Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Domain ranking · 2012
Physical Sciences journal rankings 2012
5,152 ranked journals · Domain
Physical Sciences has 5,152 ranked journals in 2012. The median journal has an OJR of 0.84, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2011; Q1 starts at OJR 1.55. The top three are ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Reviews of Modern Physics, and ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter.
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.
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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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1ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 46.90Q1 | 34.86 33.64 up from 2011 | 69 | 10% | — | ||
2Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 32.46Q1 | 47.07 0.40 down from 2011 | 168 | 83% | — | ||
3ACM SIGKDD Explorations NewsletterAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 28.54Q1 | 3.78 20.54 down from 2011 | 69 | 6% | — | ||
4ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 24.91Q1 | 14.48 11.64 down from 2011 | 72 | 23% | — | ||
5International Journal of AeroacousticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 18.20Q1 | 1.63 0.61 down from 2011 | 70 | 16% | $4,150 | ||
6International Journal on Semantic Web and Information SystemsOAIGI Global · United States | 17.65Q1 | 1.22 13.95 down from 2011 | 43 | 20% | — | ||
7Advances In PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 16.69Q1 | 28.67 4.17 down from 2011 | 30 | 33% | — | ||
8Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 15.85Q1 | 17.41 0.37 up from 2011 | 66 | 15% | $6,990 | ||
9Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 15.42Q1 | 22.19 1.61 down from 2011 | 105 | 56% | $6,240 | ||
10Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 14.69Q1 | 23.46 1.46 down from 2011 | 165 | 6% | $6,500 | ||
11IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 13.51Q1 | 11.36 0.55 down from 2011 | 164 | 8% | $2,645 | ||
12IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 12.86Q1 | 5.63 0.76 down from 2011 | 137 | 8% | $2,645 | ||
13Swarm and Evolutionary ComputationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.48Q1 | 10.57no 2011 value | 30 | 5% | $3,690 | — | |
14ACM Transactions on the WebAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 12.38Q1 | 6.73 0.10 up from 2011 | 52 | 23% | — | ||
15Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 12.24Q1 | 24.76 8.81 up from 2011 | 69 | 5% | $6,040 | ||
16IEEE Transactions on Smart GridInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 11.71Q1 | 13.34 0.64 down from 2011 | 183 | 8% | $2,645 | ||
17Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 11.57Q1 | 19.55 0.61 up from 2011 | 54 | 50% | $3,880 | ||
18Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 11.56Q1 | 21.38 2.05 down from 2011 | 509 | 24% | $4,500 | ||
19Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.14Q1 | 16.28 1.51 down from 2011 | 52 | 0% | $6,150 | ||
20Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 10.83Q1 | 20.73 1.32 up from 2011 | 785 | 31% | $12,690 | ||
21Enterprise Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 10.51Q1 | 10.14 4.40 up from 2011 | 82 | 15% | — | ||
22IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 9.84Q1 | 6.71 1.84 down from 2011 | 741 | 18% | $2,645 | ||
23SIAM ReviewSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 9.60Q1 | 6.21 5.46 down from 2011 | 112 | 24% | — | ||
24The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 9.59Q1 | 16.71 1.66 up from 2011 | 440 | 99% | $4,499 | ||
25ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.43Q1 | 6.09 0.61 up from 2011 | 46 | 23% | — | ||
26Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.28Q1 | 3.62 0.66 down from 2011 | 85 | 30% | $2,290 | ||
27Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.99Q1 | 3.56 0.85 down from 2011 | 83 | 8% | $5,860 | ||
28Surface Science ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.97Q1 | 17.65 5.53 up from 2011 | 34 | 7% | $4,440 | ||
29Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.82Q1 | 15.12 1.77 down from 2011 | 137 | 74% | $4,680 | ||
30IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.80Q1 | 7.48 0.30 up from 2011 | 199 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
31Journal of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.76Q1 | 7.09 0.08 down from 2011 | 94 | 15% | — | ||
32ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from DataAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.58Q1 | 6.29 0.80 up from 2011 | 58 | 13% | — | ||
33AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.53Q1 | 5.09 0.43 down from 2011 | 1,033 | 16% | $3,760 | ||
34Journal of Research on Technology in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 8.45Q1 | 3.78 1.27 down from 2011 | 58 | 0% | — | ||
35Journal of Internet Services and ApplicationsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 8.09Q1 | 4.77 1.66 down from 2011 | 47 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
36ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.01Q1 | 5.02 0.07 down from 2011 | 74 | 35% | — | ||
37Journal of Web SemanticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.82Q1 | 4.69 2.38 down from 2011 | 116 | 26% | $1,700 | ||
38Mathematical Programming ComputationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 7.79Q1 | 5.63 1.09 down from 2011 | 33 | 13% | $3,390 | ||
39Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.78Q1 | 9.48 4.07 up from 2011 | 98 | 60% | $3,456 | ||
40Proceedings of the IEEEInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.74Q1 | 8.86 1.11 up from 2011 | 675 | 6% | $2,645 | ||
41ACM Transactions on GraphicsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.74Q1 | 6.41 2.47 down from 2011 | 551 | 9% | — | ||
42IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 7.62Q1 | 4.82 0.24 up from 2011 | 282 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
43IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.34Q1 | 7.24 0.28 down from 2011 | 357 | 2% | $2,645 | ||
44International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.10Q1 | 10.00 0.19 up from 2011 | 42 | 30% | $4,400 | ||
45Nature PhotonicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.06Q1 | 11.00 0.83 down from 2011 | 835 | 23% | $12,690 | ||
46IEEE Transactions on Industrial InformaticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.02Q1 | 9.56 5.04 up from 2011 | 227 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
47Nature PhysicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.94Q1 | 11.12 0.27 up from 2011 | 897 | 41% | $12,690 | ||
48Advanced MaterialsGermany | 6.93Q1 | 13.83 0.74 up from 2011 | 2,621 | 22% | $6,070 | ||
49Particle and Fibre ToxicologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 6.91Q1 | 13.52 2.01 up from 2011 | 109 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
50Nature NanotechnologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.84Q1 | 17.92 6.21 up from 2011 | 931 | 26% | $12,690 |
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.
1,841 additional Physical Sciences 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
- 5,152
- Window papers (baseline)
- 5,648,473 +17.7% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.840 -3.3% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 544
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 | 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.