Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Field ranking · 2012
Physics and Astronomy journal rankings 2012
303 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Physics and Astronomy has 303 ranked journals in 2012. The median journal has an OJR of 0.65, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2011; Q1 starts at OJR 1.13. The top three are Reviews of Modern Physics, Advances In Physics, and Physics Reports.
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 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 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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1Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 32.46Q1 | 47.07 0.40 down from 2011 | 168 | 83% | — | ||
2Advances In PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 16.69Q1 | 28.67 4.17 down from 2011 | 30 | 33% | — | ||
3Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 15.42Q1 | 22.19 1.61 down from 2011 | 105 | 56% | $6,240 | ||
4SIAM ReviewSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 9.60Q1 | 6.21 5.46 down from 2011 | 112 | 24% | — | ||
5The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 9.59Q1 | 16.71 1.66 up from 2011 | 440 | 99% | $4,499 | ||
6Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.82Q1 | 15.12 1.77 down from 2011 | 137 | 74% | $4,680 | ||
7Nature PhotonicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.06Q1 | 11.00 0.83 down from 2011 | 835 | 23% | $12,690 | ||
8Nature PhysicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.94Q1 | 11.12 0.27 up from 2011 | 897 | 41% | $12,690 | ||
9Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular ScienceWiley · United States | 4.61Q1 | 8.18no 2011 value | 100 | 11% | $5,230 | — | |
10Progress in Surface ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.32Q1 | 7.35 1.82 down from 2011 | 33 | 15% | $4,130 | ||
11Physical Review LettersAmerican Physical Society · United States | 3.96Q1 | 8.12 0.53 up from 2011 | 10,383 | 73% | $3,750 | ||
12Physical Review XOAAmerican Physical Society · United States | 3.92Q1 | 6.54no 2011 value | 39 | 100% | $4,200 | — | |
13The Astrophysical Journal LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 6.77 0.24 down from 2011 | 1,539 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
14Internet MathematicsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 3.14Q1 | 2.35 1.65 down from 2011 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
15International Reviews in Physical ChemistryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.85Q1 | 5.28 1.33 down from 2011 | 43 | 12% | — | ||
16Reviews in Mineralogy and GeochemistryMineralogical Society of America · United States | 2.80Q1 | 3.41 0.42 down from 2011 | 76 | 13% | — | ||
17Nuclear Data SheetsElsevier BV · United States | 2.42Q1 | 3.18 1.06 up from 2011 | 124 | 6% | $3,240 | ||
18The Astrophysical JournalOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 6.72 0.17 up from 2011 | 8,602 | 98% | $4,499 | ||
19Laser Physics LettersIOP Publishing · Germany | 2.35Q1 | 4.98 6.07 down from 2011 | 436 | 54% | $3,325 | ||
20Journal of Computational ChemistryWiley · United States | 2.34Q1 | 3.48 1.58 down from 2011 | 812 | 24% | $4,520 | ||
21Computer Physics CommunicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 3.14 0.08 down from 2011 | 897 | 44% | $4,160 | ||
22Journal of Chemical Theory and ComputationAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.33Q1 | 5.68 0.19 down from 2011 | 1,122 | 31% | $4,500 | ||
23New Journal of PhysicsOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 4.22 0.36 down from 2011 | 2,399 | 100% | $2,610 | ||
24Nuclear Physics BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.29Q1 | 4.80 0.27 down from 2011 | 932 | 87% | $0 listed | ||
25The Astronomical JournalOAInstitute of Physics · United States | 2.26Q1 | 4.78 0.23 up from 2011 | 1,184 | 99% | $4,499 | ||
26Space Science ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.25Q1 | 4.20 0.13 up from 2011 | 364 | 53% | $5,290 | ||
27Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society LettersOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 4.41 0.02 up from 2011 | 590 | 92% | $1,451 | ||
28The European Physical Journal COASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.19Q1 | 5.54 1.50 up from 2011 | 999 | 92% | $0 listed | ||
29Astroparticle PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.13Q1 | 4.84 0.69 up from 2011 | 279 | 82% | $2,920 | ||
30Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical SimulationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 2.58 0.11 down from 2011 | 1,370 | 10% | $3,710 | ||
31Physics Letters BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.07Q1 | 4.66 0.50 up from 2011 | 2,846 | 93% | $0 listed | ||
32Annual Review of Astronomy and AstrophysicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.03Q1 | 22.61 7.39 down from 2011 | 48 | 69% | — | ||
33Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 5.07 0.61 up from 2011 | 908 | 76% | $3,325 | ||
34Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle PhysicsInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 5.71 0.13 up from 2011 | 1,264 | 99% | $3,290 | ||
35Publications of the Astronomical Society of the PacificInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 3.43 0.31 down from 2011 | 417 | 96% | $3,325 | ||
36Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical AstronomySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 2.65 0.59 up from 2011 | 208 | 53% | $3,190 | ||
37Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 2.69 0.46 up from 2011 | 587 | 40% | — | ||
38Astronomy and AstrophysicsOAEDP Sciences · France | 1.82Q1 | 5.03 0.25 up from 2011 | 5,807 | 100% | $1,865 | ||
39Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 5.16 0.30 up from 2011 | 5,910 | 96% | $3,046 | ||
40Applied Mathematics LettersElsevier BV · United States | 1.79Q1 | 1.78 0.19 up from 2011 | 1,146 | 98% | $3,800 | ||
41Journal of Nonlinear ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.78Q1 | 2.13 0.47 up from 2011 | 75 | 51% | $3,290 | ||
42Advances in High Energy PhysicsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 3.53 1.80 down from 2011 | 54 | 100% | $1,550 | ||
43Nonlinear DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.72Q1 | 2.41 0.60 up from 2011 | 830 | 8% | $4,790 | ||
44Advances in AstronomyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 2.94 0.05 up from 2011 | 115 | 100% | $1,130 | ||
45Classical and Quantum GravityIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 3.42 0.04 down from 2011 | 1,521 | 91% | $3,325 | ||
46Annals of PhysicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.62Q1 | 3.08 0.36 up from 2011 | 393 | 69% | $3,160 | ||
47Radiation OncologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 3.16 0.21 down from 2011 | 374 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
48Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear ScienceAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.59Q1 | 2.50 0.22 down from 2011 | 639 | 38% | — | ||
49Journal of High Energy PhysicsOASpringer Nature · Italy | 1.57Q1 | 5.73 0.34 down from 2011 | 4,355 | 98% | $0 listed | ||
50Journal of Artificial Societies and Social SimulationOAUniversity of Surrey · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 1.28 0.27 up from 2011 | 181 | 100% | $1,300 |
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.
88 additional Physics and Astronomy 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
- 303
- Window papers (baseline)
- 354,503 +5.0% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.653 -4.1% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 36Comparison-group list (36)
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 | 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.