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle ScienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 0.86Q2 | 7.00 1.00 down from 2011 | 73 | 56% | — | ||
25Journal of InstrumentationInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 1.92 0.17 up from 2011 | 855 | 90% | $3,290 | ||
26High Energy Density PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.85Q2 | 1.40 0.11 down from 2011 | 190 | 18% | $2,870 | ||
27Physics of PlasmasAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.85Q2 | 2.45 0.24 up from 2011 | 2,820 | 25% | — | ||
28Journal of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States | 0.78Q2 | 0.58 0.01 up from 2011 | 4,794 | 55% | — | ||
29Proceedings of The XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory — PoS(LAT2009)Publisher not listed | 0.77Q2 | 0.23 0.06 down from 2011 | 236 | — | — | ||
| 0.75Q2 | 1.53 0.29 up from 2011 | 4,804 | 30% | $2,620 | |||
31ScholarpediaOAScholarpedia Corporation · United States | 0.70Q2 | 1.28 0.23 up from 2011 | 311 | 100% | — | ||
32Nuclear Physics AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.69Q2 | 1.56no change | 1,390 | 57% | $2,590 | ||
33Laser and Particle BeamsOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.60Q2 | 1.89 0.24 up from 2011 | 249 | 23% | $3,550 | ||
34International Journal of Modern Physics AWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.56Q2 | 1.16 0.09 up from 2011 | 1,195 | 78% | — | ||
35Few-Body SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.44Q3 | 1.09 0.22 up from 2011 | 280 | 39% | $2,290 | ||
36Astrophysics and space sciences transactionsCopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.44Q3 | 0.83 0.11 up from 2011 | 109 | 100% | — | ||
37Fusion Engineering and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.43Q3 | 0.94 0.63 down from 2011 | 1,486 | 12% | $2,810 | ||
38Physics of Particles and NucleiPleiades Publishing · United States | 0.41Q3 | 0.72 0.22 up from 2011 | 180 | 30% | — | ||
| 0.41Q3 | 0.68 0.07 down from 2011 | 232 | 62% | — | |||
40The Open Magnetic Resonance JournalBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.40Q3 | 0.78 0.47 down from 2011 | 32 | — | — | ||
41Proceedings of 6th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics — PoS(CD09)Publisher not listed | 0.39Q3 | 0.12 0.06 down from 2011 | 106 | — | — | ||
42Human BiologyWayne State University Press · United States | 0.36Q3 | 0.35 0.05 down from 2011 | 705 | 28% | — | ||
43Nuclear Physics NewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.63 0.30 up from 2011 | 82 | 3% | — | ||
44Journal of Fusion EnergySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.34Q3 | 1.03 0.21 up from 2011 | 304 | 11% | $3,990 | ||
45Journal of Plasma PhysicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.33Q3 | 0.61 0.07 down from 2011 | 250 | 22% | $3,550 | ||
46Acta Physica Polonica BOAJagiellonian University · Poland | 0.33Q3 | 0.68 0.32 up from 2011 | 341 | 33% | — | ||
47Plasma Science and TechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.33Q3 | 0.60 0.08 up from 2011 | 429 | 61% | — | ||
48Plasma Physics ReportsPleiades Publishing · Russia | 0.31Q3 | 0.65 0.15 up from 2011 | 391 | 1% | — | ||
49International Journal of Modern Physics EWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.29Q3 | 0.65 0.05 up from 2011 | 822 | 35% | — | ||
50Physics of Atomic NucleiPleiades Publishing · Russia | 0.29Q3 | 0.59 0.09 up from 2011 | 741 | 27% | — |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Nuclear and High Energy Physics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics94
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics78
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics68
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics34
- Radiation23
- Condensed Matter Physics6
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
17 additional Nuclear and High Energy Physics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 68
- Window papers (baseline)
- 61,090 +9.7% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.497 -9.1% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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 | 53 | 54 | 53 | 55 | 55 | 54 | 54 | 58 | 62 | 61 | 62 | 68 | 68 | 66 | 67 | 67 | 68 | 71 | 71 | 69 | 74 | 76 | 75 | 69 | 64 | 65 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 39,221 | 40,935 | 42,909 | 43,795 | 45,983 | 46,695 | 50,220 | 52,179 | 54,354 | 55,711 | 56,975 | 59,147 | 61,090 | 63,612 | 65,297 | 66,208 | 66,181 | 67,942 | 67,814 | 66,805 | 63,894 | 62,108 | 61,567 | 63,106 | 62,910 | 62,149 | |
| Median OJR | 0.542 | 0.458 | 0.503 | 0.47 | 0.456 | 0.52 | 0.549 | 0.543 | 0.455 | 0.547 | 0.505 | 0.53 | 0.497 | 0.675 | 0.71 | 0.73 | 0.668 | 0.65 | 0.62 | 0.51 | 0.59 | 0.538 | 0.56 | 0.63 | 0.60 | 0.61 |
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.