Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
Choose a field to open its ranking, or a journal to find its row in its subfield’s list.
Subfield ranking · 2013
Nuclear and High Energy Physics journal rankings 2013
66 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Nuclear and High Energy Physics has 66 ranked journals in 2013. The median OJR rose 0.18 on 2012 to 0.67, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.10. The top three are Physics Reports, Physics Letters B, and The European Physical Journal C.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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)
66 ranked journals
Filters
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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 13.23Q1 | 22.47 0.28 up from 2012 | 115 | 45% | $6,240 | ||
2Physics Letters BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.56Q1 | 6.33 1.67 up from 2012 | 2,820 | 94% | $0 listed | ||
3The European Physical Journal COASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.30Q1 | 5.75 0.21 up from 2012 | 1,031 | 88% | $0 listed | ||
4Nuclear Physics BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.95Q1 | 4.33 0.47 down from 2012 | 870 | 87% | $0 listed | ||
5Nuclear Data SheetsElsevier BV · United States | 1.94Q1 | 3.15 0.03 down from 2012 | 145 | 0% | $3,240 | ||
6Astroparticle PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.94Q1 | 4.35 0.49 down from 2012 | 327 | 69% | $2,920 | ||
7Computer Physics CommunicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 2.92 0.22 down from 2012 | 937 | 47% | $4,160 | ||
8Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 2.83 2.24 down from 2012 | 832 | 72% | $3,325 | ||
9Journal of High Energy PhysicsOASpringer Nature · Italy | 1.49Q1 | 6.28 0.54 up from 2012 | 4,968 | 94% | $0 listed | ||
10Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fieldsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.40Q1 | 4.83 0.29 up from 2012 | 9,362 | 97% | — | ||
11The European Physical Journal Special TopicsSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 1.36Q1 | 2.16 0.48 up from 2012 | 445 | 33% | $3,790 | ||
12Advances in High Energy PhysicsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.34Q1 | 2.48 1.05 down from 2012 | 105 | 100% | $1,550 | ||
13Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 1.31Q1 | 2.22 0.30 up from 2012 | 109 | 100% | — | ||
14Physical Review CAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.27Q1 | 4.00 0.45 up from 2012 | 3,315 | 69% | — | ||
15Progress of Theoretical PhysicsOxford University Press · Japan | 1.20Q1 | 2.24 0.04 down from 2012 | 382 | — | — | ||
16Progress in Particle and Nuclear PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.18Q1 | 2.39 0.09 up from 2012 | 263 | 63% | $4,780 | ||
| 1.10Q1 | 0.38no 2012 value | 238 | — | — | — | ||
18Progress of Theoretical and Experimental PhysicsOAUniversity of Oxford · Japan | 1.10Q2 | 2.39no 2012 value | 61 | 100% | $979 | — | |
19Computational Science & DiscoveryIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 2.00 0.12 down from 2012 | 34 | 71% | — | ||
20The European Physical Journal ASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.08Q2 | 2.62 0.20 up from 2012 | 499 | 65% | $3,990 | ||
21Plasma Physics and Controlled FusionIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 2.62 0.24 up from 2012 | 788 | 63% | $3,325 | ||
22Nuclear FusionOAIOP Publishing | 1.02Q2 | 3.43 0.38 up from 2012 | 804 | 62% | $2,595 | ||
23Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle ScienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.01Q2 | 6.98 0.03 down from 2012 | 65 | 58% | — | ||
24Review of Scientific InstrumentsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.95Q2 | 1.83 0.02 up from 2012 | 3,503 | 25% | — | ||
25ScholarpediaOAScholarpedia Corporation · United States | 0.89Q2 | 0.81 0.47 down from 2012 | 234 | 100% | — | ||
26Nuclear Physics AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.88Q2 | 2.61 1.05 up from 2012 | 983 | 60% | $2,590 | ||
27Physics of PlasmasAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.86Q2 | 2.46 0.02 up from 2012 | 3,074 | 27% | — | ||
28Journal of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States | 0.83Q2 | 0.63 0.05 up from 2012 | 3,696 | 55% | — | ||
29International Journal of Modern Physics Conference SeriesOAWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.81Q2 | 0.24 0.05 down from 2012 | 920 | 17% | — | ||
30Journal of InstrumentationInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 0.79Q2 | 1.80 0.12 down from 2012 | 1,241 | 87% | $3,290 | ||
31EPJ Web of ConferencesOAEDP Sciences · France | 0.74Q2 | 0.25 0.01 down from 2012 | 2,248 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.73Q2 | 1.53 0.01 down from 2012 | 4,301 | 30% | $2,620 | |||
33Springer USPublisher not listed | 0.69Q2 | 1.11 0.77 up from 2012 | 107 | 0% | — | ||
34High Energy Density PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.66Q3 | 1.64 0.24 up from 2012 | 167 | 19% | $2,870 | ||
| 0.64Q3 | 0.20 0.16 down from 2012 | 301 | — | — | |||
36Laser and Particle BeamsOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.62Q3 | 1.69 0.21 down from 2012 | 241 | 20% | $3,550 | ||
37Astrophysics and space sciences transactionsCopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.57Q3 | 1.15 0.32 up from 2012 | 107 | 100% | — | ||
38Proceedings of The XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory — PoS(LAT2009)Publisher not listed | 0.54Q3 | —no 2012 value | 236 | — | — | ||
39International Journal of Modern Physics AWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.54Q3 | 1.16no change | 962 | 76% | — | ||
40Fusion Engineering and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.53Q3 | 1.45 0.50 up from 2012 | 1,429 | 15% | $2,810 | ||
| 0.43Q3 | 0.59 0.09 down from 2012 | 358 | 77% | — | |||
42Nuclear Physics NewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.41Q3 | 0.44 0.19 down from 2012 | 80 | 8% | — | ||
43Few-Body SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.41Q3 | 1.08no change | 428 | 33% | $2,290 | ||
44International Journal of Modern Physics EWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.40Q3 | 0.93 0.28 up from 2012 | 703 | 36% | — | ||
45Acta Physica Polonica BOAJagiellonian University · Poland | 0.38Q3 | 0.78 0.10 up from 2012 | 430 | 46% | — | ||
46Journal of Fusion EnergySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.37Q3 | 0.91 0.12 down from 2012 | 310 | 4% | $3,990 | ||
47Journal of Plasma PhysicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.34Q3 | 0.71 0.10 up from 2012 | 293 | 27% | $3,550 | ||
48Plasma Science and TechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.32Q3 | 0.68 0.09 up from 2012 | 510 | 57% | — | ||
49Physics of Particles and NucleiPleiades Publishing · United States | 0.31Q3 | 0.74 0.02 up from 2012 | 210 | 39% | — | ||
50Australasian Journal of ParamedicineOAAustralia | 0.29Q3 | 0.19 0.02 down from 2012 | 1,007 | 69% | — |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Nuclear and High Energy Physics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics99
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics81
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics66
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics34
- Radiation23
- Condensed Matter Physics7
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
16 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 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 66
- Window papers (baseline)
- 63,612 +11.6% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.675 +33.6% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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.